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10 13 2024 In the Beginning—The Divine Logos · 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 Sunday, October thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 in the beginning the Divine lug Us.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning the Divine lug Us. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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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 in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for the opportunity to experience the word the lugos.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us an opportunity to live. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to take you up on that opportunity. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. In the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: the divine lug us. Okay, I don't want you to
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  Speaker 2: see logos logo like what you have as an insignia
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  Speaker 2: for your brand. What I need you to see is
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  Speaker 2: lug us and that means word. Okay. So from before
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  Speaker 2: there was a beginning, I need you to get this.
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  Speaker 2: From before there was a beginning, there was God. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll get into that in just a moment. So God,
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  Speaker 2: as I am saying from the other day, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: use as a family name. And this is not literal.
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  Speaker 2: I just need a way to not confuse people's minds. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So there is Father, God, Father, God, God the Son,
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  Speaker 2: and then God the Holy Spirit. Okay, Father, God, God
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  Speaker 2: the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All of them
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  Speaker 2: equally are divine or God God.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just leave that there for now, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to read now from the Book of John chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads, in the
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  Speaker 2: beginning was the word, okay, And that actually means from
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  Speaker 2: before there was a beginning, the word was there, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning was the Word, and the word was
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  Speaker 2: with God, and the word was God. So this basically
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  Speaker 2: means from before there was a beginning, the word was there,
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  Speaker 2: That is Jesus Christ. So Jesus and the Word are synonymous.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, from before there was a beginning, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was there, and Jesus was with God the Father, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was divine. So from before there was a beginning,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus accompanying his father, God the Father as we call him,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus were there from eternity past. But Jesus is now.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the manifestation of God. So we can understand
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  Speaker 2: enough of God to be saved by God. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time. This is really really wonderful. The
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  Speaker 2: same was in the beginning with God. All things were
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  Speaker 2: made by Him, made by whom the word Jesus. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and without him was not anything made that was made
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  Speaker 2: without whom Jesus. I need you to get this in
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  Speaker 2: your mind. In him was life, in whom was life Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And the life was the light of men. And the
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  Speaker 2: light shineth in darkness? What is the light? Who is
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  Speaker 2: the light? Jesus is the light. So Jesus is the word.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the light. Jesus is the Life. And the
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  Speaker 2: light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness the Bible
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  Speaker 2: in the King, James says, comprehended it not that means
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  Speaker 2: could not hold it back, could not hold or overcome
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  Speaker 2: the light. Who is Christ, who is the Word of God.
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  Speaker 2: There is so much here that we could have theological
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  Speaker 2: debate and discussions about. But that is not my purpose today,
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  Speaker 2: and it shouldn't be our purpose, even though there is
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  Speaker 2: so much truth there that we could discuss intellectually. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read now. I'm going to read now from
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  Speaker 2: the Home and Illustrated Bible Dictionary, on the term lug us.
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  Speaker 2: That's word, the word lugous. John opposed Greek philosophy by
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  Speaker 2: arguing that salvation comes not by humankind's escape from this world,
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  Speaker 2: but by God entering and redeeming creation. Remember, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that Emmanuel means God with us, So this is
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  Speaker 2: really good. These guys got it right. More probably, lugous
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  Speaker 2: was chosen because of its meaning in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 2: It's Greek translation and contemporary Hebrew literature, where the concepts
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  Speaker 2: of wisdom and word were being spoken of as a
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  Speaker 2: distinct manifestation of God. John saw that the same agent
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  Speaker 2: of God who gave life in the first creation was
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  Speaker 2: also giving life in the new creation inaugurated by Jesus's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say that a little bit simpler, The same
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  Speaker 2: one who created us I'm talking about Jesus Christ hah.
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  Speaker 2: John saw that the same one who created us is
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  Speaker 2: the same one who recreates us. The same one who
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  Speaker 2: breathed into Adam and Adam's nostrils the breath of life
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  Speaker 2: is the one who saves you brothers, you sister from
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  Speaker 2: your sins. Those difficulties that you've had about gossiping. You
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  Speaker 2: couldn't overcome gossiping until you were introduced to lugos the
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  Speaker 2: word Jesus Christ. This is what he is saying. He
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  Speaker 2: is saying, the same one who created and formed you
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  Speaker 2: is the one who recreates you, who delivers you from gossip,
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  Speaker 2: who delivers you from self harm, the one who delivers
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  Speaker 2: you from terrible relationship choices. The same one who gives
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  Speaker 2: you wisdom, the same one who empowers you to go
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  Speaker 2: and sin no more. He is the one who also
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  Speaker 2: created you. John saw this, Okay, continuing the quote, the
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  Speaker 2: creative Word of God became flesh. This is so sweet
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  Speaker 2: because now we're talking about our creator coming down into humanity.
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  Speaker 2: He is now, let's say, uh, clothed in humanity. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: reading the creative Word of God. Jesus became flesh, being divine,
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  Speaker 2: He embodied divine communication. So when God, our Father, is
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  Speaker 2: communicating to us, it is through Jesus Christ. When you
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  Speaker 2: want to know anything about God, it's through Jesus Christ. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the agent of the Holy Ghost is always present and active,
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  Speaker 2: but Jesus is the manifestation, so we can even begin
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  Speaker 2: to understand the love of God. Behold the love of
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  Speaker 2: God that he has for us. That we should be
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  Speaker 2: called the children of God. And the Bible continues in
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  Speaker 2: first John chapter three. Let me continue now, the word
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  Speaker 2: dwells among us, revealing the glory of God. Jesus avoided
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  Speaker 2: citing rabbinic authorities or using the traditional language of a
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  Speaker 2: prophet who would claim that the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 2: came to me or declared, thus set the Lord. Perhaps
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  Speaker 2: these phrases did not significantly honor his special relationationship with
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  Speaker 2: the Father and his own authority. What did that mean?
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  Speaker 2: That was very good for the intellectual people, for the
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  Speaker 2: people who love to study theology. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: You see, the prophets were bringing a message that was
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  Speaker 2: not their own. They were borrowing, they were deriving. So
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  Speaker 2: when they came as messengers to voice what God had
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  Speaker 2: for them to say, they were borrowing. But when Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: the manifestation of God, our Father himself. When Jesus spoke,
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  Speaker 2: he was speaking, yes, as a representative of the Father,
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  Speaker 2: but he was speaking through his own power and divinity
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  Speaker 2: when he spoke the word make it a great day. 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,