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08 27 2024 Who Said You Could Do That · 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 Tuesday, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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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 through the Book of Mark, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is who said you could do that?
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  Speaker 2: Who said you could do that? We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you. You are all over the world. I'm thankful,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thankful, I'm thankful. I want you to go to
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  Speaker 2: Pick up the your Daily Portion book and let us
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  Speaker 2: know where in the world you are. You are on
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  Speaker 2: two hundred radio stations, You're on thirty different online platforms.
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  Speaker 2: You are on television just one station, but on radio
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  Speaker 2: and so many other platforms. And I'm thankful, like this
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  Speaker 2: age is the best time that I can think of
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  Speaker 2: in Earth's history. That's just me saying that we're so
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  Speaker 2: close to the coming of the Lord, and technology has
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  Speaker 2: gotten to a place where there is no way that
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  Speaker 2: we can't spread the gospel. Like we have to be
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  Speaker 2: able to spread the gospel. It doesn't matter what obstacles
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  Speaker 2: are in front of us. There is a way to
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  Speaker 2: get the gospel to every person on planet Earth. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you think I'm exaggerating, I don't know, but I'm just
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  Speaker 2: saying this is the time. This is the time that
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  Speaker 2: God has has put his supernatural blessing on everything that
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  Speaker 2: we have so that we can hasten the coming of
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  Speaker 2: our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And to that end,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for having the authority and power to transform our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to cooperate with you and not enter into
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  Speaker 2: these silly controversies that your people went into when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was here. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: And so we are continuing a long discussion from the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Mark chapter eleven still, and we may drip
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  Speaker 2: into chapter twelve as well, but let's begin with verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven verse twenty seven of Mark chapter eleven. Who
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  Speaker 2: said you can do that? Well? The Bible continues here
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  Speaker 2: and they come again to Jerusalem. So we're watching, we're
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  Speaker 2: having days with Jesus and seeing what he's going through
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  Speaker 2: to save his people from our sins. And they come
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  Speaker 2: again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple,
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  Speaker 2: there came to him the chief priests. Oh boy, here
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  Speaker 2: we go, and the scribes and the elders. Now this
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  Speaker 2: could be good, like they could be saying, Jesus, what
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  Speaker 2: can we do? What can we do? Like? How would
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  Speaker 2: you want us to serve you? There are some people
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  Speaker 2: way over in the other part of the world that
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  Speaker 2: we want to reach. We we heard that they needed you,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't know how to reach them. Can you
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  Speaker 2: show us how and then we'll do whatever? You say?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, that's not that's not what happened. And they
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  Speaker 2: said verse twenty eight. Unfortunately, uh, they said, unto him,
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  Speaker 2: by what authority doest thou these things? What things you
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  Speaker 2: mean call his his father's house a house of prayer
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  Speaker 2: for all people? What things come into Jerusalem triumphally as
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  Speaker 2: a fulfillment of the prophecies that said he would he
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  Speaker 2: would come into the place hah and and ascend the
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  Speaker 2: throne of King David, his father. Like, what do you saying?
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  Speaker 2: What are you saying here healing people of all of
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  Speaker 2: the diseases, forgiving people of sins? By what authority doest
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  Speaker 2: thou these things? I'm so glad that Jesus is not me.
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  Speaker 2: I realize how much I need to repent. I need,
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  Speaker 2: I need Jesus because I have I have some kind
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  Speaker 2: of I got feelings over this one talking about who
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  Speaker 2: Who's Who's authority? Like, by what authority doest thou these things? Well?
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  Speaker 2: And who gave THEE this authority to do these things? Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Not like me, not like you? Unlike you, Jesus answered
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  Speaker 2: and said, unto them, Well, let me ask you one
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  Speaker 2: question and answer me, and then I'll tell you by
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  Speaker 2: what authority I do these things. The Baptism of John
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  Speaker 2: was it from heaven or of men? Now answer me.
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  Speaker 2: You see, Jesus knew the heart of the people that
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  Speaker 2: were coming to him with this foolishness. And they reasoned
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  Speaker 2: with themselves, saying, well, if we, if we say from heaven,
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  Speaker 2: then he will say, why then did you not believe him? See,
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  Speaker 2: they knew that they knew they didn't believe him. They
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  Speaker 2: knew that they didn't believe the forerunner that was also
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  Speaker 2: the forerunner of Jesus, that was also prophesied of the
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  Speaker 2: Elijah who was to come, that was to prepare the
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  Speaker 2: way of the Lord, to make the path straight, to
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  Speaker 2: call the people to repentance. They knew that they rejected him.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're reasoning within themselves saying, well, if we
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  Speaker 2: if we, if we say then from heaven, and then
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  Speaker 2: then he will say, well, why then did you not
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  Speaker 2: believe him? But if we say of men, then then
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  Speaker 2: they feared the people. Come on, man, y'all bolzy enough
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  Speaker 2: to talk to Jesus this way, the king of the universe,
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  Speaker 2: the one who created you, the one who could call
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  Speaker 2: right now twelve legions of angels now and completely destroyed
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  Speaker 2: the entire planet. Right now, you feel proud enough and
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  Speaker 2: powerful enough to speak to Jesus, slick out of your mouth,
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  Speaker 2: but you fear the people. Come on, and what is
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  Speaker 2: wrong here? The devil had these guys' minds crazy, and
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  Speaker 2: really it was wilful ignorance that put them in this position.
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  Speaker 2: But they said, well, well, yeah, we should probably if
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  Speaker 2: we say of men, then they feared the people, for
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  Speaker 2: all men counted John that he was a prophet. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: and they answered and said, unto Jesus, we cannot tell.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus, answering, said, unto them. See, he knew they
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  Speaker 2: would be stubborn. He knew that they would harden their hearts.
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  Speaker 2: He knew that they would not humble themselves and just
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth and even just ask God to forgive
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  Speaker 2: them in that moment and begin to live as royal
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  Speaker 2: children of the Living God, blessed be his name. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus said, neither do I tell you by what
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  Speaker 2: authority I do these things? Can I just say that
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  Speaker 2: there are times that we talk to God. We may
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  Speaker 2: not talk to God in the same voice that these
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  Speaker 2: men did, but we still are not humble. Some humans
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  Speaker 2: are not humble. And when we talk to God, we're
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  Speaker 2: asking him for answers, and Jesus is not answering, and
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  Speaker 2: we're wondering why is he not answering. It's because we've
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  Speaker 2: not humbled ourselves. Ask King Saul, the late King Saul,
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  Speaker 2: who didn't get answers from God, And so he went
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  Speaker 2: to a whim, He went to the devil, He went
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  Speaker 2: to the wizards that peeped and muttered. He went to
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  Speaker 2: those who were not according to the law, who were
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  Speaker 2: not according to the testimony, who did not speak according
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  Speaker 2: to God's word. There was no truth in the witch
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  Speaker 2: at Endoor. And King Saul the one God anointed and
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  Speaker 2: made him a different man in an instant in time,
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  Speaker 2: to the point that the people said, is not this
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  Speaker 2: King Saul? We know where he came from? Is he
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  Speaker 2: now from among the prophets? His life changed in a
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  Speaker 2: good way in a moment, And now he no longer
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  Speaker 2: has the Holy Ghost because he wouldn't humble himself. And
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  Speaker 2: so now because he would not humble himself because of
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  Speaker 2: his iniquities, he was separated from God. Is that which
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  Speaker 2: you're in now you're wondering why your prayers are not
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  Speaker 2: being answered and not saying that this is your situation.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know you like that. What I am asking you, though,
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  Speaker 2: is are you humbling yourself before God so that when
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  Speaker 2: you do talk to him it is as a friend.
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  Speaker 2: Prayers is opening the heart of ourselves. We're opening up
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  Speaker 2: our hearts to God and speaking to him as a friend.
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  Speaker 2: Are you are you humbling yourself before God so that
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  Speaker 2: when He hears your prayer he will incline his ear
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  Speaker 2: to you and grant you his peace. This is an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for all of us to tell the truth, to
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth. And so now we go into chapter
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  Speaker 2: twelve for just a moment, just a moment here, and really,
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  Speaker 2: actually I can't get too deeply into that because I'm
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  Speaker 2: not able to make a lot of sense of it,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't want to rush through it. But the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line here is the bottom line here is that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus gave the message to the people when you read
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  Speaker 2: into chapter twelve, that God has been sending messages of hope.
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  Speaker 2: He has been sending messages of repentance, been sending opportunities
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  Speaker 2: through the prophets, through his servants, his messengers. He's been
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  Speaker 2: sending messages to people who have hardened their hearts against
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  Speaker 2: God so many times. And you know what, people still refused,
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  Speaker 2: and so God did one better. He said, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm going to send Jesus. I'm going to send
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  Speaker 2: the one who is exactly like me, the one who
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  Speaker 2: represents me one hundred percent in every kind of way.
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  Speaker 2: And the people still rejected him. They even rejected Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: who was the epitome of who God is. Lord help us,
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  Speaker 2: Lord help us. Yeah. The authority that God has he
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  Speaker 2: can transform our lives, but we need to be humble
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  Speaker 2: and willing.
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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,