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11 04 2024 A New Understanding of the Messiah · 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: 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: November fourth, 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 a new Understanding of Messiah,
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  Speaker 2: a new understanding of Messiah. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first and I to thank you
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day, and thank you for loving us beyond
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  Speaker 2: our belief. Lord, thank you for giving us the clear
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  Speaker 2: and new understanding of who you are in our lives.
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  Speaker 2: And Father, we need more. We need to be filled
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  Speaker 2: with your Holy Spirit and be able to reach out
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  Speaker 2: into the world with the power that you have entrusted
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  Speaker 2: to us can get to know you. Father, Please teach
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  Speaker 2: us to embrace this. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Okay, So a new understanding of Messiah
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  Speaker 2: I need to I need to really kind of walk
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  Speaker 2: into this and not run. Walk and not run, because
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  Speaker 2: a new understanding of Messiah may be may be a misnomer. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and this is what I mean by it. When Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was teaching as he lived on planet Earth, he said,
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  Speaker 2: a new commandment I give unto you. And what was
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  Speaker 2: the new commandment Jesus to love one another? Well, was
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  Speaker 2: the commandment to love? Was it new? Well? No, but
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  Speaker 2: it was new to the people who were who were listening,
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  Speaker 2: not as if they had not known or heard it before.
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  Speaker 2: But they never put it into practice. They did not
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  Speaker 2: live a consistent life of the godly love in practice.
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  Speaker 2: This is what made it quote new, okay. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a paradigm shift, a new mindset. But they understand. They
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  Speaker 2: knew what love was, they knew what godly love was.
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  Speaker 2: They knew what it was like to love, but they
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  Speaker 2: did not practice it, and therefore it was new, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so the same with a new understanding of Messiah. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible was clear, like there was no reason for
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  Speaker 2: any of God's people to be confused because the prophecies
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  Speaker 2: were very clear his coming. The Messiah's coming had nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with overthrowing Roman rule. It had nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with creating a new civil order. It never had
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  Speaker 2: anything to do with insurrection, you understand. And in some
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  Speaker 2: of our societies we need to understand that that is this,
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  Speaker 2: that is still the reality where Jesus is concerned. He
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  Speaker 2: always gave his people the mandate to cause wherever they
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  Speaker 2: lived even when they they were in Babylonian captivity, when
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  Speaker 2: they were under let's call it a chastisement by God.
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  Speaker 2: He said that even while you are in this chastisement,
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  Speaker 2: I have you in captivity. I have given them a
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  Speaker 2: boundary that they could not pass with you. You cause
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  Speaker 2: where you are to prosper while you were there, do
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  Speaker 2: not overthrow it. There is no insurrection, there is no mutiny,
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  Speaker 2: like there is no revolution. You will do what I
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  Speaker 2: teach you to do to get into the hearts and
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  Speaker 2: minds of people. So though those people can be transformed,
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  Speaker 2: have their minds renewed, and now become citizens of the
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  Speaker 2: heavenly kingdom. You see Jesus taught. And I'll get to
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  Speaker 2: the text in a moment. But Jesus taught, like, if
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  Speaker 2: my kingdom were of this world, then would my people
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  Speaker 2: my servants fight. But this is not the world that
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  Speaker 2: we are trying to overcome in the sense of some
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  Speaker 2: kind of civil unrest or disorder. No, we're not changing,
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  Speaker 2: and I am not becoming the king of this planet
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  Speaker 2: as it is today. Okay. And so in John chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: God's people should have already known this, because the prophecies
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  Speaker 2: were clear I just want to reiterate that that the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says here beginning at verse thirty two, and John
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  Speaker 2: bear record saying, I saw the spirit, that's the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode on him,
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  Speaker 2: and I knew him not. And so John is giving
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  Speaker 2: his experience. It's not like he and John were at
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  Speaker 2: you know, having some tea, and then they both said, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time to go ahead and fulfill the prophecy of
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  Speaker 2: Daniel chapter nine. And we're going to you know, position
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  Speaker 2: you so that you will be anointed by Christ. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: John knew he was the forerunner. He knew that he
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  Speaker 2: was to set the pace and prepare the way for
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  Speaker 2: Messiah to come. But now it is time, like it's
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  Speaker 2: the point of critical mass. There is an intersection. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, I knew him not. But he that sent
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  Speaker 2: me to baptize with water, who sent him, God our Father,
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  Speaker 2: who sent Jesus into the world not to condemn the world,
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  Speaker 2: but to save us. The same God our father. And
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  Speaker 2: so they have the same father who is now driving
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  Speaker 2: the mission. And he said the same said, unto me
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  Speaker 2: upon whom thou shalt see the Holy Spirit descending and
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  Speaker 2: remaining on him. The same is he which baptizeth with
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. So John was on notice. He was
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  Speaker 2: awaiting the sign to fulfill the prophecy of the anointed One.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw verse thirty four, and bare record that
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  Speaker 2: this is the Son of God. Again the next day
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  Speaker 2: after John stood right, so the baptism of Jesus had
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  Speaker 2: already happened.
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  Speaker 1: Ha.
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  Speaker 2: The voice of God had already been heard from heaven
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  Speaker 2: that says, this is Ah, my beloved son, in whom
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  Speaker 2: I am well pleased. And now the next day John
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  Speaker 2: stood in two of his disciples, and looking upon Jesus
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  Speaker 2: as he walked, he saith, behold, that's him. Behold the
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  Speaker 2: Lamb of God. How did he know? Because he saw
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  Speaker 2: the power of the Holy Ghost on his life. He
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  Speaker 2: saw the actual sign of the Spirit of God coming
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  Speaker 2: and descending upon him like as of a dove, and
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  Speaker 2: lighting upon him. He heard God, our Father say and
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  Speaker 2: put his stamp of approval upon Jesus. And now as
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  Speaker 2: he's walking.
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  Speaker 1: Ha.
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  Speaker 2: John wants people to rejoice with him because he's like,
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  Speaker 2: this is the Messiah of whom we have in wait,
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  Speaker 2: for whom we have been waiting This is the Messiah
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  Speaker 2: about whom the prophets did speak, Behold the Lamb of God.
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  Speaker 2: He is the one who's going to take away the
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  Speaker 2: sins of the world. And of course, in the Jewish economy,
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  Speaker 2: this concept of the Lamb of God means he is
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate sacrifice. He is the one to whom all
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  Speaker 2: of the sanctuary system of sacrifices and the priesthood on
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  Speaker 2: earth pointed. Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of everything that
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  Speaker 2: God showed. Moses and subsequent peoples write about how salvation
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  Speaker 2: would happen, through whom salvation would happen, for what purpose
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  Speaker 2: salvation would happen. Jesus is the walking reality of salvation
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  Speaker 2: by faith. We are so thankful because that's the reality today.
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  Speaker 2: That is the reality today. Like we need to not
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  Speaker 2: have a new understanding and the sense that it never
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  Speaker 2: came to us before, but we need to now actually
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  Speaker 2: apply it when we are at our jobs. We're not
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  Speaker 2: looking to take over. We're not looking to take over.
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  Speaker 2: We are looking to be fully to be filled with
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Goost, so that when we have the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to influence our workplaces for Christ, then we can also
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  Speaker 2: direct people to Jesus Christ, who takes away our sins huh.
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  Speaker 2: When we are at play, or on vacation, or in
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  Speaker 2: some other place where we are consulting, Jesus wants to
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  Speaker 2: have such an impact on us that when we direct people,
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  Speaker 2: we're directing them to the one who's not taking over,
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  Speaker 2: but to the one who wants to transform their lives.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah.