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10 02 2024 Hard Hearts · 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: 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, October two,
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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 hard Hearts, Hard Hearts. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but for I'd like
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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 this new day and for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of getting us thus far into our week,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for loving us beyond belief. Please give
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  Speaker 2: us a new heart in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Hard hearts. Yeah, Sometimes God's people, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking about God's people in particular, I'm not thinking
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  Speaker 2: about people who don't know God, who have not had
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of walking with God. I'm talking of about
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  Speaker 2: people who have covenanted or at least said that we
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  Speaker 2: are covenanting with God to live according to His will.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we have hard hearts. So I'm going to give
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  Speaker 2: you a partial understanding of the cure, because obviously we
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  Speaker 2: only have a few minutes today, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: share some things that will be helpful regarding a cure
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  Speaker 2: in just a little while. But let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: begin with the story from John chapter five, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse ten. John chapter five beginning at verse ten, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, the people of God therefore said, unto
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  Speaker 2: him that was cured. It is the Sabbath day. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about clearly the hard hearted people of God here. Aha,
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  Speaker 2: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed,
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  Speaker 2: he answered them, He that made me whole, the same
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  Speaker 2: set unto me, take up thy bed and walk. I
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  Speaker 2: like his response, really, I love his response, because this
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  Speaker 2: is something that we need to carry into our lives. Right,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the one who makes us whole says, we should do,
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  Speaker 2: that's what we should do. Did you get what I
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  Speaker 2: just said there? Whatever Jesus, the one who makes us
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  Speaker 2: whole says to do, we should do that. You see
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  Speaker 2: the problem with a lot of people. Why a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people who are supposedly God's people are hard hearted
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  Speaker 2: is because, yeah, they have not accepted God's making them whole.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about for themselves. If you look at the
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  Speaker 2: people who would criticize someone who is being made whole,
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  Speaker 2: who may not live like a tidy life like they
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  Speaker 2: think they should like. As you learn, you grow, As
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  Speaker 2: you grow, you learn more. You see. But there are
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  Speaker 2: times that people have an intellectual understanding of some things
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible and take it to the extreme. And
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  Speaker 2: while people who are genuine hearted, genuine who have genuine
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  Speaker 2: hearts are learning, they get criticized. And so really one
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  Speaker 2: of the pathways to success in spiritual development is to
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  Speaker 2: be made whole, submit your will, submit my will to God,
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  Speaker 2: and actually be made made whole, made to be made
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  Speaker 2: whole before God. Okay, And so anyway, he says, the
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  Speaker 2: one who made me whole, the same said, unto me,
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  Speaker 2: take up thy bed and walk. Then they asked him,
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  Speaker 2: what man is this that said that to thee, take
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  Speaker 2: up thy bed and walk? And he that was healed
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  Speaker 2: with not who it was, for Jesus had conveyed himself
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  Speaker 2: away a multitude being in that place. Afterward, Jesus findeth
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  Speaker 2: him in the temple and said, unto him, behold, thou
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  Speaker 2: art made whole? Sin No more so, Jesus is activating
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  Speaker 2: him spirit, he's recreating him. He's making him a new creature.
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  Speaker 2: And the one who has the power, the authority, the
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  Speaker 2: compassion to make you a new creature, he is the
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  Speaker 2: one that gives you the commands. He's the one that
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  Speaker 2: gives you the command ments, the one that makes you whole,
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  Speaker 2: the one that sets you free. Is the same one
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  Speaker 2: that gives you the command mens to do his will. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, go and sin no more. That is
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  Speaker 2: the first command. Now, now that you're made whole, I
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  Speaker 2: am empowering you. I'm bidding you to go and sin
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  Speaker 2: no more. And now I am empowering you through what
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  Speaker 2: I have said. My words, my biddings are enabling go
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  Speaker 2: and sin no more. Oh, and by the way, less
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  Speaker 2: the worst thing come unto thee verse fifteen, the man
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  Speaker 2: departed and told the people of God that it was
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  Speaker 2: Jesus which had made him whole. And therefore did the
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  Speaker 2: people of God persecute Jesus. Wait a minute, it sounds
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  Speaker 2: weird when I keep saying the people of God. That's
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about here. We're talking about the people
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  Speaker 2: that he came unto his own, and his own received him.
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  Speaker 2: Not we're talking about those same people that should have
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  Speaker 2: seen and had and should have discerned the prophecies and
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  Speaker 2: been waiting for the Messiah's appearance. But they were rejecting him,
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  Speaker 2: the people of God. They said, all right, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, to slay him,
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  Speaker 2: because he had done these things. On the Sabbath. What
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  Speaker 2: did he do on the Sabbath? He healed a man,
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  Speaker 2: He set a man free, He set the man free,
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  Speaker 2: he made him whole, and then he empowered him to
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  Speaker 2: go and sin no more in whatever it was that
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  Speaker 2: caused him to be in this situation lest the worst
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  Speaker 2: thing happened to him. And the people of God wanted
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  Speaker 2: to slay Jesus for delivering a man from sin, from
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  Speaker 2: delivering a man from human socce fring Well for having
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  Speaker 2: mercy on him because he picked up his bed, He
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  Speaker 2: picked up his little mat on the Sabbath day and walked.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't walk before he was delivered. Now why I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand, or maybe maybe as a human I actually do.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come back to that if we have a second
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  Speaker 2: here verse thirty eight. And ye have not his word
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  Speaker 2: abiding in you, Jesus is shooting straight now for whom
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  Speaker 2: he hath sent, whom ye believe, not search the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: for in them ye think ye have eternal life. And
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  Speaker 2: there they which testify of me, And ye will not
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  Speaker 2: come to me that ye might have life. I receive
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  Speaker 2: not honor from men, but I know you that ye
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  Speaker 2: have not the love of God in you. The problem
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  Speaker 2: was the people of God that were criticizing him did
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  Speaker 2: not have the love of God in him in them.
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  Speaker 2: The people who were criticizing Jesus for healing the man
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  Speaker 2: who did not have enough compassion for themselves to seek
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  Speaker 2: God's face to heal the man. Those same ones did
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  Speaker 2: not receive the love of God, which is why their
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  Speaker 2: hearts were hard. So be honest, and I'm asking us
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  Speaker 2: all to be honest. Be honest. If you notice your
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  Speaker 2: tendency of being stubborn and hard hearted, then confess that
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  Speaker 2: to God. Cultivate number one humility. God is giving us
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  Speaker 2: all an opportunity. This is a point of critical mass.
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  Speaker 2: It's a point of transformation, of metamorphosis. God is giving
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  Speaker 2: us the opportunity now to be transformed number one by
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  Speaker 2: cultivating humility. Bible reads in James chapter four and verse six.
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  Speaker 2: But he giveth more grace, wherefore he seeth, God resisteth
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  Speaker 2: the proud, but giveth grace that is power, that is
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  Speaker 2: unmerited favor. He giveth grace to the humble. So humble
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  Speaker 2: yourself before God. If you recognize your heart is heart,
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  Speaker 2: you recognize that you're stubborn, then then now is the day.
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  Speaker 2: At this moment, Nuber two, engage in regular self examination.
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  Speaker 2: Examine yourselves, the Bible writer says, and Second Corinthians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse five. Examine yourselves whether you be in
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  Speaker 2: the faith. Prove your own selves, know ye not know
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  Speaker 2: ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 2: in you, except ye be reprobates. So assess regularly what
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  Speaker 2: is your position with God? Are you in agreement with him?
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  Speaker 2: Are you holy before him? Or are you still hardhearted
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  Speaker 2: and running away? Make it a great day, peace. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: 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,