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12 21 2024 Epilogue - Knowing Jesus and His Word · 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, and happy Sabbath. It
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  Speaker 2: is Sabbath, December twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: Word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series themes in the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of John and today is knowing Jesus and his Word.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing Jesus and his Word. It's an epilogue epilogue. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, i'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: you and ask you to go over to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. I'd ask you to also join our
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  Speaker 2: online community. This is where we can we have our
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  Speaker 2: conversations surrounding this Bible class. Yes, what we learn here,
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  Speaker 2: what we are asking questions about that kind of a thing,
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  Speaker 2: and there's some encouragement there as well. And also I'd
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  Speaker 2: like for you to please please let us know where
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  Speaker 2: you are in the world at your daily portion dot com.
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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 his underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this Sabbath morning and for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to be under your wings, under your wings of protection.
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  Speaker 2: I pray Father that we will we will embrace your word,
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  Speaker 2: that we will live your word and be full of
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  Speaker 2: your Holy spirit, beginning at this moment in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray a man and a man again knowing Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and his word. This is critical because we're going back
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  Speaker 2: to a passage I have read over and over in
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  Speaker 2: this study to you, and we're going to focus here
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  Speaker 2: for just a moment again and get the context. And
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  Speaker 2: so he said, Jesus said to his detractors, So now
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  Speaker 2: we know he's speaking to people who claim to be
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  Speaker 2: his peak, be God's people. God's children, but and in
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  Speaker 2: fact even leaders of God's people, but they don't know
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  Speaker 2: or love Jesus. It's weird. And so the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: you search the scriptures. Okay, that's a good start, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, Searching the scriptures is a good start. For
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  Speaker 2: in them, ye think you have eternal life. Here is
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  Speaker 2: the problem. I don't know if you heard that. He said.
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  Speaker 2: In them you think you have eternal life. You think
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  Speaker 2: that you can study your way into each life, that
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  Speaker 2: you can remember and proof text your way into eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know what proof texting is, and this
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  Speaker 2: doesn't apply to you, don't even worry about it. You
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  Speaker 2: think that you can be on your daily portion every
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  Speaker 2: day and speak about God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: then that's where eternal life comes from. Dave, You think
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  Speaker 2: that knowing what the twenty three hundred days and prophecy
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  Speaker 2: means intellectually, you think if you have mastered the seventy
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  Speaker 2: weeks of years prophecy. Hey, Dave, you think that if
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  Speaker 2: you can know the details of the coming of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord from Genesis in Eden all the way to Revelation,
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  Speaker 2: where Jesus is seen coming in the clouds that if
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  Speaker 2: you can master those details, the dates, the charts, what
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  Speaker 2: the different beasts mean, the horns, the kings, the powers,
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  Speaker 2: the colors. If you know all of that, you think
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  Speaker 2: that that is eternal life. But here's the problem, Dave.
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  Speaker 2: They are they that testify of me. And then Jesus
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  Speaker 2: turns the corner in verse forty, some people are just
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  Speaker 2: getting it. You're just getting it, and he says, basically, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I've come here. I've come to you so that you
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  Speaker 2: can have life, but you rejected me. Let me read
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  Speaker 2: that one straight out of the Bible, John chapter five
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  Speaker 2: and verse forty, and the Bible reads, and ye will
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  Speaker 2: not come to me that you might have life. You
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  Speaker 2: will not come to me that you will have life. See,
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for life by searching the scriptures so that
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  Speaker 2: you can feel like if you master the search, then
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  Speaker 2: somehow that will be the eternal life that you need.
