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11 27 2024 Rejecting the Source of Life · 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 Wednesday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is rejecting the source of life.
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  Speaker 2: Rejecting the source of life. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: in heaven, we thank you for this day and for
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  Speaker 2: getting us thus far into our work week. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to give us the stamina to continue to
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  Speaker 2: work because the time comes when no one will be
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  Speaker 2: able to work for you. Father, I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: please help us to embrace you in all ways. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it is actually silly of any of us, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: being kind, really complementary almost. It's silly for any of
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  Speaker 2: us to reject the source of life. Yesterday we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about believing in the new birth experience, believing and
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  Speaker 2: having a new birth experience, right, And so I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: that if we are reborn because of God, the one
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  Speaker 2: who created us, then why would we reject him. Why
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  Speaker 2: would we be rejecting him when new birth is the
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  Speaker 2: only pathway to eternity with God. Yeah, those who reject
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  Speaker 2: eternity with God or really rejecting God, rejecting life. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense for me to continue to breathe this
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  Speaker 2: air that I am borrowing from God if I am
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  Speaker 2: rejecting Him in my spiritual experience. Okay, let me read,
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  Speaker 2: Let me read from the Lesson, and then we will
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  Speaker 2: we will jump in to the Bible here and I
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  Speaker 2: quote the contemporary humanistic way of thinking begins with doubt.
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  Speaker 2: So we begin naturally with doubt. People question everything in
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  Speaker 2: order to determine what is truth, that which survives the
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  Speaker 2: fire of cross examination they accept as rock solid knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: something on which to place one's faith. Some apply the
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  Speaker 2: same method to the Bible, calling everything into question from
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  Speaker 2: a scientific, historical, psychological, philosophical, archaeological, or geological perspective in
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  Speaker 2: order to determine what truth is in the Bible. The
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  Speaker 2: very method itself starts with and builds upon doubt in
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  Speaker 2: the veracity of scripture. Christ asked, when the Son of
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  Speaker 2: Man comes, will he really find faith on the earth.
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  Speaker 2: That's from Luke, chapter eighteen and verse eight. And so
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  Speaker 2: what we want to do now is determine I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that these things in Scripture cannot be held up
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  Speaker 2: to scrutiny, of course it can. But should we be
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  Speaker 2: scrutinizing the scriptures? These are the holy words of God?
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  Speaker 2: Like should we be saying, well, if I cannot understand
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  Speaker 2: it from archaeology, then it is not. Oh wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: So the Holy Spirit has given power to those who
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  Speaker 2: wrote in the scriptures. They were God's pen men, like
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  Speaker 2: they heard from God, and based on inspiration they wrote.
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  Speaker 2: They moved, they were moved by the holy ghosts, and
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  Speaker 2: they communicated what God wanted us to know. And so
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  Speaker 2: the mysteries that God reveals or for our learning, but
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  Speaker 2: the other thing are for him. Okay, let me just
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and jump into the scriptures here and begin
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  Speaker 2: with the Bible Book of John in chapter eight John
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  Speaker 2: chapter eight and verse twelve. What we want to do
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  Speaker 2: is avoid the pitfalls of rejecting life. Avoid the pitfalls
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  Speaker 2: of rejecting life. And we begin here. Then spake Jesus
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  Speaker 2: again unto them, saying, I am the Light of the world.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jesus speaking. He's in real life. He's right
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  Speaker 2: there with them. I am the light of the world.
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  Speaker 2: He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but
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  Speaker 2: he shall have the light of life. And so your
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  Speaker 2: tip in that regard is to actively choose to follow Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: This is a deliberate action. This is something that we
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  Speaker 2: must decide every day, all day long. Choose actively, deliberately
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  Speaker 2: to follow Jesus by studying his words and applying his
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  Speaker 2: teachings to life. You see, when we intellectual life these things,
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  Speaker 2: and then we begin to scrutinize them, it is less
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  Speaker 2: likely for us to act. Can I say it just
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  Speaker 2: another way? There are times that you will learn things
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  Speaker 2: at work or in university. You may learn things in training,
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  Speaker 2: and until you actively determine that you are going to
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  Speaker 2: put some steps into place in order to actually apply them,
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  Speaker 2: is just theory for you. This is why in psychology
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  Speaker 2: there is practicum. When you study psychology, there's practicum. You
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  Speaker 2: have theory and practicum. When you do business, there is
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  Speaker 2: theory and then there are internships. Right then in medical sciences,
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  Speaker 2: like if you are a respiratory therapist or a nurse
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  Speaker 2: or a doctor in medical school, you do the theory
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  Speaker 2: and then you have clinicals. Why because people who intellectualize
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  Speaker 2: things and only do so just become philosophers. No disrespect
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  Speaker 2: to the philosophers. But I'm saying it's just a lot
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  Speaker 2: of questions. It's a lot of making myself intelligent. But
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  Speaker 2: if I don't move to clinicals, practicum, internship, then it
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  Speaker 2: is just something that's in my brain. And so accepting
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  Speaker 2: the light of the world, accepting Jesus Christs to now
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  Speaker 2: put his teachings into action, and we have to decide
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  Speaker 2: deliberately every single day and moments throughout the day that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do that. And now, in Hebrews Chapter
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  Speaker 2: ten and verse thirty five, cast not away therefore your confidence,
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  Speaker 2: which hath great recompense of reward. And so we want
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  Speaker 2: to hold fast to the faith that God has given
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  Speaker 2: to us, hold fast to the faith that we are
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  Speaker 2: developing over time. You see, we ask God to increase
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  Speaker 2: our faith. We have experiences that test our faith, and
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  Speaker 2: our faith muscles get stronger. And therefore we need to
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  Speaker 2: ask God not to allow us to be confident in
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  Speaker 2: our own thoughts, confident in our own victories or past victories.
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  Speaker 2: When we have more faith today than we had yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: or we have more faith at ten am than we
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  Speaker 2: had at nine am, then we hold fast to God
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  Speaker 2: through faith and continue in confidence knowing that in the
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  Speaker 2: end analysis there is great recompense of reward. I'm thankful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thankful. And then, of course, in John chapter one
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  Speaker 2: and verse twelve, we go back to the baseline of
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  Speaker 2: our experience with God. We go back to the baseline,
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  Speaker 2: and that is, but as many as received Him to them,
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  Speaker 2: gave he power to become the children of God, even
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  Speaker 2: to them that believe on his name. So we go
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  Speaker 2: back to basics. On a regular basis, we embrace Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: not just as a historical figure, not just one that
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  Speaker 2: could be demonstrated as having lived on planet Earth based
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  Speaker 2: on some archaeological dig No, we do more than this.
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  Speaker 2: We embrace him as our personal savior and Lord, not
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  Speaker 2: only the one who created and saved us, which is immeasurable,
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  Speaker 2: but also as Lord, the one that I am surrendering
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  Speaker 2: to every day on a momentary basis, on a momentary basis.
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  Speaker 2: And so rejecting the source of life is non a
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  Speaker 2: non starter for us. We don't get to do that.
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  Speaker 2: We can choose to do that. But why you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to me today, You're listening to God's word on a
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  Speaker 2: regular basis. In other spheres, you're reading it for yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Why would any of us who are here under the
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  Speaker 2: sound of my voice ever reject the source of life.
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  Speaker 2: Just embrace, Embrace God, Embrace life. It's simple. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day. Thanks for joining us listening to friends.
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  Speaker 2: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 2: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 2: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,