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11 21 2024 From Beneath · 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 Thursday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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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 from the Gospel of John or
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  Speaker 2: in the Gospel of John. Our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: from Beneath, and I would like to put a question
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  Speaker 2: mark right there. It's not a question, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: ask you a question in a second. From beneath Hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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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. Bother and Heaven. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for loving us
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  Speaker 2: so much that you have given us your son so
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  Speaker 2: we can be saved. Please help us to live like
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  Speaker 2: people who appreciate you. For this. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. I'm going to ask you a
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  Speaker 2: question that maybe preachers don't ask. Teachers don't ask, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you a question that I need
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  Speaker 2: to be asking and answering for myself. Are you from
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  Speaker 2: above or from beneath? Are you from above or from beneath?
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  Speaker 2: And what I mean is who is your father? Is
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  Speaker 2: your father Jesus Christ or God our Father? I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time to really deal with that one.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be afraid of answering that question, are you from God,
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  Speaker 2: our father? Or are you from beneath the enemy of God?
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  Speaker 2: And I think if we read the story today, and
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  Speaker 2: we will from John chapter eight, beginning at verse twelve,
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  Speaker 2: we all need to come face to face with the
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  Speaker 2: reality of that answer for ourselves. Am I from above?
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  Speaker 2: Or am I from beneath? Okay? And so beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse twelve, the Bible reads, then Jesus spoke out again.
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  Speaker 2: I am the light of the world. This is what
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  Speaker 2: he says. The one who follows me will never be
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  Speaker 2: in darkness, but will have the light of life. And
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  Speaker 2: if we follow him and have the light of life,
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  Speaker 2: then it is an inkling like we can understand now
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  Speaker 2: that we are from above. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep going. Let's keep going verse thirteen. So the
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  Speaker 2: Pharisees objected, Wait a minute, they're from beneath, these particular pharisees,
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  Speaker 2: not all Pharisees, but these objected. You testify about yourself,
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  Speaker 2: your testifymony is not true. Jesus answered, Even if I
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  Speaker 2: testify about myself, my testimony is true because I know
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  Speaker 2: where I am from, where I am going my where
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  Speaker 2: did I where I lost it. But you people do
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  Speaker 2: not know where I came from or where I am going. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says he came to his own, and his
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  Speaker 2: own him not his own received him, not but to
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  Speaker 2: as many as received him. To them gave he power
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  Speaker 2: to be from above or to become his children. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it says verse fifteen. You people judge by outward appearances.
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  Speaker 2: I do not judge anyone. But if I do judge,
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  Speaker 2: my evaluation is accurate because I am not alone when
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  Speaker 2: I judge. But I and the father who sent me
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  Speaker 2: do so together. It is written in your law that
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  Speaker 2: the testimony of two men is true. I testify about myself,
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  Speaker 2: and the father who sent me he testifies about me.
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  Speaker 2: Then they began asking him, where's your father. See, they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to be funny in a in a devious and
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  Speaker 2: evil way, because they're like, okay, so you say, they
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  Speaker 2: say that your mother, your mother Mary was a virgin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: or Joseph is really not the father and it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: And so they are trying to scandalize the birth of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus by simply asking him. But it's not so simple,
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  Speaker 2: who or where is your father? Jesus answered, you don't
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  Speaker 2: know either me or my father. If you knew me,
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  Speaker 2: you would know my father. Also, Jesus spoke these words
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  Speaker 2: near the offering box while he was teaching in the
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  Speaker 2: temple courts. No one seized him because his time was
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  Speaker 2: not yet come. Then Jesus said, unto them again, I
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  Speaker 2: am going away, and you will look for me, but
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  Speaker 2: will die in your sin. Where I am going, you
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  Speaker 2: cannot come. So some of the so called leaders of
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  Speaker 2: God's people began to say, perhaps he's going to kill himself,
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  Speaker 2: because he says, where I am going, you cannot come.
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  Speaker 2: He said to them, you people are from beneath. I
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  Speaker 2: am from above. You people are from this world. I
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  Speaker 2: am not from this world. Thus I told you that
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  Speaker 2: you will die in your sins, for unless you believe
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  Speaker 2: that I am He. That is the fulfillment of all
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  Speaker 2: the prophecies we were talking about for the last two days. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: the Savior of the world, the anointed one that Daniel
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  Speaker 2: saw in that seventy Weeks prophecy in Daniel chapter nine,
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  Speaker 2: he says, unless you believe that I am He, then
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  Speaker 2: you're going to die in your sins verse twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: So they said, unto him, who are you, Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 2: what I have told you from the beginning. I have
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  Speaker 2: many things to speak and to judge about you. But
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  Speaker 2: the one who sent me is truthful, and what I
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  Speaker 2: have heard from him I tell the world. They did
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  Speaker 2: not understand that he was telling them about his father.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus said, when you lift up the son of Man,
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  Speaker 2: then you will know that I am he talking about
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  Speaker 2: crucifying him. And I do nothing of my own initiative.
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  Speaker 2: But I speak just what the Father taught me. And
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  Speaker 2: the one who sent me is with me. He has
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  Speaker 2: not left me alone because I always do the things
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  Speaker 2: that please him Verse thirty and final. While he was
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  Speaker 2: saying these things, many people believed in him. You see,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus did not waste any time. He cut straight through
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  Speaker 2: to the reality that these people that were supposedly the
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  Speaker 2: leaders of God's people. I'm talking about the ones that
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  Speaker 2: were right in front of him, they were from beneath
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  Speaker 2: They did not believe in God. They said they did.
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  Speaker 2: They said that Abraham was their father. They said that
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  Speaker 2: they believed in them in what Moses taught. But they
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  Speaker 2: were rejecting what the prophets, whom the prophets had prophesied
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  Speaker 2: had come from God to save us from our sins.
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  Speaker 2: But thankfully, after all of this exchange, there were some
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  Speaker 2: people who believed in him. And so we want to
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  Speaker 2: learn a few lessons from this exchange. Number one, seek
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  Speaker 2: divine wisdom. Seek divine wisdom. See wisdom is from above
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  Speaker 2: and it's first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to
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  Speaker 2: be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality
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  Speaker 2: and without hypocrisy. That is from James chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse seventeen. When you're having difficulties either understanding or accepting
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  Speaker 2: something that God has revealed in his word, ah, well,
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  Speaker 2: we need to ask for wisdom, don't reject it. This
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  Speaker 2: is what the soul called leaders of God's People did.
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  Speaker 2: They chose to reject Jesus because they didn't agree with
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  Speaker 2: what they were seeing, They didn't understand fully what they
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  Speaker 2: were experiencing, and they had their own prejudices. Seek divine wisdom. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we need to live, and we have the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: living by God's Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit is
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  Speaker 2: in our lives and he begins to teach us all
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  Speaker 2: truth about God, teach us all truth about ourselves. The
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  Speaker 2: Holy oulme when we accept This is for us to
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  Speaker 2: humble ourselves before God. And when we humble ourselves before God,
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  Speaker 2: he transforms our lives lives and gives us the fruit
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit, which is love, and then all
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  Speaker 2: of the tentacles or the outgrowth of that same love.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally we have the privilege to set our
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  Speaker 2: minds on the things from above. Set your affection. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says on things above, not on the things of
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  Speaker 2: this earth, and that is from Colossians chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse two. The more we set our minds toward God
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  Speaker 2: and godly things, the more receptive we are to His will,
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  Speaker 2: and we will be transformed. We can be the children
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  Speaker 2: of God from above. 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,