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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, and happy Sabbath. It

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is Sabbath, December twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I am your host, and

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this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's

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Word every single day, and today is no exception. We

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are continuing in our Lesson study series themes in the

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Gospel of John and today is knowing Jesus and his Word.

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Knowing Jesus and his Word. It's an epilogue epilogue. Before

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we get into that, i'd like to say welcome to

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you and ask you to go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. I'd ask you to also join our

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online community. This is where we can we have our

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conversations surrounding this Bible class. Yes, what we learn here,

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what we are asking questions about that kind of a thing,

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and there's some encouragement there as well. And also I'd

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like for you to please please let us know where

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you are in the world at your daily portion dot com.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and

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then get under his underway. Father and Heaven, thank you

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for this Sabbath morning and for giving us the opportunity

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to be under your wings, under your wings of protection.

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I pray Father that we will we will embrace your word,

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that we will live your word and be full of

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your Holy spirit, beginning at this moment in Jesus' name,

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I pray a man and a man again knowing Jesus

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and his word. This is critical because we're going back

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to a passage I have read over and over in

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this study to you, and we're going to focus here

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for just a moment again and get the context. And

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so he said, Jesus said to his detractors, So now

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we know he's speaking to people who claim to be

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his peak, be God's people. God's children, but and in

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fact even leaders of God's people, but they don't know

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or love Jesus. It's weird. And so the Bible says,

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you search the scriptures. Okay, that's a good start, brothers

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and sisters, Searching the scriptures is a good start. For

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in them, ye think you have eternal life. Here is

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the problem. I don't know if you heard that. He said.

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In them you think you have eternal life. You think

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that you can study your way into each life, that

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you can remember and proof text your way into eternal life.

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If you don't know what proof texting is, and this

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doesn't apply to you, don't even worry about it. You

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think that you can be on your daily portion every

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day and speak about God's word every single day, and

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then that's where eternal life comes from. Dave, You think

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that knowing what the twenty three hundred days and prophecy

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means intellectually, you think if you have mastered the seventy

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weeks of years prophecy. Hey, Dave, you think that if

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you can know the details of the coming of the

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Lord from Genesis in Eden all the way to Revelation,

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where Jesus is seen coming in the clouds that if

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you can master those details, the dates, the charts, what

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the different beasts mean, the horns, the kings, the powers,

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the colors. If you know all of that, you think

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that that is eternal life. But here's the problem, Dave.

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They are they that testify of me. And then Jesus

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turns the corner in verse forty, some people are just

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getting it. You're just getting it, and he says, basically, listen,

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I've come here. I've come to you so that you

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can have life, but you rejected me. Let me read

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that one straight out of the Bible, John chapter five

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and verse forty, and the Bible reads, and ye will

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not come to me that you might have life. You

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will not come to me that you will have life. See,

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you're looking for life by searching the scriptures so that

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you can feel like if you master the search, then

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somehow that will be the eternal life that you need.

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When the Bible is teaching us, Jesus is saying directly

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to them, but I'm right here. The scriptures that you seek,

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the scriptures that you're searching, all point to me, and

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I'm right here, and you're rejecting me that I'm giving

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you an invitation. Right now, I'm giving you an invitation

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so that you can have a relationship with Me and

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not turn away from me. So that when you study

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the scriptures that they will direct your mind to a

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relationship with me. I hope that you can receive this

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relationship so you can live. Don't just have the knowledge,

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don't have the ability to debate spiritual things. To get

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terminal degrees in theology, and that be it. In religion,

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that's it a PhD, a Doctor of Ministry degree THHD. Well,

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you have to know seven languages and know things about

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God that the average human doesn't know, and still miss me. Lord,

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help us to be able to see in simplicity that

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the scriptures really are bringing us, guiding us into the

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past of righteousness to have a relationship, a winning and

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a salvific relationship with God himself. I needed to slow

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that pace down so that you and I could hear

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God speaking to us. And so unfortunately, the lesson writer

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says they didn't take him at his word. Some of

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the people didn't take him at his word. We today

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can be in danger of doing the same things, hearing

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or even reading the word of God but not listening

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to it. Not abiding in it, not obeying it. You

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know what people tell us sometimes in coaching, they tell

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us they know what we're saying already, and I'm like, oh,

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that's so nice that you that you know it. That's

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so that's quaint, Like that's cute, that's cute that you

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know it. But if you know it and then don't

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do it, that's why we're coming back to you with it.

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Knowing it is not enough, like that is half the battle.

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Even the gij O commercials when I was a little boy,

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they used to say, and knowing is half the battle.

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Knowing is half the battle. And so what God wants

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us to do is to apply what we intellectually say

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we know, live it. And it says here that they

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they were not abiding it it and not obeying it,

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that is not accepting it as the light that should

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guide our thoughts and actions. Thus, unfortunately, is this is where, unfortunately,

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perhaps unwittingly, too many believers are, too many Christians are

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in the same place, not able to apply what we

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have learned to the point that we are living God's word.

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And so I'm going to go into our Life Application

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Companion book so that you and I can look at

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it from let's go from a personal perspective a personal application,

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and so the W for in the win acronym the

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W what is important now? The chapter of John, as

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we see it in the closing chapter, not in chapter five,

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presents a powerful example of reconciliation and renewed purpose through

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Peter's restoration by Jesus. This story highlights the importance of

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understanding that failure does not qualify disqualify us from being

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used by God. Instead, it calls us to a deeper

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knowledge of Him. I, in the whyn acronym, internalize the insight.

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Reflect on moments in your life, Brothers and sisters, where

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you where you may have misunderstood or ignored part of

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me God's word. My allergies are up. How have these

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moments impacted your spiritual journey? Understand that Jesus desires to

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restore and guide you, just as he did with Peter.

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You see, sometimes, brothers and sisters, we a false view

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of God because of our broken relationships with humans. Sometimes

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some broken humans teach us all kinds of abusive thoughts,

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and so Jesus is accepting him, He's restoring him. Finally,

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allow his words to transform your heart. And mind, Well,

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what now? What is the action step, the next best

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move n W. What is important now? Internalize the insight

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eye and n next best move. Set aside time for

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self reflection and prayer, and ask God to reveal any

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areas where you need restoration or deeper understanding of His word.

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Commit to being led and guided by Him and to

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do what He has said. Make it a great day. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,