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11 28 2023 Witnessing to the Learned-Nicodemus · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Tuesday, November twenty eight, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's
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  Mission, My mission. Our caption for today is witnessing to the learned,
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  and we're talking about Nicodemus n witnessing almost said Nicodemusing witnessing to the learned.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first i'd like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com
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  join our online community pick up the Your Daily Portion book and also let us
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  know where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  is how we build faith and fellowship. We'll go ahead and pray and then
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  get under weigh. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  day and for the privilege that we have to open up your word again.
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  Please teach us what you taught Nicodemus when Jesus lived on planet Earth. In
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  Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a men again. Well, I'm going
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  to let the trust the audio Bible from faith comes by hearing play from the
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  passage John chapter three, verses one through twelve, and then we will talk
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  about it for just a little bit. Okay, here we go. John
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  three. There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of
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  the Jews. The same came to Jesus by night and said, unto him,
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  Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God. For
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  no man can do these miracles that thou dost accept. God be with him.
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  Jesus answered and said, unto him, verily, verily, I say,
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  unto the accept a man be born again. He cannot see the Kingdom
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  of God. Nicodemus saith unto him. How can a man be born when
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  he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and
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  be born Jesus? Okay, so let me just pause right here. I
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  apologize for that weird interruption. Right. So, uh, this man is
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  really being drawn, Nicodemus is being drawn by the Holy Spirit into the presence,
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  into the presence in for God to make a transformation. How many times
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  have you seen and witnessed God doing something special, maybe unexpected, something peculiar,
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  in order to transform either you or somebody you know. Have you ever
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  experienced that? Well, in this case, now the man is supposedly a
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  leader among the fellowship of God's people, and well, Jesus is really putting
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  him in a position where he has to face himself, sort of like Adam.
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  When Adam was in the garden having sinned, gone against what God said,
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  and God came to him and said, Adam, where are you.
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  It wasn't that God didn't know where Adam was. He wanted Adam to know
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  where Adam was. And so while Nicodemus, almost like the woman at the
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  well who wanted to have a theological discussion or some kind of genealogical debate with
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  Jesus. Nicodemus really wanted to have, like by an intellectual discussion. But
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  what he encountered was something spiritual, something holy, something transformational, and let
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  me just say, something that was irresistible, and that something was the presence
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  of God. And so when Jesus is about to answer him further, we'll
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  hear what he says. Hold on right here is answered verily, verily,
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  I say unto thee. Except a man be born of water and of the
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  spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born
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  of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is
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  spirit. Okay, So that which is born of flesh is flesh. Nicodemus
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  really, Yeah, when you were born, you asked, if a man
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  can go back into his mother's womb, a woman can go back into her
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  mother's womb and be born. Now, that's not what we're talking about.
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  We're talking abou the fact that when you were born, you were born in
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  sin, shaping an iniquity. Nicodemus, Ah, when you were born,
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  David, you were born coming out from your mother's wombs, speaking lie.
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  You were lies. You were born hostile toward God, and Midti was between
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  you and God. You were not connected. David Nicodemus, Oh, feeling
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  your name right here. And so what needs to happen is I need to
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  give you a new heart. I need to give you a new birth experience.
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  I need to give you a new spirit. I need you to die
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  to the flesh and be made alive unto righteousness. Well, what does that
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  look like? That looks like when you used to be bound to anger and
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  couldn't control yourself. Being born of the spirit, being born again says now
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  you have the ability to say, wait a minute, there are real life
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  people on the other end of my anger and road rage. There are real
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  life people on the other end of my belt or whip or other device that
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  I use in order to work out my anger on others. Hah. God
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  is saying that when I don't know how I'm going to pay my bills from
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  month to month or week to week, as the case may be, and
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  I trust in myself to do something that is not right in order to get
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  that task or goal accomplished, God is saying, but have you not heard
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  from the King? David I have been young, and I have been old.
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  Never have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor seed begging bread. Have
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  you not heard that I said, invest or, to occupy until I come?
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  Did you not hear that to those I give these talents, these things
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  that I've entrusted to you, that if you will just invest them, that
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  I will multiply them to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue.
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  It is what I have been giving you and dominion from the time I
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  created humankind. And now I need you to be born again and live in
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  the fullness of this. Nicodemus fill in your name here. And so God
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  is saying that the Holy Spirit will give us the rebirth experience in the same
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  way miraculously Jesus was born of Mary miraculously. Okay, let's keep going at
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  verse six. Marvel not that I said, unto thee ye must be born
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  again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
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  But can'st not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth. So is
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  everyone that is born of the spirit. Nicodemus answered and said, unto him,
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  how can these things be Jesus answered and said, unto him, art
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  thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily? Verily,
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  I say, unto thee we speak that we do know, and testify
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  that we have seen, And ye receive not our witness. If I have
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  told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I
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  tell you of heavenly things. Okay, so, so much is happening here,
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  and I'm going to ask you a simple quiz question and you're going to
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  have an AHA moment if you've not had this one already before. Okay,
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  So, thankfully, thankfully, here we see in verse twelve, let me
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  let me read again. If I have told you earthly things and ye believe
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  not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things. So
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  Jesus is saying, I'm trying to give you what you can handle. I'm
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  giving you experiences, I'm giving you examples. I'm trying to bring you along
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  in this along this journey with me in order to elevate your mind and transform
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  your life. But if you can't understand those simple earthly matters, how can
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  you understand what it's like to be born again? So here's what I'm gonna
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  do. I'm going to do something very special. I'm gonna give you a
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  message that you you may not have heard before. Besides that you will you
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  need to be born again. So now it's a heavy lift to Nicodemus.
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  Well, how in the world can this be? And you know what happens.
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  God is speaking to who whom? Go ahead and type it in the
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  chat. I know he's like, what, you're interrupting yourself. No,
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  God is speaking to whom. Nicodemus good, very good. You know,
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  he says in verse sixteen, for God so loved the world that he gave
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  his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have
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  everlasting life. So God is giving Nicodemus one of the best messages we've ever
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  seen, and some of us missed it. He gave him the best message
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  to be transformed. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,