Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, October
twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John, and
our caption for today is Sir, give me this water. Sir,
give me this water. We'll get into that in just
a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to
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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this day
our daily bread. Father. I thank you for the opportunity
to drink from the well which is Christ. I pray
now that we'll be transfer, that our minds will be transformed,
our lives will be transformed in Jesus' name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again, Sir, give me this water. And
so Jesus, as he is orchestrating this encounter with the
woman at the well. Now we know that they come
from a related body of people. But one is rejected
by the other, and then there is some hatred between
the two, and it's ridiculous as far as I am concerned.
And Jesus said, as he is breaking down the wall
and he is starting to build a bridge to her,
he said, if you knew who I really was, if
you really knew who I am, you would ask me
for water. And guess what. As he began to as
he continued to build the bridge between them, and he
started to show compassion and love and awareness, she asked
him just like he said she would. That means that
she is starting to get it in her mind that
this is no ordinary man. He said that I can
give you water that's greater than the water that Jacob
gave you. I can give you manna. He didn't say
these words, but in another place he's teaching the same principle.
I can give you. I can give you living bread.
I am the bread of life, not just the bread
that came from heaven, which was a miracle. We gave
you that the people who ate that bread, they're dead now.
The people who drink from this well will thirst again
and ultimately will die. But I'm giving you because I
am the bread of life. I am giving you because
I am the water of life. I am giving you
because I am life itself. I am giving you an
opportunity to drink freely from me and live forever and
ever and ever. It does not matter who your mama was,
brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter that your father told
you that you were a mistake. It doesn't matter that
they tried to cover up their activity. Mammy and dad
weren't supposed to be together, and they now you were
born a crime. Huh. I think there's a man named Noah.
Noah who was a commentator and also a comedian from
South Africa that his birth was a crime because two
sets of people shouldn't have been together and apartheid was
a thing. But God is saying that no matter what
the circumstances are or were, I am here to give
everyone water of life freely. I think John told us
this in the Book of Revelation. Yes, okay, So let
me read a quote first from the Lesson, and then
we will we will continue the discussion. Okay. And so
abruptly Jesus changes the topic of discussion. Right. Remember, she
is speaking in a in a societal way. She's speaking
from a historical perspective, She's speaking from a religious perspective,
and Jesus is speaking from a purely eternal perspective. Do so,
he changes the topic of discussion, calling on the woman
to go call her husband. Wait a minute, to do what?
Call her husband and then come back. So she's like,
give me that water, and he's like, call your husband.
He's like, wait a minute, wait, wait what The woman's
actions bespoke avoidance. There were some things in her life
that she may not have wanted to talk about. We'll
talk about that one tomorrow in more detail. Ah avoidance,
Jesus could read her heart. She must face her situation
to find healing. You see, there are some times that
people say, Dave, what would you say if if person
X asks this certain question we're talking about Bible stuff,
And I'm like, I don't know what I would say.
They're like what, and I'm like, listen. The problem with
you people is that you you're always planning ahead. You're
studying in order to win an argument. And so when
I am and when i am faced with a question
that has eternal importance, when I'm faced with a question
that's related to God and the Bible. I ask God
what he wants me to say. See, this woman wanted
to have a theological and societal and cultural and historical discussion,
and Jesus is saying, you have a different need. And
what we're gonna do is we're gonna drag this thing
out into the open, and you're gonna have to face it.
And if you do face it as you should, I'm
going to pour into you this water that will so
transform your life that you will never thirst again. We'll
talk about that again tomorrow if the Lord spaars life
and now from the book Desire of Ages, page one
hundred and eighty seven, Before this soul could receive the gift,
meaning this this woman that Jesus is ready to pour into,
before this soul could receive the gift he longed to bestow,
she must be brought to recognize her sin and her savior.
That can be said and is said of us too.
Before we can receive that which we need from God,
we have to face the reality of our sin. We
cannot continue to tell ourselves we're all right even in
substance abuse transformations. People who are giving that up, one
of the first things they have to do is recognize
that they need a higher power. They need a higher
power to help them. And this higher power is God himself.
And we see this in the experience of Jesus and
this woman at the well. I wish I knew her name.
I'd love to call her by name, But to last
God didn't see fit to tell us. But we read
now in the Old Testament Bible, Book of Ezekiel, chapter
thirty six, something very interesting. Beginning at verse twenty five,
the Bible reads, then I will sprinkle clean water upon you,
and ye shall be clean. You see, Jesus want to
transform us. He wants to clean us, and then you'll
be clean from all your filthiness, thank God. All of
the things, the skeletons that were in her closet, the
skeletons that are in your closet, dear brother, and you,
dear sister, the things that you hope that nobody will
ever see, the things you've looked at on the internet,
the things you have experienced with people. You should never
have been that close to the crimes that you have
committed in you know right now, as far as you know,
it's an unsolved mystery. All of those things. When we
face the reality of those things and then yield them
to God and allow him to transform us. He will
wash you from all of your filthiness. Give it up today, brother,
give it up today. Sister, you can do it today.
I know that somebody is hearing this message from God.
From all of your idols. I will cleanse you Verse
twenty six. A new heart also will I give you you. See,
we don't have to wait for God to try to
renovate us. This is not how this works. He muws
the house down, he bulldozes the whole situation, and then
he creates us anew. The Bible says, I will put
a new heart within you. A new spirit will I
put within you. I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh, and I will give you a
heart of flesh. I will put my spirit, my Holy spirit,
within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.
Ye shall keep my judgments and do them. You see,
when you thought that you could not become holy, God
taught you that if you will drink of the water
of life freely, he can transform you to the degree
that people will be amazed and ask how can they
be transformed?
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening, friends, always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,