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11 15 2024 Embrace Faith BEFORE We See · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 2: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 2: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, November fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 3: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 3: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 3: study series themes in the Gospel of John. We are
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  Speaker 3: rounding out now Lesson number seven and our caption for
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  Speaker 3: today is embrace faith before we see. I said embrace
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  Speaker 3: faith before we see. Yes, before we get into that,
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 3: especially those joining us for the very first time. I
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  Speaker 3: Click that button. And I also need you to go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and tell us where you are in the world
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  Speaker 3: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 3: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 3: Father and Heaven, Thank you for this day. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: for loving us so much. Teach us to embrace you
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  Speaker 3: even when we can't see all of the details. Please
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  Speaker 3: give us holiness and faith today. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 3: Amen and a man again. So we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the concept related to Thomas's doubting experience so we
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  Speaker 3: can apply it to ourselves. And I'm imploring even the
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  Speaker 3: Bible teachers who will be talking about this whole story
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow in churches around the world. Around the world, twenty
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  Speaker 3: two million people are on the same subject. Can you
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  Speaker 3: imagine twenty two million people studying the same thing around
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  Speaker 3: the world and more. Really, those are just the members.
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  Speaker 3: There are people who join with us so there's more
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  Speaker 3: than twenty two million on the same subject. So I
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  Speaker 3: am begging the teachers of this word. I'm begging you
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  Speaker 3: not to get stuck on the doubt part. Please don't
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  Speaker 3: get stuck there. I need you to read to your
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  Speaker 3: people the fact that Thomas didn't get stuck in his doubt. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: and so we read right out of the lesson, Thomas
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  Speaker 3: hast himself at the feet of Jesus, crying, my Lord
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  Speaker 3: and my God. You see, he had a genuine heart,
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  Speaker 3: even though he had his doubts for the moment, he
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  Speaker 3: had a genuine heart for God. And Jesus accepted his acknowledgment,
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  Speaker 3: but he did he gently reproved his unbelief, continuing the
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  Speaker 3: quote Thomas, because thou art thou hast seen me, thou
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  Speaker 3: hast believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and
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  Speaker 3: yet have believed. Have you seen Jesus? And some people
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  Speaker 3: are going to say, yes, I see him in nature,
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  Speaker 3: Yes I see him when I have an experience with
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  Speaker 3: him when I'm worshiping. That's not what I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking you have you actually seen Jesus. I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: about have you laid hands on him? Physically. Have you
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  Speaker 3: been able to hear his voice in real life? Have
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  Speaker 3: you been able to see him and the expressions on
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  Speaker 3: his face? That's the question. And if you haven't and
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  Speaker 3: you are a Christian, the Bible says, you're blessed. You
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  Speaker 3: have not seen Jesus and you believe you've not seen him,
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  Speaker 3: say Tealitha komai damsel I say unto you arise. You
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  Speaker 3: did not see him feed five thousand men plus three
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  Speaker 3: times or four times more in women and children. You
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  Speaker 3: did not see the times that he set the captives
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  Speaker 3: free in real life with your own eyes, you saw
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  Speaker 3: the effects, and you know it was the power of God,
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  Speaker 3: through the power of Jesus Christ. You know that. But
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  Speaker 3: you didn't see him, and yet you believe. So God said,
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  Speaker 3: blessed are you? Let me continue? The faith of Thomas
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  Speaker 3: would have been more pleasing to Christ if he had
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  Speaker 3: been willing to believe upon the testimony of his brethren.
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  Speaker 3: Should the world now follow the example of Thomas, no
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  Speaker 3: one would believe unto salvation. For all who receive Christ
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  Speaker 3: must do so through the testimony of others. So let
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  Speaker 3: me ask you a question, brothers and sisters, what is
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  Speaker 3: your testimony. We talked about it a little bit yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: What is your testimony when people see and experience you,
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  Speaker 3: What can they say that they are seeing and experiencing?
