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11 05 2024 Acceptance and Rejection · 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 Tuesday, November five,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El 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. These themes I said, these themes in the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of John, and our caption for today is acceptance
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  Speaker 2: and rejection, the reinteresting acceptance and rejection. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: then shall the income. And I'm looking forward to that day.
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  Speaker 2: It's encouraging to see the many, many, many many places
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  Speaker 2: places as well. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day and for the privilege to open up your word.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to accept you.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to accept you and reject the enemy. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and amen again, acceptance and rejection. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we are going into John chapter six, and I
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  Speaker 2: would have mentioned to you several weeks ago. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: even sure if we were even in the Book of
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  Speaker 2: jon As yet, but I mentioned to you that this
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  Speaker 2: is a place. This is one of my favorite places
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  Speaker 2: in scripture. And I know I say that often because
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  Speaker 2: I love the Bible, but this one is really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin our reading from John chapter six,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse fifty one. And let's see what God
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  Speaker 2: has to say to us here. And it's Jesus speaking,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus speaking. I am the living Bread that came down
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  Speaker 2: from Heaven, the living Bread. If anyone eats from this bread,
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  Speaker 2: he will live forever. The bread that I will give
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  Speaker 2: for the bread that I will give for the life
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  Speaker 2: of the world is my flesh. And so Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: giving us an opportunity to be transformed. You see, you
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  Speaker 2: ever have you ever heard the idiom? What does it say?
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  Speaker 2: You are what you eat? You are what you eat? Well,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is saying that if we eat of the bread
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  Speaker 2: of life, we will receive life, and will receive life
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  Speaker 2: more abundantly. Okay, And so he wants us to have
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  Speaker 2: his life. No, let's put it this way, like the
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  Speaker 2: hymn writer said it, he wants our life to be
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  Speaker 2: hid within him. He wants to abide in our lives
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  Speaker 2: so that our lives will shine out into the world.
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  Speaker 2: And people will say, well, how can I get that life,
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  Speaker 2: eternal life, eternity with God? How do I get that?
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  Speaker 2: How do I get to the point where I am
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  Speaker 2: being transformed? No longer having to be addicted to substances,
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  Speaker 2: no longer having to be addicted to my own face
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  Speaker 2: or voice with all kinds of pride, no longer having
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  Speaker 2: to be bound by relationships that really do not add
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  Speaker 2: anything of value to my life, just so I could
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  Speaker 2: feel a little better. And so Jesus is saying, those
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  Speaker 2: who ate in the wilderness the manna that quote Moses
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  Speaker 2: gave to them, they died. They died. You know, with
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  Speaker 2: the exception of Joshua and Caleb, every single person who
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  Speaker 2: ate mana that was older than twenty years of age,
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  Speaker 2: all of those individuals died. And he's saying that even
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  Speaker 2: the ones now by the time Jesus is on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: even the children twenty years and younger, those individuals died
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  Speaker 2: eventually too. Some died before they and that didn't go
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  Speaker 2: into the Promised Land. And then the ones who did
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  Speaker 2: go into the promised land. They're dead too, and they
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  Speaker 2: ate the manna from heaven. So Jesus is saying, I'm
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  Speaker 2: giving you the kind of bread that will transform your
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  Speaker 2: life verse fifty two. Then the people of God who
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  Speaker 2: are against God, who were hostile to Jesus, began to
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  Speaker 2: argue with one another. How can this man give us
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  Speaker 2: flesh to eat? And Jesus said, unto them, I tell
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  Speaker 2: you the solemn truth. Unless you eat the flesh of
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  Speaker 2: the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have
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  Speaker 2: no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh
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  Speaker 2: and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will
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  Speaker 2: raise him up on the last day. For my flesh
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  Speaker 2: is true food, my blood is true drink. Remember I
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  Speaker 2: said you are what you eat. We're I'm talking about literal.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is not condoning a new religion of cannibalism. This
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  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with what Jesus is saying. He's
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  Speaker 2: saying that I can transform you from the inside out.
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  Speaker 2: From the inside out verse fifty six. The one who
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  Speaker 2: eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides and abides
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  Speaker 2: in me, and I in him. Now we understand where
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  Speaker 2: he's going. Okay, just as the Living Father sent me,
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  Speaker 2: I live because of the Father, So the one who
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  Speaker 2: consumes me will live because of me. So do you
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  Speaker 2: want to be connected to God our Father? Do you
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  Speaker 2: want to live eternally? Do you want to overcome those
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  Speaker 2: dead circumstances, the dead mindsets, the dead relationships on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth right, the dead time wasters in your daily walk?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to overcome the dead feelings of inadequacy,
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  Speaker 2: the dead abusive situation that you are allowing to happen
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  Speaker 2: because you need a check at work? Are you open
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  Speaker 2: to living forever? Okay? Verse fifty nine I already shared
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  Speaker 2: with you with fifty eight said Jesus said these things
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  Speaker 2: while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernium. Then
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  Speaker 2: many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: this is a difficult saying. Who can understand it? Then,
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this,
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  Speaker 2: he said to them, does this cause you to be offended?
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  Speaker 2: And what that means is offended in this context means
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  Speaker 2: is this causing you to leave me? Is this causing
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  Speaker 2: you to separate from me? Is this causing you to
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  Speaker 2: no longer want to walk with me and be on
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  Speaker 2: my team and in my family verse sixty two. Then
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  Speaker 2: what if you see the son of Man ascending to
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  Speaker 2: where he was before. The spirit is the one who
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  Speaker 2: gives life. Human nature is of no health. The words
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  Speaker 2: that I have spoken to you, they are spirit and
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  Speaker 2: they are life. But there are some of you who
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  Speaker 2: don't believe. For Jesus had already known from the beginning
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  Speaker 2: those who did not believe, and who it was who
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  Speaker 2: would betray him. We're almost there. We're almost there, so
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  Speaker 2: Jesus added. Because of this, I told you that no
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  Speaker 2: one can come to me unless the Father, unless the
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  Speaker 2: Father has allowed him to come. After this, many of
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  Speaker 2: his disciples offended or quit following him and did not
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  Speaker 2: accompany him any longer. And so Jesus said to the twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Now the closer ones to him. He says, to the twelve,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to go away to do you? Simon
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  Speaker 2: Peter answered him, Lord, to whom would we go? You
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  Speaker 2: have the words of eternal life. We have come to
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  Speaker 2: believe and to know that you are the Holy One
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  Speaker 2: of God. Jesus replied, didn't I choose you, the twelve?
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  Speaker 2: And yet one of you has the devil not so fast, Peter,
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  Speaker 2: not so fast. There are people who will come and
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  Speaker 2: align in air, quotes themselves with Jesus and act like
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  Speaker 2: they love him just so they can get human and
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  Speaker 2: earthly food. They can get notoriety. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: didn't I choose you the twelve? And yet one of
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  Speaker 2: you is a devil? Now? He said this about Judas,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Simon Escariot, for Judas, one of the twelve,
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  Speaker 2: was going to betray him. So we get to accept
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  Speaker 2: Christ and live eternally, or if we reject him, that's
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  Speaker 2: on us. That's a silly, silly reason.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening to friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,