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12 03 2024 I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life · 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 Tuesday, December three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Way, the Truth
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  Speaker 2: and the Life. I Am the Way, the Truth and
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  Speaker 2: the Life. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first i'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: 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 giving us the pathway to righteousness. I
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  Speaker 2: pray that we will follow you along that journey. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I am
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  Speaker 2: the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We have read
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  Speaker 2: about this before. We've read about this before, but now
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  Speaker 2: we're going to give it some more context. Now, remember
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  Speaker 2: yesterday I really drilled home the point that Jesus made
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  Speaker 2: a promise in the same way that prophetically we saw
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  Speaker 2: the promise of Messiah coming to save us from our sins.
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  Speaker 2: The first coming we have the same kind of promise,
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  Speaker 2: the same importance and force of the promise that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ will come again, and he's coming to save us
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  Speaker 2: from planet Earth. Now, save us from our sins so
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  Speaker 2: we can have eternal life. And then now when he
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  Speaker 2: is in the process process of actually eradicating the presence
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  Speaker 2: of sin forever. In the meantime, he comes at a
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  Speaker 2: time we're still waiting. We don't know the day or
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  Speaker 2: the hour, but it's going to be very soon. This
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  Speaker 2: is the promise, This is the blessed hope. When he
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  Speaker 2: does come back and takes us to heaven, please stop
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  Speaker 2: saying home, Please stop saying home. The Bible students out there,
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  Speaker 2: what God is giving us in heaven is a time
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  Speaker 2: for one thousand years to get ready for our full inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. So the second coming
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, when he does come back with clouds,
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  Speaker 2: and every eye shall see him as the lightning shines
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  Speaker 2: from the east even unto the west, and all of
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  Speaker 2: those who are God's people who are now resting or
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  Speaker 2: by that time resting in the grays will be raised.
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  Speaker 2: And God's people who are alive and remain will be
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  Speaker 2: caught up together to meet him in the air. And
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  Speaker 2: there shall we be with the Lord where wherever his
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  Speaker 2: presence is, That is, for one thousand years. And during
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  Speaker 2: the thousand years, some wonderful things going to happen in heaven. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we'll eat from the Tree of life, and in the
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  Speaker 2: Holy City that is the capital there at the time. Right, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we will be able to see our loved ones, and
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  Speaker 2: we will look over the books and we will see.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it that God is so holy and just?
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  Speaker 2: Why is it that just and true are his ways?
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  Speaker 2: Oh Lord Most High? Why is it that the people
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  Speaker 2: that I expect to be here are not here? And
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  Speaker 2: then after the thousand years are finished, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that He'll wipe away all tears from our eyes. He
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  Speaker 2: will destroy death, he will destroy the grave, he will
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  Speaker 2: cast all of that and in all of those who
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  Speaker 2: chose never to follow God and the devil and his
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  Speaker 2: evil angels, they will finally be, finally be destroyed, and
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  Speaker 2: finally we will have what God promised, our actual inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: In Matthew chapter five, in the Sermon on the Mount,
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  Speaker 2: he said, the meek will inherit the earth. The meek
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  Speaker 2: will inherit the new Earth. And so that is going
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  Speaker 2: to be our home, the new home that God is
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  Speaker 2: preparing and in his mind, and the home that we
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  Speaker 2: will have, if you want to say, for one thousand
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  Speaker 2: years in heaven until such time as he recreates the
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  Speaker 2: new Earth. Okay. And so the pathway, though, is the
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  Speaker 2: pathway of righteousness. The pathway, though, is the pathway of
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  Speaker 2: patience of the don't let your heart be troubled, even
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  Speaker 2: though the things that are happening on planet Earth are
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  Speaker 2: untenable and they seem to be difficult to overcome because
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  Speaker 2: they're so challenging. But he said, I'm the way. I'm
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to this success. I am the pathway to
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  Speaker 2: this success. I'm the way, I am the Truth, and
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  Speaker 2: i am the Life. Let me read that again and
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  Speaker 2: first in John chapter In John chapter five, John chapter fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: at verse five, the Bible reads, Thomas said, Lord, we
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  Speaker 2: do not know where you are going. How can we
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  Speaker 2: know the way? Now Jesus gives his response. What is
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  Speaker 2: his response? Jesus replied, I am the way, I am
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  Speaker 2: the truth, I am the Life. No one comes to
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  Speaker 2: the Father except through me. And so Jesus is responding
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  Speaker 2: to Thomas. Not by giving a geographical location or a
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  Speaker 2: simple root, but by emphasizing his essential role as the soul,
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  Speaker 2: means of accessing eternity with God, accessing a relationship with
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  Speaker 2: our Father, accessing that which we really desire when we're born.
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  Speaker 2: But we keep making mistakes and stumbling and bumbling through life.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we are looking for love in all of the
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  Speaker 2: wrong places. We look in a rum bottle for love,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the wrong place. We look on a stripper poll. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I said stripper pole for love, and that's the wrong place.
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  Speaker 2: Some people look on the Internet at some illicit and
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  Speaker 2: really not good things to see from a sexual perspective
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  Speaker 2: and become addicted. That is looking for love in all
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  Speaker 2: of the wrong places. God is saying that I am
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to that place that you really desire because
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  Speaker 2: I put a space inside of you. I gave every
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  Speaker 2: human a measure of faith inside of you, a space
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  Speaker 2: that I am the only one that can occupy. And
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  Speaker 2: you will continue to stumble and bumble through life until
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  Speaker 2: you recognize and embrace that I am the manifestation of
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  Speaker 2: your need. I am Jesus is the manifestation of your need.
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  Speaker 2: I am the way, I am the truth. I am
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  Speaker 2: the life, and no one gets to ultimate fulfillment except
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  Speaker 2: through me. And so in John chapter fourteen and verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible continues, if you have known me, you will
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  Speaker 2: know the Father because because the people are like, hold up,
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  Speaker 2: Thomas is like, hold up, we'll show us the Father then,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus is like, what if you have known me,
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  Speaker 2: you will know my father too, And from now on
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  Speaker 2: you do know him and have seen him. If you
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  Speaker 2: want an experience with God, Jesus Christ is the way.
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  Speaker 2: If you want eternity with God, Jesus Christ is the way.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to know who God is, Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: is the pathway to that success and verse nine of
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  Speaker 2: John chapter fourteen. John chapter fourteen, Jesus replied, have I
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  Speaker 2: been so long with you and you have not known me? Philip?
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  Speaker 2: The person who did, I say, Thomas earlier, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: mean to do that. The person who has seen me
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  Speaker 2: has seen the Father. How can you say, show us
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  Speaker 2: the Father you see? Jesus expresses surprise if you want
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  Speaker 2: to say at Phillip's question after being with him for
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  Speaker 2: so long. This underscores the point that Jesus not just
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  Speaker 2: the messenger from God, but it's the manifestation of God
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  Speaker 2: our Father himself in human form, and so Jesus being
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  Speaker 2: equal with God our Father, Jesus being in eternity past,
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  Speaker 2: with God our Father being the manifestation in the flesh.
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  Speaker 2: So that we can know what God is like. Means
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  Speaker 2: that He is the pathway, He's the reality, he is
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  Speaker 2: the life that we have been waiting for. Then serve
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  Speaker 2: him 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,