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10 01 2024 The Miracle at the Pool of Bethesda · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday, October one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: study series the themes of the Book of John, Themes
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  Speaker 2: of the Book of John, or you could say themes
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  Speaker 2: in the Book of John. But before we get into
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. I'm so grateful. This one is
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  Speaker 2: about the miracle at the Pool of Bethesda. The miracle
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  Speaker 2: at the Pool of Bethesda, and I immediately ask myself
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  Speaker 2: a question. Right in my lesson, I wrote a what
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  Speaker 2: a miracle? It's the miracle? And I ask also myself
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  Speaker 2: a question. Is your faith meaning me? And you need
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  Speaker 2: to ask yourself the same question. Is your faith in
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  Speaker 2: the hope of remedies or in the power of God?
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  Speaker 2: Can I say that again? There's somebody who is suffering
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  Speaker 2: from some kind of disease, some kind of ailment, a condition.
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  Speaker 2: Something's happening in your life. You may be transitioning at
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  Speaker 2: different parts of your life experience. You could be a
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  Speaker 2: young person going through puberty or going into high school,
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  Speaker 2: a new place and into university, a new situation, a
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  Speaker 2: new job, or a career. If you're older, right, or
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  Speaker 2: more mature, as the case may be, you may be
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  Speaker 2: transitioning into a relationship, a long term relationship, or a marriage,
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  Speaker 2: and something's just not going so right, and you're wondering, like,
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  Speaker 2: if I could only speak to person X, or if
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  Speaker 2: I could only go to doctor why, or if I
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  Speaker 2: could only see therapists or coach X or why, then
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  Speaker 2: I'd be fine. Well, it may be that these people
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  Speaker 2: can facilitate something very positive, right, a change, the kind
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  Speaker 2: of change that you need. But the question again is
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  Speaker 2: is your faith in the remedies or in the power
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  Speaker 2: of God. Now it'll get some context. Heres. We read
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  Speaker 2: from the Bible Book of John. Bible Book of John,
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  Speaker 2: chapter five, beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: after this there was a feast of God's people, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: by the sheep market a pool which is called in
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  Speaker 2: the Hebrew tongue bethesda, having five porches. In these lay
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  Speaker 2: a great multitude of impotent folk. These are people that
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  Speaker 2: they have no to do what they need to do right,
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  Speaker 2: The blind, the halt, the withered, waiting for the moving
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  Speaker 2: of the water. What are they waiting for the moving
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  Speaker 2: of the water. They are waiting for what they perceive
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  Speaker 2: to be the remedy, the facility that will create the remedy,
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  Speaker 2: remedy you see, or the remedy that is from that facility,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how you want to put it. But they're
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the moving of the water. Verse four, for
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  Speaker 2: an angel went down, That is, according to the legend,
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  Speaker 2: an angel went down at a certain season into the
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  Speaker 2: pool and trouble the water. Whosoever then first after the
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  Speaker 2: trouble of the water, stepped in was made whole of
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  Speaker 2: whatever disease he had. I wish I had the time
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  Speaker 2: to deal with that. The Bible is showing that this
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  Speaker 2: is what the people thought or believe, this is what
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  Speaker 2: the legend was. Okay, okay, I wish I had the time,
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  Speaker 2: but I just literally don't. And verse five and searchain
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  Speaker 2: a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty
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  Speaker 2: and eight years. Now you should be curious about this
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  Speaker 2: because the Bible says that there is a dude that
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  Speaker 2: is near where he considers to be the remedy for
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  Speaker 2: the thing that ails him. Ah, and he has this
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  Speaker 2: problem for thirty eight years. Now, the Bible doesn't say
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  Speaker 2: he was there for thirty eight years, but it does
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  Speaker 2: say that he had this infirmity for thirty eight years.
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  Speaker 2: But he's there for a good long time. Verse six.
