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12 18 2024 The Empty Tomb · 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: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Wednesday, December eighteen,
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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: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series themes in the Gospel of John, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Empty Tomb, the Empty tumb
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this day
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  Speaker 2: and getting us right into the middle of our work week. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for keeping us safe, keeping us in a
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  Speaker 2: position where we can worship you and connect with you. Father,
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  Speaker 2: please give us understanding, help us not to look in
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  Speaker 2: the places of the dead for the living. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. The empty tomb, the
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  Speaker 2: empty tomb. Let me ask you a question, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a question that I need to be answering for myself, Like,
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  Speaker 2: am I looking Are you looking for life in dead places?
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  Speaker 2: I said, are you looking for life in dead places?
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? I'm saying that if God is
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  Speaker 2: delivering you from filling the blank negative thing. Why do
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  Speaker 2: some of us go back and look at that thing
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  Speaker 2: that has been run over on the road, that roadkill,
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  Speaker 2: looking at that thing that is dead and buried and
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  Speaker 2: exhuming its body proverbially, so that we can remember when
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  Speaker 2: we used to be beaten up our in a relationship
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  Speaker 2: that we shouldn't have been in. Huh, going to those
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  Speaker 2: places where we failed because we were bound by rum,
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  Speaker 2: We were bound by drugs and other kinds of abuses
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  Speaker 2: to ourselves. Right, Why are we going to those dead
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  Speaker 2: places where we experienced church hurt? Looking for life? You see,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people are looking for love and life in all
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  Speaker 2: the wrong places. I said, some people are looking for love,
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  Speaker 2: looking for life in all the wrong places. These are
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  Speaker 2: the times in which we live. And unfortunately they were
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  Speaker 2: some of God's people looking for Jesus in an empty tomb.
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  Speaker 2: He promised that he was not going to be there
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning. He promised that he was going to be
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  Speaker 2: He was going to raise, he was going to take
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  Speaker 2: up his life again, and he would have all power
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  Speaker 2: in his hands. But they were looking for him in
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  Speaker 2: a dead space, looking for life in a dead space.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we're not looking for life in a dead space.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says here in John chapter twenty, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, the first day of the week, cometh Mary
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  Speaker 2: Magdalene early when it was yet dark, unto the suppulcher,
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  Speaker 2: and see if the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
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  Speaker 2: You see, she should have been going there. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't really care if people think I'm being critical, And
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  Speaker 2: I really don't care if people say, oh, well, if
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  Speaker 2: it were you, you would do the same thing, And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I don't know, I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the children of Israel did the wrong thing. The first
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  Speaker 2: generation of freed slaves, even Moses and Aaron, died in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness with millions of others. Ah, but there was
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  Speaker 2: a Joshua, there was a Caleb, like there were men
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  Speaker 2: who believed God and said that God has promised, and
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  Speaker 2: therefore we can take the city. Those giants are not giants.
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  Speaker 2: Those giants don't matter to God. We serve a mighty God.
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  Speaker 2: And so Mary Magdalene, no disrespect. I'm saying Mary Magdalene,
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  Speaker 2: when she went to the sepulcher, she should have went
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  Speaker 2: gone there waiting to see that the stone was rolled away.
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  Speaker 2: She should have been there to worship and say, God,
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  Speaker 2: I knew that you would not leave us. I knew
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  Speaker 2: you would not forsake us. I knew that you would
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  Speaker 2: keep your promise, and that Jesus would not be here.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to see it with my own eyes.
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  Speaker 2: But alas, alas, that's not why she went. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says in verse two. Then she runneth and cometh to Simon,
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  Speaker 2: Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and
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  Speaker 2: seth unto them. They have taken away the Lord out
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  Speaker 2: of the sepulcher. What come on, Mary, no dis like.
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  Speaker 2: I know you love Jesus. You were forgiven much, therefore
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  Speaker 2: you loved much. I know you poured all out for her.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you chose the best part. Mary. But
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  Speaker 2: in this moment, Mary, why are you looking for Jesus
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  Speaker 2: where dead people are? And so she says that somebody
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  Speaker 2: took like somebody kidnapped his dead body. That's what she
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  Speaker 2: told Peter and the other disciple, and came to the sepulcher.
