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11 03 2024 Humility of Soul - John the Baptist Testifies Again · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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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 Sunday, November three,
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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 with Lesson number six themes in the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: of John. Our caption for today is humility of soul. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I like that of soul. John the Baptist testifies again.
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  Speaker 2: Humility of soul, John the Baptist, He testifies again. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: that you have entrusted to us to see and experience
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  Speaker 2: you through people's testimonies. Please Lord, build our testimony, help
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  Speaker 2: us to serve you with everything we are and be
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  Speaker 2: able to lead peace to you. In Jesus's name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again, Humility of soul. John the Baptist
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  Speaker 2: testifies again. And so we're going to reach back into
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  Speaker 2: John's story, John the Baptist's story and see whatever else
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  Speaker 2: God has for us, because we stopped at a certain
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  Speaker 2: point when we were looking at him as the forerunner, okay,
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  Speaker 2: forerunner of Christ. Now we're going to John chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: and we will begin at verse twenty five, I said John,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three, and we will read beginning at verse twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads then arose there arose a question
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  Speaker 2: between some of John's disciples and the people of God
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  Speaker 2: about purifying. And they came to John and said to him,
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  Speaker 2: Rabbi or rabbi, as the case may be, he that
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  Speaker 2: was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness,
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  Speaker 2: So that's Jesus Us, to whom thou bearest witness. Behold
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  Speaker 2: the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. John
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  Speaker 2: answered and said, a man can receive nothing except it
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  Speaker 2: be given him from heaven. So can I just say
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  Speaker 2: right here that sometimes you have rabble rousers. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: have people who are trying to stir up controversy. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you are seeing people who want to create disunity. And
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  Speaker 2: so these people are coming to John and saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: somebody's taking some of your influence, someone is increasing, someone
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  Speaker 2: is starting to move you out of your position. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. I think I'll just leave
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  Speaker 2: that right there. And John saw right through that, and
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  Speaker 2: he's saying, like, listen, God is giving Jesus, the Messiah,
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  Speaker 2: the one that we have been waiting for the one
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  Speaker 2: who is the lamb of God, which taketh away the
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  Speaker 2: sin of the world. God, our Father, is giving him
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  Speaker 2: this influence. Why because he's worthy. Okay. And so when
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  Speaker 2: you are doing your work for the Master, for the kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: and your time is up. When I say your time
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  Speaker 2: is up, I don't mean your time for doing good work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying when your time for prominence is up, when
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  Speaker 2: your time for primary influence is up. And then someone
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  Speaker 2: else who is for this time is now stepping into
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  Speaker 2: the role that maybe you once occupied. Their influence is
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  Speaker 2: even greater with a certain sub section of people. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: then step out of the way, because God is the
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  Speaker 2: one who's giving that person him or her the influence
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  Speaker 2: that they have. Verse twenty eight. I said a lot there.
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  Speaker 2: You may need to rewind this once we're done with this.
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  Speaker 2: Live listen, all right. And so the Bible says in
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty eight, ye yourselves bear me witness that I
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  Speaker 2: said I'm not the Christ, and I can hear him
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  Speaker 2: thinking like, why are you coming to me with this?
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  Speaker 2: I said, I am not the Christ, but that I
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  Speaker 2: am sent before him. So that means that he's making
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  Speaker 2: a way he's paving the way. He is preparing people
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  Speaker 2: to receive the one who can actually do the transformation.
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty nine. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom.
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  Speaker 2: But the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heare him,
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  Speaker 2: rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy
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  Speaker 2: therefore is fulfilled. And so he's saying, I've done what
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  Speaker 2: I was supposed to do. Jesus himself. He is here,
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  Speaker 2: the Messiah of whom the prophet spoke. I have been
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  Speaker 2: preparing the way for him, and he is here. He
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  Speaker 2: is beginning the great work that we have been anticipating.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing what I cannot possibly do as a mere
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  Speaker 2: human being. He is the one of whom the prophets spoke.
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  Speaker 2: So I am joyful. My joy is fulfilled. Keep going, John,
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  Speaker 2: what is your testimony? Keep going? John? What is your
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  Speaker 2: humility factor? Let's keep going, John, Verse thirty. He must increase?
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  Speaker 2: Who must increase? Jesus? Huh? And then I must decrease,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't say. And then he said, but but I
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  Speaker 2: must decrease. He that cometh from above is above all,
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  Speaker 2: including me. Do you get that? He that is above all.
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  Speaker 2: He that comes from above is above all, including me.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to get this. Brothers and sisters. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that we preach about Jesus and we want
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  Speaker 2: to be more prominent than him. Ah. We teach and
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  Speaker 2: preach and baptize in the name of Jesus, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we want to be prominent more than him. We want
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  Speaker 2: the message to be about the mess injer rather than
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ himself. We want to use Jesus to gain influence.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine that humans who were created by Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: who have been privileged to hear and experience the Gospel,
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  Speaker 2: are now trying to compete with the one who is
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  Speaker 2: the epitome of all things the Gospel represents. It is
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  Speaker 2: the power of God through Christ unto salvation to everyone
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  Speaker 2: that believes believes in who in whom Jesus Christ. And
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  Speaker 2: so I thank God that we are not in competition
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  Speaker 2: with Jesus. That he must increase, and we decreased and decrease.
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  Speaker 2: And He is above all. He that cometh from heaven
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  Speaker 2: is above all, and he and what he hath seen,
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  Speaker 2: and what he had seen and heard, that he testifieth,
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  Speaker 2: and no man receiveth his testimony Verse thirty three. He
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  Speaker 2: that hath received his testimony, hath set to his seal
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  Speaker 2: that God is true. When you begin to see and
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  Speaker 2: experience the great things that Jesus taught Huh, when you
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  Speaker 2: begin to actually be transformed by the renewing of your
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  Speaker 2: mind because of what Jesus is giving and the power
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  Speaker 2: that He is imparting into your life, that just means
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  Speaker 2: that what God has always been teaching in the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: is true. That just means what the prophets foretold about
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  Speaker 2: the transformative power of God is absolutely true. The one
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  Speaker 2: who would come through Bethlehem Ephrata would change the lives
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  Speaker 2: of every human being that ever encountered him now to
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  Speaker 2: a greater or lesser degree, based on our decision. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we accept, sometimes God forbid we reject. But everybody who
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  Speaker 2: encounters Jesus is impacted and must face the music. Am
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  Speaker 2: I for God? Or am I against God? The Bible continues.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible continues verse thirty four. For he whom God
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  Speaker 2: hath sent speak it the words of God. For God
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  Speaker 2: giveth not the spirit by measure to him. So that
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  Speaker 2: means Ah, the power of God in Christ is immeasurable, immeasurable,
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  Speaker 2: the power in my life. Yeah, it's measurable. I can make.
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  Speaker 2: I can make the kinds of errors that will wiggle
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  Speaker 2: me out of the out of the right relationship with
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  Speaker 2: God because of my choice to continue and sin. God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus in his one ness with God, our Father, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: full of the Holy Ghost, there is no measure the
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  Speaker 2: Father Verse thirty five. Loveth the Son, and hath given
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  Speaker 2: all things into his hands. He that believeth on the
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  Speaker 2: Son hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not on
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  Speaker 2: the Sun shall not see life. But the wrath of
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  Speaker 2: God abideth on him. I'm so thankful that John the
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  Speaker 2: Baptists testified that being humble is to elevate.
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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,