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11 08 2024 Stay with JESUS · 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 Friday, November eighth,
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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, rounding the corner with Lesson number six themes
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  Speaker 2: in the Gospel of John, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is stay with Jesus. I need you to do this
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  Speaker 2: like stay with Jesus. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say, on this
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  Speaker 2: preparation day, welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 2: join our online community. Especially pay attention, give keen attention
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  Speaker 2: to that number seven, that number seven. I need at
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  Speaker 2: least one thousand of you to subscribe there. I would
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  Speaker 2: like to see ten thousand, but I'll leave it at
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  Speaker 2: one thousand for now. To continue your growth path, your
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  Speaker 2: spiritual development. Please and thanks, and also let us know
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  Speaker 2: where you are in the world at your Daily portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us the invitation to remain with you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us your holy Spirit to teach
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  Speaker 2: us to abide in you. I pray God now that
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  Speaker 2: we will be full of your Holy Spirit and then
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  Speaker 2: be transformed so that we can be of service to
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  Speaker 2: others and one day see you face to face in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name. I pray Amen and a men again, stay
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  Speaker 2: with Jesus. There's so much that we learned this week,
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  Speaker 2: too much to say, so much to say, so little time.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just go ahead and begin with what is
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  Speaker 2: in the lesson for today's study, and it reads to
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  Speaker 2: whom shall we go? Of course, when Jesus turned around
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  Speaker 2: in a certain situation in John chapter six, he said
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  Speaker 2: to the people there, like the closest people there, Are
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  Speaker 2: you going to leave me? Are you going to depart
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  Speaker 2: from me? Because the going is getting tough, because you
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  Speaker 2: are going through challenges, because you feel like what I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying is too hard? Are you going away? And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course one of his children said, well, where are
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  Speaker 2: we going to go? To whom shall we go? Like
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  Speaker 2: you have the words of truth, you are truth, you
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  Speaker 2: are life. We're going to stay with you. The teachers
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  Speaker 2: of God's people were slaves to formalism. The Pharisees and
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  Speaker 2: Sadducees were in constant contention. If you know that you
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  Speaker 2: are constantly in contention, then ask God, like, why am
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  Speaker 2: I like this? Why does my mind always look for
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  Speaker 2: an argument? Why am I always looking for a way
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  Speaker 2: or often looking for a way to find fault in
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  Speaker 2: myself and in others in the institution of God's people?
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  Speaker 2: Why am I like this? And then ask him what
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  Speaker 2: to do with that? Continuing the quote to leave, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was to fall among the sticklers for rights and ceremonies
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  Speaker 2: and ambitious men who so their own glory. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about people who are supposed to be the people of God.
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  Speaker 2: Departing from Jesus meant being subject to that enslaved spiritual mentality,
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  Speaker 2: that thought that we could fastidiously become holy based on
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  Speaker 2: our own efforts, that somehow we could make ourselves like God,
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  Speaker 2: rather than surrendering our will to God and allowing him
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  Speaker 2: to work us through the process of being holy. Let
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  Speaker 2: me continue. The disciples had found more peace and joy
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  Speaker 2: since they had accepted Christ than in all their previous lives.
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  Speaker 2: Can you remember the day that you accepted Jesus into
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  Speaker 2: your life? Brother? How about you, sister? Like do you
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  Speaker 2: remember the day that you said yes to Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: what that experience has delivered you from? What that experience
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  Speaker 2: has ushered you into in a good way. They had
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  Speaker 2: that experience, how could they go back to those who
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  Speaker 2: had scorned and persecuted the friend of sinners? They had
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  Speaker 2: long been looking for Messiah. Now he had come, and
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  Speaker 2: they could not turn from his presence to those who
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  Speaker 2: were hunting his life and had persecuted them from becoming
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  Speaker 2: his followers. To whom shall we go? From the book
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  Speaker 2: Desire of Ages, page three hundred ninety three. To whom
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  Speaker 2: shall we go not from the teaching of Christ, his
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  Speaker 2: lessons of love and mercy, to the darkness of unbelief,
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  Speaker 2: the wickedness of the world. While the Savior was forsaken
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  Speaker 2: by many who had witnessed his wonderful works. Peter expressed
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  Speaker 2: the faith of the disciples, thou art the Christ. The
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  Speaker 2: very thought of losing this anchor of their souls filled
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  Speaker 2: them with fear and pain. To be destitute of a
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  Speaker 2: savior was to be a drift on a dark and
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  Speaker 2: stormy sea. Can I read that again? That last part?
