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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sunday, April thirteen,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption

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for today is one Flesh, One Flesh. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first i'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father, thank you for giving us

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this new day and for the privilege that you have

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given us to become one with you and one with

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our spouses. I pray that we will have your spirit

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and your wisdom, your perspective on all of this, and

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holiness in Jesus name. I pray a man and a

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men again one flesh. As I said to you the

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other day, this is one of my favorite Bible subjects

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because I am I'm happily married. Just let me just

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be clear right there, happily married for almost twenty four years.

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And I'm thankful because I didn't come up in an

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environment where I saw happy marriage, you understand. So I

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am over the top with gratefulness because God has manifest

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his power in my household and marriage is a big

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deal to us. Okay, And so I'm going to quote

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way at the bottom of the lesson where it reads

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marriage the intimate pairing of two imperfect people. Can we

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just pause right here? I know I didn't finish the statement.

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Everybody who's married is imperfect on our own. We were

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born in sin, shaping in iniquity, imperfect on our own.

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So can you imagine now you have two people that

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are brought together who were both imperfect, and we're supposed

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to become one flesh. We'll get into a little bit

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more of that. Just give me a second, give me

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a second marriage. The intimate pairing of two imperfect people

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will always give cause for tension, will always give cause

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for tension. That doesn't mean that we must have tension, etc.

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But there's always an opportunity. There's always something in terms

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of our differences of opinions, difference of how we were

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brought up in our independent households before we got together.

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We will see things differently and sometimes it will stir

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up tension. Let me continue the quote. A marriage between

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the Church, God's Church and Christ is the pairing of

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a perfect savior a very imperfect bride, meaning God's people. Nevertheless,

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we can learn about God's love from what a good

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marriage offers. Okay, and so now we can go back

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to the Bible book of Genesis chapter two, Genesis chapter

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two and read beginning at verse twenty three, before humans

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were imperfect, and it reads and Adams said, this is

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now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.

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She shall be called woman because she was taken out

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of man. And so now we see these two human beings,

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perfectly crafted in the mind and hands of God. They

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are put together after each of them had independent time

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with God. I wish I had the time, but both

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of them had independent time with God. And then God

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brought them together and they became one flesh. But the

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Bible says that Adam immediately understood that this woman was

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a part of himself. Brothers, if you recognize that your

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wife is a part of you, how will you treat her?

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But then again, I realize that some of us are

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mistreating ourselves on a daily basis the way that we

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mistreat our minds with some of the entertainment that we consume,

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and some of us consume food and drinks that are

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destroying our health. Some of us have other kinds of

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dangerous and overly adventurous practices taking our lives into our

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own hands. And now it makes sense that if we

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are seeing her as a part of us, And I

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ask what I think is a logical question, like if

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you realize that your wife brother is a part of you,

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why would you mistreat her? Well, maybe I'm mistreating myself

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as a brother, Like maybe I'm mistreating myself in the

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street goes both ways. I'm just going to focus here

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because that is the way that the text is written.

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Verse twenty four. Therefore, shall a man leave his father

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and mother. We're going back to the ideal here, back

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to the ideal. Leave his father and mother, and shall

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cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

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And the Bible says, and they were both naked, and

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we're not ashamed. Can I just say something that may

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seem simple to you, but it is not for me.

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It is not semantics, even though I understand what people mean.

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Like if you see Simone or you see me, and

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then because you don't see the other person, you go

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to either of us and say, where's your better half?

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Where is your better half? I'm like, ah, I understand

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where you're going with this, and listen, I have no

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problem saying that Simone's better than me. That is not

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my challenge. My challenge. My challenge is calling her a half.

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My challenge is calling me a half. Why Because the

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Bible says the two shall become one flesh. That means

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that God creates us, and then He delivers us from sin.

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And as we are living our lives according to His principles,

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we are whole and complete beings, and together we become

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one flesh. So one plus one equals one, not one half,

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not one fragmented parasitical part. I'm not saying that that

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is okay. It is not okay. But the one plus

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the one equals one flesh. I wish I had the time.

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I wish I had the time. Somebody's catching up. And

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so the Bible continues in Ephesians chapter five, beginning at

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verse twenty nine. For no man yet hated his own flesh.

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But nourisheth it, and cherisheth it, even as the Lord

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the Church. For we are members of his body, of

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his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall

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a man leave his father and mother, and they shall

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be joined unto each other. He shall be joined to

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his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This

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is a great mystery that I am speaking concerning Christ

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in the Church. So this entire discussion about marriage, even

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though practical and we can learn and have clinics and

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all kinds of retreats concerning how we can be married

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in a successful context. Really, this is about being connected

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with God in a relationship. Christ and the Church is

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people and Christ. And when we look at it that way,

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then it's like, oh, wait a minute, Should I be

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selfish to Simone any at all? Because I'm supposed to

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be representing Christ? Simone? Should she be in any way

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disrespectful or selfish toward me? Ah, because she represents the

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apple of God's eye, of Christ's eye, she's the Church.

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Should I be disrespectful or should I humble myself before

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God and give my all according to this love principle?

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And so there are parallels between our marriage and Christ's relationship.

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Number One, it's of divine origin. Marriage is woman taken

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from man's flesh. And then together we see in the

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Church born from Christ's sacrifice. And then that union, that

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union brings us together under the power of God, so

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we can represent Him to the world. I wish I

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had the time. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,