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12 05 2024 The Scriptures and The Truth · 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: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Thursday, December five,
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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, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Scriptures and the Truth, The
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  Speaker 2: Scriptures and the True. I'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new Thursday. Thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for us to build and grow and to live
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  Speaker 2: according to your principles. Help us to espouse, hold on,
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  Speaker 2: to embrace the truth. Let the truth live in our lives. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: help us to revere you through your word. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. The scriptures and the truth,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my, oh my, yes. So we're going to the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of John, the Bible Book of John, chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verses thirty eight through forty. We
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  Speaker 2: have read this before, but let's now focus especially here,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads and ye have not His word
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  Speaker 2: abiding in you. So God is not talking to you
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  Speaker 2: at least I hope he's not. I hope he's not.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus was having an encounter with his detractors. There
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  Speaker 2: were people who were constantly questioning his origins. Well, just
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  Speaker 2: like the devil did when Jesus was in the wilderness
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  Speaker 2: being tempted of Satan. The Bible says that the devil
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  Speaker 2: would say, you know, if thou'll be the son of God,
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  Speaker 2: then fill in the blank. I need you to behave
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  Speaker 2: and do this thing. If you're the son of God,
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  Speaker 2: then do what I say. And so this is what
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  Speaker 2: is happening here. So his detractors, these are supposedly the
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  Speaker 2: leaders of God's people. Can you imagine the leaders of
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  Speaker 2: God's people or the supposed leaders of God's people are
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  Speaker 2: really detractors and not followers of Christ? How can that be?
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  Speaker 2: And so, really, if I am a leader among God's people,
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  Speaker 2: I need to be asking myself and answering. Am I
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  Speaker 2: a person who really embraces Christ as who he said
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  Speaker 2: he is? Am I embracing a relationship with him? Does
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  Speaker 2: my lifestyle is that a manifestation of that relationship with him?
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  Speaker 2: Or am I just giving lip service? So the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible continues, Jesus is having this discussion, and ye
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  Speaker 2: have not his word abiding in you for whom he
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  Speaker 2: has sent him. Ye believe not so Jesus is saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we know that the word the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: are not abiding in your life is because you're rejecting me.
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  Speaker 2: So there are people who claim to be Christians. I said, Christians.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be very specific Christians who minimize and
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  Speaker 2: diminish who Jesus is. Some of you, I hope nobody
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  Speaker 2: who's listening or watching. But if that is the case,
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  Speaker 2: then today is the day that you learn how to
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  Speaker 2: worship Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Some people do not worship Christ, even though they name
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  Speaker 2: themselves after Christ by saying they're Christians. They don't believe
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus actually existed through eternity past. They don't believe
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  Speaker 2: that he is actually one with the Father. They don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that his power is unborrowed underived. They don't believe
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ has all authority in his hands and
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't because it was given to him that given
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  Speaker 2: to him. Concept is based on the plan of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: The context is Jesus taking on human flesh. But apart
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  Speaker 2: from that, Jesus is life, unborrowed underrived, equal to our father, God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father, equal to God, our Father. I need you
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  Speaker 2: to hear this and so when he gave his life
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  Speaker 2: for us so that we could be saved, he allowed
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  Speaker 2: his humanity that adopted humanity, He allowed that to rest
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  Speaker 2: in the tomb. Because God can't die. Like his godness,
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  Speaker 2: his divinity cannot go to sleep. He never slumbers, He
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  Speaker 2: never sleeps. He that keepeth Israel does not slumber, nor
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  Speaker 2: can he sleep. And so Jesus is wow. He did
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  Speaker 2: a lot by giving himself to this plan of salvation,
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  Speaker 2: being obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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  Speaker 2: These men did not believe any of what I just
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  Speaker 2: said to you. They didn't believe any of it. Verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine. Search the scriptures, for in them, ye think
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  Speaker 2: ye have eternal life. So if I were to read
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  Speaker 2: it more directly, it would say something like, you search
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. This is what you do. I know that
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  Speaker 2: that's what you do. So you search the scriptures, because
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  Speaker 2: you think by searching the scriptures, by knowing intellectually the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: by being able to quote them, by wearing them on
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  Speaker 2: your body, you feel like that is eternal life. But
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  Speaker 2: let me just tell you, this is Jesus still speaking.
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  Speaker 2: But there are they that testify of me. So all
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  Speaker 2: of that activity of searching scripture, all of that putting
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  Speaker 2: scriptures on your body, all of that being able to
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  Speaker 2: expound scriptures, all of that being on your daily portion,
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  Speaker 2: every single day for thousands of consecutive days. Dave, if
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  Speaker 2: you are not embracing and living according to the principles
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, actually leaving what he said about himself,
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  Speaker 2: what the prophets spoke about him, then well, let me
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  Speaker 2: see what it says here in verse forty, and ye
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  Speaker 2: will not come to me that ye may have life.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so I don't have life if I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures about the truth, which is Christ. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have life if I minimize Jesus. M hmm. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: And so today is a day of reckoning for some people,
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  Speaker 2: because the Bible teaches us very clearly who Jesus is.
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  Speaker 2: He created you, brothers and sisters. He is light, he
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  Speaker 2: is life. He has come so that we may have
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  Speaker 2: life and have it more abundantly, to transform our lives
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  Speaker 2: from hopeless sinners to hopeful saints. Transform our lives so
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  Speaker 2: that I don't have to be unkind or live according
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  Speaker 2: to road rage, or to steal from God's treasury. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to betray Christ for a couple of pennies.
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  Speaker 2: When I do business, I don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 2: abusing our espouses. Ladies, you don't have to abuse your husbands. Husbands,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to abuse your wife. Why because you
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  Speaker 2: embrace the scriptures, and the scriptures testify of Jesus, and
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  Speaker 2: you therefore are embracing Jesus as the one he said
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  Speaker 2: he is, so he can save you from your sins,
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  Speaker 2: and he can make you one with him. He can
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  Speaker 2: give you the mindset of Christ. Paul said, let this
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  Speaker 2: mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And then he gave some aspects of the character of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus that we could have in our lifestyles. Beginning at
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  Speaker 2: this moment, I'm walking slowly because I need somebody to
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  Speaker 2: get this this morning. Hmm. Okay, and so now I
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  Speaker 2: am moving to a few clear benefits. A few benefits.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, having Jesus being the truth in our lifestyles.
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  Speaker 2: It strengthens our decision making process.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: It helps me to make the right decisions in life.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time, but let me keep going.
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  Speaker 2: It enhances, it enhances my life's purpose, like it helps
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  Speaker 2: me to know why I am here. When Jesus creates me,
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  Speaker 2: he puts in my bosom a desire for him. And
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  Speaker 2: if I entertain that by the Holy Ghost, and I
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  Speaker 2: am transformed by him, and then I begin to understand
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  Speaker 2: my purpose. I am transformed by the renewing of my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know what my place is on planet Earth
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  Speaker 2: and how to glorify Him. Make it a great day.
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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,