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  Speaker 2: To be destitute, that is without ah, to be lacking
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  Speaker 2: the Savior, was to be a drift. So we're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be going one direction on this sea of life. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: And we're supposed to be. But to separate from Jesus
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  Speaker 2: means that we in the darkness of the sea, in
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  Speaker 2: the storms of the sea, in the torrents of rain
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  Speaker 2: and the winds and the waves roaring, we end up
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  Speaker 2: not where we intended to be, But we end up
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  Speaker 2: a drift, and then we drown. Where shall we go?
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  Speaker 2: That is a good question, Stay with Jesus. I think
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  Speaker 2: we answered it. Where shall we go if we're not
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  Speaker 2: with you? Oh, be with me. Jesus is saying, stay
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  Speaker 2: with me, abide in me and I in you. If
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  Speaker 2: you do that, and you will ask what you will
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  Speaker 2: and it shall be done unto you. So stay with Jesus. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what can we learn from this concept today? From the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of John, chapter fourteen and verse twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: Our first lesson comes peace. I leave with you my peace.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jesus is peace. I give unto you, not
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  Speaker 2: as the world giveth it unto you. Let not your
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  Speaker 2: heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Recognize, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters. I want you to identify in your mind
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  Speaker 2: the source of peace. The true source of peace is Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Do not separate yourself from him. Do not allow trials, tribulations,
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  Speaker 2: crazy thoughts, difficult times, temptations. Do not allow anything to
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  Speaker 2: separate you from Him. When you are fearful, do not
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  Speaker 2: let that separate you. And you have doubts, let that
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  Speaker 2: not separate you. When you are disappointed, you ask God
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  Speaker 2: for X and you did not get it. Don't let
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  Speaker 2: that separate you. Just know that He has your best
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  Speaker 2: interest at heart. So regularly reflect on the peace you've
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  Speaker 2: experienced in Christ to reinforce why you should continue to
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  Speaker 2: follow him. And so the Bible also teaches also teaches
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  Speaker 2: that we should avoid empty rituals. I said, empty rituals.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the ones that are stressful, that don't
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  Speaker 2: add anything to our spiritual connection with God. Do away
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  Speaker 2: with those. In Matthew chapter fifteen, Jesus gave us some
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  Speaker 2: counsel beginning at verse eight. This people draweth nigh unto
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  Speaker 2: me with their mouths and honors me with their lips,
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  Speaker 2: but their heart is far from me. So don't just
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  Speaker 2: honor God in your mouth. Don't just honor him by
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  Speaker 2: forwarding good quote from inspiration and from the Bible. Don't
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  Speaker 2: just honor him by talking a lot about him. How
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  Speaker 2: you're doing, brother, well, you know God is good, No disrespect.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, we want to be so connected with
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  Speaker 2: God that we turn away from the vanity of rituals.
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  Speaker 2: But in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines,
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  Speaker 2: the commandments of humans of men. So we avoid empty rituals,
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  Speaker 2: and we run to the source of peace and stay
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  Speaker 2: with Jesus. I'm grateful, I'm grateful because Jesus has invited
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  Speaker 2: us to remain with him, and therefore with open arms
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  Speaker 2: he keeps us and embraces us. Will you embrace him too?
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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.