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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 Thursday, January two,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 new

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Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice, and our caption

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for today is Crucified for us? Can I say it

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this way? Jesus was crucified for us. 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 please go

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We are on pages seventeen and eighteen today to be

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as a companion to this lesson study and let us

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know where you are in the world at your Daily

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portion dot com. This is one of the ways that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven,

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thank you for giving us this new day and for

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giving us the privilege of coming into your presence through

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your word. Please teach us, Father, how to serve you

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and to love you. Teach us to live for you

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in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,

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So Jesus was crucified for us, and I want you

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to think, like, how can I apply that reality to

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my life. When we get to the Bible Book of Galatians,

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chapter two, it'll start to ring clear in our minds.

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But let me just say it one more time. Jesus

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was crucified for us, and Jesus didn't stay dead. So

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he was crucified for us, but he did not stay dead.

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That means that Jesus kept his promise. He gave his

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life for us so that we can be safe, so

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we can have power over every single besetting sin, over

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every negative mindset style, like, we now have the power

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to be raised incorruptible spiritually speaking and then practically with

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Christ because he gave his life for us, but he

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did not stay dead. Okay, And so what makes the

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difference so we don't have to die? The lesson writer said,

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God invites everyone into a love relationship with him. Oh,

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I think love makes the difference. But only those who

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freely accept. Now we're getting somewhere. But only those who

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freely accept, underscore, underscore, circled, emboldened, red type, highlighted, freely

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accept the invitation enjoy the eternal results. So the fact

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that Jesus Christ gave himself for us, he died the

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death that we deserve, so we can live the life

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that he deserved. Right, Well, the invitation is there, many

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are called right, ah, His love is there, many are

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called ah. But those who freely accept those are the

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ones who enjoy the benefits. But few are chosen. So

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the ones who are chosen are the ones who freely

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eccepit accept the invitation. Okay, And so I ask myself

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a question, who would be unwilling to accept God's invitation

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into this celebration of his son? You see the celebration

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of Jesus's ability to save hopeless sinners and make us

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hopeful saints like this is the invitation. He's welcoming us

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from death into life. He's welcoming us into the experience

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of let your light so shine before people, so that

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when they see your good works of kindness, when they

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see your good works of I can actually assist you

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in getting over that addiction to alcoholism or substances, or pornography,

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or having itching ears waiting for someone else to gossip,

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or for you to bad mind someone and speak badly

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about people. I have the antidote, because God has given

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all of his children the antidote. So when God has

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welcomed you, he's welcomed me in the invitation, with an

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invitation into a relationship that is transformative in nature, where

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now we learn how to love where we were fearful before,

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We learn how to love where we were hateful before.

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We know how to invest our times in things that

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matter to God, rather than to be distracted by the

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things that the enemy would have us be distracted upon.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: Being proud in church and religious circles where we somehow

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think we're better. God forbid than someone else, because we

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have learned something and begun to actually live it, and

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they are still struggling. Like, God is able by invitation

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bringing us into this celebration of his son, so we

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can have the righteousness of Christ. So when the judgment comes,

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we can have boldness in the day of judgment. Huh,

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we can be perfected in love. He's inviting us to

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a celebration. Who would be unwilling to accept such a celebration. Well,

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in Matthew chapter twenty t, we do see where people

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did reject the invitation, and then one poor soul accepted it.

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I mean, it's a parable, but one poor soul accepted

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the invitation, said yes, I want to be in relationship

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with you. Yes, I love you, Thank you for your righteousness,

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and then stripped it off and said, you know what,

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I think I can get it from here.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm on my own. I'm good now, I know how

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to overcome sin and temptation all by myself now. And

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it's like no, no, no, no. The invitation is ongoing

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and we freely accept, and therefore those who freely accept

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enjoy the eternal results. Which of quote God's people would

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reject this invitation? And so in the Book of John

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chapter ten, verse seventeen, the Bible reads, Therefore, doth my

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Father love me because I lay down my life that

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I might take it again? No man verse eighteen taketh

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it from me. But I laid down my life myself.

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I have power to lay it down, and I have

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power to take it again. This commandment have I received

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of my Father. The Bible says that Jesus became obedient

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unto death. We're to let our minds be like Christ's

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mind to adopt his mindset ha who had the power

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to be obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

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There are some people right now who are not accepting

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the miracle in the text that I'm about to read, Okay,

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and I want you to take yourself out of that

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category and put yourself into miracle territory. By God's grace.

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And Galatians chapter two and verse twenty, the Bible reads,

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I am crucified with Christ. It was a miracle that

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Jesus allowed his humanity to die, because his divinity could

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have resisted the power of the death that came to

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his humanity. Can I say that one more time? It

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was a miracle for Jesus Christ coming into human flo

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with all of that divinity still in his bosom. He

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never ceased being God. But great is the mystery of

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godliness that he became God in the flesh. That's a miracle.

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And then Jesus Christ, with all of his divinity, allowed

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his humanity to go to sleep. And Jesus stayed in

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the tomb until the Sunday morning, and in his strength, unborrowed, underived,

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Jesus took up his life again. And I'm thankful. But

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there are some people who refuse that miracle, some people

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who will choose not to be crucified, who will no

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longer allow themselves to submit to God's will, who will

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not submit and surrender to the point that they allowed

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their evil flesh to die. I'm talking about spiritually, God

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is giving us the privilege to enjoy the miracle of

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dying to sin. And then the Bible says, ah, but

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h nevertheless, I live, but Christ is the one, not I,

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but Christ liveth in me the death or excuse me,

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the life which I now live in the flesh. I

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live by faith in the Son of God, who loved

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me and gave himself for me. And so the miracle

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is that now I can live a victorious life. The

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miracle is now I know how to be kind, when

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before I was not kind. I now miraculously can submit

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my will to God, and I can actually do God's

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will and be in right relationship with Him and allow

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others to do the same. So when Jesus gives us

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an invitation to be crucified with him and to be

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raised with him, accepted. 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,