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11 20 2023 Christ’s Method Alone · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's 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 to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning,
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  it is no it's Monday, November twenty, twenty twenty three. Hello.
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  My name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is Christ's Method alone. Christ's
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  Method alone. That's ringing a bell and some of your minds. Yes,
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  we are going to get into that in just a moment, But first I'd
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  ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  thank you for this day and for giving us the privilege to come together.
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  Please teach us to live like Jesus lived, and then minister in the same
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  way. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  Christ's method alone, I'm going to just jump right into it because you've
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  been waiting for it from the book The Ministry of Healing, page one hundred
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  forty three, one hundred forty three. And let me just say that Jesus
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  gave a five step process, or let me say, in his method of
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  reaching people, there is a five step process in the quote that we're going
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  to read, especially to those who are in need. And the quote is
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  Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people. So our gold
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  standard really platinum, titanium, like whatever the most valuable or strong mineral or
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  precious metal you can find. Yes, attached that right, So this is
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  the standard for true success in reaching peace. This is what he did.
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  The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed his
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  sympathy for him for them, excuse me, ministered to their needs, and
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  won their confidence, and ultimately, ultimately, I will add here, then
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  he bade them follow me. Can we go through that just one more time?
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  The Savior mingled with people as one who desired their good. When you
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  are in people's presence, why are you there? Are you just a taker?
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  Are you someone who wants to give and then shoo, disappear like some
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  kind of fictitious superhero, or are you mingling with them as one who desired
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  their good? Now, I'll say I know that there are people who are
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  like ah, but I'm an introvert, Dave, I'm somebody I don't really
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  like being around people. It's not that I hate people, but I just
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  kind of don't like that whole mix and mingle thing. And listen, I
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  get it. But what God is saying here is that Jesus fight any other
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  thing. When he was in the presence of people, all he wanted to
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  demonstrate was that he desired their good. Okay, he showed his sympathy for
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  them. There are times people are in need of a friend. They've been
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  going through some things, They've had challenges that are too heavy for them to
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  bear. They need someone to pray for them. They need some practical things
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  like going to the supermarket for them. They may need you to take care
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  of their children for just a moment, right may need you to go and
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  to clean up their yard, or to fix and steady things around the house
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  that seemed to be breaking down because they're in such a bad situation. He
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  showed sympathy for them. He ministered to their needs. He did not if
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  it's a guidance to us. It's not for us to determine what their needs
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  are and tell them that. It is for us to see and experience and
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  say, oh, based on this, I see that they need, and
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  they give them according to their needs. And he won their confidence. Of
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  course, that is self explanatory. And having done all of this, he
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  could say, now come follow me, Come follow me. Why because he
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  demonstrated that he had their best interest at heart. Now we have here in
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  the Lesson Study. And by the way, that's the end of the quote
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  in the Lesson Study, John chapter five, verses one through nine, and
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  Mark chapter one, verses twenty three through twenty eight. Let's see what we
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  can glean from these, if anything at all, because that's a lot to
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  read. Right, Let's go with the first passage and see how we're working
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  with time. And the Bible reads John chapter five and verse one. After
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  this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to
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  Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem a sheep market and pool, which is
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  called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five and these lay a great multitude
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  of impotent folk, blind and halt withered, waiting for the moving of the
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  water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool.
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  This is what they were waiting for. This is what the individuals believed was
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  happening. And so Jesus is working with that belief of what was happening.
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  I wish I had the time, and he troubled the water. According to
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  this whosoever, then first after the troubling of the water, stepped in was
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  made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there which
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  had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie and knew
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  that he had been now a long time. In that case, he said,
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  unto him, wilt thou be made whole? See this is the question
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  that God is asking you. Even now. You may or may not have
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  a physical malady, may or may not have a disease. Ah, But
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  everybody has been sinking deep in sin, right far from the peaceful shore,
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  very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more. And so the master
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  of the sea he hears your despairing cry, and he from the waters he'll
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  lift you, huh, so that you can be safe. Asking you,
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  will you be made whole? Verse seven, the impotent man answered him,
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  sir, I have no man. So this is where the man is getting
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  himself mixed up. Jesus did not ask him if he had a man.
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  He did not ask him if he had a friend. He did not ask
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  him if he had a method in order to make his own needs be addressed.
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  He did not ask him for a prescription on how to heal him.
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  Jesus simply asked, wilt thou be made whole? Hmm? And then the
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  man is complaining. The impotent man answered him, so I have no man
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  when the water is troubled to put me in the pool. But while I
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  am coming, another step is down in before me. And so he's complaining
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  because he believes that the power is in some water. That he believes that
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  there is some angel that comes down and stirs up the water and people are
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  getting healed. He believes this stuff. And now he is lamenting the fact
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  that he cannot get his healing because other people get in before him. He
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  cannot get his healing because maybe his timing is off. He cannot get his
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  healing when the one who is life himself is right there and saying, wilt
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  thou be made whole? Why give excuses? So God is saying I am
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  here, I am here, and so and so verse eight, Jesus saith
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  unto him, rise, take up thy bed and walk, and guess what
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  happens verse nine, And immediately the man was made hole and took up his
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  bad and walked. And on the same day was the Sabbath. See Christ's
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  method alone in this moment was to see the man's need give him the power
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  he needed to overcome the challenge. Even though it was a thirty eight year
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  challenge, and despite the man's objections and excuses and broken mindset, Jesus pushed
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  through all of that and through his kind, sympathetic method, he healed the
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  man. Man was amazed and his life was changed forever. Christ's method alone
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  will bring true spiritual success of a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,