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11 29 2024 God With Us · 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 Friday preparation day,
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  Speaker 2: November twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John.
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  Speaker 2: We are rounding off lesson number nine under the caption
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  Speaker 2: God with Us, God with Us. Oh. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to just say welcome to you
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  Speaker 2: your daily portion. Yes, there's a special treat there for us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and I ask you please also to tell
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  Speaker 2: us where you are in the world. There's a little
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  Speaker 2: form there, where are you in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily portion dot com. I love that form because it
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  Speaker 2: is giving me an indication of how far and wide
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  Speaker 2: the gospel is being spread. Like, go ahead and type
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. As a matter of fact, as we
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  Speaker 2: are getting ready to pray, where are you in the world?
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  Speaker 2: And I know that there are people on the radio
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  Speaker 2: and two hundred radio stations beyond who is online listening
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  Speaker 2: and watching me here on podcasts, But just type it
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  Speaker 2: in the chat because this encourages me that this Gospel
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  Speaker 2: of the Kingdom shall be preached into all the world
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  Speaker 2: for a witness, and then and only then shall the
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  Speaker 2: end come. And I'm encouraged because the Philippines is finally
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  Speaker 2: taking off, like you're taking off. I finally see traction
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  Speaker 2: there in the Philippines, and I'm grateful. I'm grateful continue
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  Speaker 2: to spread the word there. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day of preparation. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to live your words, help us to live as
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  Speaker 2: in the visible presence of God. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Okay, Well, I'm grateful because God
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  Speaker 2: didn't leave us down here to perish. The Bible says
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  Speaker 2: God so loved the world that he gave his only
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  Speaker 2: begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
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  Speaker 2: but have everlasting life. God did not send his son
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  Speaker 2: into the world to condemn the world. Remember we were
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  Speaker 2: reading about this yesterday, not to condemn the world, but
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  Speaker 2: that the world through him might be saved. And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful that God has done all that He in
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  Speaker 2: his holiness can do in order to save people from
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  Speaker 2: our sins. I'm thankful no condemnation if we're in Christ Jesus. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so from the lesson writer, Well, there are quotes
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  Speaker 2: in the Lesson from the book Desire of Ages, page
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, and I read here in stooping to take
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  Speaker 2: upon himself humanity. Did you see that word? Did you
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  Speaker 2: hear it? In stooping? That means he's condescending. That means
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is reaching down. It's an infinite humiliation for him,
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  Speaker 2: even if he had taken on the form of humanity
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  Speaker 2: as Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But after
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  Speaker 2: four thousand years of degradation, Jesus does this. He's stooping
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  Speaker 2: down to take upon him himself humanity. Christ revealed a
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  Speaker 2: character opposite of the character of Satan. He did what
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  Speaker 2: he revealed, a character that is the opposite of Satan.
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  Speaker 2: But he stepped still. But he stepped still lower into
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  Speaker 2: the path of humiliation, being found in the fashion as
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  Speaker 2: a man. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death,
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  Speaker 2: even the death of the cross. You understand, Jesus is life. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he's the source of life. He's the one who saves us.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one who created us. In him his life,
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  Speaker 2: and in him he's the life, who is also the
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  Speaker 2: light of all humans. And so he is now yielding
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  Speaker 2: himself and becoming obedient to death, even the death of
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  Speaker 2: the cross. And the quote continues as the high priest
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  Speaker 2: laid aside his gorgeous pontifical robes and officiated in the
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  Speaker 2: white linen dress of the common priest. So Christ took
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  Speaker 2: the form of a servant and offered sacrifice himself, the priest,
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  Speaker 2: himself the victim. He was wounded for our transgression. God
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  Speaker 2: help us. He was bruised for our iniquities. The tastisement
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  Speaker 2: of our peace was upon him. May I continue, and
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  Speaker 2: by his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep,
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  Speaker 2: have gone astray, each and every one of us going
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  Speaker 2: in our own direction, thinking that we can, we can
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  Speaker 2: figure out our own lives without God. Mark out and
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  Speaker 2: tart out our own pathway. Because all roads, according to
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  Speaker 2: some people falsely so lead to God, and all roads
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  Speaker 2: don't lead to God. There was a path of righteousness
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  Speaker 2: that God reveals through Christ. Let me continue the quote
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  Speaker 2: before I get to preaching. Christ was treated as we deserve.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to let that settle. Christ was treated
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  Speaker 2: like we deserve. How do I deserve to be treated?
