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11 23 2024 The Source of Life · 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 Sabbath, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John. This
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  Speaker 2: is Lesson number nine and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: the Source of Life. The Source of Life. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
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  Speaker 2: our online community and let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world. At your Daily portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new opportunity to connect with you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the Sabbath hours and for being our life Father.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to always remain connected to you. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay, So,
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  Speaker 2: really and truly, what do you believe is the source
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  Speaker 2: of your life? And I know that that should be
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  Speaker 2: an easy answer because many of you say that you
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  Speaker 2: know and love God, so you would say, well, God
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  Speaker 2: is the source of my life. And if that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: even for the people who are not yet connected to God.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that today is your day, I'm hoping
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  Speaker 2: that this program will be an impetus for you to
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  Speaker 2: begin walking with God like become his friend. Right. But
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  Speaker 2: if that's the case, how do we live? If we
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  Speaker 2: know intellectually that Jesus is our life, If we know
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  Speaker 2: intellectually that He is our source, how do we live?
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  Speaker 2: How do we interact with those around us? How do
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  Speaker 2: we interact in our business dealings, in our personal relationships?
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  Speaker 2: How do we interact with the way that we see ourselves?
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  Speaker 2: You see, if the source of our life is God
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  Speaker 2: through Christ, how do we live now? The Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: here in John chapter fourteen and verse six. I am
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  Speaker 2: the Way. This is Jesus speaking the truth and the life.
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  Speaker 2: No one comes to the Father except through me. You see,
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  Speaker 2: when I was a young new believer, I was about
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  Speaker 2: twenty three years of age and I had just gotten baptized.
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Henry Wright baptized me in Alexandria, Virginia. It was
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  Speaker 2: an incredible experience. I also had the privilege of learning
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  Speaker 2: under John Nixon, Pastor John Nixon and we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: senior at the Capitol Hill Church in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: So I had these two men of God teaching, teaching
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  Speaker 2: me among other people, teaching me the way, the truth,
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  Speaker 2: and the life. I remember one time Pastor Nixon was
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  Speaker 2: teaching and he said, there are so many of you
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  Speaker 2: who say I have the truth. I have the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And of course he's speaking to people twenty two million
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  Speaker 2: people around the world who say that we have present truth.
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  Speaker 2: Give or take a few people, right, And he said, well,
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  Speaker 2: what is the truth? What is the truth? And of
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  Speaker 2: course we start sometimes thinking of the truth in terms
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  Speaker 2: of true words. And he showed us in the Scriptures
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  Speaker 2: where Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth, and
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  Speaker 2: the life. No one comes to the Father but by me,
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  Speaker 2: pastor will Smith, he taught us the same thing in Alexandria.
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  Speaker 2: And the truth is that Jesus Christ is the Truth.
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  Speaker 2: God's word is truth, and his commandments are truth. These
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  Speaker 2: are what the Bible teaches us as truth. Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: the truth, his word is truth, and the Holy ten
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  Speaker 2: commandments are truth. Okay. So if that is the case,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus himself being the truth, told us the truth
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  Speaker 2: that He's the source of our life, then how must
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  Speaker 2: we live? What is it our privilege to do as
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  Speaker 2: people who believe the truth that God is the source
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  Speaker 2: of our life? Okay? And so I'm going to give
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  Speaker 2: a few concepts here. The first is in Acts chapter
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  Speaker 2: four and verse twelve, and the Bible reads, neither is
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  Speaker 2: their salvation in any other for there is none other
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  Speaker 2: name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
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  Speaker 2: And so we understand from John chapter one and Hebrews
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  Speaker 2: chapter one in other places that Jesus Christ created us right,
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  Speaker 2: He created us. He is our creator. That means he's
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  Speaker 2: the source of our lives. That is, when Adam and
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  Speaker 2: Eve were created, the one who breathed into their nostrils
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  Speaker 2: the breath of life is Jesus Christ himself. So we
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  Speaker 2: got that. But in twenty twenty four, how do we
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  Speaker 2: see that? We also see the fact that the reason
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  Speaker 2: why we can still breathe, the reason why our heart
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  Speaker 2: is still beating, the reason why our brains are still functional,
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  Speaker 2: is because we take our lives from Jesus. He is
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  Speaker 2: giving us our life. He said, I am the resurrection
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  Speaker 2: and the life. That is clear. But then comes this
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  Speaker 2: matter of salvation. You see, there are people who are
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  Speaker 2: breathing right now, people you know, and God forbid it
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  Speaker 2: may be you. But if it is you, you're in the
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  Speaker 2: right place. For these few moments. There are people who
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  Speaker 2: are breathing and borrowing breath from God, not understanding or
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  Speaker 2: not yet accepting that salvation comes from Christ. That is,
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  Speaker 2: we have all sinned and comes short of the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God. And God has given us the antidote. The
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  Speaker 2: antidote is to submit ourselves to Him through Christ. And
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  Speaker 2: to receive Christ into our lives is to be quote saved.
