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11 09 2024 Blessed Are Those Who Believe · 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 Sabbath, November nine,
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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 Lesson number seven themes in the Gospel of John.
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  Speaker 2: Our caption for today is Blessed are those who believe?
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  Speaker 2: Bless yis it are those? Or blessed are those who believe.
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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: Please join our online community. Also let us know where
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  Speaker 2: you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me just say one of the reasons why we
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  Speaker 2: continue to talk about letting us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world is because the sign that people missed,
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  Speaker 2: like the sign of the end that people miss is
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  Speaker 2: that this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached into
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  Speaker 2: all the world for a witness, and then and only
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  Speaker 2: then shall the end come. So we want to see
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  Speaker 2: how far and why the gospel, at least through this
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  Speaker 2: program is being spread, so that we can be hopeful
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  Speaker 2: and grateful. So go ahead and let us know where
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  Speaker 2: you are. 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. Bather in Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day and for this
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath opportunity to experience you on a new level. Teach
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  Speaker 2: us to trust you in all things. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray a man and a man again. Blessed are
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  Speaker 2: those who believe. Bless blessed. This means to be highly favored.
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  Speaker 2: You're highly favored if you believe. Now the big question,
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  Speaker 2: the overarching question, is believe in what believe in whom
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  Speaker 2: you see? And so the question is it really just
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  Speaker 2: that we need to identify in air quotes Christ as
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  Speaker 2: who he is? Is it really just that we need
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  Speaker 2: to be able to identify Christ as who he said
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  Speaker 2: he is? You know, the Bible says that the devils
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  Speaker 2: believe and tremble, So sometimes people rest on our laurels.
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  Speaker 2: We accept the status quo, We stop growing because we say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we believe like we have an assent to truth. We
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  Speaker 2: believe that Jesus is who he said he is. We
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  Speaker 2: believe that we can be forgiven. We believe that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is coming back one day, coming back very soon. We
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  Speaker 2: believe that he's holy. But some of our belief systems
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  Speaker 2: do not lead us to holy action. I want to
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  Speaker 2: sit down right here before we jump into the lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Our belief needs to be needs to transcend just being
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  Speaker 2: in our brains and get into our activity. How do
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  Speaker 2: I treat people when people are disrespectful and or mean
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  Speaker 2: to me? Am I kind hearted? How do I treat God?
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  Speaker 2: You see? So my belief cannot just be intellectual. My
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  Speaker 2: belief can be just emotional. When when you hear things
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  Speaker 2: like this, watch this watch this when you hear things
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  Speaker 2: like this, right, my belief has to transcend the excitement
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  Speaker 2: of a praise break like hear what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 2: My belief must not be just intellectual. My belief must
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  Speaker 2: not just be emotional. My belief must be transformational where
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  Speaker 2: God actually lives in my life. And then the way
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus lived on planet Earth. We will see that
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  Speaker 2: manifest in our actions. Okay, So what is the difference
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  Speaker 2: between merely knowing about Jesus and actually believing in him?
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  Speaker 2: And of course our discussion comes from John chapter twenty
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  Speaker 2: beginning and verse twenty nine not beginning. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: just sit there at verse twenty nine, and the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads Jesus said, unto him Thomas, because you have seen me,
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  Speaker 2: you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen
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  Speaker 2: and yet have still believed. Okay, and so we're going
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  Speaker 2: to answer the question through the rest of our discussion today.
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  Speaker 2: What is the difference between merely knowing about Jesus, merely
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  Speaker 2: getting excited about Jesus, and actually believing in Jesus. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So we begin now in Second Corinthians chapter five. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you are taking notes or you're prepared to rewind
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  Speaker 2: and come back again. In Second Corinthians, chapter five and
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  Speaker 2: verse seventeen, we see the transformation of our lives, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, right
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  Speaker 2: you say you believe. Dave, you say you believe. Filling
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  Speaker 2: the blank here with your name, you say you believe. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: if anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creature.
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  Speaker 2: All things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
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  Speaker 2: So your patience is increased now because you are a
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  Speaker 2: new creature. Ah, you don't gossip anymore. You choose to
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  Speaker 2: believe the best about people. And if they show you
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  Speaker 2: based on their fruit. The Bible says, by their fruit,
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  Speaker 2: ye shall know them. You commit them. You commend them
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  Speaker 2: into the hands of God. You don't act as their
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  Speaker 2: judge and jury. You follow me. So new creatures actually
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  Speaker 2: know how to love God. New creatures surrender to God.
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  Speaker 2: Even in the cases where we find ourselves wanting to
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  Speaker 2: do something opposite of what God has said in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: It is a manifestation of a transformed life. If we
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  Speaker 2: say just like Jesus did and live it. Nevertheless, not
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  Speaker 2: as I will, but as thou wilt even in the
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  Speaker 2: most difficult trials. Okay. So transformed life. True belief in
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  Speaker 2: Christ leads to transformation where old sinful behaviors are replaced
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmed by ah, moved over to godly ones. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so now we move to the Bible Book of Galatians
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  Speaker 2: Galatians chapter five. Beginning at verse twenty two. Galatians Chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, but the fruit of the spirit is Joe,
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  Speaker 2: is love, joy, peace, patience. Uh oh, kindness, Oh wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute now, goodness, Wait a minute, faithfulness, gentleness? Are
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  Speaker 2: you gentle, brothers and sisters? Are you gentle when people
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  Speaker 2: are being rough toward you, when they're saying all manner
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  Speaker 2: of evil things against you falsely for Christ's sake? Ah says,
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  Speaker 2: It says gentleness and self control. When your emotions seem
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  Speaker 2: to be getting the better of you, do you go
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  Speaker 2: to the refrigd raider? Do you go into your vehicle
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  Speaker 2: and hit the drive through drive through one of those
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  Speaker 2: fast food restaurants with fat and blood and sugar and
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of excessive salt and chemicals to make yourself
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  Speaker 2: feel better? Oh? Wait a minute. Now says that the
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  Speaker 2: fruit of the spirit is love. Do you love God
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  Speaker 2: more than anything? Joy? Do you have joy and peace
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  Speaker 2: when the trials come? Patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and
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  Speaker 2: self control? Against such there is no law. Do I
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  Speaker 2: believe God? Now, let's see. And of course number three
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  Speaker 2: obedience to God's commands. The Bible says very clearly Jesus
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  Speaker 2: speaking in John chapter fourteen and verse fifteen, if you
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  Speaker 2: love me, you will obey my commandments. This is a
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  Speaker 2: manifestation of this, and it's not what I think people
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  Speaker 2: are thinking when we hear this, that we prove to
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  Speaker 2: God that we love him by keeping his commandments. It
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  Speaker 2: is not that we are trying to prove to people
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  Speaker 2: that we love God by quote keeping his commandments. No,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is saying. The way that people will know that
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  Speaker 2: you are my disciples is if when you love me,
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  Speaker 2: based on my love for you, now you're able to
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  Speaker 2: do my will. You see, ungodly people who don't love
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  Speaker 2: God can't do God's will full stop. That's the end
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  Speaker 2: of the discussion. So a manifestation of our love for
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  Speaker 2: God is that when we love him, he empowers us
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  Speaker 2: to actually do his will. I love it. The ten
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  Speaker 2: Commandments long so yeah. Blessed are those who believe.
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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,