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11 08 2023 “Whom You Crucified” · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Wednesday, November eight, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is whom you crucified? Whom you
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  crucified. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com, join our online community, and also pick up the Your Daily
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  Portion book and let me know in that setting where you are in the world.
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  Again at your Daily Portion dot com. This is where we build faith
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  and fellowship, and I am excited to be able to continue to build with
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  you there. Okay, let's go ahead and pray and then we will get
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  underwagh. Father in heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to pray.
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  Thank you for loving us so much that you have given us your son.
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  Father. I pray that we will live as people who have full appreciation
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  for this blessed heavenly gift, and that we will live according to your principles.
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  In Jesus name, I pray Amen and amen again whom you have crucified.
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  Okay, so there are there some blessings brothers and sisters that come only
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  as a result of prayer. Missus White said that it is the will of
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  God to grant in answer to the prayer of faith that which He would not
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  bestow. Did we not thus ask? So it is God's privilege, it
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  is his honor. He sees it as a positive thing to grant answers Ah,
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  But we have to be asking. They're blessings that He gives us every
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  day, new blessings every morning. Great is his faithfulness. The sun shines
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  on the wicked and on the just right, the rain comes and the seasons
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  do change at the appropriate time, and so many blessings that we can't even
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  begin to number. But there were some things that only come when we pray
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  the prayer of faith. We have expectant faith, and therefore God, God
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  grants answers in that vein. Okay. And so from the left and directly
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  from the Lesson Acts, Chapter two records the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at
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  Pentecost. And of course, like because of the import of that particular day
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  of Pentecost, it's almost like we've we've made it seem like this is the
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  only day of Pentecost in the Bible. But even though there are others,
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  like I wish I had the time, but this day of Pentecost was pivotal,
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  almost like almost like the one back when God gave the Ten commandments.
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  Oh, I was a teaser. Maybe I'll come back to that one day,
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  okay. And so the day of Pentecost, the one that came after
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  Jesus's resurrection. As the followers of Jesus were praying, tongues of fire rested
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  upon their heads, they recognized that the promised power of the Holy Spirit had
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  been given. They had expectant faith. Remember it says the promised power of
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  the Holy Spirit. They recognize that God kept his promise, So that means
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  they were on the lookout for his promise. I think there's a promise that
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  I'm on the lookout for. I think Jesus said something through Paul. Through
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  Paul, the Holy Spirit said something like to those who look for him,
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  to them, shall he appear a second time without sin unto salvation. So
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  we're looking forward to the second coming of Jesus Christ and we want to be
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  in that number when the saints go marching in. Yes, you've heard that
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  song. Yeah, And so that is what we're talking about. Now we
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  need to look at a few action items because speaking about it theoretically does not
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  really help us. We believers are very good at transferring information, but now
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  we're looking at transformation. We need to take action. Okay, And so
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  we read from the Book of Acts, chapter one and verse eight to familiar
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  passage. But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come up
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  you and ye shall be the witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in
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  Judea and in Samaria. An unto the uttermost part of the earth, that
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  is inn Acts, chapter one in verse eight. And so the action item
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  is to continually seek empowerment from the Holy Spirit. When is the last time
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  you ask for the power of the Holy Ghost? See before I get up
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  in the morning, I said, before I get up, or as I
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  am awakening in the morning, and I get up at three am. Every
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  day I ask God, please give me the fullness of your Holy Spirit.
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  Every day I'm asking God, please give me your Holy Spirit. And I
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  leave it to God to measure that and to give me what I need,
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  because He's the one who in his own divine mind knows what is needed.
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  It is not by might, not by power, but by God's Spirit that
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  we are able to move forward in anything in the day is mission. And
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  what we must do in our own homes, our own communities, and the
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  places that we will travel throughout the days. And so we need His Holy
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  Spirit and we need to seek Him all day, every day so we can
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  effectively spread the Gospel and become witnesses for for Jesus. Right, Let's go
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  to Acts chapter two and verse thirty eight, and the Bible reads when Peter,
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  excuse me, whoops. When Peter, what did I say? Thirty
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  eight? Yeah, Then Peter said, unto them, repent and be baptized,
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  every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission
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  of sins. So we can be forgiven right and ye shall receive the gift
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  of the Holy Ghost. And so we need to repent, We need to
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  turn the shoulder, turn away from sin. God will give us if we
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  are willing to hear from Him, Yes, through the Holy Spirit, he
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  will give us the ability to have godly sorrow for sin. And as he
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  gives us that ability, and then the call comes to us. The truth
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  about God is that He's holy, just and good at all times. The
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  truth about us is that we are miserable, poor, blind, naked and
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  don't even know it. But when He gives us an awareness. According to
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  John chapter sixteen, in about verse thirty three, when he teaches us the
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  Holy Spirit has come, he teaches us all truth about Him, all truth
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  about us, and we see our need for Jesus. Then it is time
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  to turn the shoulder, turn away from our sins, turn toward God.
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  And if we've not already been baptized, it is time to be baptized.
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  Okay, So repent for our past sins, yes, and be baptized as
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  an outward expression of our commitment. M baptism in many ways as we die
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  to self and sin, and we are to be raised unto holiness, right
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  resurrected unto holiness. It is our public expression of our personal experience and commitment
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  to God. Okay. And number three, we're going to Acts chapter one
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  and verse fourteen. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with
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  the women and Mary and the Mother of Jesus and with his brethren. We've
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  read this before, and so we with fervency, we pray and seek unity
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  with fellow believers. One of the death knells that come into the midst of
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  the people of God is disunity. We argue about all kinds of stuff.
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  I was in a church the other day and I can't even say what I'm
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  about to say because it'll start another argument. But the preacher got up and
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  talked and talked and talked and talked and talked about some controversial thing that he
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  conjured up from over a year ago, and did not open the Word of
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  God one time. And I'm thinking, but Sir, you have the privilege
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  to invest in people who may be hopeless, or those who are hopeful but
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  just need a little bit more faith, who need a little bit more encouragement,
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  and for fifty minutes you burn the time arguing that just sold sowed seeds
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  of discord rather than unity. I hope you have a wonderful day peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,