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10 06 2024 The Feeding of the Five Thousand · 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 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, October six,
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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 the Feeding of the five thousand.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to deal with that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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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 day
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  Speaker 2: and giving us the opportunity to hear from you. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to see you, and please, Father, help us
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  Speaker 2: to know that you see us. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and amen again. Let me just address really quickly
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  Speaker 2: that big, great, big, pink, hairy elephant in the room
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  Speaker 2: right now. It says feeding of the five thousand. May
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  Speaker 2: I just say that God sees all of you, He
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  Speaker 2: sees all of us, He knows you, He has called
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  Speaker 2: you from before there was a beginning. So even though
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  Speaker 2: this is reporting as if there were only five thousand people,
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  Speaker 2: it's really only men. It's only men. So there were
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  Speaker 2: women there, there were children there. So God sees and
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  Speaker 2: feeds all of the men, the women and the children.
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  Speaker 2: Today God is seeing and feeding all of the men,
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  Speaker 2: the women and the children, or the children, the women
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  Speaker 2: and the men as the case may be, And so
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  Speaker 2: I want you to know that God sees you ladies,
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  Speaker 2: God sees you children, God sees you all right, and
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  Speaker 2: He is making provision for you. Okay, let me go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and read from the Great Controversy before I go
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  Speaker 2: off on a tangent. It would have been a good one,
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  Speaker 2: but let me stay focused.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: From the Great Controversy, page five hundred and forty, we read,
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  Speaker 2: he bore the guilt of transgression. Let me just say,
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  Speaker 2: he bore the guilt of transgression for all of the
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  Speaker 2: human family, children, women, men. He bore the guilt of
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  Speaker 2: transgression and the hiding of his father's face until his
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  Speaker 2: heart was broken and his life crushed out. Lord help us.
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  Speaker 2: All this sacrifice was made that sinners might be redeemed.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a sinner, brothers and sisters like type in
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  Speaker 2: the chat, I am a sinner saved by grace. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to just leave you there. I'm a sinner
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  Speaker 2: saved by grace. I know that's a lot of words,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm a sinner. I want you to confess with
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  Speaker 2: your mouth that I'm a sinner saved by grace, and
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  Speaker 2: really and truly if that's the case, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: it is the case. I hope that you have decided
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  Speaker 2: today or some time prior to today, that you would
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  Speaker 2: accept the offer of salvation that comes freely through Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: But that means simply that you're a saint. So if
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to shorten the sentence, you could say, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a saint not because of your own works, not because
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  Speaker 2: you have done everything just right, but because you are
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  Speaker 2: saved by the grace of God, by grace through faith.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the gift of God, not of works,
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  Speaker 2: lest anyone should boast. And so I'm thankful that God
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  Speaker 2: has called you, he has called me saints. We are
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  Speaker 2: children of the light and not darkness, if we are
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  Speaker 2: choosing to serve God every day. Let me begin now
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  Speaker 2: by reading from John chapter six. John chapter six, and
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  Speaker 2: I would read beginning at verse one, and the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads after these things. Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee,
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  Speaker 2: which is also the Sea of Tiberius, and a great
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  Speaker 2: multitude followed him. What a great multitude of whom of men, women,
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  Speaker 2: and children. I need you to keep that in your mind,
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  Speaker 2: of men, women, and children, because they saw his miracles
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  Speaker 2: which he did on them that were diseased, and Jesus
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  Speaker 2: went up into a mountain because he wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: able to reach the people. He wanted the people to
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  Speaker 2: be able to hear and see him. He went up
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  Speaker 2: into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples,
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  Speaker 2: and the passover, a feast of the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: was nigh. When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, he
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  Speaker 2: saw a great company come unto him, and he said,
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  Speaker 2: unto Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat?
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  Speaker 2: I want you to understand this is a setup. It's
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  Speaker 2: a setup. Jesus is positioning his closest cohorts. He's positioning
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  Speaker 2: them to see that God wants to deliver people he wants.
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  Speaker 2: He wants his closest cohorts, those deciples poles. He wants
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  Speaker 2: them to see that we have a part to play
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  Speaker 2: in the provision that God makes for people that he
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  Speaker 2: wants to save. And so he says, he says, to
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  Speaker 2: prove him, for he himself knew what he would do.
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  Speaker 2: Verse seven. Philip answered him, two hundred pennyworth of bread
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  Speaker 2: is not sufficient for them, that every one of them
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  Speaker 2: may take a little One of his disciples, Andrew Simon
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  Speaker 2: Peter's brother seth unto him. There is a lad here.
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  Speaker 2: See are you thankful that God has manifest the truth
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  Speaker 2: here that there was a young a young child there,
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  Speaker 2: a young child there. So when you see that God
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  Speaker 2: is able to provide for children, he's able to provide
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  Speaker 2: for women, he is able to provide for men, leaving
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  Speaker 2: nobody out. How come we don't focus on the fact
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  Speaker 2: that everybody was present. Huh, here we go, there was
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  Speaker 2: a young lad there. Okay, well what else? What else?
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  Speaker 2: What else? Which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes?
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  Speaker 2: But what are they among so many? I am so glad,
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  Speaker 2: you asked, and Jesus said, make the men sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Now there was much grass in the place, And so
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  Speaker 2: the men sat down, in number of about five thousand,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks,
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  Speaker 2: he distributed to the disciples. What did he distribute, He
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  Speaker 2: distributed what he gave thanks for. He distributed what he
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  Speaker 2: gave thanks for. Well, what did he give thanks for?
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  Speaker 2: He gave thanks for the power of God to do
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  Speaker 2: in a way that no human in human ingenuity could do. Miraculously,
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  Speaker 2: God is providing in that place in the same way
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  Speaker 2: that he provided miraculously in the wilderness. Can I just
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  Speaker 2: say that God is doing what he has always done.
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  Speaker 2: He is making provision that is not limited by human
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  Speaker 2: in jauity. In your life and your lifestyle, your relationships,
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  Speaker 2: your businesses, your work situations, your health, huh, and everything
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  Speaker 2: that has to do with you. God is providing miraculously
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  Speaker 2: if you're willing to receive it. And so he said
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  Speaker 2: to distribute to the disciples, and the disciples to them
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  Speaker 2: that were set down, and likewise of the fishes, as
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  Speaker 2: much as they would, and they were all filled. How
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  Speaker 2: could five thousand men plus the children? How could five
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  Speaker 2: thousand men plus the children and the women? How could
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  Speaker 2: God provide for so many people from just five loaves
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  Speaker 2: and two fish? How could God provide when your month
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  Speaker 2: is longer than your money? How is it that He
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  Speaker 2: gives you what you need? How is it that God
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  Speaker 2: could provide peace when you have lost a loved one.
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  Speaker 2: How is it that God can provide the kind of
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  Speaker 2: joy that you need even when there are times that
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  Speaker 2: you suffer? How is it that God can provide salvation
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  Speaker 2: to such a broken sinner like me? Because Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: no ordinary man. Jesus was never an ordinary man. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was the theanthropic one. That's a big word. That simply
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  Speaker 2: means he was one hundred percent God, one hundred percent man.
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  Speaker 2: And in that divine unity Jesus comes to save us
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  Speaker 2: from our sins and to give us everything that we need.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say, after they had done all
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  Speaker 2: of that, all of that, the people recognized, Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: this is no ordinary man in our midst This man
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  Speaker 2: is unusual. Wow, God is no ordinary man. 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,