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  Speaker 2: So they ran both together, and the other disciple did
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  Speaker 2: out run Peter. Why were they running so fast?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Why were they running to see Jesus, to see Jesus
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  Speaker 2: in worship, because they knew he was alive, or something else. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's go with the something else. Don't be distracted by
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  Speaker 2: by blinking camera. It is hot in here, so it's malfunctioning.
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  Speaker 2: I apologize, And the Bible continues verse five. And he's
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  Speaker 2: stooping down and looking in. Saw the linen clothes, of
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  Speaker 2: course he did, lying, yet he went not in. Then
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  Speaker 2: cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher,
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  Speaker 2: and see it the linen clothsed lie yes, verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: and the napkin that was about his head, not lying
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  Speaker 2: with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place
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  Speaker 2: by itself. This is where you begin to worship brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, and you say, ah, Christ, the Lord has
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  Speaker 2: risen today, hallelujah. They should have been worshiping him Verse eight.
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  Speaker 2: And went also in that other disciple which came first
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  Speaker 2: into the sepulcher, and he saw and he believed. What
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  Speaker 2: did he believe? Oh wait a minute, for as yet
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  Speaker 2: they knew not the scripture. Oh so they weren't believing
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus did exactly what he said that he did,
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  Speaker 2: For they yet knew not the scripture that he must
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  Speaker 2: rise again from the dead. I thought Jesus said it
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  Speaker 2: to them directly Verse ten. Then the disciples went away
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  Speaker 2: again unto their own home. These dudes are fearful. These
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  Speaker 2: dudes are dejected and feel rejected. They're fearful man because
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  Speaker 2: they think the devil one when Jesus promised that he
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  Speaker 2: would come and wake up again, because he would take
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  Speaker 2: up his life on the third day, But they as
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  Speaker 2: yet knew not the scripture that he must rise from
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  Speaker 2: the dead. Why not, brothers and sisters? Why is it
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  Speaker 2: that in twenty twenty four some of us don't know
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures that teach us that we can be spiritually raised, incorruptible? Like,
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  Speaker 2: how is it that so few of us actually embrace
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  Speaker 2: the life applications that we don't look in dead places
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  Speaker 2: for living truths? Why is it? Well, because sometimes humans
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  Speaker 2: lack faith. And so I'm going into our companion guide.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going into the companion guide. You should see a
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  Speaker 2: link in the description to be able to get that.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to go into a relationship application. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and this is how we win using the letters wi
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  Speaker 2: N Okay. If you need all of it. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to pick it up because I won't be
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  Speaker 2: able to cover it. But in relationships, w what is
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  Speaker 2: important now? In this case? Well, Mary, Magdalene, Peter, and
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  Speaker 2: John's reactions to the empty Tomb show different aspects of
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  Speaker 2: faith and understanding. Their responses teach us about the importance
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  Speaker 2: of community and how we can grow in our faith
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  Speaker 2: through shared experiences and support. I internalize the insight, internalize
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  Speaker 2: the insight. Reflect on your relationships within your faith community.
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  Speaker 2: Are you support awarding one another as Peter and John did,
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  Speaker 2: running together to seek answers and to find truth. Are
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  Speaker 2: there people in your community who may need encouragement to believe?
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  Speaker 2: You see these men and I'll leave the next best
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  Speaker 2: move for you to pick up in the book and
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  Speaker 2: you can share it in the community. Okay. But there
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  Speaker 2: are times that we as we are searching for truth,
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  Speaker 2: searching for our ability to live for God, searching for
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  Speaker 2: connection with God, that our brothers and sisters can help us,
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  Speaker 2: can help us and say, don't give up now, don't
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  Speaker 2: give up now, sister, don't give up now. Brother, He's
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  Speaker 2: alive like he's alive. Christ, the Lord has risen today. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Now live with him until Jesus God.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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