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12 04 2024 I AM the Truth · 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, December fourth,
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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 Am the Truth and of
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  Speaker 2: course this is Jesus speaking. 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, thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and for the truth that is in Christ. Father, I
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  Speaker 2: ask you now to open up our understanding and more
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  Speaker 2: than that, transform our lives so we can live like
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  Speaker 2: Jesus in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: What does truth mean to you? And I don't mean
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  Speaker 2: what is the definition? I think we have done a
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  Speaker 2: pretty decent job identifying from scripture what is truth. But
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  Speaker 2: what I'm asking you is what does truth mean to you? Like,
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  Speaker 2: how does it move in your life? How does truth
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  Speaker 2: transform your character? What does it help you do when
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  Speaker 2: you are at your job, at your desk or on
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  Speaker 2: the assembly line. What does it do for you as
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  Speaker 2: you are building your business. What does it do for
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  Speaker 2: you when you are considering your relationships with your family
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  Speaker 2: members and others? What is the truth to you? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so that is something we need to really think about.
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  Speaker 2: And not just think of this intellectually or theologically and say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we've identified in the scriptures what the Bible says is
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  Speaker 2: the truth, the three elements that we have already discussed.
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  Speaker 2: But how does the truth transform me? Okay? And so
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  Speaker 2: in John chapter one, beginning at verse fourteen, I'll do
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  Speaker 2: fourteen and seventeen, the Bible reads and the Word was
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  Speaker 2: made flesh. So now we know that the Word is Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and he being the manifestation of all that is God. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he's equal with the Father. But now the Father is
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  Speaker 2: in the life of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is
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  Speaker 2: resident and at work in the ministry of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And now we are able to get closer to God
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  Speaker 2: because of Jesus Christ. So he becomes flesh, and he
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  Speaker 2: dwells among us. Jesus is dwelling among us, and we
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  Speaker 2: beheld his glory, the glory as of the only Begotten
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  Speaker 2: of the Father, the only Begotten. That means he is
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  Speaker 2: the one and only unique one. He is one of
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  Speaker 2: a kind. Okay, it doesn't mean well, I won't get
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  Speaker 2: into what it doesn't mean. He's one of a kind.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says, full of grace, and truth. So
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  Speaker 2: none of the angels are full of grace and truth. Right,
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  Speaker 2: none of the individuals who according to John chapter one
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  Speaker 2: versus about verse twelve that says to as many as
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  Speaker 2: received him to them, gave he power to become the
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  Speaker 2: sons of God or the children of God. Not that
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  Speaker 2: kind of son, Not the kind of son that Adam was,
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  Speaker 2: or or the kind of son that Moses was. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the kind of son who is one with
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  Speaker 2: the Father, equal with the Father, submissive to the process
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  Speaker 2: of saving his people from our sins. He is full
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  Speaker 2: of grace and truth. Grace's unmerited favor. Like you need favor,
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  Speaker 2: God has that for you. You've committed sin, so have I.
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  Speaker 2: You have done things that you're ashamed of, so have I.
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying that even though you have sinned
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  Speaker 2: and comes short of the glory of God. God, even
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  Speaker 2: though you deserve to be destroyed ultimately with the second death,
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  Speaker 2: I am giving you the power to live according to
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  Speaker 2: my principles. I'm giving you the power so that you
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  Speaker 2: are embraced. I embrace you, and you now become one
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  Speaker 2: of my children. You are adopted into the family of God.
