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12 01 2024 I Have Given You an Example · 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 Sunday, December one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El 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 I have given you an example. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I have given you an example. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: Let's 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 new
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  Speaker 2: morning and for this new month. Thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us all of the power, all of the guidance, all
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  Speaker 2: of the strength, all of the light that we need. Father,
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  Speaker 2: and I pray that we will receive these things by faith.
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  Speaker 2: Receive you by faith in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and a man, I have given you an example now
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  Speaker 2: when I was a new elder many years ago. Elders,
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  Speaker 2: for those who are new to this community are in
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  Speaker 2: our context, leaders of God's people, who take care of
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  Speaker 2: God's people in things related to our spiritual lives, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: our personal development, sometimes relationships, the things that matter so
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  Speaker 2: that we can get closer to God. Okay, so I'll
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  Speaker 2: just keep it as simple as that. But as a
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  Speaker 2: new one of those I remember an elder elder, an
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  Speaker 2: elder elder saying that before an individual accepts Christ into
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  Speaker 2: our lives, Okay, I want you to hear the timing
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  Speaker 2: on this. Before an individual accepts Christ into his or
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  Speaker 2: her life, Jesus is their savior, our savior, and that's
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  Speaker 2: you know, the savior. He's a savior of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we know. But once a person is reborn, he
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  Speaker 2: also becomes our example. Okay, So before we know God,
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  Speaker 2: before we are submitted to his will, he is our savior,
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  Speaker 2: and then and then he is our example. Okay. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful because once we are in our new birth experience,
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  Speaker 2: we have the power to do God's will. This is
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  Speaker 2: the thing. We can't follow him unless we know him.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let me just pause right there and begin
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  Speaker 2: reading in John chapter thirteen, beginning at verse one, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew
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  Speaker 2: that his time had come to depart from this world
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  Speaker 2: to the Father. Having loved his own who were in
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  Speaker 2: the world, he now loved them to the very end.
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  Speaker 2: The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had
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  Speaker 2: already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son
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  Speaker 2: that he should betray Jesus. See, he had not accepted Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: You see, so Jesus's example is nothing to Judas because
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  Speaker 2: because Judas is not one of God's children. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time, But the Bible continues, Jesus knew
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  Speaker 2: that the Father had handed all things over to him,
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  Speaker 2: and that he had come from the Father and was
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  Speaker 2: going back to God. He got up from the meal
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  Speaker 2: Verse four, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and
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  Speaker 2: tied it around himself. He poured water into a basin
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  Speaker 2: and began to wash the disciples feet and to dry
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  Speaker 2: them with the towel that he had wrapped around himself.
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  Speaker 2: And he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: are you going to wash my feet? Jesus replied, you
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  Speaker 2: do not understand what I am doing now, but you
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  Speaker 2: will understand after these things. Peter said, unto him, you
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  Speaker 2: will never wash my feet. Jesus replied, If I do not, you,
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  Speaker 2: you have no share with me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: wash not only my feet, but also my hands. In
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  Speaker 2: my head, Jesus replied, the one who has bathed needs
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  Speaker 2: only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you disciples are clean, well, not every one of you,
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  Speaker 2: For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray
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  Speaker 2: him for his season. For this reason, excuse me, he said,
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  Speaker 2: not every one of you is clean. So when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on,
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  Speaker 2: he took his place at the table again and said
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  Speaker 2: to them, do you understand what I have done for you? You
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  Speaker 2: call me teacher and lord, and you and do so correctly,
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  Speaker 2: And for this is what I am. And if then
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  Speaker 2: your lord and teacher, if that's who I am you are,
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  Speaker 2: has washed your feet, you too, aren't to wash one
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  Speaker 2: another's feet, or have given you an example that you
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  Speaker 2: do just what I have done to you. And I
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  Speaker 2: tell you a solemn truth. The slave is not greater
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  Speaker 2: than his master, nor the one who is sent as
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  Speaker 2: the messenger greater than the one who sent him. If
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  Speaker 2: you understand these things, you will be blessed if you
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  Speaker 2: do them. Did you get that? Now? A Bible believing people,
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  Speaker 2: people who speak Christianese, sometimes ministry minded people don't get that.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes ministry minded people are accustomed to listening and becoming
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  Speaker 2: experts at listening and expounding, or I should say hearing
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  Speaker 2: and expounding, not doing, but hearing and expounding but not doing.
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  Speaker 2: But he said, if you hear these things, you understand
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  Speaker 2: these things. The blessing only comes when you do them. Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I think I got it. I got it, I got
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  Speaker 2: it Verse eighteen. What I am doing does not refer
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  Speaker 2: to you. What I'm saying does not refer to you.
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  Speaker 2: All I know the ones I have chosen. But this
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  Speaker 2: is to fulfill the scripture. The one who eats my
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  Speaker 2: bread has turned against me. I am telling you this
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  Speaker 2: now before it happens, so that when it happens, you
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  Speaker 2: may believe that I am he. I tell you the
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  Speaker 2: solemn truth. Whoever accepts the one I send accepts me,
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  Speaker 2: and whoever accepts me the one who sent me. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: said a whole lot. Now he knew that the men
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  Speaker 2: that he had had with him, there were twelve of them.
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  Speaker 2: He knew their hearts, and one of them Judas. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: actually said it there, but he didn't. He didn't make
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  Speaker 2: it very very very clear yet. But it was about
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  Speaker 2: to be manifest that Judas had a devil like. Judas
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  Speaker 2: had no interest in actually serving God like. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be around God like. He wanted to be a
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  Speaker 2: clout chaser. He wanted to build his social media following
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  Speaker 2: by taking pictures with Jesus saying I'm with him, because
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  Speaker 2: he thought Jesus was going to be the next one
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  Speaker 2: to like to overthrow Rome, you see. So he knew
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  Speaker 2: that that's what was in Judas's heart. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Judas was the treasurer, but he was a dishonest treasurer,
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  Speaker 2: so he had the money bag, and he's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: i can chase cloud and I can steal money, and
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  Speaker 2: I can do what I want to do with the money.
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  Speaker 2: And therefore this makes sense. Following Jesus makes sense. There
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of people today that are doing the
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  Speaker 2: very same thing. We attach ourselves to what looks like
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  Speaker 2: God and talk about God and make it seem as
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  Speaker 2: if we're really with God, and it's really just to
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  Speaker 2: gain popularity, to get the next office, you see, to
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  Speaker 2: somehow get what comes to people who are seen as
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  Speaker 2: connected with God. And we can be called big names
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  Speaker 2: and titles, and we don't have to really do anything
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  Speaker 2: because in our minds we're attached with it. I'm with him,
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  Speaker 2: I'm with him, pointing to g Jesus, I'm with him.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever Jesus is worthy of, I'm worthy of. And it's
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  Speaker 2: like I am giving you an example of humility. You
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  Speaker 2: see Jesus, who is equal to God. Our father thought
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  Speaker 2: it not robbery to be equal with God. He did
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  Speaker 2: not look on the fact that he was God in
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  Speaker 2: God the Son as a reason to allow us to
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  Speaker 2: just die. He humbled himself and became a servant. He
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  Speaker 2: has given us an example that we should follow in
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  Speaker 2: his footsteps. So today's moral, the moral of this story
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  Speaker 2: is get connected with God for the purpose of serving others.
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  Speaker 2: Stay connected with God, humble yourself and serve others. Peace.
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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,