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10 23 2024 Philip and Nathanael · 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: 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 Wednesday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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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 themes in the Gospel of John. Our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Philip and Nathaniel. Philip and Nathaniel.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the testimony
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  Speaker 2: of Philip and Nathaniel. Please help us to come and
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  Speaker 2: see and experience you and be transformed by you, transformed
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  Speaker 2: in our minds, transformed in our lives in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and a man again Philip and Nathaniel. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So this is an invitation. It's an invitation for every
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  Speaker 2: single one of us to come and see. Come and
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  Speaker 2: see what Come and see what great things the Lord
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  Speaker 2: can do through Christ. Come and see what Jesus has
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  Speaker 2: done in other people's lives to transform them in every way.
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  Speaker 2: Come and see how God can make a hopeless sinner
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  Speaker 2: in a new creation kind of style into a hopeful saint.
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  Speaker 2: Come and see. And that was the experience that Philip
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  Speaker 2: was welcoming Nathaniel into. Okay, and so we read now
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible, Book of John, chapter one, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse forty three. The day following, Jesus would go forth
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  Speaker 2: into Galilee and finde Philip and seth unto him. Follow me.
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  Speaker 2: Now Philip was of Bethseda, the city of Andrew and Peter.
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  Speaker 2: Philip findeth Nathaniel and said, unto him, we have found him.
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  Speaker 2: That means that they were looking for him. Can I
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  Speaker 2: say that again we have found him? This is what
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  Speaker 2: Philip is saying. That means they were looking for him. Well,
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  Speaker 2: who were they looking for?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Who did they find? It says of whom Moses in
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  Speaker 2: the Law and the Prophets did right. So these are
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  Speaker 2: men of God. These are people of God who are
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  Speaker 2: reading in the scriptures, in the prophecies, and are expecting
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  Speaker 2: Messiah to come. And when I say to come, I
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  Speaker 2: don't mean just to be born. I am saying that
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  Speaker 2: at a particular time in Earth's history, the prophets Daniel
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  Speaker 2: in particular, identified specifically when and where Jesus would show up.
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  Speaker 2: Especially at this time, we now are able to see
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  Speaker 2: the one of whom Moses and the Law and the
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  Speaker 2: Prophets did right, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph
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  Speaker 2: and Nathaniel said unto him, m did you say like Nazareth?
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  Speaker 2: Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? And so,
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  Speaker 2: rather than starting an argument, rather than becoming an apologist,
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  Speaker 2: rather than becoming a theologian, he said, come and see
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  Speaker 2: you See. Philip was so convinced by the by the
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  Speaker 2: by the man Jesus Christ, no ordinary man. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the God Man, the one who is Emmanuel, that
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  Speaker 2: being interpreted God with us. He was so convinced by
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  Speaker 2: the experience of God through Jesus Christ that all he
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  Speaker 2: needed to say was come and see you see in
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  Speaker 2: your life? Is it that when people see you they
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  Speaker 2: see the power of God at work? Is it that
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  Speaker 2: they only need to see the testimony of your life
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  Speaker 2: to be drawn to Christ? Jesus said, if I be
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  Speaker 2: lifted up, if I be elevated in your life, if
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  Speaker 2: I be he lifted up, then I will draw all
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  Speaker 2: people to myself. You see, he said, let your light
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  Speaker 2: so shine before people, so that when they see your
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  Speaker 2: good works, they will glorify our Father, which is a
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  Speaker 2: part of me in heaven. And so when Philip says,
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  Speaker 2: come and see, he meant that it is a foregone
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  Speaker 2: conclusion that as soon as you see and experience Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the presence of God on earth, then you will see
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  Speaker 2: exactly what I have been saying. If there's anything good
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  Speaker 2: that can come out of Nazareth, well it's not about
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  Speaker 2: coming out of Nazareth. It's not about coming out of Nazareth.
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  Speaker 2: He was He was sent from God, our Father, from heaven.
