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10 27 2024 The Setting of the Encounter · 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 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, 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 Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: October twenty seven, 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 lessons study series themes in the Gospel of John,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the setting of the encounter.
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  Speaker 2: The setting of the encounter. Remember when Jesus found you?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember where you were? Do you remember the
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  Speaker 2: circumstances surrounding that experience, that encounter. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first i'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day, for starting us off on
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  Speaker 2: the right foot this week. Thank you for loving us
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  Speaker 2: and giving us encounters close encounters of a holy kind. Father.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that we will have multiple encounters every single
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  Speaker 2: day with You, and that will be transformed by the
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  Speaker 2: renewing of our minds, so our lives can be transformed
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again. The setting
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  Speaker 2: of the encounter, and I admit that I had to
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  Speaker 2: be very much discipline yesterday because I wanted to jump
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  Speaker 2: into the story. And I'll have to be disciplined day
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  Speaker 2: by day because we're walking slowly through the story of
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  Speaker 2: this experience that God gave the woman, we say, the
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  Speaker 2: woman at the well. And so we begin our discussion
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  Speaker 2: here in the Bible Book of John John, chapter four.
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  Speaker 2: And what I need all of us to do is
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  Speaker 2: to envision ourselves having an encounter with Almighty God, bless
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  Speaker 2: it be his name, and what we would do if
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  Speaker 2: he began to speak life into us? Would we accept it? Brother?
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  Speaker 2: Would you accept it? Would you accept him? Sister? Would
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  Speaker 2: you accept this life or rejected? Sister? Would you accept
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  Speaker 2: this life? Life or rejected? And so, beginning at verse one,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads when therefore the Lord knew how the
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  Speaker 2: Pharisees heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is always a competition with these people. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: Why are humans so fixated with one upsmanship? Why are
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  Speaker 2: people with the crabs in a barrel mentality? Why are
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  Speaker 2: they worried about what Jesus is doing versus what John
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  Speaker 2: the Baptist is doing. It's because they want to start
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  Speaker 2: a problem. They want to they want to do some
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  Speaker 2: kind of spiritual incursion, like they want to be rebel
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  Speaker 2: rousers and cause and create a problem where there is
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  Speaker 2: no problem. God's people who are working in the field,
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  Speaker 2: the mission, field of his work have no competition, Like,
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  Speaker 2: why is there a problem here? Oh? The problem was
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  Speaker 2: in the in the hearts of the so called leaders
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  Speaker 2: of God's people Verse two. Though Jesus himself baptized not
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  Speaker 2: but his disciples. So he left Judea. You see, God
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  Speaker 2: leaves when we are in that competitive spirit, that spirit
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  Speaker 2: that says I am better than you in the work
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  Speaker 2: of God, that spirit that says I am politricking so
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  Speaker 2: that I can become a certain whatever in God's Church,
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  Speaker 2: over and against what I know that maybe you should
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  Speaker 2: be doing. But all I care about is my career.
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  Speaker 2: I care about my status, I care about my retirement plan,
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  Speaker 2: I care about my influence. And therefore I will politrick
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  Speaker 2: and do whatever I have to do to be installed
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  Speaker 2: into whatever the position is. And so this is what
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  Speaker 2: these people had. These are the problems that these so
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  Speaker 2: called leaders had. He left Judea, and he departed again
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  Speaker 2: into Galilee. Why did he do that? So he could
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  Speaker 2: go find some people who actually would accept the assistance
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  Speaker 2: that he was going to give. And then the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says verse four, and he must needs go through Samaria.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Jesus is on his way somewhere, He's
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  Speaker 2: passing through somewhere, and as he's passing through, he is
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  Speaker 2: orchestrating an encounter to transform a woman and a community
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  Speaker 2: of people all at once, and the Bible continues verse five.