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  Speaker 2: There is no salvation except through Christ. There is no
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  Speaker 2: name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be
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  Speaker 2: save except through Jesus Christ. I'm a Christian. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I'm called a Christian, because I believe that salvation comes
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  Speaker 2: from the same source that my breath comes from salvation,
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  Speaker 2: and my breath comes from Jesus Christ. Do you see
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  Speaker 2: where we're going with this? And then if that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: that means that we embrace Jesus as the only way
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  Speaker 2: to God, our Father. He is the pathway. He is
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  Speaker 2: the pathway. Not all roads lead to God. We may
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  Speaker 2: learn some things about God through all kinds of different means,
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  Speaker 2: but the pathway, Jesus is the way, and he's telling
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  Speaker 2: the truth. Now we tie this together now from John
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse seventeen, where the Bible says, for
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  Speaker 2: the law was given by Moses. But grace and truth
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  Speaker 2: there's that word again, came by Jesus Christ. So that
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  Speaker 2: means we live by it truth, power of God to
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  Speaker 2: do his will, unmerited favor. That's grace, unmerited favor, power
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  Speaker 2: to do God's will. The truth about this is that
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  Speaker 2: it came through Jesus Christ. In John chapter ten and
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  Speaker 2: verse ten. The Bible reads, I am come that they
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  Speaker 2: may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
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  Speaker 2: So we have the breath that we breed. We are
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  Speaker 2: able to hear, see, speak, and other things. We have
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  Speaker 2: our five senses. And I understand that there are anomalies,
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  Speaker 2: and people are missing some of those. But the fact is,
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  Speaker 2: if we were alive, we are only alive because of
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  Speaker 2: God through Christ. And he is saying that I can
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  Speaker 2: give you more than that. I can give you more
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  Speaker 2: than that, more than just the ability to breathe, more
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  Speaker 2: than just the ability to think, more than just the
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  Speaker 2: ability to get wealth, more than just the ability to
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  Speaker 2: have relationships with people we love and who love us.
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  Speaker 2: More than just the ability to eat and to drink
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  Speaker 2: and to be merry in a good way. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: we have the privilege of having life more abundantly, the
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  Speaker 2: kind of life that knows that we are connected to God.
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  Speaker 2: And one day we will begin to live in eternity
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  Speaker 2: with God, where there will be no more sickness, no
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  Speaker 2: more death, no more crying, pain or any such thing.
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  Speaker 2: And we're looking forward to the day. So the fact
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  Speaker 2: is we seek God through Christ and everything that he offers,
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  Speaker 2: and of course we reflect on our love relationships. We
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  Speaker 2: rely on him in prayer, and we share about him.
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  Speaker 2: We witness to others about him. The source of our
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  Speaker 2: life is Jesus, and so is our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,