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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 Sabbath, October

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

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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. Pardon

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that sound. We are in lesson number five, the Testimony

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of the Samaritans. I like this one a lot, the

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Testimony of the Samaritans. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but first 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. Please join our online community. Go ahead

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at your daily portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new

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Sabbath morning. Thank you for identifying with all of us,

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no matter what walk of life we're in. Whatever our

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socioeconomic class, whether the predominant class or culture is accepting

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of us. We know God that you have accepted us

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in the Beloved, Please give us the fullness of your

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Holy Spirit today. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again the testimony of the Samaritans. You see, Jesus

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identified with all of humanity so he could save all

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of us from our sins. Can I say that again?

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Jesus identified with all of humanity so he could save

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all of humanity from our sins. I'm grateful. You want

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to know why I'm grateful because I didn't come from

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I didn't come from a class of people with a

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whole lot of money. I grew up in the city

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at the time that it was the murder capital of

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the United States of America. And then when I got

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to university. Right after I was no longer in classes,

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I lived in a city again, another city in Washington,

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d C. At the time when it was the murder

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capital of the United States. And I have so many

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other challenges that I had to with which I had

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to contend. And I'm like, but God, if you can

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save me, I know you can save others. If you

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can save others, I know you can save still others.

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You understand, And so well, the Bible reads here in

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the Book of John, chapter four and verse forty two.

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Then they said to the woman, now we believe. So

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we're going to talk about this woman at the well,

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the woman that Jesus met at a specific space that

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he orchestrated for this woman to have a life transformed

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by the renewing of her mind, that she could also

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go into her community and help people with their transformation.

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So they said, those people, those people said, now we believe,

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not because of what you said. You see, it was

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a good idea, and I am really severely understating it.

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It was a good idea for this woman who had

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a transformative encounter with Jesus to go into her own

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community where people sinned with her and observed her committing sin.

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I wish I had the time to go and say,

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I have seen a man who knows everything about me,

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and he doesn't it against me. I know a man

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ha who knows all of my illicit relationships and doesn't

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hold it against me. I know a man I met

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him just now who understood all of my wicked thoughts

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and my fears and concerns. He knew from where I came,

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what my history was, who my grandparents were. He saw

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right through me, and he still loved me. Come see

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this man. And of course the testimony was enough for

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the people to say, Okay, tell us more, tell us more. Ah,

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But the Bible says, for we ourselves have heard him.

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After the woman's testimony, they gave keen attention to Jesus

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and what he taught and the spirit that obviously was

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emanating from him, the holiness, the compassion. Yes, and they said, ah,

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for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that

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this indeed is the Christ. But they didn't stop there.

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At the savior of the world, including me, including you,

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brothers and sisters. The man Jesus Christ, who was no

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ordinary man, was the savior of the world, including us,

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pardon me. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. So we're going to

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drill this story throughout the week. But I just want

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to ask you a question. Is there anything in your

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life of which you are ashamed? Are you ashamed of

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anything in your life like anything that you have done?

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Are you ashamed? You see? The blessing about this question

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is that if you just admit that that you say,

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you know what, There's some things that I wish I

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hadn't done. There's some things I wish I had not seen.

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There are some things I wish I had not ushered

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people into doing, some habits that I wish I had

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not created.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: I can't unsee, undo, or uncreate any of those things.

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But I have heard today, on this twenty sixth day

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of October, in twenty twenty four, I have heard about

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a man who can see all of that and still

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love me, you see. And so I'd like to take

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us for a moment into the Bible Book of First John,

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First John, because if I don't go somewhere else today,

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I'm going to really I'm really going to go too

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far into what we'll talk about during the week. So

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let's go to First John, chapter three, and beginning at

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verse one, I want you to read with me, beginning

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at verse one, Behold what manner of love the Father

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hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the

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children of God, the sons of God. Therefore the world

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kneweth us, not because it knew him not. You see,

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as we have these encounters, and tomorrow we're going to

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talk about the encounter Jesus had with this woman, or

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Jesus or the woman had with Jesus. When we have

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these encounters with God and in our secret space, our minds,

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he begins to speak to us and show us this

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is the way, This is the direction that I want

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your life to take. And I know that right now

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that is not the pathway that you're on, but I'm

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giving you an opportunity to be transformed. When we have

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that experience, he now ushers us into his family. You see,

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when we were born, we were born hostile toward him.

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We were born as outcasts, not because of anything that

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we did, but we inherited the tendency toward evil. And

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if we are not reborn, we talked about this last week,

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if we are not reborn, if we are not transformed,

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we will just go, you know, idly, mindlessly, aimlessly toward

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destruction will meander and still end up in destruction. We'll

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try and try again and fail, and we will still

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end up in destruction if we don't yield our will

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to God. Okay, And so when God gives us the

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privilege because he loves us, to yield ourselves to God,

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it says that we are now His children. And the

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people around us who do not know God will say, well,

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what in the world, who is this person? Something has changed?

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And the people who are receptive will inquire and desire

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the Christ that is now manifest in your life. But

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the ones who reject, they won't know you through that

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spirit either. Verse two. Beloved, now are we the children

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of God? And it does not yet appear what we

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shall be, but we know that when He shall appear,

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we shall be like him. You see the woman at

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the well. She was transformed so she could be like him.

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See now, when we say yes to God. In the

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Book of John, chapter one and verses eleven and twelve,

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the Bible says, to as many as receive him, you

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accept him into your life, You yield your will to him,

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You submit to him. To as many as do that,

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they immediately become His children. So now in this body

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that you have, the one with the aches and the pains, ah,

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the ones that require surgeries at times, the ones that

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sometimes get hospitalized, the ones that get tired and hungry

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and frustrated. Even in that state, we are His children.

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But we're looking forward to a day. What day, Dave,

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It says here we don't know what. We know that

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when he shall appear, we will be like him, for

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we will see him as he is. One day God

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is going to give us a new body, the coming

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of Jesus Christ. Those who are now His children will

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receive a body that will endure forever in the presence

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of God. And I'm looking forward to them.

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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,