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11 18 2024 The Authoritative Role of Scripture · 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: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. It is Monday, November eighteen,
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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 with our
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  Speaker 2: caption the Authoritative Role of Scripture. The Authoritative Role of Scripture.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: see ourselves in relationship with you, and indeed surrender our
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  Speaker 2: will in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and a man
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  Speaker 2: again the authoritative role of scripture. Now I want to
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  Speaker 2: caution us, just really quickly. I need to throw up
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  Speaker 2: a word of caution. The goal every time we open
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  Speaker 2: God's Word, especially when we are looking at historical things,
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  Speaker 2: is to connect with God. I need to say that
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  Speaker 2: one more time. The goal is to connect with God.
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  Speaker 2: The goal is not simply to understand what the words say.
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  Speaker 2: It's not simply to be able to maybe teach a
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  Speaker 2: class or give a clinic on what Jesus said. It
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  Speaker 2: is it is so that we can actually connect with
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  Speaker 2: God and be transformed. You'll note that often I keep
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  Speaker 2: talking about being transformed by God, transformed by God, transformed.
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  Speaker 2: The metamorphosis must take place, or else what we're doing
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense for us to
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  Speaker 2: just be more into actually stimulated here. And so when
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  Speaker 2: we go into the history of what Jesus is referencing
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, we need to now put ourselves there.
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  Speaker 2: What is God saying to me? What was Jesus saying
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  Speaker 2: that will impact my life and then by extension the
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  Speaker 2: life of others through me, you see. And so now
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  Speaker 2: we go into the Bible Book of John chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: and it's very interesting. We're going to begin at verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine, so we'll do verses thirty nine, forty forty six,
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  Speaker 2: and forty seven. Okay, And so verse thirty nine search
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures, And in other translations it says you search
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. So Jesus is speaking to a set of
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  Speaker 2: people who were supposedly leaders in the fellowship of God's people. Right,
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  Speaker 2: They're supposed to be the elite of the elite and
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  Speaker 2: the ones who are shepherding people through the scriptures so
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  Speaker 2: they can connect with God. Okay, And so he said
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  Speaker 2: you search the scriptures for in them, ye think ye
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  Speaker 2: have eternal life. And I need you to just pause
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  Speaker 2: right here and hear what Jesus is saying. Hear what
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  Speaker 2: he's not saying. What he's not saying is that by
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  Speaker 2: reading the scriptures you have eternal life. That's what he's
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  Speaker 2: not saying. And I know, like we are Bible students,
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  Speaker 2: we are Bible readers, we study God's word, we are
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  Speaker 2: people of the book. This movement is of people of
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  Speaker 2: the book, you understand. And so it says here that
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  Speaker 2: ye think ye have eternal life by what searching the scriptures? See,
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  Speaker 2: they wore it on their bodies, they wore it on
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  Speaker 2: their heads, they wore it in different ways and wanted
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  Speaker 2: people to know that they knew and understood the law.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus is saying that is not the purpose of
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  Speaker 2: searching the scriptures. Well, what is the purpose, Jesus? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me start from the beginning. You search the script
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  Speaker 2: for in them, ye think ye have eternal life. Now
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  Speaker 2: let me add a different conjunction. But they are they
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  Speaker 2: which testify of me? You see. So now there's a contrast,
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  Speaker 2: it says, and and they are they which testify of me.
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  Speaker 2: So when you're searching the scriptures. You should be looking
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  Speaker 2: for Jesus. Jesus is the one that gives eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: Looking for a relationship with Jesus, looking for a way
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  Speaker 2: to surrender our will to Jesus, to emulate Jesus, to
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  Speaker 2: love and embrace Jesus, to see how Jesus points us
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  Speaker 2: to Ah God, our Father, how Jesus, through the power
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Ghost, is transforming our lives. And so
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  Speaker 2: Jesus emphasizes the importance of the scriptures, pointing out that
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  Speaker 2: not only do they hold the keys to eternal life, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but they testify of Jesus. This underscores the validation of
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  Speaker 2: scriptures as authoritative because the scriptures are pointing to Him,
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  Speaker 2: authoritative and essential for understanding God's plan of salvation through Christ.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not just intellectual. It's not just that we
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  Speaker 2: feel better when we study the scriptures. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: that we have the right answers like we do when
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  Speaker 2: we're like doing Bible studies like these and more extensive ones.
