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10 05 2024 Signs of Divinity · 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 Sabbath, October five,
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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 the themes of the Gospel of John, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is I can just tell you
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite signs of divinity. Signs of divinity.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we're talking about Jesus's divinity. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first i'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you, pardon me, and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: join our online community and need you to also look
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  Speaker 2: for that number seven at the appropriate time and see
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  Speaker 2: what God has for you there. And this is one
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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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: day and for the privilege that we have to come
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  Speaker 2: together on this Sabbath morning and to consider one of
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  Speaker 2: the most holy subjects that we can even begin to
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  Speaker 2: discover in the scriptures. Please help us to be holy
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  Speaker 2: as a result. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again, signs of divinity, Signs of divinity. And as
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  Speaker 2: I said already, it was so important for me to
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  Speaker 2: remember to say it. It's in my notes one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite subjects in scripture, elevating the nature of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: because there are so many people that will try to
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  Speaker 2: bring Jesus down in your mindset. There are people who
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  Speaker 2: will even knock on your door and try to give
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  Speaker 2: you magazines and pamphlets and flyers about things that seem
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  Speaker 2: to be related to godliness. But then when you drill
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  Speaker 2: it some more, you realize that they have degraded Jesus
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  Speaker 2: in their thought process. Yeah, and so one of the
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the one who gives his life for us.
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  Speaker 2: He gave his life for us. He must be equal
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  Speaker 2: to or greater than the law the ten commandments that
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  Speaker 2: were broken. Okay, so before we go into the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to read. I'd like to read from the
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  Speaker 2: book the Book The Story of Redemption, pages forty seven
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  Speaker 2: and forty eight. It reminded me when I was looking
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  Speaker 2: at this subject. It reminded me of something I read
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  Speaker 2: just about I don't know about thirty years ago, almost
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  Speaker 2: thirty years ago, and it reads the angels related to them,
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  Speaker 2: meaning Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve, the grief that
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  Speaker 2: was felt in heaven as it was announced that they
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  Speaker 2: had transgressed the law of God. We're talking about Adam
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  Speaker 2: and Eve when they broke God's law. Okay, so they
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  Speaker 2: ate the fruit that God said don't eat. And yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The rest is history, which had made it expedient for
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  Speaker 2: Christ to make the great sacrifice of his own precious life. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I just say that again. It made it expedient for
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  Speaker 2: Christ to make the great sacrifice of his own precious life.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember the song were you there when they
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  Speaker 2: crucified my lord. Yes, so it's my sins that caused that.
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  Speaker 2: When Adam and Eve realized how exalted and sacred was
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  Speaker 2: the law of God, I need you to get this part,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. When they realized how exalted was the
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  Speaker 2: law of God, hmm, the transgression of which made it
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  Speaker 2: made so costly a sacrifice necessary to save them and
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  Speaker 2: their posterity. That means their bloodline, people who would come
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  Speaker 2: after them, from utter ruin. They pleaded to die themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They realized, Wait a minute, I can't believe that this
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  Speaker 2: is the cost. Are you saying, the one who created
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  Speaker 2: me in unison with God, our father, he has to
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  Speaker 2: give his life because I hate of this fruit that
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  Speaker 2: you forbade me God from eating. Yes, yes, yes, they pled.
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  Speaker 2: They pleaded to die themselves or to let them and
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  Speaker 2: their posterity endure the penalty of their transgression, rather than
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  Speaker 2: that the beloved son of God should make this great sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: The anguish of Adam was increased he saw that his
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  Speaker 2: sins were of so great magnitude as to involve fearful consequences.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, I want you to think about the
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  Speaker 2: love of God. The Bible says, for God so loved
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  Speaker 2: the world that he gave his only begotten son. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're starting to feel how important this is. That whosoever
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  Speaker 2: believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: God did not send his son into the world to
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  Speaker 2: condemn the world, but that the world through him might
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  Speaker 2: be saved. And I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful. But
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  Speaker 2: Adam was broken hearted. The anguish of Adam was increased.
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  Speaker 2: He saw that his sins were of so great magnitude
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  Speaker 2: as to involve fearful consequensequences. And it must be that
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  Speaker 2: Heaven's honored commander, who is that? Say his name? Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: who had walked with him and talked with him while
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  Speaker 2: in his holy innocence, whom angels honored and worshiped, must
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  Speaker 2: be brought down from his exalted position to die because
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  Speaker 2: of his transgression. Adam was informed that an angel's life,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to hear this. He was informed that
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  Speaker 2: an angel's life could not pay the debt. Why not
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  Speaker 2: the law of Yahweh Blessed be his name. The foundation
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  Speaker 2: of his government in heaven and upon earth was as
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  Speaker 2: sacred as God himself. And for this reason, the life
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  Speaker 2: of an angel could not be accepted of God as
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  Speaker 2: a sacrifice for its transgression the law. His law is
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  Speaker 2: of more importance in his sight than the holy angels
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  Speaker 2: around the throne. The Father could not abolish or change
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  Speaker 2: one precept in his law. We're talking about the Ten
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  Speaker 2: Commandments law. Let's not be confused here. He could not
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  Speaker 2: change or abolish even one precept in his holy law
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  Speaker 2: to meet man in his fallen condition. But the Son
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  Speaker 2: of God, who had, in unison with the Father, created
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  Speaker 2: human beings, could make an atonement for man to God
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  Speaker 2: by giving his life a sacrifice and bearing the wrath
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  Speaker 2: of his father. Angels informed Adam that as his transgression
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  Speaker 2: had brought death and wretchedness, life and immortality would be
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  Speaker 2: brought to light through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Aren't
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  Speaker 2: you glad that God is not like us? Aren't you
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  Speaker 2: glad that Jesus Christ, being divine, being holy, being eternal
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  Speaker 2: with God our Father, would condescend to fix this problem
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  Speaker 2: that only he could fix. Aren't you glad that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ gave himself for us. Yes, it's a fearful thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes it is saddening and heartbreaking to know that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: would have had to do that, But I'm grateful that
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  Speaker 2: he volunteered. Nobody coerced him, nobody twisted his divine arm,
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  Speaker 2: as if that were even possible. But he did it
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  Speaker 2: for you, He did it for me. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: of course, now we read in John chapter eleven and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty five, Jesus said to her, I am the
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  Speaker 2: Resurrection and the life. Of course, he's speaking to Lazarus's sister,
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  Speaker 2: he who believes in me? Do you believe in Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, he who believes in me. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about all of his divine essence and the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he condescended and became as a human in order to
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  Speaker 2: save us. Do you believe in him? That he has
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  Speaker 2: the power to deliver you? He said, He who believes
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  Speaker 2: in me, though he may die, he shall live. And
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  Speaker 2: whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do
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  Speaker 2: you believe this, brothers and sisters. The one who is
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  Speaker 2: equal to God, our father, he's the one who became
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  Speaker 2: obedient unto the cross, the death of the cross. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't think it something to be grasped or held on to.
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  Speaker 2: That He is equal and equivalent to God, our Father,
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  Speaker 2: that he would just allow us to be down here,
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  Speaker 2: flailing and dying. I'm grateful that, in Jesus's divinity, he
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  Speaker 2: was willing to condescend to become human.
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  Speaker 1: So he could see. Thanks for joining us, listening to 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,