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  Speaker 3: Is your testimony because of God's power in your life,
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  Speaker 3: Poised and positioned to help people be transformed by the
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  Speaker 3: renewing of their minds, transformed so that their lives will
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  Speaker 3: be transformed. Continuing, continuing, Many who are given to doubt
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  Speaker 3: excuse themselves by saying that if they had the evidence
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  Speaker 3: which Thomas had from his companion, they would believe. They
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  Speaker 3: do not realize that they have not only that evidence,
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  Speaker 3: but much more. Many who like Thomas, wait for all
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  Speaker 3: cause of doubt to be removed will never realize their desire.
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  Speaker 3: If you're waiting for this thing to be perfectly etched
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  Speaker 3: in your mind and you have all of the details
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  Speaker 3: so that you can believe God, you will not believe.
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  Speaker 3: Brothers and sisters, so ask God today. I just need
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  Speaker 3: to say it straight to you, because somebody who loves
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  Speaker 3: you won't do it. Because the people who normally do this,
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  Speaker 3: they're the ones that are our critics. They're the ones
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  Speaker 3: that don't actually love you. They just want to point
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  Speaker 3: out your faults. What I'm saying is because of God's
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  Speaker 3: love for you through me. In this case, I need
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  Speaker 3: to tell you that you're not going to do it
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  Speaker 3: unless you make the decision today. Make the decision today.
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  Speaker 3: Now we continue, they gradually become confirmed in unbelief. Those
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  Speaker 3: who educate themselves to look on the dark side and
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  Speaker 3: murmur and complain know not what they do. They are
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  Speaker 3: sowing seeds of doubt, and they will have a harvest
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  Speaker 3: of doubt to reap at a time when faith and
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  Speaker 3: confidence are most essential. Many will thus find themselves powerless
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  Speaker 3: to hope and to believe. Can I say it again, please,
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  Speaker 3: they're sowing seeds of doubt. Don't speak out your doubts,
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  Speaker 3: stop speaking out your complaints, Stop drawing upon the dark side.
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  Speaker 3: Look for the bright side, because God has given us
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  Speaker 3: the bright side in the face of Jesus. No matter
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  Speaker 3: what we're going through, there is a bright side. No
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  Speaker 3: matter what we're going through, we have reason to give
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  Speaker 3: God thanks. No matter what trial or tribulation is our reality,
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  Speaker 3: Jesus is able to break through that cloud of darkness
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  Speaker 3: and cause us to believe unto salvation. Today is your day,
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  Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, and it's mine too. It's mine too.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of this came from the book Desire of Ages,
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  Speaker 3: pages eight hundred and seven and eight hundred and eight.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God. Now, in the few moments that we have
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  Speaker 3: left here, I need to give a few tips. A
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  Speaker 3: few tips. I color code my notes here. I had
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  Speaker 3: them in the wrong color. Now they're right. I know,
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know. I digress. So the tip. The
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  Speaker 3: first tip is to trust the testimonies of others. I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about the ones who are connected with God. In John,
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  Speaker 3: chapter twenty and verse twenty nine, again the Bible says Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are
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  Speaker 3: they that have not seen and yet still believe. You
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  Speaker 3: See they he had received the testimony from God's people
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  Speaker 3: who had experienced Jesus. They said, he's risen, this is him.
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  Speaker 3: We're grateful. And Tom's like, now, I'm not gonna believe
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  Speaker 3: unless so. The Bible is teaching us that we can
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  Speaker 3: believe and trust in the testimonies of people who are
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  Speaker 3: literally being transformed by the power of God. So trust
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  Speaker 3: those testimonies. Number two. Tip number two avoid the trap
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  Speaker 3: of skepticism. And he said, unto him. If ye hear
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  Speaker 3: not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded.
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  Speaker 3: Though one rose from the dead in Luke chapter sixteen
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  Speaker 3: and verse thirty one, there are people who are skeptical,
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  Speaker 3: who refuse to embrace faith before we see. Thanks for
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  Speaker 3: joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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