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12 16 2024 Behold the Man · 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 2: 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 Monday, December sixteen,
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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. Our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Behold the Man. Behold the Man. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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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 this day and for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the privilege to behold the Man. I pray
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  Speaker 2: God that you will give us the fullness of your
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  Speaker 2: Holy spirit and live according to the principles that you
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  Speaker 2: give us today in Jesus name. I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. You know, I really wish that this caption
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  Speaker 2: or the title for today was for us to really
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  Speaker 2: behold the man. You see in the story with a pilot.
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  Speaker 2: When he was saying behold the Man. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: when John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God
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  Speaker 2: which taketh away the sins of the world. Where he
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  Speaker 2: was leading people to connect with God through Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: as he lived on planet Earth, he was not saying that.
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  Speaker 2: He also was not saying, behold what manner of love
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  Speaker 2: the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be
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  Speaker 2: called the children of God. He didn't say it, like, beloved,
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  Speaker 2: now are we the children of God? And it does
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  Speaker 2: not yet appear what we shall be. He was not
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  Speaker 2: saying that if we see when he comes back, we
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  Speaker 2: will see him as he is, and if we are
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  Speaker 2: waiting for him in that way, that we should be
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  Speaker 2: purifying ourselves even as he is pure. He was not
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  Speaker 2: saying that. He wasn't saying, Jesus is the light of
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  Speaker 2: the world, and so that you should come into the
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  Speaker 2: bright rays of his sunshine, so that we can be transformed.
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  Speaker 2: He was not saying that. He was not saying that.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, but God, it is our opportunity today,
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  Speaker 2: on this day in December, on this Monday morning, to
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  Speaker 2: actually behold, behold Jesus, to not just look at him,
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  Speaker 2: not just to just observe him, but to behold him.
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  Speaker 2: Like when I got married to my wife, Simone, I said,
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  Speaker 2: behold my love during our ceremony, because I wanted people
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  Speaker 2: to have an appreciation of her beauty. I wanted them
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  Speaker 2: to have an appreciation of my love for her, at
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  Speaker 2: least as much as they could determine for the few
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  Speaker 2: minutes that we were going to be together. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to see how value, of much value she was
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  Speaker 2: to me and still is twenty three years later. Behold,
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  Speaker 2: that's what we need to do today. But last, we
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  Speaker 2: do need to read from the Bible Book of John,
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  Speaker 2: chapter eighteen. And by the way, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: please go into the community and give me your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: from your daily portion companion book for the study. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to give your thoughts here. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so we go to John eighteen, beginning at verse thirty eight,
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  Speaker 2: and it says here Pilot seth unto him what is truth?
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  Speaker 2: And when he had said this, he went out again
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  Speaker 2: to the Jews and said, unto them, I find no
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  Speaker 2: fault in him at all, But ye have a customed
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  Speaker 2: that I should release unto you one at the passover.
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  Speaker 2: You see, this dude was trying to wash his hands
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  Speaker 2: of responsibility. He was trying to make it so that
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  Speaker 2: the people could still find him popular and that somehow
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  Speaker 2: he could retain his notoriety or reputation or power or
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  Speaker 2: who knows what. He thought that he could put the
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  Speaker 2: ball into their court and then they would trespass it
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  Speaker 2: just the way that he thought that they would. He
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  Speaker 2: was trying to manipulate the process, rather than standing ten
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  Speaker 2: tolls down and taking response ability where God had given
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  Speaker 2: him the privilege to have Jesus right in front of him,
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  Speaker 2: the guiltless, spotless lamb of God that was here to
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  Speaker 2: take away the sins of the world. He could have
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  Speaker 2: done the right thing, but no, he puts the ball
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  Speaker 2: into someone else's court. And then they cried again, saying,
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  Speaker 2: not this man, but Barabbas. What Nowrabas is a robber
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  Speaker 2: in pilot. Therefore took Jesus chapter nineteen, beginning at verse one,
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  Speaker 2: and scourged him. Why did he scourge him? I thought
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  Speaker 2: you said there was no fault in him. Why would
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  Speaker 2: you scourge a man who is guilt free? Why would
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  Speaker 2: you scourge a man that is guilt less? Scourge? Oh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he chastised him. He had them to harm Jesus just
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  Speaker 2: one last time. And I'm looking in my dictionary. It
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  Speaker 2: says to whip a whip used as an instrument of punishment.
