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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 Wednesday, December fourth,

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twenty twenty four. 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 themes in the Gospel of John and our

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caption for today is I Am the Truth and of

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course this is Jesus speaking. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to please go over to

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

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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father

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in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day

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and for the truth that is in Christ. Father, I

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ask you now to open up our understanding and more

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than that, transform our lives so we can live like

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

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What does truth mean to you? And I don't mean

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what is the definition? I think we have done a

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pretty decent job identifying from scripture what is truth. But

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what I'm asking you is what does truth mean to you? Like,

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how does it move in your life? How does truth

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transform your character? What does it help you do when

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you are at your job, at your desk or on

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the assembly line. What does it do for you as

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you are building your business. What does it do for

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you when you are considering your relationships with your family

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members and others? What is the truth to you? Okay?

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And so that is something we need to really think about.

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And not just think of this intellectually or theologically and say, okay,

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we've identified in the scriptures what the Bible says is

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the truth, the three elements that we have already discussed.

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But how does the truth transform me? Okay? And so

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in John chapter one, beginning at verse fourteen, I'll do

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fourteen and seventeen, the Bible reads and the Word was

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made flesh. So now we know that the Word is Christ,

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and he being the manifestation of all that is God. Yes,

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he's equal with the Father. But now the Father is

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in the life of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is

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resident and at work in the ministry of Jesus Christ.

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And now we are able to get closer to God

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because of Jesus Christ. So he becomes flesh, and he

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dwells among us. Jesus is dwelling among us, and we

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beheld his glory, the glory as of the only Begotten

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of the Father, the only Begotten. That means he is

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the one and only unique one. He is one of

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a kind. Okay, it doesn't mean well, I won't get

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into what it doesn't mean. He's one of a kind.

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And the Bible says, full of grace, and truth. So

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none of the angels are full of grace and truth. Right,

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none of the individuals who according to John chapter one

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versus about verse twelve that says to as many as

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received him to them, gave he power to become the

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sons of God or the children of God. Not that

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kind of son, Not the kind of son that Adam was,

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or or the kind of son that Moses was. We're

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talking about the kind of son who is one with

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the Father, equal with the Father, submissive to the process

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of saving his people from our sins. He is full

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of grace and truth. Grace's unmerited favor. Like you need favor,

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God has that for you. You've committed sin, so have I.

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You have done things that you're ashamed of, so have I.

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And God is saying that even though you have sinned

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and comes short of the glory of God. God, even

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though you deserve to be destroyed ultimately with the second death,

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I am giving you the power to live according to

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my principles. I'm giving you the power so that you

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are embraced. I embrace you, and you now become one

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of my children. You are adopted into the family of God.

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You are seen just as if you had never sinned,

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when you submit your will to God, full of grace

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and truth. For the law of Verse seventeen was given

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by Moses. So we have an understanding of the Ten

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Commandments law. We have an understanding of the sacrificial system

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of sacrifice, the system of sacrifices. We have an understanding

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of the sanctuary because of Moses. Right Ah. But grace

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and truth came by Jesus Christ. So those things that

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Moses taught pointed forward to Jesus, the things that God

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revealed to Moses on the mountain I'm talking about when

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he was in Mountain Horeb and up in the cloud.

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Joshua was not in the cloud. He was on the top. Yes,

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and Aaron and those guys were waiting down lower. When

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Moses was in the cloud, enfolded by God to the

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point that when he came out of that pavilion, that

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special sanctuary that God set up for him, he was

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so bright, visually bright. His countenance was so bright that

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the people could not they could they couldn't deal with it.

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They were like, cover that up. It's too much, it's

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too much. The brightness that comes from God in your

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life is too much. For us to handle put a

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veil over your face. That's because of their unbelief. I

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wish I had the time. But Jesus Christ is the

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one to whom all of that experience pointed, full of grace,

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power and unmarriaged favor, so that you can be saved.

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I can be saved and truth verse thirty two of

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John chapter eight, John chapter eight and verse thirty two,

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And the Bible says, and ye shall know the truth.

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This no is not an intellectual pursuit. It's a it's

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not an assent to understanding. This no is an intimacy.

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It's like when the Bible says that Adam knew his wife,

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and the fruit of that knowing his wife was that

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they bore a son. So they're knowing one another bore fruit.

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And so when we know Jesus spiritually speaking, the fruit

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of that knowing the truth is that we will be free.

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And ye shall know the truth intimately transformatively the outgrowth,

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pardon me, the outgrowth of that knowing Jesus the Truth

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shall make you free, free from what or free to

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do what, Yeah, free to live according to the principles

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of God. Yes, the Bible reads, if you read Romans

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chapters seven and eight back to back. You see that

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the guy who was in Romans chapter seven is bound

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by the law of sin and death. What he wanted

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to do he can't. He couldn't do right. The evil

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that he did not want to do. All he could

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do is that, and the good that he, in his

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intellect wanted to do, he didn't have the ability the

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power to do it right. That was his plight. He

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was bound. He was a slave to the devil. I said.

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He was a slave to the devil. He was not

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a developing Christian. I wish I had the time. He

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was a slave. He was bound, he could not. The

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Bible says he could not please God, couldn't do it.

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But in Romans chapter eight, as he received Christ into

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his life, now there's no condemnation because he's in Christ,

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Jesus who walked not according to the flesh, but according

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to the spirit. For the law what the law could

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not do in the flesh, Christ did by sending him

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into sinful flesh in order that the righteousness of the

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law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according

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to the flesh but according to the spirit. That means

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that we are free the Bible says in Romans Self

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in Romans EIGHTE, that we that is the law, the

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law of the spirit of life, has made me free

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from the law of sin and death. So I am

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free to do God's will. I am free from the

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rum bottle. I'm free from pornography. I am free from

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running around and being aimless in life. I am free

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from not having control of my emotions. I am free

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to do God's will. When truth and God's life is

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living in me, I am free to live like Jesus did.

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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,