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  Speaker 2: Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is
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  Speaker 2: called Psychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob
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  Speaker 2: gave his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the wall,
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  Speaker 2: and it was about the sixth hour. I need you
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  Speaker 2: to give keen attention to the timing here. I need
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  Speaker 2: you to give keen attention to the way that God
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  Speaker 2: orchestrates even through our necessary needs, even through those ten,
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  Speaker 2: those ten, that hierarchy of needs that the psychologists have
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  Speaker 2: been talking about for decades. Right, we all have these
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  Speaker 2: certain needs, some of which have to do with our
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  Speaker 2: daily activity, like we need water, we need certain health needs,
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  Speaker 2: we need transcendent needs like when God is in our presence.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the presence of God, we have need to
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  Speaker 2: connect with God. And so Jesus is using that same
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  Speaker 2: hierarchy in this situation. He needed some water, he needed
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  Speaker 2: some rest. This woman needed to be transformed. He needed
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  Speaker 2: and she needed. But what he needed could easily be addressed.
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  Speaker 2: What she needed was a transformation of internal eternal importance.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's wearied with his journey. He sat by
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  Speaker 2: the well, and it was about the sixth hour, and
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  Speaker 2: cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith
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  Speaker 2: unto her, give me to drink. Now, you have to
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  Speaker 2: understand the Samaritans, whereas they were connected and related to
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  Speaker 2: the Jews, that was not something that people would welcome.
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  Speaker 2: I think in current society we see where the two
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  Speaker 2: descendants of the two descendants of Abraham are still having
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  Speaker 2: these same challenges in a lot of places and in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ways. And so Jesus is about to
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  Speaker 2: level the playing field and say, this is one big, spiritual,
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  Speaker 2: happy family if you choose to be transformed. And so
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  Speaker 2: she is like, okay, okay, okay. So verse eight, for
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  Speaker 2: his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat.
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  Speaker 2: Then set the woman of Samaria. How is it that thou,
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  Speaker 2: being a Jew, askest a drink of me? Which am
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  Speaker 2: a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings
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  Speaker 2: with Samaritans. Well, she wasn't completely off base when she
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  Speaker 2: said that the Jews didn't have dealings with the Samaritans,
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  Speaker 2: but she was in encountering Jesus Christ, the Messiah who
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  Speaker 2: came through you could say the Jews bloodline, and was
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  Speaker 2: showing what he taught really and truly. I should go
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  Speaker 2: there in Isaiah and Isaiah chapter fifty six. I will
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  Speaker 2: go there Isaiah chapter fifty six. I didn't intend to
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  Speaker 2: read from here, but the Holy Ghost is saying, we
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  Speaker 2: need to go to the book of Isaiah chapter fifty
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  Speaker 2: six and read beginning at verse one. Read beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, and the Bible reads, this is what the
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  Speaker 2: Lord says, promote justice, do what is right for I
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  Speaker 2: am ready to deliver you. I'm ready to deliver you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready to vindicate you openly. The people who do
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  Speaker 2: this will be blessed. The people who commit themselves to
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  Speaker 2: obedience what people, everybody and anybody to observe the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: and to not defile it. Who everybody and everybody who
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  Speaker 2: refrain from doing anything that is wrong. No foreigner meaning gentiles,
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  Speaker 2: so called meaning Samaritans, or anybody else. No foreigner who
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  Speaker 2: becomes a follower of the Lord should say that the
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  Speaker 2: Lord will certainly exclude me from his people. The eunuchs
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  Speaker 2: should not say, look at me, I am a dried
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  Speaker 2: up tree. For this is what the Lord says. The
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  Speaker 2: eunuchs who observe my sabbaths and choose what pleases me,
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  Speaker 2: and are faithful to my covenant, I will set up
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  Speaker 2: I will set up a place for them. I will
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  Speaker 2: give them a name that is greater and I'm not reading,
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  Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing now than of sons and of daughters. I
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  Speaker 2: will give them a name that will remain forever. God's
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  Speaker 2: House is a house of prayer for all people.
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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,