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  Speaker 2: A person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering
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  Speaker 2: is called us scourge. But they were scourging him, whipping
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  Speaker 2: him with a whip that is used as an instrument
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  Speaker 2: of punishment. How do you punish someone who are beholding
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  Speaker 2: How do you punish someone you're appreciating and embracing because
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  Speaker 2: of what great things he has done for you? How
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  Speaker 2: could you scourge someone who's willing to lay his life
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  Speaker 2: down for you. Behold, behold the lamb of God. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I need for us to do today. Behold the
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  Speaker 2: love of the Father toward us by giving us all
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  Speaker 2: of heaven and one gift in the person of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: But that is not what Pilot was saying. And the
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  Speaker 2: soldiers platted a crown of thorns, Oh God, how can
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  Speaker 2: you be so patient? And put it on his head,
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  Speaker 2: And they put on him a purple robe. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: The purple robe is about It's about royalty. The purple
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  Speaker 2: robe is to esteem the one who's wearing the robe.
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  Speaker 2: The purple robe is for people to literally say, behold
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  Speaker 2: our king in real life. But they are doing it
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  Speaker 2: to mock him. Verse three. And he said, and they said,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, hail King of the Jews. They weren't hailing him.
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  Speaker 2: They were not hailing him Lord of all. They were
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  Speaker 2: not hailing him as king of kings and Lord of lords.
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  Speaker 2: They were not hailing him. They were mocking him. They
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  Speaker 2: were not like, lift up your heads, o ye gates
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  Speaker 2: and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the
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  Speaker 2: King of Glory shall come in. They were not like
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  Speaker 2: those angels on one side of heaven, saying who is
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  Speaker 2: this King of glory? They were not like that. They
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  Speaker 2: were not saying, the lords strong and mighty, the Lord
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  Speaker 2: mighty in battle, lift up your heads, o ye gates
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  Speaker 2: and be ye lift it up ye everlasting doors, and
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  Speaker 2: the King of Glory shall come in. They were not
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  Speaker 2: doing that. They were mocking him. Hm. They were mocking
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  Speaker 2: him because they did not love him. They were mocking
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  Speaker 2: him because they did not behold him for real, for real,
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  Speaker 2: for real, They didn't care about the one who cared
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  Speaker 2: so much that he would give his life for them.
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  Speaker 2: The question is do we behold him? How do we
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  Speaker 2: apply it? Behold? I bring him forth to you, that
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  Speaker 2: you may know that I have found no fault in him.
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  Speaker 2: And then King Jesus fourth wearing the crown of thorns,
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  Speaker 2: it should have been a crown of glory in the
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  Speaker 2: purple robe, should have been the vestments in the vesture
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  Speaker 2: that is who Jesus is, And Pilots said, unto him,
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  Speaker 2: behold the Man. He should have said, behold the King
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  Speaker 2: of Glory. He should have said, behold the one that
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  Speaker 2: is here. So with such kindness and humility, is going
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  Speaker 2: to take away our sins? But he just said behold
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  Speaker 2: the man. And so really the question is the Bible
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  Speaker 2: question is for today, like, how do we make solid
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  Speaker 2: choices instead of playing around with God and looking for
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  Speaker 2: a way to absolve ourselves of responsibility. How do we
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  Speaker 2: actually put ten toes down and do God's will? Number One,
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  Speaker 2: we seek divine guidance from every decision. Trust in the
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  Speaker 2: Lord with all your heart. Lean not into your own understanding,
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  Speaker 2: and all your ways. Acknowledge Him and he shall direct
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  Speaker 2: your pass. Also, stand firm on your convictions to serve God.
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  Speaker 2: Avoid compromise. And finally, I need you to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you learn from other's mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be like pilot Actually behold thanks for joining us,
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  Speaker 1: listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,