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10 29 2026 Drama, Symbols, Parables · 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: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Thursday, October 29, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series, The Gift
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  Speaker 2: of Prophecy, and our caption for today is drama... Symbols
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  Speaker 2: and Parables. Drama, Symbols, and Parables. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: speaking to us at all. In whatever way you have
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  Speaker 2: chosen to speak to us, communicate to us, transform us, Father,
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  Speaker 2: help us to yield to whatever you communicate. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to be transformed in real life, and then help others
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  Speaker 2: in the same way. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And amen again. Drama, symbols, and parables. I have so
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  Speaker 2: much to say. I don't know how I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: get it in here, but we're going to do our
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  Speaker 2: best under God, okay? So God spoke not only in
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  Speaker 2: plain words, but in dramas, symbols, and parables that pictured
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  Speaker 2: his truth vividly from the sacrificial system to the parables
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. He even had his prophets act out
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  Speaker 2: shocking dramas as a last act of mercy, alerting his
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  Speaker 2: people to their true condition and calling them to repentance.
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  Speaker 2: So much to say, so little time. I remember when
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  Speaker 2: I was a young boy in the 70s and 80s,
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  Speaker 2: for some reason, my mom, like a lot of people's
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  Speaker 2: mommies in that time, was addicted to soap operas i'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about black and white tv days and then of
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  Speaker 2: course we did get a color television even with a
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  Speaker 2: remote control like before we click click click click had
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  Speaker 2: to click click click and and and she but she
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  Speaker 2: found those soap operas And of course, many, many years later,
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  Speaker 2: when I became a child of God, my friends and
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  Speaker 2: I would say, well, why? Listen, if you want some drama,
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  Speaker 2: just read in the Bible. At least in the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: those dramas lead us to Christ. You don't need to
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  Speaker 2: watch soap operas. You don't need to watch melodramas at
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock or eight o'clock Eastern time on the television.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to watch that stuff that doesn't lead
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  Speaker 2: us to Christ. The Bible is so full of those things.
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  Speaker 2: And then many times people speak in parables in even
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  Speaker 2: 2026 and people use the parables of Christ to teach.
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  Speaker 2: And that's quite fine. That's quite fine. But I just
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  Speaker 2: need you to understand that there was something that God
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  Speaker 2: was doing with many of the parables in the New
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  Speaker 2: Testament in particular. where Jesus and his disciples were having
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  Speaker 2: a conversation, and they were like, we don't know what
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about. Jesus, we don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I do not know what you're talking about. And then
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that Jesus said, well, I speak in parables,
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  Speaker 2: so basically the people that don't know me, that don't
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  Speaker 2: know God our Father, so they'll be confused. And the
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  Speaker 2: only way that these parables will unlock is if they
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  Speaker 2: surrender their will to God. The key to understanding the symbols,
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  Speaker 2: the dramas, the parables is submission to God. I know
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  Speaker 2: I just spread it out because I don't have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time. If you're confused about prophecies, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that you're still needing to learn. All of us
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  Speaker 2: need to learn. But if you're completely confused and you're
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  Speaker 2: not coming down anywhere to understand and you have to
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  Speaker 2: borrow stuff from other people all the time, you can't
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  Speaker 2: get it from God, then examine your servanthood with God.
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  Speaker 2: Examine your submission to God because he promised blessings to
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  Speaker 2: those who submit to him. Those dramas, those parables, those
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  Speaker 2: symbols will all begin to make sense. when you surrender
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  Speaker 2: your will to God. And then Jesus continued with his disciples.
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  Speaker 2: And then they said, now we see plainly. Now he
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  Speaker 2: speaks plainly. We can see clearly now. Well, that's because
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  Speaker 2: he opened their understanding based on their growth in servanthood.
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  Speaker 2: He made it so they could understand and not be confused.
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  Speaker 2: Now in Hebrews chapter eight and verse five, somebody's catching up.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews chapter eight and verse five, the Bible reads, The
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  Speaker 2: very place where they serve is a sketch, a shadow of,
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  Speaker 2: of heavenly things, or the heavenly sanctuary, as Moses was
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  Speaker 2: admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle.
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  Speaker 2: So the whole sacrificial system, or the sacerdotal system, the
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary system, was a shadow pointing forward to what Jesus
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  Speaker 2: would do in terms of saving us from our sins,
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  Speaker 2: the atoning sacrifice, and his heavenly ministry, including the ministry
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is now actually functioning within in that high
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  Speaker 2: priestly role in cleansing the people of God and the
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  Speaker 2: record of our sins. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: So God pictured the plan of salvation so his people
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  Speaker 2: would grasp what he was doing for them. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that God said, I will do nothing important, let's
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  Speaker 2: put important in brackets so we can get what his
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  Speaker 2: intent was, except I reveal my secrets to my servants,
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  Speaker 2: the prophets. And we know the prophets, their goal was
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  Speaker 2: to communicate in the voice of God to the people,
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  Speaker 2: not to hide things. Okay, so trace one Old Testament
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  Speaker 2: symbol to Christ today. This is important because there are
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  Speaker 2: many times people get excited about being able to see
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  Speaker 2: symbols or hear symbols or talk about symbols, but God
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  Speaker 2: is saying, I want those symbols to become revelations to
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  Speaker 2: you and let it deepen your grasp of what Jesus
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  Speaker 2: has accomplished on your behalf. Studying, I'll give you an example,
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  Speaker 2: studying the life of Jesus Christ and going back to
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  Speaker 2: an Old Testament prophecy, say, in the book of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 2: and saying, wait a minute, now these things are fulfilled
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  Speaker 2: in my ears. For what purpose? Like, why did God
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  Speaker 2: reveal this, and how did it connect to Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the righteous one? Can I give you one in particular? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that we should pray to God. He said,
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  Speaker 2: if anyone lacks wisdom, then we should ask of God,
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  Speaker 2: and when God gives us this wisdom, he is not
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  Speaker 2: going to withhold anything. He's going to give us the
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  Speaker 2: wisdom in such an incredible way that we don't need
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  Speaker 2: to be confused. That's what he promised. And how many
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  Speaker 2: know that Jesus Christ is wisdom? I know somebody was
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  Speaker 2: looking for a messianic prophecy, but there's so many more
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures. Jesus is our wisdom. And in the
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  Speaker 2: book of Proverbs, chapter 8, you will see in clear
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  Speaker 2: and living tones where the Bible writer begins to to,
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  Speaker 2: in a first-person sort of narrative, describe someone, a personification
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  Speaker 2: that is obviously Jesus. And you're like, well, how do
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  Speaker 2: you know that? I wish I had the time. But
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  Speaker 2: we can go right to the book of 1 Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter 1. beginning at verse 30, and see the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: among other things, that Jesus is our wisdom. So when
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  Speaker 2: we're asking God for wisdom, we're asking him to give
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  Speaker 2: us Jesus Christ. And once Jesus Christ is abiding in you,
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  Speaker 2: then there is nothing that you will lack in terms
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  Speaker 2: of wisdom. in terms of wisdom. So many more things,
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  Speaker 2: but let me just say, to the humble and believing soul,
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  Speaker 2: the book of God is as the leaves of the
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  Speaker 2: tree of life. Christ, the great teacher, chose to present
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  Speaker 2: truth through the medium of familiar and the simple that
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  Speaker 2: all might grasp its meaning. That's coming in from Christ's
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  Speaker 2: Object Lessons, page 21. Make it a great day. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, We cannot
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.