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  Speaker 2: For God so loved the world that he gave his
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  Speaker 2: only begotten son, so that so whosoever believes in him
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  Speaker 2: would not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't send
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  Speaker 2: his son in the world to condemn the world. So
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  Speaker 2: Jesus wasn't sent from Nazareth. He wasn't sent from Bethlehem Ephratah,
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  Speaker 2: even though in his humanity that was where we see
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  Speaker 2: him coming from. He was sent from God out of
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  Speaker 2: heaven in the fullness of time. In the fullness of time,
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  Speaker 2: God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made
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  Speaker 2: under the law, in order to transform those who are
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  Speaker 2: under the law, so we could be adopted into his family.
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  Speaker 2: See this is what the scripture said, Come and see Nathaniel.
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  Speaker 2: Come and see. The Bible continues here in verse forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saw Nathaniel. So Nathaniel's like, Okay, well I'll take
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  Speaker 2: you up on that offer. I'm going to come and see.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him. You see, as Philip
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  Speaker 2: is inviting Nathaniel into the presence of God. When people
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  Speaker 2: see you, is it that you're an invitation to the
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  Speaker 2: presence of God? Huh when Nathaniel Jesus saw Nathaniel coming
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  Speaker 2: toward him. Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and exclaimed
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  Speaker 2: he didn't just say, he just didn't identify in his mind.
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  Speaker 2: He exclaimed, look, a true Israelite, m this is a
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  Speaker 2: good thing, an exceptional thing in whom there is no deceit.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said when he saw Nathaniel. Now understand, when Jesus sees,
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  Speaker 2: he actually sees, he knows the heart of people. Remember
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  Speaker 2: many times in the stories that Jesus would encounter humans,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible would say, when he knew their thoughts, he
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  Speaker 2: would say, when he knew their thoughts, he would do,
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  Speaker 2: when he knew their thoughts, he would write on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says here that when he saw and knew Nathaniel,
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  Speaker 2: he knew his character. He knew that he had the
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  Speaker 2: circumcision of the heart to love the Lord is God.
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  Speaker 2: He knew that he wasn't just in name one of
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  Speaker 2: God's people, but in his actual spirit, the mindset that
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  Speaker 2: he had, the lifestyle that he had was like Christ. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: a true Israelite, indeed in whom there is no guile
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  Speaker 2: or deceit. Now Nathaniel asked him, well, how do you
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  Speaker 2: know me, Jesus replied, oh, before Philip called you remember
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  Speaker 2: that a moment ago when you were having the discussion
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  Speaker 2: and you were like, well, can any good thing come
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  Speaker 2: out of Nazareth? Remember that? Well, before that happened, when
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  Speaker 2: you were under the fig tree, I saw you, I
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  Speaker 2: saw you. Do you remember do you remember the story
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  Speaker 2: of Abraham, Sarah Hagar? And then of course, now Hagar
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  Speaker 2: is sent out of the household. It's a long story.
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  Speaker 2: She has a child for Abraham, and Sarah and Hagar
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  Speaker 2: are not, you know, doing well in terms of relationship,
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  Speaker 2: and she's sent out of the presence now right, And
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  Speaker 2: now Hagar is there and she's bemoaning the fact that
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  Speaker 2: she's now kicked out of the house like she has
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  Speaker 2: every right to be there with Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, long story short, Now the messenger of the Lord
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  Speaker 2: comes to Hagar, and the Bible says that he saw her.
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  Speaker 2: God saw her and then blessed Ishmael. God saw her
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  Speaker 2: the plight that she had experienced, and he and he
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  Speaker 2: blessed her son. And now now, the Bible says, Nathaniel
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  Speaker 2: answered and said, Rabbi, you are the son of God.
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  Speaker 2: You are the King of Israel. Yeah. The Bible teaches
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  Speaker 2: us that he Nathaniel, would see even more and be
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  Speaker 2: transformed along with the rest of the people of God. Peace.
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