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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 Tuesday, October

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twenty nine, 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, and

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our caption for today is Sir, give me this water. Sir,

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give me this water. 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 please go over to your

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And I need a thousand of you to click that

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and subscribe. There also also, please let us know where

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you are in the world. There's a little form that

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says where are you in the world. I'm still building

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my map. Those of you who've been with me for years,

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you know that I am obsessed somehow by where you

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are in the world. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith in fellowship. We're spreading

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the Gospel into all the world. You're the ones spreading

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it for a witness, so that the end will come.

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And I'm looking forward to the day that we can

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be done with this crazy world as it is. Let's

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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this day

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our daily bread. Father. I thank you for the opportunity

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to drink from the well which is Christ. I pray

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now that we'll be transfer, that our minds will be transformed,

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our lives will be transformed in Jesus' name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again, Sir, give me this water. And

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so Jesus, as he is orchestrating this encounter with the

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woman at the well. Now we know that they come

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from a related body of people. But one is rejected

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by the other, and then there is some hatred between

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the two, and it's ridiculous as far as I am concerned.

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And Jesus said, as he is breaking down the wall

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and he is starting to build a bridge to her,

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he said, if you knew who I really was, if

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you really knew who I am, you would ask me

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for water. And guess what. As he began to as

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he continued to build the bridge between them, and he

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started to show compassion and love and awareness, she asked

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him just like he said she would. That means that

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she is starting to get it in her mind that

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this is no ordinary man. He said that I can

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give you water that's greater than the water that Jacob

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gave you. I can give you manna. He didn't say

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these words, but in another place he's teaching the same principle.

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I can give you. I can give you living bread.

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I am the bread of life, not just the bread

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that came from heaven, which was a miracle. We gave

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you that the people who ate that bread, they're dead now.

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The people who drink from this well will thirst again

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and ultimately will die. But I'm giving you because I

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am the bread of life. I am giving you because

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I am the water of life. I am giving you

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because I am life itself. I am giving you an

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opportunity to drink freely from me and live forever and

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ever and ever. It does not matter who your mama was,

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brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter that your father told

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you that you were a mistake. It doesn't matter that

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they tried to cover up their activity. Mammy and dad

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weren't supposed to be together, and they now you were

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born a crime. Huh. I think there's a man named Noah.

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Noah who was a commentator and also a comedian from

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South Africa that his birth was a crime because two

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sets of people shouldn't have been together and apartheid was

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a thing. But God is saying that no matter what

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the circumstances are or were, I am here to give

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everyone water of life freely. I think John told us

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this in the Book of Revelation. Yes, okay, So let

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me read a quote first from the Lesson, and then

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we will we will continue the discussion. Okay. And so

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abruptly Jesus changes the topic of discussion. Right. Remember, she

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is speaking in a in a societal way. She's speaking

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from a historical perspective, She's speaking from a religious perspective,

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and Jesus is speaking from a purely eternal perspective. Do so,

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he changes the topic of discussion, calling on the woman

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to go call her husband. Wait a minute, to do what?

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Call her husband and then come back. So she's like,

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give me that water, and he's like, call your husband.

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He's like, wait a minute, wait, wait what The woman's

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actions bespoke avoidance. There were some things in her life

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that she may not have wanted to talk about. We'll

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talk about that one tomorrow in more detail. Ah avoidance,

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Jesus could read her heart. She must face her situation

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to find healing. You see, there are some times that

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people say, Dave, what would you say if if person

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X asks this certain question we're talking about Bible stuff,

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And I'm like, I don't know what I would say.

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They're like what, and I'm like, listen. The problem with

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you people is that you you're always planning ahead. You're

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studying in order to win an argument. And so when

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I am and when i am faced with a question

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that has eternal importance, when I'm faced with a question

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that's related to God and the Bible. I ask God

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what he wants me to say. See, this woman wanted

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to have a theological and societal and cultural and historical discussion,

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and Jesus is saying, you have a different need. And

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what we're gonna do is we're gonna drag this thing

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out into the open, and you're gonna have to face it.

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And if you do face it as you should, I'm

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going to pour into you this water that will so

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transform your life that you will never thirst again. We'll

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talk about that again tomorrow if the Lord spaars life

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and now from the book Desire of Ages, page one

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hundred and eighty seven, Before this soul could receive the gift,

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meaning this this woman that Jesus is ready to pour into,

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before this soul could receive the gift he longed to bestow,

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she must be brought to recognize her sin and her savior.

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That can be said and is said of us too.

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Before we can receive that which we need from God,

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we have to face the reality of our sin. We

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cannot continue to tell ourselves we're all right even in

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substance abuse transformations. People who are giving that up, one

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of the first things they have to do is recognize

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that they need a higher power. They need a higher

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power to help them. And this higher power is God himself.

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And we see this in the experience of Jesus and

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this woman at the well. I wish I knew her name.

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I'd love to call her by name, But to last

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God didn't see fit to tell us. But we read

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now in the Old Testament Bible, Book of Ezekiel, chapter

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thirty six, something very interesting. Beginning at verse twenty five,

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the Bible reads, then I will sprinkle clean water upon you,

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and ye shall be clean. You see, Jesus want to

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transform us. He wants to clean us, and then you'll

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be clean from all your filthiness, thank God. All of

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the things, the skeletons that were in her closet, the

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skeletons that are in your closet, dear brother, and you,

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dear sister, the things that you hope that nobody will

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ever see, the things you've looked at on the internet,

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the things you have experienced with people. You should never

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have been that close to the crimes that you have

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committed in you know right now, as far as you know,

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it's an unsolved mystery. All of those things. When we

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face the reality of those things and then yield them

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to God and allow him to transform us. He will

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wash you from all of your filthiness. Give it up today, brother,

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give it up today. Sister, you can do it today.

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I know that somebody is hearing this message from God.

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From all of your idols. I will cleanse you Verse

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twenty six. A new heart also will I give you you. See,

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we don't have to wait for God to try to

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renovate us. This is not how this works. He muws

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the house down, he bulldozes the whole situation, and then

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he creates us anew. The Bible says, I will put

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a new heart within you. A new spirit will I

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put within you. I will take away the stony heart

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out of your flesh, and I will give you a

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heart of flesh. I will put my spirit, my Holy spirit,

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within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.

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Ye shall keep my judgments and do them. You see,

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when you thought that you could not become holy, God

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taught you that if you will drink of the water

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of life freely, he can transform you to the degree

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that people will be amazed and ask how can they

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be transformed?

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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,