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  Speaker 2: Do I deserve to be treated like a medallion member
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  Speaker 2: in the American Express and Delta ecosphere? Do I deserve
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  Speaker 2: to be treated as royalty like those who have black
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  Speaker 2: cards are? Do I deserve to be treated like a
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  Speaker 2: diplomat like diplomats actually do? Hmm? Well, when we talk
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  Speaker 2: about it in a spiritual sense, we deserve to be destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Quite frankly, can I just say that really quickly here,
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  Speaker 2: don't take this lightly. We deserve to be destroyed, and
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  Speaker 2: we deserve to be destroyed with the most painful, ignominious death,
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  Speaker 2: like that is what we deserve because we have chosen
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  Speaker 2: to read in times past to reject God, reject our
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  Speaker 2: very breath, the one who gave all for us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm thankful for this reality that Christ was treated
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  Speaker 2: as we deserve, that we might be treated as he deserves.
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  Speaker 2: He was condemned for our sins in which he had
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  Speaker 2: no share. You see, Jesus never sinned that we might
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  Speaker 2: be justified. That means that we can be seen just
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  Speaker 2: as if we had never sinned. Okay, that we might
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  Speaker 2: be justified by his righteousness in which we had no share.
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  Speaker 2: He suffered the death which was ours that we might
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  Speaker 2: receive the life that was his. With his stripes. We
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  Speaker 2: are healed. That is the end of the quote. I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 2: I am I grateful because God made a way. He
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  Speaker 2: made a way. I feel sad sometimes thinking about what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus went through because of me, He went through because
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  Speaker 2: of you. He never did any wrong, and yet he
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  Speaker 2: was treated like the worst sinner in the universe, and
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  Speaker 2: then died with the burden of that on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy One of God, the one blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: who created us, the one who never did any wrong,
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  Speaker 2: became sin for us so that we could not be
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  Speaker 2: fearful of the condemnation that comes to those who are
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  Speaker 2: addicted to pornography. Oh, did I just say that we
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  Speaker 2: need to be practical here, those who have been addicted
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  Speaker 2: to the rum bottle, those who have been addicted to
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  Speaker 2: their own images or sitting in the high places of
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  Speaker 2: churches and having people yield to them and bringing greetings.
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  Speaker 2: Like sometimes people are addicted to our own reflection in
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  Speaker 2: the mirror. We are addicted sometimes to those filters that
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  Speaker 2: make us look lovely on toc TikTok and Instagram. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we believe our own press. There's a press release going
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  Speaker 2: out that fill in the blank person from filling the
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  Speaker 2: blank entity is doing this great deed. And now everybody
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  Speaker 2: in a constituency, everybody who is under the pr news wire,
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  Speaker 2: everybody who's in a particular news setting, now knows that
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  Speaker 2: we're so wonderful, and look at what we're doing for
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  Speaker 2: our community. Look at the thing that we did to
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  Speaker 2: help the homeless. Look at the thing that now we
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  Speaker 2: can pat ourselves on the back. Well, really pat on
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  Speaker 2: ourselves on the back for the things that we did
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  Speaker 2: for people during the pandemic. Come on, y'all, God with us,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus coming into human flesh, came to dispel all of
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  Speaker 2: the lies that the devil has told us about God
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  Speaker 2: and the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. With Jesus
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, we receive by faith the life that
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  Speaker 2: he deserves and escape the condemnation that we deserve.
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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,