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10 11 2024 The Abundant 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 Friday, October eleven,
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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 Abundant Life. The Abundant Life.
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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: your transformation and the transformation of those you dearly love
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that we have to be together again and to open
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  Speaker 2: your word. Thank you for this time of preparation. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to live the abundant life. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen, and a man again. Okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: the trillion dollar question I did not say million, I
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  Speaker 2: did not say billion. But the trillion dollar question today
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  Speaker 2: this Friday morning, is how can I get or live
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  Speaker 2: the abundant life? That is the trillion dollar question for today.
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  Speaker 2: How can I live the abundant life? Because we talk
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  Speaker 2: about it a lot, especially Christians, A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: talk about prosperity and how to have abundance and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I think people get confused, either confused by not understanding
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  Speaker 2: or confused by selfish ambition. How do we live the
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  Speaker 2: abundant life? Well, let me just start here. Through His word,
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  Speaker 2: Through God's word, we live the abundant life through his word.
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  Speaker 2: Why because life is in his word. In Him is life,
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  Speaker 2: and the life is the light of men, the same
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  Speaker 2: Him who is the Word. And we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that in detail beginning tomorrow and then right through
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  Speaker 2: the next week. But we'll begin here by reading from
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  Speaker 2: the book The Desire of Ages, page three hundred and ninety,
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  Speaker 2: and then we're going to give you some really solid
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  Speaker 2: biblical foundation here, and it reads the life of Christ
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  Speaker 2: that gives life to the world is in his word.
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  Speaker 2: I think I just said that, Yes, it is by
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  Speaker 2: his word that Jesus healed the disease and cast out demons.
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  Speaker 2: By his word, he's stilled the sea and raised the dead,
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  Speaker 2: as God ever raised your death circumstances to life. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that you have maybe even faced near or
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  Speaker 2: near death experiences. Maybe you were in the hospital and
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  Speaker 2: they didn't give you a good prognosis, like he or
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  Speaker 2: she is going to pass away in this short period
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  Speaker 2: of time, and after years now you are still here
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  Speaker 2: living by God's grace. Huh, like Hezekiah. Yes, look up
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  Speaker 2: Hezekiah in the Bible. God gave him fifteen more years. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there are dead circumstances in your finances, in your relationships,
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  Speaker 2: and God revived them. Okay. And the people continuing the quote,
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  Speaker 2: bore witness that his word was with power. He spoke
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  Speaker 2: the word of God as he had spoken through all
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  Speaker 2: the prophets and teachers of the Old Testament. The whole
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  Speaker 2: Bible is a manifestation of Christ, and the Savior desired
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  Speaker 2: to fix the faith of his followers on the Word.
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  Speaker 2: When his visible presence should be withdrawn. The Word must
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  Speaker 2: be their power or a source of power. The faster
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  Speaker 2: they were to live by every word that proceedeth out
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  Speaker 2: of the mouth of God. As our physical life is
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  Speaker 2: sustained by food, so our spiritual life is sustained by
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  Speaker 2: the Word of God. I think you're getting the common
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  Speaker 2: theme here. And every soul is to receive life from
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  Speaker 2: God's Word for himself. As we must eat for ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in order to receive nourishment, so we must receive the
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  Speaker 2: Word for ourselves. We are not to obtain it merely
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  Speaker 2: through the medium of another's mind. Let me be very
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  Speaker 2: clear here. I mean, like how you listen to me
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  Speaker 2: every day or you watch me on the internet. Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 2: like you may listen to or watch other people on
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  Speaker 2: the internet, on the radio. Some of you were watching me,
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  Speaker 2: listen to me on the radio. You're watching me on
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  Speaker 2: television and other spiritual leaders that you respect. In Bible teachers,
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  Speaker 2: God is saying no, not just that way. That's a
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  Speaker 2: good start. If the person that is sharing is actually
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  Speaker 2: sharing God's truth. We should carefully study the Bible, asking
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  Speaker 2: God for the aid of the Holy Spirit that we
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  Speaker 2: may understand his word. That's the end of the quote.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we're going to do now with the
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  Speaker 2: remaining moments that we have here just about just about
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  Speaker 2: five or six minutes here is go into the actual Bible.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads here in Hebrews chapter four. This is
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  Speaker 2: why the Word is so empowering and powerful to transform
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  Speaker 2: our lives. For the Word of God is alive and active,
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  Speaker 2: sharper than any two edged sword. It penetrates even to
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  Speaker 2: the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It
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  Speaker 2: judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. So this
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  Speaker 2: emphasizes that God's word is powerful. It is dynamic, meaning
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  Speaker 2: it does not just sit still. It is able to
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  Speaker 2: God's word can move in and through our lives when
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  Speaker 2: we accept his words and transform our lives when we
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  Speaker 2: do his words by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Here is one of my favorites from the Book of
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  Speaker 2: Job and the Bible reads, beginning at verse eight of
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  Speaker 2: Job chapter twenty three. Behold, I go forward, but he
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  Speaker 2: is not there. So Job is in confusion in a sense,
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  Speaker 2: even though he's holy, he knows God, but he's in
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  Speaker 2: a sense, he's in confusion. He's not there and backward,
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  Speaker 2: but I cannot perceive him. Have you ever been in
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  Speaker 2: a situation where you could not perceive God? You felt like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where he is in my life. God,
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  Speaker 2: are you listening to my prayers? I need you desperately,
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  Speaker 2: but I am not able to perceive your presence. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is what Job was going through. On the left hand,
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  Speaker 2: where he doth work, I cannot behold him. He hideth
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  Speaker 2: himself on the right hand. At least that's what Job
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  Speaker 2: was saying. That's what he was saying. Jesus experienced this
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  Speaker 2: on the cross when he cried out, my God, My God,
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  Speaker 2: why have thou forsaken me?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you leaving me?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Why can I not sense your presence through the darkness.
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  Speaker 2: This is what Job is describing. Hmm. I cannot see.
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  Speaker 2: But he knoweth. This is what I like, the transition
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  Speaker 2: point in verse ten. But he knoweth the way that
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  Speaker 2: I take. When he hath tried me, I shall come
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  Speaker 2: forth as gold. See, we go through trials and tribulations,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, especially as we live in these last days.
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  Speaker 2: We will go through temptations. We will be tested to
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  Speaker 2: the nth degree in preparation for the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 2: and then the earth made new. We will be tested
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  Speaker 2: so that we can hold fast to the power of God.
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  Speaker 2: But we want to come through as fine gold. My
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  Speaker 2: foot hath held his steps his way? Have I kept
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  Speaker 2: and not declined? Here? It comes? Here, it comes. How
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  Speaker 2: is it that his foot has held his steps? How
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  Speaker 2: is it that he has not declined and not gone
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  Speaker 2: away from God? How did he go through this trial?
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  Speaker 2: How did he have the abundant life? I am so
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  Speaker 2: glad you ast as we come to a swift clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips.
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  Speaker 2: I have esteemed his words. He esteemed what he esteemed
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  Speaker 2: God's words, the words of his mouth more than my
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  Speaker 2: necessary food. See, the abundant life comes through God's word,
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  Speaker 2: even more than sustenance comes through the food that we eat.
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  Speaker 2: Make a day.
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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,