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10 10 2024 The Resurrection of Lazarus · 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: 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 Thursday, October ten,
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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 themes in the Gospel of John and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Resurrection of Lazarus. The Resurrection
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  Speaker 2: of Lazare Yes, we'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this day
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  Speaker 2: and getting us so far into our week. Father, I
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  Speaker 2: just pray that we will trust you for every step
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, that you will transform our lives, resurrect
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  Speaker 2: all the things that are now dead in our lives
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  Speaker 2: that you want for us to live in. Please give
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  Speaker 2: us a living faith to connect with your power in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. The resurrection
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  Speaker 2: of Lazarus. What an incredible story. And as I have
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  Speaker 2: said to you many times before, it's not just about stories.
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  Speaker 2: Even those stories are incredible good stories. That's wonderful like
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  Speaker 2: it gets our minds going. It helps us to dream
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  Speaker 2: and envision the things of God. I'm talking about those
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  Speaker 2: kinds of stories. But we need to really start to
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  Speaker 2: apply the stories. We need to see how those stories
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  Speaker 2: are connected to who we are and who God wants
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  Speaker 2: us to be, you see. And so the story of
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  Speaker 2: Lazarus is one such story, the resurrection, the resurrection. And
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  Speaker 2: so now we understand from the Bible Book of John
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  Speaker 2: chapter eleven, when you have your spare time, no, not
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  Speaker 2: spare time, I want you to prioritize the time. I
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  Speaker 2: take it back like repeat, like edit, I need you
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  Speaker 2: to prioritize time. Read in the Bible Book of John
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  Speaker 2: chapter eleven and see what God did there, Okay? And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible says that there was a message. The
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  Speaker 2: people that Jesus loved sent a message to him to say,
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  Speaker 2: the one whom thou lovest, the one you love, Lazarus,
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  Speaker 2: he's sick. He's sick. Now, if somebody that you're very
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  Speaker 2: close to is very sick and people are sending a
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  Speaker 2: message to you, there's an expectation from the people who
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  Speaker 2: sent the message. Ah, there's an expectation. Like in this case,
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  Speaker 2: the expectation would be that Jesus would show up like
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  Speaker 2: he would get on the first thing, smoking a donkey,
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  Speaker 2: he would walk. I don't know how he always traveled, Camel,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But they expected that he would show
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  Speaker 2: up and show up quickly. Why because the one that
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  Speaker 2: you love, Jesus, he is sick, he's deathly ill. Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus didn't do that. And the Bible says that he
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  Speaker 2: did not show up until the fourth day. Okay, the
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  Speaker 2: fourth day. This is the time where people would lose hope,
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  Speaker 2: because even based on the way that the people of
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  Speaker 2: God and the people around in the community looked at death,
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  Speaker 2: it was like only after the third day. So by
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  Speaker 2: the fourth day they're really dead. We can still argue
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  Speaker 2: about it until it's the fourth day. Once it's the
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  Speaker 2: fourth day, we're not arguing anymore. That person is actually dead.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why they thought that way, but that's
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  Speaker 2: the way that they thought. And so Jesus he goes
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  Speaker 2: at the point where it's the apex of hopelessness in
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  Speaker 2: people who had no hope. Okay, And so I will
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  Speaker 2: read now for the Book of John, chapter eleven, verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight. Jesus therefore, again, groaning in himself, cometh to
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  Speaker 2: the grave. It was a cave, and the stone lay
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  Speaker 2: upon it and then he starts to speak. Now we
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  Speaker 2: get to roll back a little bit, roll back a
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  Speaker 2: little bit in time. Jesus shows up. It is the
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  Speaker 2: fourth day, and as soon as he gets near enough someone,
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  Speaker 2: one of the sisters, she comes and she says, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: if you had been here, our brother would not have died.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, okay, I'm here now, but Jesus, we're
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  Speaker 2: hopeless now, right, But I'm here now, So let me
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  Speaker 2: just share something with you. Do you believe that I
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  Speaker 2: can wake him up? Do you believe that I can
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  Speaker 2: wake him up? I left out a lot about the story,
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  Speaker 2: the discussion between heat Jesus and his disciples, But now
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  Speaker 2: do you believe that I can I can wake him up?
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  Speaker 2: The people are already distraught. Jesus weeps because the people
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  Speaker 2: are distraught even though Jesus is present there. They felt hopeless,
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  Speaker 2: even though the hope of life is in their presence.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe that I can raise him? Right? Can
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  Speaker 2: I raise him from the dead? And then, of course
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  Speaker 2: the sister, thinking that she had faith, was saying, yes,
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  Speaker 2: of course, I believe. I believe that in the resurrection
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  Speaker 2: that's in the future, like we haven't even gotten to
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  Speaker 2: that point. Yet this October in twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 2: in the resurrection, you can do it. You can do it.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus is saying, now, he's implying, listen, I am
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  Speaker 2: the Resurrection. He says those words. He's saying, you're limiting
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  Speaker 2: my power by circumstances and time. If you had been
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  Speaker 2: here past tense, my brother would not have died. He's dead. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean to the one who gave life
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  Speaker 2: to every living thing, every creature that has ever lived.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus gave life to that creature, every human who's ever lived.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus gave life to that human. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is teaching us, in Jesus's voice that, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: hopeless the situation appears to us, that he is currently
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  Speaker 2: the resurrection. I am, he said, the resurrection and the life.
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  Speaker 2: If a person dies, huh, yet shall he live if
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  Speaker 2: that person has faith in me? Like, do you believe this?
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible says, Jesus said, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 2: take away the stone. You take away the stone. Martha,
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  Speaker 2: the sister of him that was dead, said unto him,
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  Speaker 2: But Lord, by this time, he's decomposing. He stinketh, and
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  Speaker 2: he's been dead for four days. She's saying it's hopeless.
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  Speaker 2: It's hopeless. Jesus said, unto her, said I not unto THEE,
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  Speaker 2: that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God verse forty one. He's speaking to you, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, right now. Then they took away the stone
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  Speaker 2: from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus
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  Speaker 2: lifted up his eyes, and he said, Father, I thank
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  Speaker 2: THEE that thou hast heard me verse forty two. And
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  Speaker 2: I knew that thou hearest me always. But because of
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  Speaker 2: the people which stand by, I said that they may
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  Speaker 2: believe that thou hast sent me. And then when he
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  Speaker 2: had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice. He
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  Speaker 2: was very specific, brothers and sisters. He said, Lazarus, come forth.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? I need you to type in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: When he said Lazarus, come forth, what happened? The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says here in verse forty four. And he that was dead,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to type in the chat he was dead,
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  Speaker 2: but God, he was dead, but God, he that was
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  Speaker 2: dead came forth bound hand and foot, with grave clothes
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  Speaker 2: and his face was bound about with a napkin, and
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  Speaker 2: then Jesus said, unto them, loose him and let him go.
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  Speaker 2: You see, Jesus came into the space where the people
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  Speaker 2: were hopeless. Jesus came into the space where they were
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  Speaker 2: hopeless to bring hope and glory. Hope to the people
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  Speaker 2: and glory to God. He wanted them to understand that
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  Speaker 2: his power is not limited to time or space. His
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  Speaker 2: time is not limited by circumstances. When Jesus, who is life,
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  Speaker 2: is in the place where you are, and he is
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  Speaker 2: present to heal and to transform, just have faith in
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  Speaker 2: him and he will remove the grave clothes. He will
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  Speaker 2: loose you and let you go so you can be
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  Speaker 2: of glory to Him.
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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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