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  Speaker 2: You are seen just as if you had never sinned,
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  Speaker 2: when you submit your will to God, full of grace
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  Speaker 2: and truth. For the law of Verse seventeen was given
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  Speaker 2: by Moses. So we have an understanding of the Ten
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  Speaker 2: Commandments law. We have an understanding of the sacrificial system
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  Speaker 2: of sacrifice, the system of sacrifices. We have an understanding
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  Speaker 2: of the sanctuary because of Moses. Right Ah. But grace
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  Speaker 2: and truth came by Jesus Christ. So those things that
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  Speaker 2: Moses taught pointed forward to Jesus, the things that God
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  Speaker 2: revealed to Moses on the mountain I'm talking about when
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  Speaker 2: he was in Mountain Horeb and up in the cloud.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua was not in the cloud. He was on the top. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and Aaron and those guys were waiting down lower. When
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  Speaker 2: Moses was in the cloud, enfolded by God to the
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  Speaker 2: point that when he came out of that pavilion, that
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  Speaker 2: special sanctuary that God set up for him, he was
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  Speaker 2: so bright, visually bright. His countenance was so bright that
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  Speaker 2: the people could not they could they couldn't deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, cover that up. It's too much, it's
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  Speaker 2: too much. The brightness that comes from God in your
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  Speaker 2: life is too much. For us to handle put a
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  Speaker 2: veil over your face. That's because of their unbelief. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. But Jesus Christ is the
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  Speaker 2: one to whom all of that experience pointed, full of grace,
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  Speaker 2: power and unmarriaged favor, so that you can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: I can be saved and truth verse thirty two of
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  Speaker 2: John chapter eight, John chapter eight and verse thirty two,
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says, and ye shall know the truth.
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  Speaker 2: This no is not an intellectual pursuit. It's a it's
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  Speaker 2: not an assent to understanding. This no is an intimacy.
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  Speaker 2: It's like when the Bible says that Adam knew his wife,
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  Speaker 2: and the fruit of that knowing his wife was that
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  Speaker 2: they bore a son. So they're knowing one another bore fruit.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we know Jesus spiritually speaking, the fruit
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  Speaker 2: of that knowing the truth is that we will be free.
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  Speaker 2: And ye shall know the truth intimately transformatively the outgrowth,
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  Speaker 2: pardon me, the outgrowth of that knowing Jesus the Truth
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  Speaker 2: shall make you free, free from what or free to
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  Speaker 2: do what, Yeah, free to live according to the principles
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  Speaker 2: of God. Yes, the Bible reads, if you read Romans
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  Speaker 2: chapters seven and eight back to back. You see that
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  Speaker 2: the guy who was in Romans chapter seven is bound
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  Speaker 2: by the law of sin and death. What he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do he can't. He couldn't do right. The evil
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  Speaker 2: that he did not want to do. All he could
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  Speaker 2: do is that, and the good that he, in his
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  Speaker 2: intellect wanted to do, he didn't have the ability the
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  Speaker 2: power to do it right. That was his plight. He
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  Speaker 2: was bound. He was a slave to the devil. I said.
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  Speaker 2: He was a slave to the devil. He was not
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  Speaker 2: a developing Christian. I wish I had the time. He
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  Speaker 2: was a slave. He was bound, he could not. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says he could not please God, couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: But in Romans chapter eight, as he received Christ into
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  Speaker 2: his life, now there's no condemnation because he's in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus who walked not according to the flesh, but according
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  Speaker 2: to the spirit. For the law what the law could
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  Speaker 2: not do in the flesh, Christ did by sending him
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  Speaker 2: into sinful flesh in order that the righteousness of the
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  Speaker 2: law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according
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  Speaker 2: to the flesh but according to the spirit. That means
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  Speaker 2: that we are free the Bible says in Romans Self
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  Speaker 2: in Romans EIGHTE, that we that is the law, the
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  Speaker 2: law of the spirit of life, has made me free
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  Speaker 2: from the law of sin and death. So I am
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  Speaker 2: free to do God's will. I am free from the
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  Speaker 2: rum bottle. I'm free from pornography. I am free from
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  Speaker 2: running around and being aimless in life. I am free
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  Speaker 2: from not having control of my emotions. I am free
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  Speaker 2: to do God's will. When truth and God's life is
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  Speaker 2: living in me, I am free to live like Jesus did.
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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 l David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,