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10 22 2024 The Two Disciples of John · 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 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host den 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 the Two Disciples of John.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: holy spirit, that you will teach us how to hear
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  Speaker 2: your voice. And then when people follow us, help us
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  Speaker 2: to lead them to you in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Now, there are a good number
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  Speaker 2: of us who are normal everyday people, but I am
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  Speaker 2: not naive. I know that there are influencers and preachers
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  Speaker 2: and other business people who are watching every day, others
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  Speaker 2: who are responsible for the safety of the public where
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  Speaker 2: you are domiciled. Like I understand all of that, and
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  Speaker 2: this is why I'm asking you this question. When people
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  Speaker 2: follow you, where do you lead them? I said, when
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  Speaker 2: people follow you to where are you leading them? And
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  Speaker 2: when I say that, I mean in social media. Say
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  Speaker 2: you have whatever the social media accounts are, and people
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  Speaker 2: like follow and share, they like follow and share? What
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  Speaker 2: are they sharing? What are they following? What are they liking?
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  Speaker 2: And is the spirit of God on the content that
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  Speaker 2: you have in social media? It could be business content,
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't need to be, you know, overt witnessing style content.
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  Speaker 2: But when people are sharing your businesses that are hosted online,
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  Speaker 2: are they getting the same kind of ethical treatment that
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  Speaker 2: would make God happy? And when it comes to your
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  Speaker 2: personal content, to where are we leading them? When it
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  Speaker 2: comes to your other content that is maybe related to
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  Speaker 2: God's message, are we leading them to God or to us?
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  Speaker 2: Is it hey, come see me? Or is it come
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  Speaker 2: see a man that has transformed my life and he
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  Speaker 2: will transform your life too, you see. So Two Disciples
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  Speaker 2: of John is really just about that, because, as we
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  Speaker 2: have already highlighted, John had a particular mission, much like
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  Speaker 2: the people living in the Last days, God's people living
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  Speaker 2: in the Last days, to guide people into a right
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  Speaker 2: relationship in that day with Jesus, the Lamb of God,
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  Speaker 2: the one who was about to sacrifice himself. He was
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  Speaker 2: going to sacrifice himself, And you're like, sacrifice himself? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he said he would lay down his life and then
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  Speaker 2: take it up again so that we could be saved. Right,
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  Speaker 2: He came to save his people from their sins, and
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  Speaker 2: so I am grateful that. In twenty twenty four it
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  Speaker 2: is the same case. So John the Baptist is doing this,
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  Speaker 2: and he has followers, people who are dedicated to the
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  Speaker 2: mission that John is dedicated to. And so when the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity arises and John starts to decrease, he begins to digress,
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  Speaker 2: to divest himself of himself and then direct people to
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  Speaker 2: the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, the Messiah that the
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  Speaker 2: world has been waiting for. What do the disciples do?
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  Speaker 2: Do they say no? The people who followed John, do
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  Speaker 2: they say no, we want to follow you in ste
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  Speaker 2: Did John make up his own Christian community? Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 2: there was no Christian community at all. Did he make
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  Speaker 2: up his own spiritual community where people would follow him
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  Speaker 2: instead of God through Christ. Let's go to John chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: verses thirty five to thirty nine, and it reads and
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  Speaker 2: again the next day, after John stood and two of
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  Speaker 2: his disciples, and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith,
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  Speaker 2: behold the Lamb of God. You see, I can anticipate
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  Speaker 2: and feel and sense the joy that was in John's
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  Speaker 2: heart his mission. His mission was now coming to a head.
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  Speaker 2: He finally got to do in a clear way, with
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  Speaker 2: full awareness and being able to see who Jesus is.
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  Speaker 2: He is able to now point at a man who
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  Speaker 2: is actually walking on planet Earth and say, yes, this
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  Speaker 2: is the moment we've all been waiting for. He's the
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  Speaker 2: one that will baptize you, not just with water, but
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  Speaker 2: baptize you with the Holy ghosts. He's the one that
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  Speaker 2: will actually do something special. Well, what is it that
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  Speaker 2: he will do? He will behold the Lamb of God.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't say it in this passage. Who taketh away
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  Speaker 2: the sins of the world? Like who can forgive sins?
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  Speaker 2: But the Lamb of God? Like who can forgive sins?
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  Speaker 2: But God? Only? You see? And so John, with joy
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  Speaker 2: and anticipation, looking he seth behold the Lamb of God
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  Speaker 2: Verse thirty seven. And his two disciples heard him speak,
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  Speaker 2: and they followed, Jesus, did you hear that? The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that the two disciples of John heard John speak,
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  Speaker 2: and they followed Jesus. They were poised and positioned for
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  Speaker 2: a metamorphosis, for a transformation. They had gone as far
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  Speaker 2: as they could go in their spiritual journey while following John.
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  Speaker 2: And John now is saying, I will lift up Jesus
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  Speaker 2: so that Jesus will draw all people unto himself. I
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  Speaker 2: will lift up Jesus so that he can actually transform
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  Speaker 2: their lives. I will lift up Jesus because he's the
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  Speaker 2: one who can save them. I can point and Jesus
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  Speaker 2: can save. I can direct people, can save can Jesus
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  Speaker 2: can save. Jesus can do what I cannot do. When
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  Speaker 2: you come here to your daily portion every single day
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  Speaker 2: and you've been doing it for years and years and years,
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people online, who knows how many
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  Speaker 2: people on those two hundred radio stations are listening, and
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  Speaker 2: then on television and we're talking. If it doesn't direct
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  Speaker 2: people to Jesus, then we're wasting time. And it's worse
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  Speaker 2: than that, really. And so God is saying, when you're
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  Speaker 2: at work and people see you, are they interested based
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  Speaker 2: on your witness in following God? And I know people
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  Speaker 2: can make their own decisions. But do we give people
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  Speaker 2: the best opportunity possible when they see us to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever, whomever they serve, we want to serve
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  Speaker 2: as well well. The Bible continues, and the two disciples
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  Speaker 2: heard him speak, They follow Jesus verse thirty eight. Then
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  Speaker 2: Jesus turned and saw them following, and seth unto them?
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  Speaker 2: What seek ye? What do you want when you're following Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want? What is on your mind? What
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  Speaker 2: are you after? I want you to have a clear
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  Speaker 2: answer to that question. Is it salvation? Is it a
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  Speaker 2: right relationship with people that you've not been able to
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  Speaker 2: have a good relationship with because your character needs to
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  Speaker 2: be transformed? Ah? Is it something else? Be clear in
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  Speaker 2: your mind? And they set unto him Rabbi, which is
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  Speaker 2: being interpreted Master, where dwells now? He seth unto them?
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  Speaker 2: Come and see? They came and saw where he dwelt,
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  Speaker 2: and abode with him that day or it was about
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  Speaker 2: the tenth hour. What are you seeking? When you see
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  Speaker 2: Jesus follow him and dwell with him? And whatever you
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  Speaker 2: are asking and seeking and knocking, as long as you
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  Speaker 2: are yielding to him, actually following him, the door will
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  Speaker 2: be opened, and so they recognized his divine authority Verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty six, the lamb of God. We know that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was no ordinary man. Yes, they recognize now the spiritual
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  Speaker 2: truth that is in his bosom, and therefore they followed him.
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  Speaker 2: His dude, John's two disciples followed Jesus because John followed Jesus.
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