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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, October sixteen,

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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 Reappearing themes Belief Unbelief, Hearing themes

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belief Unbelief. 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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thank you for those who are connecting with that number

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seven at your Daily Portion dot com. Good number of

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you are still clicking and connecting. I'd like for you

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to do it. I said, please, for my birthday yesterday,

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I needed fifty one of you in just the one

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hour span of time, and now a thousand in total.

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To go ahead and subscribe there at that number seven,

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so we can continue to build and fulfill the mission

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of Jesus Christ and be transformed in the process. So

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we invest a good number of minutes every single day

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here and then if you get into that program, then

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there is another way that we can be transformed by

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the renewing of our mind. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank

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you for this new day and for the privilege you

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have entrusted to us every day. I thank you for

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this how to open up your word, and I'm asking

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you now to put us in the category, help us

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to join that category of people who believe. And that's it.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I

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remember reading in the Book of John chapter six, where

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there were some people who said, teach us how to

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teach us how to work the works of God? How

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do we work the works of God? And he said, believe, believe.

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This is how you work the works of God believe

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and so what has happened throughout the scriptures, especially here

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we're reading in the Book of John, is that there

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are people who believe in people who don't, people who

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believe in people who don't. And we're going to talk

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about today how to be certain or what can be

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an indicator of whether we actually believe in God through

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Christ or not. Okay, And so we begin by reading

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in John chapter three. We won't be able to read

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through all of the passages prescribed here, or maybe we will.

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We'll see what the time shows. John chapter three, beginning

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at verse sixteen, very familiar. For God so loved the

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world that he gave his only begotten son. For what

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purpose did God the Father give us? God the Son,

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that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have

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everlasting life. So God's goal is to give us everlasting life.

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For God did not send his son into the world

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to condemn the world. That was not why Jesus came.

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He didn't can't come to say, ah, I caught you,

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and then find some charge against us and then charge

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us until we die. No, he did not send his

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son into the world to condemn the world, but that

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the world through Him might be saved. And so that

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is God's goal, that is his heart toward us. He

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wants us to be saved, and so he gave us

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all of heaven in one gift so we can be saved.

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That gift is the Word, the Light, the Life, Jesus

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Christ himself. Okay, he that believeth on him is not condemned.

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So now we have to make a decision. There are

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those who believe in him, those individuals are not condemned,

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but but those who don't believe on Him are condemned already.

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There's hope we can be we can move from death

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to life. We can be transformed, we can have our

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minds renewed and our outlook finally changed. But in the meantime,

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those who don't believe on him, they're already condemned because

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he hath not believed. Those individuals have not believed on

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the name of the only begotten Son of God. And

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this is the condemnation. That light is come into the

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world and love darkness rather than light because their deeds

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are evil. People won't come to God through Christ because

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they don't want to give up those evil lifestyle tendencies.

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People won't come to God sometimes because they allow their

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guilt feelings to defeat them. People won't go to God

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because sometimes people embrace their lifestyles that contradict the word

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of God. Can we just say it straight like that

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contradict the word of God? And so they just rather

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stay away and hope that if they cover their eyes

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and say peekaboo like that, they really can't be seen

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by the law of God that judges us. And I

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know that sounds heavy, Well, it is heavy because we're

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making decisions all day, every day for or against eternity

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with God. God is the decision that we're making every day.

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And the Bible continues verse twenty. For everyone that doeth

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evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, because

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its deeds should be reproved. But he that do with

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the will or do with the truth cometh to the

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light that his deeds may be made manifest, that they

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are wrought in God. And that simply means that when

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we accept God into our lives, then we want to

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be around the light because we love being in His presence.

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And by the way, the manifestation of this will be

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how we live, how we treat others, huh, whether we

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embrace the word of God. And I'll get into some

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more details there before I start getting into the preaching mode. Right, So,

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the fact is that God has positioned us, through the

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power of the Holy Ghost, to live holy lives. Now

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we have to decide we're gonna do it or not.

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There are more passages we can read, but we'll go

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through now this transformative process of our actions, our thoughts,

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and the entirety of our lives. Here are seven indicators

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that we do actually believe in Jesus. Number one in

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the Book of John, chapter fourteen, the Bible reads, if

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ye love me, keep my commandments. If you love me,

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you will obey my commandments. And so people who are

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commandment breakers, I'm talking about habitual I'm not saying the

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occasional misdeed. I'm not talking about that. And then we

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go to God and confess our sins. I'm saying that

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people who live in opposition to God's ten commandments and

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pick and choose which ones are binding and which ones

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are not, which ones are holy, which onlens are not,

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those individuals are manifesting the fact that they don't actually

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believe what God says. They don't believe in Christ because

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they reject the commandments. I didn't write it, I just

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read it. Number two, the fruit of the Spirit. I

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love this because it shows us the reality. And Galatians

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chapter five, beginning at verse twenty two, the Bible reads,

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but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,

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long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there

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is no law. So not just that we can speak well,

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not just that we do certain actions and it looks godly.

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But God is saying that if we are his children,

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if we actually love Him, then the spirit of God

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is in our lives, and love is the fruit of

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that relationship. And then the rest of the principles that

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I shared are in outgrowth from that love. If we

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love God, we love God, we will have peace and

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we will be patient. If we love God, we will

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be good, we will have faith, we will be meek

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and temperant. If we love God, then these will be

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the manifestation our gentleness. Are you harsh? Do people want

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to get away from you because you're hard? You're harsh?

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We submit to God's will and receive the fruit of

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the spirit, and you will learn to be gentle. We're

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drawing a line in the sand based on the Bible.

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And then love for others in First John, chapter four

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and verse seven, which is really the truth about the

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law of God. Love for God and love for our

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fellow human beings. Beloved this, let us love one another,

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for love is of God. And everyone that loveth is

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born of God and knoweth God. And so yeah. There

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are these recurring themes in the scriptures, especially in the

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Book of John, where people believe or don't believe. Well,

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now we know what is a manifestation of our belief

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in God. Make it a great day.

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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,