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10 14 2024 The Word Made Flesh · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, October fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series themes in the Gospel of John, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Word made flesh, the word
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  Speaker 2: mayd flesh. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day our
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  Speaker 2: daily bread. I pray God now that you will transform
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  Speaker 2: our lives. Help us to be transformative agents in this world,
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  Speaker 2: looking for people to help and to connect with you
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  Speaker 2: so they can be saved. In Jesus' name. I pray
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. The word became flesh. And I
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  Speaker 2: do admit, I admit that I preempted a lot of
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  Speaker 2: this discussion because it's so broad and wide and holy.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to, you know, look at some things
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  Speaker 2: over and over again until we move on to the
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  Speaker 2: next spiritual subject. Here. One quote that I did not
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  Speaker 2: read yesterday because we really just ran out of time
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  Speaker 2: comes from the book The Desire of Ages, page nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads from the Days of Eternity, the word, oh,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, from the days of Eternity, the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ was one with the Father. And I need you
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  Speaker 2: to get that I said it multiple times, multiple different ways.
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  Speaker 2: But we need to understand that Jesus pre existed the incarnation,
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  Speaker 2: or he pre existed the time that he came into
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  Speaker 2: humanity and lived on planet Earth for planet Earth for
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  Speaker 2: thirty three and a half years. Jesus came from eternity
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  Speaker 2: past Micah chapter five speaking of Messiah says as much
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time, but continuing the quote
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  Speaker 2: from the days of Eternity, the Lord Jesus Christ was
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  Speaker 2: one with the Father. He was the image of God,
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  Speaker 2: the image of his greatness and majesty, the outshining of
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  Speaker 2: his glory. So if you want and that's, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: the end of the quote. So if you want to
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  Speaker 2: know what God is like, then look to Jesus. When
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  Speaker 2: I say God, I'm talking about God the Father. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to know what God the Father is like,
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  Speaker 2: you look to Jesus. You want to know his character,
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  Speaker 2: look to Jesus. If you want to know his mindset,
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  Speaker 2: look to Jesus. If you want to understand anything about
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  Speaker 2: his compassion, look no further than to Jesus. His willingness
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  Speaker 2: to save and empower people, look to Jesus. I think
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  Speaker 2: we're starting to get the picture. The author and finisher
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  Speaker 2: of our faith. He is the fullness of the God
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  Speaker 2: had bodily. This is Jesus Christ, the one who created you,
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  Speaker 2: the one who also has made provisions so you can
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  Speaker 2: be saved, the one who gave his life as he
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  Speaker 2: lived on planet Earth, so you and I can both
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  Speaker 2: be saved. Okay, And so we read again from the
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  Speaker 2: Book of John. We're reading again the first three verses
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  Speaker 2: and then verse fourteen. In the beginning was the word
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  Speaker 2: Who was the word? Again? Go ahead and type it
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  Speaker 2: in the chat, because I want to make sure you're
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  Speaker 2: getting this. And the word was with God, God the Father,
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  Speaker 2: and the word was God. So Jesus is the word
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning, or from before there was a beginning,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was there, and Jesus was with God the Father.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus is equal to God the Father. The same
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  Speaker 2: was in the beginning with God. All things were made
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  Speaker 2: by him. See these things that you can see and
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  Speaker 2: not see, the planets, the elements. Jesus created that, all
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  Speaker 2: of the creatures that you've ever heard of or never
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  Speaker 2: heard of. Jesus created that the universe as we know it.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus created that all things were made by him, and
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  Speaker 2: without him was not anything made that was made Verse fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: And the Word was made flesh. Now this is some
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  Speaker 2: special miraculous stuff here. The same one who created everything,
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  Speaker 2: the same one that created you, he also now in
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  Speaker 2: a miraculous feat a movement of God, he took on
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  Speaker 2: human flesh for thirty three and one half years, and
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  Speaker 2: he dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the
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  Speaker 2: glory as of the only begotten of the Father. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be confused about that terminology begotten. That means one of
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  Speaker 2: a kind. That's simply what it means in this context. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: this is one of a kind, as of the only
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  Speaker 2: begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. What
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  Speaker 2: a mighty God we serve. Why am I so excited
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  Speaker 2: about this? Because God could have stayed in heaven and
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  Speaker 2: just watched us live according to the way that we
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  Speaker 2: chose to live, and then whatever the outcome of the
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  Speaker 2: result was, well, that's what we paid. That's what we
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  Speaker 2: paid for. So we're going to get the wages of
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  Speaker 2: that which is eternal death. But God said Paul actually
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  Speaker 2: said that Jesus did not consider it robbery to be
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  Speaker 2: equal with God and then like, for instance, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: look at the fact that he's equal to God our
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  Speaker 2: Father and say, well, these humans did what we told
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  Speaker 2: him not to do. We empowered them to do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing, but they chose not to, so we're just
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  Speaker 2: going to leave them there to, you know, suffer their consequences.
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  Speaker 2: Is cause and effect. He didn't think the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he is equal to God our Father as something he
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  Speaker 2: should hold on to and just let us die. No,
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  Speaker 2: he took on the form of a servant. He took
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  Speaker 2: on human flesh for thirty three and a half years,
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  Speaker 2: glorified that flesh. After he overcame temptation and sin as
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  Speaker 2: he lived in the flesh, he glorified that and took
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  Speaker 2: that into heaven. So now he's our great high priest
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  Speaker 2: who was well acquainted with the feelings of all of
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  Speaker 2: our infirmities. Isn't it good that the same one who
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  Speaker 2: created us now has come down into our situation so
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  Speaker 2: he could save or recreate us. There is so much
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  Speaker 2: we need to say, but we just literally don't have
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  Speaker 2: the time. We will study this throughout the ceaseless ages
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  Speaker 2: of eternity, I promise you. And so one thing we're
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  Speaker 2: going to look at a few lessons in the Let's
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  Speaker 2: see a few minutes that we have left here, just
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  Speaker 2: about two or three minutes we have left here. Us
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  Speaker 2: created all things. That's less than number one. What a
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  Speaker 2: mighty God we serve. I have to say it over
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  Speaker 2: and over again, because somebody's gonna knock on your door
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  Speaker 2: one of these days and tell you that Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: less than equal to God, our father, and that would
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  Speaker 2: nullify the plan of salvation. Okay. And so God he
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  Speaker 2: made through Christ, he made himself accessible to us. He
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  Speaker 2: made himself accessible to us. He tabernacled with us. He
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  Speaker 2: dwelt among us so that we one day can dwell
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  Speaker 2: with him. He dwelt among us in our sin predigament,
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  Speaker 2: so that one day we can live eternally with Him,
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  Speaker 2: where there will be no more sin, sickness, death, disease, pain,
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  Speaker 2: or devil So one day we will experience the full
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  Speaker 2: manifestation of that. And why did he do that? Number
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  Speaker 2: three is because he loves us. Because he loved us.
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  Speaker 2: In First John, chapter four and verse nine, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in this was manifested the love of God toward us,
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  Speaker 2: because that God sent his only begotten son into the
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  Speaker 2: world that we might live through him. This is why
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  Speaker 2: he did it, because he loves us. Because he loves us,
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  Speaker 2: The truth is personal number four, not abstract. All that
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  Speaker 2: I said about lugos and Hebrew terms and Greek terms
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  Speaker 2: and all of these words that can become confusing at times,
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  Speaker 2: really it's not in the abstract. It's not philosophical. This
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  Speaker 2: reality is because God loves us and wants to save us,
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  Speaker 2: and we can be saved beginning now. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,