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  Speaker 2: When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had
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  Speaker 2: been there for a long time. In that case, he said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, wilt thou be made whole? Now I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go back to the question that I asked us earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Is your faith in the remedy or in the power
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  Speaker 2: of God? Let me ask you another way, is your
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  Speaker 2: faith in a remedy or in God who is going
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  Speaker 2: to make you whole? And so the Bible The Bible continues,
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  Speaker 2: The Bible continues. The man answered him, sir, And he
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  Speaker 2: told him basically this in this exchange where his faith
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  Speaker 2: was The impotent man answered him, sir, I have no man. See,
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  Speaker 2: his faith was in men, in people, humans when the
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  Speaker 2: water is troubled. Oh wait, his faith was in humans
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  Speaker 2: that could get him to the troubled water or the
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  Speaker 2: water that was supposed to be moving to put me
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  Speaker 2: into the pool. His faith was in the humans that
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  Speaker 2: could trouble, the humans that could take him to water
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  Speaker 2: and then and then put him into water. So his
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  Speaker 2: faith was in what he perceived to be the remedy.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there is a problem here. But while I
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  Speaker 2: am coming. You see, his his faith is in getting
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  Speaker 2: somewhere quicker than he has been able to get to
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  Speaker 2: at this time. Another steppe is down before me. See,
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  Speaker 2: his faith is in getting into this place faster than
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  Speaker 2: others who are also going to this place. His faith
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  Speaker 2: is in a man. His faith is in the pool.
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  Speaker 2: His faith is in the process. His faith is in
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  Speaker 2: everything except what Jesus actually asked him. Now he was
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  Speaker 2: inferring something, implying something. He was implying something, And I
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  Speaker 2: am coming another step within before me. Jesus seth unto him.
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  Speaker 2: Now Jesus cuts right to the matter at hand. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: seth unto him. I have the way for you to
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  Speaker 2: be healed. I am the remedy. I'm going to cut
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  Speaker 2: through all of those things that you trust, the man
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  Speaker 2: the water, getting somebody to put you into the pool. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: getting there faster, getting there before somebody, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do something. I'm going to cut right through that and
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  Speaker 2: show you where your faith should be, where your faith
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  Speaker 2: should find its resting place, because Jesus himself is the
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  Speaker 2: author and finisher of our faith. And when our faith
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  Speaker 2: lays hold upon the power of God, then our faith
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  Speaker 2: is placed where it needs to be placed. Not in
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  Speaker 2: a remedy, not in the doctor, not in the locks
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  Speaker 2: on your doors hah, not in your ability to forecast
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  Speaker 2: or foresee that there's some trouble coming down, and then
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  Speaker 2: you insulate yourself over and against the trouble. God is
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  Speaker 2: saying that right now, I am giving you the right
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  Speaker 2: perspective that you can lay hold upon the power of
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  Speaker 2: God by faith. And he said, rise, take up your bed,
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  Speaker 2: and walk. He didn't say, rise, call out for a
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  Speaker 2: man to take you into this troubled water. He didn't say, rise,
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  Speaker 2: get wet in that water that has some kind of
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  Speaker 2: special power. He did not say, rise, hopefully you'll get
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  Speaker 2: there fast enough to get this power. He said do
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  Speaker 2: this right now, Rise, take up thy bed and walk.
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  Speaker 2: And immediately I want you to see that in verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: type it in the chat. And immediately the man was
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  Speaker 2: made what he was made whole. He wasn't made whole
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  Speaker 2: because his bank account was right. He didn't he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: financially whole because his bank account was perfect. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: become a relationally whole in his marriage because he went
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  Speaker 2: to a counselor or a coach, even though I think
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  Speaker 2: you should if if the need should arise. He did
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  Speaker 2: not become whole in church because a pastor preached the
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  Speaker 2: right sermon. He didn't become whole because he got into
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  Speaker 2: a pool at the church and was baptized. I know
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  Speaker 2: there were some of you confused by what I just said.
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  Speaker 2: Are you saying we shouldn't be baptized. I'm saying, absolutely
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  Speaker 2: we should be baptized. But the power is in God,
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  Speaker 2: not in the water. And he took up his bed
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  Speaker 2: and walk and by the way, the same day was
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath day. Where is your faith or hope? Is
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  Speaker 2: it in remedies or in the power of God? I
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  Speaker 2: think you get it now. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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