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  Speaker 2: That's not enough. What we're looking for is a connection
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  Speaker 2: with God. They are they which testify of me, even
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  Speaker 2: historically verse forty and ye will not come to me.
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  Speaker 2: See this is how I know that we're on the
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  Speaker 2: right track. And ye will not come to me that
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  Speaker 2: ye may have life. So we're saying you have in
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  Speaker 2: your mind that if you go into the Bible or
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures, the scrolls, you will have eternal life by
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  Speaker 2: your actions there, your activity, your assent to the truth.
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  Speaker 2: But you won't come to me, so you can actually
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  Speaker 2: have life. Let me say it with another accent. And
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  Speaker 2: ye will not come to me that you may have life.
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  Speaker 2: You think by going to the written text that is
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  Speaker 2: where life is. I'm telling you that the written text
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  Speaker 2: is about me, and you should be coming to me
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  Speaker 2: for the life, for the life. And so here Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is criticizing the listeners for their unwillingness, unwillingness to come
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  Speaker 2: to him to receive eternal life. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 2: a question. When you see Jesus in the scriptures, are
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  Speaker 2: you are you coming closer to him when you see
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  Speaker 2: that he is teaching corrective things where where our lives
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  Speaker 2: are concerned. Are you running to him or running away
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  Speaker 2: from him? That's the question that I have to ask myself.
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  Speaker 2: Verse forty six, For had ye believed Moses see the scriptures?
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  Speaker 2: He's talking about the scriptures. The prophetic writ the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: ye would have believed me, for he wrote about me.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote about me. So you say that you believe Moses.
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  Speaker 2: You say that you are students of the law. You
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  Speaker 2: say that you and embrace the law Torah. You say this,
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  Speaker 2: but if you really were about that life, then you
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  Speaker 2: would be embracing me. You wouldn't be trying to kill me.
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't be running around trying to trick me in
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  Speaker 2: words and cause people to walk away from me. If
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  Speaker 2: you really believed in Moses, then you would believe in me. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. If you really believe
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  Speaker 2: the New Covenant scriptures, Ah, the New Covenant Scriptures where
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  Speaker 2: he writes them, writes them, what the laws of God,
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  Speaker 2: the laws of God, the ten Commandments on our hearts
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  Speaker 2: and in our minds, Then you would espouse all of
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  Speaker 2: the ten Commandments. You wouldn't turn away from them if
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  Speaker 2: you believed Moses. If you believed those scriptures, you believed
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  Speaker 2: in the New Covenant. Let me just add it to today,
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  Speaker 2: then you would embrace the truth that Jesus has manifest
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  Speaker 2: concerning his law, love for God, love for humans, all ten,
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  Speaker 2: not five, not six, not three, not the ones you
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  Speaker 2: like all ten verse forty seven. But if ye believe
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  Speaker 2: not his writings, ye shall how shall ye believe my words?
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  Speaker 2: And so when Jesus is teaching, and he is teaching
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  Speaker 2: in so many places in Luke chapter eight, Luke chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: he is speaking of a prophecy in Isaiah chapter sixty one,
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  Speaker 2: where he delivers the captives and he gives he preaches
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  Speaker 2: the gospel to the poor, and he's sent to the
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  Speaker 2: broken hearted. You're not going to believe that from Isaiah
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  Speaker 2: chapter sixty one, because I'm right in front of you
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  Speaker 2: and you're disrespecting me. You won't believe that I'm the
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  Speaker 2: good shepherd, hearkening back to Ezekiel chapter thirty four and
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  Speaker 2: so many other places. What I'm saying is that the
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  Speaker 2: authoritative role of scripture is to say that this is
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 1: Walk in it.
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  Speaker 2: Peace.
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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,