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  Speaker 2: When the Bible is teaching us, Jesus is saying directly
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  Speaker 2: to them, but I'm right here. The scriptures that you seek,
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures that you're searching, all point to me, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm right here, and you're rejecting me that I'm giving
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  Speaker 2: you an invitation. Right now, I'm giving you an invitation
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  Speaker 2: so that you can have a relationship with Me and
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  Speaker 2: not turn away from me. So that when you study
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures that they will direct your mind to a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with me. I hope that you can receive this
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  Speaker 2: relationship so you can live. Don't just have the knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: don't have the ability to debate spiritual things. To get
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  Speaker 2: terminal degrees in theology, and that be it. In religion,
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  Speaker 2: that's it a PhD, a Doctor of Ministry degree THHD. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you have to know seven languages and know things about
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  Speaker 2: God that the average human doesn't know, and still miss me. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: help us to be able to see in simplicity that
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures really are bringing us, guiding us into the
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  Speaker 2: past of righteousness to have a relationship, a winning and
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  Speaker 2: a salvific relationship with God himself. I needed to slow
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  Speaker 2: that pace down so that you and I could hear
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  Speaker 2: God speaking to us. And so unfortunately, the lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: says they didn't take him at his word. Some of
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  Speaker 2: the people didn't take him at his word. We today
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  Speaker 2: can be in danger of doing the same things, hearing
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  Speaker 2: or even reading the word of God but not listening
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  Speaker 2: to it. Not abiding in it, not obeying it. You
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  Speaker 2: know what people tell us sometimes in coaching, they tell
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  Speaker 2: us they know what we're saying already, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's so nice that you that you know it. That's
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  Speaker 2: so that's quaint, Like that's cute, that's cute that you
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  Speaker 2: know it. But if you know it and then don't
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  Speaker 2: do it, that's why we're coming back to you with it.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing it is not enough, like that is half the battle.
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  Speaker 2: Even the gij O commercials when I was a little boy,
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  Speaker 2: they used to say, and knowing is half the battle.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing is half the battle. And so what God wants
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  Speaker 2: us to do is to apply what we intellectually say
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  Speaker 2: we know, live it. And it says here that they
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  Speaker 2: they were not abiding it it and not obeying it,
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  Speaker 2: that is not accepting it as the light that should
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  Speaker 2: guide our thoughts and actions. Thus, unfortunately, is this is where, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps unwittingly, too many believers are, too many Christians are
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  Speaker 2: in the same place, not able to apply what we
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  Speaker 2: have learned to the point that we are living God's word.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm going to go into our Life Application
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  Speaker 2: Companion book so that you and I can look at
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  Speaker 2: it from let's go from a personal perspective a personal application,
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  Speaker 2: and so the W for in the win acronym the
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  Speaker 2: W what is important now? The chapter of John, as
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  Speaker 2: we see it in the closing chapter, not in chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: presents a powerful example of reconciliation and renewed purpose through
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  Speaker 2: Peter's restoration by Jesus. This story highlights the importance of
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  Speaker 2: understanding that failure does not qualify disqualify us from being
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  Speaker 2: used by God. Instead, it calls us to a deeper
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of Him. I, in the whyn acronym, internalize the insight.
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  Speaker 2: Reflect on moments in your life, Brothers and sisters, where
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  Speaker 2: you where you may have misunderstood or ignored part of
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  Speaker 2: me God's word. My allergies are up. How have these
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  Speaker 2: moments impacted your spiritual journey? Understand that Jesus desires to
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  Speaker 2: restore and guide you, just as he did with Peter.
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  Speaker 2: You see, sometimes, brothers and sisters, we a false view
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  Speaker 2: of God because of our broken relationships with humans. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: some broken humans teach us all kinds of abusive thoughts,
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  Speaker 2: and so Jesus is accepting him, He's restoring him. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: allow his words to transform your heart. And mind, Well,
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  Speaker 2: what now? What is the action step, the next best
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  Speaker 2: move n W. What is important now? Internalize the insight
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  Speaker 2: eye and n next best move. Set aside time for
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  Speaker 2: self reflection and prayer, and ask God to reveal any
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  Speaker 2: areas where you need restoration or deeper understanding of His word.
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  Speaker 2: Commit to being led and guided by Him and to
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  Speaker 2: do what He has said. Make it a great day. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,