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11 24 2024 In Him Was Life · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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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: lessons study series themes in the Gospel of John and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is in Him Was Life? In Him?
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  Speaker 2: Was Life? I'm thankful. I'm thankful, I'm thankful. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into this truth today, I am going to say
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for all of these people
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  Speaker 2: who are here to receive your word and to give
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  Speaker 2: it to others. Thank You for the people all over
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  Speaker 2: the world on two hundred plus radio stations. All of
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  Speaker 2: these devices, on the Internet, on podcasting aggregator sites, and
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  Speaker 2: on television. I'm asking you, now, Lord, to please please
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  Speaker 2: draw us into your presence and help us to live
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  Speaker 2: life with you. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. Live life with God. That's my word for today.
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  Speaker 2: Live life with God, Live life for God. Isn't it
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  Speaker 2: a privilege to know where our life comes from?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 2: See, when I was in university in Communication one O
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  Speaker 2: five Communication one O five Introduction to Oral Communication with
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  Speaker 2: doctor Joe Spicer, the late doctor Joe Spicer, he asked
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  Speaker 2: us some questions those years ago. One of them is
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  Speaker 2: a why are you here? Who are you? And why
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  Speaker 2: are you here? And see, back then, I was not
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  Speaker 2: connected to God, even though I was in a Christian
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  Speaker 2: university and I had been around Christian people my entire life.
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  Speaker 2: I went to churches for much of my life up
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  Speaker 2: until then. I wasn't going to church at that time
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  Speaker 2: at all. But even though I was around that, I
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  Speaker 2: was in the atmosphere. I really didn't know how to
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  Speaker 2: answer that question. But now that I'm a believer, I
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  Speaker 2: am very clear who I am. I am very clear
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  Speaker 2: about why I am here, and that reason is because
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  Speaker 2: God said that I would be here. He declares this,
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  Speaker 2: and that means that when his word is spoken, then
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  Speaker 2: creation happens. You see, when he said let there be light,
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  Speaker 2: there was light. And so when he says David Harris, el,
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  Speaker 2: David Harris is here, l d he is here, that
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  Speaker 2: means that there is a reason for this. What is
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  Speaker 2: the reason for whatever? God says the people that he
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  Speaker 2: wants me to reach some of you are them? Right?
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  Speaker 2: You're the people? And then why are you here? Because
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  Speaker 2: there are people that you need to reach for God,
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  Speaker 2: there are people that need life, and you are the
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  Speaker 2: one that's going to guide them to the one who
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  Speaker 2: is life. You see where this is going. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: clear now that in Him is life and there is
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  Speaker 2: a purpose for me on planet Earth. Of course I
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  Speaker 2: could go into the specifics, but this is not the
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  Speaker 2: place for it. And God wants to teach us the
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  Speaker 2: impact of this, but let's walk slowly here. The term
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  Speaker 2: for life in these passages appears thirty six times in
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel of John. About twenty five percent of the
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  Speaker 2: uses of the word for life appears in John. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: five percent of those in the New Testament appears in John.
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  Speaker 2: What is the term Zoe. I hope my brother and
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  Speaker 2: friend j Ques Green is listening Zoe. That is there.
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  Speaker 2: That is their daughter's name, Zoe. Zoe is life. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout the rest of John, this idea of life or
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  Speaker 2: zoe is most often expressed as everlasting life, the promise
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  Speaker 2: of salvation. Thus, the one who gave life at creation,
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  Speaker 2: see we talked about that a lot yesterday, is the
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  Speaker 2: same one who brings salvation or zoe, eternal life to
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  Speaker 2: a lost world. And so if your name is Zoe,
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  Speaker 2: my friends the brand their daughter's name is also Zoe.
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  Speaker 2: If your name is Zoe, you are representing eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: This may be the day like if your name is Zoe,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to type it in the chat. If
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  Speaker 2: you are on the radio, I want you to go
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  Speaker 2: to your Daily Portion dot com, come back to this
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  Speaker 2: date on the list of videos, and I want you
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  Speaker 2: to type my name is Zoe. And that means that
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  Speaker 2: if your name is Zoe, that you embrace eternal life
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  Speaker 2: because that is your name, eternal life through Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm thankful. I'm thankful because the Bible teaches
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  Speaker 2: us behold the lamb of God. As John the Baptist
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  Speaker 2: saw him, Jesus coming onto the scene. Behold the lamb
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  Speaker 2: of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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  Speaker 2: So zoe is to have our sins taken away. And
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  Speaker 2: so Jesus came. Jesus came for several profound reasons, the
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  Speaker 2: first of which is or one of the primary reasons
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  Speaker 2: is to take away sin. The other in John chapter
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  Speaker 2: three and verse sixteen, For God so loved the world
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  Speaker 2: that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
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  Speaker 2: in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That
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  Speaker 2: is to give us eternal life. So to take away
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  Speaker 2: our sins to provide eternal life. And then and then
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  Speaker 2: in John chapter six and verse forty, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and this is the will of Him that sent me,
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  Speaker 2: that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on
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  Speaker 2: him may have everlasting life. And I will raise him
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  Speaker 2: up at the last day. So, if God forbid, you
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  Speaker 2: should go to sleep and rest. Some real soldiers of
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  Speaker 2: the Cross have been dying lately. And we know now
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. And if
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  Speaker 2: God forbid, we do have to die before Jesus returns.
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  Speaker 2: We are clear that he ensures believers resurrection and eternity
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  Speaker 2: with him once Jesus returns. You see, so he came
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  Speaker 2: to take away our sins. He came to provide eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: And if God forbid, you should die or I should
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  Speaker 2: die before Jesus comes, he is here to give us
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  Speaker 2: eternity with him after the resurrection. And of course, the
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  Speaker 2: overarching theme is that Jesus came to reveal the Father
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  Speaker 2: to manifest God as a way or a pathway to salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is true, this is true, and it can
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  Speaker 2: significantly change our lives in practical ways. Let's look at
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  Speaker 2: a few of them. Number one freedom from sin. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: by show of hands, who needs to be free from sin.
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  Speaker 2: He realized that because of sin we have diseases on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. He realized that because of sin we have
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  Speaker 2: relationship challenges where people are getting divorced or God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: people are abusing each other because something is going wrong.
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  Speaker 2: That's because of sin. The reason why your month is
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  Speaker 2: longer than your money is because of sin. You understand,
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  Speaker 2: Because the same reason why diplomatic relations break down between
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  Speaker 2: and among countries is because of sin. The economy going
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  Speaker 2: bust and things going terribly wrong. It's because of sin.
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  Speaker 2: So we have freedom from sin. That's practical. That's practical,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course we have the privilege of living
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  Speaker 2: abundantly according to John chapter ten and verse ten, as
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  Speaker 2: we receive God into our life through Christ, we can
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  Speaker 2: have life, and have that life more abundantly.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,