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10 12 2024 The Backstory - The Prologue · 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 Sabbath, October twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name Isseelle David Harris. I
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  Speaker 2: am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where
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  Speaker 2: we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  Speaker 2: is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study
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  Speaker 2: series through the Book of Gospel, the Book of the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of John, through the Gospel of John, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the backstory, the prologue. The backstory,
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  Speaker 2: the prologue. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then get under weigh, Father and Heaven, Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day and for loving us beyond belief. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us more than just a backstory, more than
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  Speaker 2: just a prologue, but giving us a way to be transformed,
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  Speaker 2: to be connected to you, to experience the metamorphosis that
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  Speaker 2: puts us into eternity with you beginning one day. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please please help us to be holy. Make us holy
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  Speaker 2: today in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again
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  Speaker 2: the backstory, it's more than just a story. But let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and read from the book of John chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verse one. And I need to
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  Speaker 2: remain discipline. I'm telling you that just so I can
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  Speaker 2: hear myself say it, because if I go too far today,
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  Speaker 2: then I will have already taught the lesson for the
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  Speaker 2: coming week. Okay, And so we're going to stay narrowly focused.
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  Speaker 2: Here to a part of John chapter one and verse one,
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  Speaker 2: And this is how it reads. In the beginning was
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  Speaker 2: the word, and the word was with God, and the
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  Speaker 2: word was God. Let me just say here that this
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  Speaker 2: actually means from before there was a beginning. You see,
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  Speaker 2: by the time you hear God say, let there be light,
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  Speaker 2: and there was light. God was there. So from before
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  Speaker 2: there was a beginning, the word Jesus Christ was there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, where did you
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  Speaker 2: get this word Jesus Christ. We're going to talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that through the coming week,
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  Speaker 2: beginning tomorrow, okay. And so in a time from before
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  Speaker 2: there was a beginning. In fact, I shouldn't have said
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  Speaker 2: a time. I should have said from before there was
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  Speaker 2: a beginning, because the word and God our Father existed
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  Speaker 2: through the ceaseless ages of eternity in both directions. In
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  Speaker 2: the future, the word Jesus Christ and God our Father
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  Speaker 2: will exist eternally. In the past, the word Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I know this is news to some of you. The
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  Speaker 2: word Jesus Christ and God our Father, they existed in
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  Speaker 2: eternity past. There was never a time when Jesus did
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  Speaker 2: not exist. There was never a time when God our
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  Speaker 2: Father did not exist. There was never a time when
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  Speaker 2: God the Holy Ghost did not exist, and so through
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  Speaker 2: the coming days, I'm going to use the terminology God
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  Speaker 2: good in our English language as a family name. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so just think the actual name. Let's use God as
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  Speaker 2: a surname. And I know some of you are not
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  Speaker 2: going to like that I need to do this, but
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  Speaker 2: you'll get it by and by you'll get it. So
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna say God the Father. So the Father is
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  Speaker 2: his name and surname God. So we can see that
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  Speaker 2: they're a part of the same family. Okay, Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: or the Son, that is the name, and then the
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  Speaker 2: surname God. So they are in the same family. They
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  Speaker 2: are equal in every way. They are equal. The Holy Ghost, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, the spirit of God God in this case,
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  Speaker 2: just trying to make it make sense to some of us.
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  Speaker 2: God the surname, and the Holy Ghost is the en
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  Speaker 2: is the particular person that we're referencing. So let me
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  Speaker 2: read again. So from before there was a beginning, was
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ the word. Oh wait a minute, and Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ the word was with God the Father, Father God,
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  Speaker 2: and the word Jesus Christ was equal to God the Father.
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting why I need to do this. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So what if some of the ways this truth can
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  Speaker 2: actually transform our lives? Because I don't want this to
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  Speaker 2: become a theological discussion, because people in churches, people outside
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  Speaker 2: of churches, people in seminaries have these long drawn out
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  Speaker 2: debates trying to contextualize God. This is not what we're
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  Speaker 2: doing this week, at least not on this broad or broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about others, but on this broadcast, what
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  Speaker 2: we are doing is looking for the truth that can
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  Speaker 2: transform our lives and not just inform our heads. I said,
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  Speaker 2: we're looking for the truth that can transform our lives
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  Speaker 2: and not just inform our minds. And so let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and begin the discussion right here in the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Colossians, chapter one. The Book of Colossians, chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads in verse sixteen, For by Him all
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  Speaker 2: things were created. Who's the hymn the word? We're going
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  Speaker 2: to read about it in John in the coming days.
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  Speaker 2: So for by Jesus Christ, all things were created in
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  Speaker 2: heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
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  Speaker 2: thrones or dominions, or rulers or authorities, all things were
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  Speaker 2: created through and for Him. The himn is Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: It said, principalities and in dominions and rulers and authorities.
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  Speaker 2: That's on earth and that is in the supernatural realm.
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  Speaker 2: This is why when Jesus in the incarnation, when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: came through the womb of Mary and he lived with
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  Speaker 2: humanity for thirty three and a half years. This is
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  Speaker 2: why when Jesus commanded the devils, they had to obey
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  Speaker 2: because they were once holy angels. They were once holy
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  Speaker 2: angels who lived in heaven under Jesus's charge, under his command,
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  Speaker 2: and when they saw him on planet Earth, they were like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, this is the one who created us.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, he has the authority to destroy us.
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  Speaker 2: This is the one that we actually have to obey.
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  Speaker 2: We have no choice. As in Daniel chapter ten, there
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  Speaker 2: was a story where that happened where Gabriel, the angel
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  Speaker 2: Gabriel got held up in traffic as he was to
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  Speaker 2: deliver a word to Daniel, and he got held up
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  Speaker 2: in supernatural traffic, and Jesus came and took over that problem,
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  Speaker 2: dealt with the devil, and gave Gabriel the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: go and deliver the answer to prayer that God had
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  Speaker 2: intended for him to send. And so this same Jesus
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  Speaker 2: has authority and divinity, and this is why worshiping him
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  Speaker 2: is so sweet. Can I just say that the one
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  Speaker 2: who created you, the one who commands the spirits, and
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  Speaker 2: they must obey him, the ones who the one who
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  Speaker 2: said let there be light, and there was light, ah,
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  Speaker 2: the one who said take up your bed and walk,
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  Speaker 2: The one who created all things animate and inanimate, also
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  Speaker 2: took on human form so that humanity, his humanity, in
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  Speaker 2: his humanity, he could die to take your place. He
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  Speaker 2: could die so that you would not have to die.
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  Speaker 2: Spiritually speaking, I'm saying the second death. We can die
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  Speaker 2: by earthly means, but that's just a sleep, but that
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  Speaker 2: spiritual end game that destroys sin, root and branch, that death.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus died that death so that you, brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 2: don't have to die that death. And so I'm leaving
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  Speaker 2: out a lot. I'll probably have to put this into
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  Speaker 2: our community. You have so much more to say, But
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  Speaker 2: I am thankful that the one who created us also
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  Speaker 2: took on human form so that he could die the
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  Speaker 2: death that we deserve, so that we could live the
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  Speaker 2: life that he deserves. This is going to be an
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  Speaker 2: exceptional week. Thank God. See you in a couple of hours. Peace.
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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,