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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 Tuesday, November

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twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John, and

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our caption for today is Believing and new births. Believing

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and new birth. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. I need you

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to click that number seven, Please please please. There are

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people around the world who need spiritual transformation, and it

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is sitting right behind that number seven. We need a

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thousand of you to do that minimally, but maybe even

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ten thousand, but let's start with the thousand. And I

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want you to let us know where you are in

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the world at your daily portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving

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us this new day and for the privilege that you

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have entrusted to us to consider the new birth experience.

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Thank you for giving us your Holy Spirit. And I'm

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asking you now to help us to serve you with

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everything that we have and everything that we are. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So I'm

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going to use the words of my brother and friend

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Eric Thomas and say, you can, you will, and you must.

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Now he doesn't say this last part here, but for

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the things that are most important to him as he

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is speaking to people around the world, he says, you can,

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you will, and you must. And in light of today's

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lesson be born again. Can I just say that again,

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you can, you will, and you must be born again.

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If you're on this platform with me day in and

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day out, like, there is no reason why any of

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us should not be born again, because it's our privilege.

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In the real question is, well, why do we need

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to be born again? We need to be born again

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because that which is flesh is flesh. So when we

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were born the first go around, when we came out

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of our mother's womb, it was the natural birth that

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gave us the way that our noses are shaped, and

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the way that maybe the quality of our voices are,

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or the ways that we think, because we inherited some

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of that from our parents and maybe their parents and

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on in generations before them. But what we need is

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a new birth experience because we also inherited from them

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spiritual depravity. We've also inherited from them the desire to

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do evil, the desire to separate ourselves from God. And

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so we can, we will, and we must be born again.

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Don't marvel when Jesus says unto you, you must be

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born again. That's in John chapter three. But today we

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are going to begin. We're going to begin by reading

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John chapter one, Verses twelve and thirteen, and for many

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years you have heard me make allusion to this set

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of scriptures, because it is it marks the beginning of

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our new birth experience. And the Bible reads in John

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chapter one, beginning at verse twelve. But to as many

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as received him, to them, gave he power to become

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the sons of God. That means the right to become

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the children of God. Okay, to as many as received him.

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That's in contrast to the people who were rejecting him,

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the people his own that he came to. Jesus came

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to his own, and his own rejected him. But those

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who didn't reject him, those who embraced him, those who

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received him. The Bible says, to them, he gave the

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power to become the sons and daughters of God, even

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to them that believe on His name, which are born

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not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, but

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of the nor the will of man, but of God.

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Let me read it in another translation, New English translation.

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But to all who have received him, those who believe

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in his name, he has given the right to become

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God's children, children not born of human parents, or by

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human desire, or by a husband's decision, but by God.

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You see, God has chosen us. You see, when humans

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come together and we have children, it is a natural

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it's a biological process, and whatever comes out comes out.

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Like if you have a baby boy, then that's what

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came out. Like if you have a baby girl, a

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bouncing baby girl, that's what came out. And really, whatever

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way that that child lives, that's what you get. Like,

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there's no way that you can change what comes out.

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And pardon me, I hope that's not a cross example. Ah,

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But Jesus through Christ, God our Father, chooses us. He

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adopts us. He says, I know all that you are,

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I know how you think, I know what your tendencies are,

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and yet I still accept you through Christ into my family.

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This is not based on a human's desire, it's not

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based on human parents. It is not by a husband's decision.

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But God he chooses us as he did from before

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the world was. He chose us in the beloved to

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become his children. So He is giving us now the

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privilege of believing in him. If we believe in Him,

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and we believe unto salvation, then we will become his children.

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Then we are reborn, then we have eternal life. I'm

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so grateful. Let me read a quote before I move

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on to the next thought. Okay, And it comes from

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It comes from Fundamentals of Christian Education, page four hundred

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and thirty three. In order to have true, abiding faith

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in Christ, we must know Him as he is represented

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in the Word, so we go to the Bible. Sometimes

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people say, well, what I don't know God, I don't

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know how to connect with God. I don't know God's

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will for my life. And He's saying, go into the

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Word to see. We have sixty six blessed books inspired

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by the Holy Ghost breathed breathed God breathed inspired by

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the Holy Spirit, so that we can have the understanding

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that we need, that we can have the pathway to

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a right relationship that we need, so we can know

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what we need to know enough about God in order

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to say yes to Him and be saved. And from

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the SDA Bible Commentary, Volume seven, page nine hundred and forty,

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it reads, the Spirit, operating upon and enlightening the human mind,

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creates faith in God. Every one of us. That's the

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end of the quote. Every one of us is born

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with a measure of faith, and what God wants to

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do is increase and enhance that measure. Okay, And so

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the question here from the lesson study is what principle

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about salvation in Christ is found in a few passages.

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Let's see how many we can get through here. And

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so the Bible reads here in Ephesians chapter two and

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verse eight four, by grace, are you saved through faith

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and not of yourselves? It is the gift of God.

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It is the gift of God. So God gives us

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salvation through Christ as a gift. He's not asking us

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to pay for this. We couldn't afford it. He's not

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asking us to do some special thing out of our

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own strength, because we are not capable. He's saying it

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is unmerited favor. Through faith. We have faith in God

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and lay hold upon God's power so that we are saved.

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In First Corinthians, chapter one, verse beginning at verse seventeen,

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the Bible reads, for Christ sent me not to baptize,

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but to preach the God, not with wisdom of words,

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lest the Cross of Christ be made of none effect.

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For the preaching of the cross to them that perish

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is foolishness. But unto us, which are saved, it is

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the power of God. And so we see now that

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the truth of God's Word that is manifest in the

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power of God. That's the gospel. The power of God

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unto salvation, is given so that we can be saved.

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We don't have to be bound by our old habits

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that separate us from God. We don't have to be

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bound by our impoverished mindset or bank accounts for that matter.

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We can find life in Christ by believing in Christ

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and being read.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,