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11 07 2024 The Witness of the Crowd · 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: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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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 Thursday, November seven,
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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 the Witness of the Crowd. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about John the Baptist yesterday, and today it's the
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  Speaker 2: Witness of the Crowd. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day and
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  Speaker 2: the privilege that you have entrusted to us to experience
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  Speaker 2: you and then be a witness for you. I pray
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  Speaker 2: that you will give us a true witness and testimony
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  Speaker 2: that will help to transform somebody's life today. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. The witness of the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: If you have been following United States politics, I don't
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  Speaker 2: follow follow it, but I do see it on occasion,
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  Speaker 2: and I realized that there's often a discussion about how
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  Speaker 2: many people are in a crowd, like what is the
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  Speaker 2: crowd size? And in the context of what we are
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  Speaker 2: saying today, we want to talk about the crowd impact,
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  Speaker 2: the impact on the crowd. So if we have somebody assembled,
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  Speaker 2: we have people assembled, not somebody. We have people assembled
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  Speaker 2: in one place to hear and experience something. What is
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  Speaker 2: the impact? Is it inspiration? Is it information? Is it motivation?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it what I have as a favorite transformation?
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  Speaker 2: You see. So when the crowds are all talking about
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  Speaker 2: one thing, what are they saying about the one thing? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so in the case of Jesus Christ, when whenever
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  Speaker 2: he was somewhere in a crowd and he was addressing
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  Speaker 2: the people or healing people right where there would be
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  Speaker 2: no more sick or feeble ones among them, or he
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  Speaker 2: was speaking in a way where they would say, never
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  Speaker 2: have we heard a man speak like this. Man, they're
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  Speaker 2: saying that we've never experienced anything like this. They know
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  Speaker 2: that something in their heart has changed and for the better.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what we're going to talk about here.
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  Speaker 2: From the Bible Book of John John chapter seven, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read beginning at verse thirty seven, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, on the last day of the feast, the
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  Speaker 2: greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted, if any one
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  Speaker 2: is thirsty, let him come to me. Whoops, let him
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  Speaker 2: come to me. Of course, my Bible clothes right when
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  Speaker 2: I said that Okay, let him come to me and
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  Speaker 2: let the one who believes in me drink. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're thirsty, come to Jesus. If you're thirsty, come to Jesus. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And when you get there, if you believe in Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: then I want you to drink. Let's keep going verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight, just as the scripture says, from within him
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  Speaker 2: flows waters, rivers of living waters verse thirty nine. Now
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  Speaker 2: he said this about the spirit whom those who believed
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  Speaker 2: in him were going to receive. For the spirit, the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: not yet glorified. And this means that in the future,
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  Speaker 2: after Jesus would have given his life a ransom for many,
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  Speaker 2: in the future, Jesus would have laid down his life
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  Speaker 2: and then taken it up again so that people could
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  Speaker 2: be saved. The Bible teaches us that the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: in a measure that we had not seen prior to
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  Speaker 2: this moment, the Holy Spirit would come, he would bleed,
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  Speaker 2: he would breathe, Jesus would breathe on his own disciples,
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  Speaker 2: and the Holy Spirit would come so that people could
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  Speaker 2: hear and learn and experience the presence of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: after Jesus went back to heaven, okay, and so verse forty.
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  Speaker 2: When they heard these words, some of the crowd began
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  Speaker 2: to say, this is really the prophet exclamation point. Others
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  Speaker 2: said this is the Christ. But some said, surely Christ
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  Speaker 2: doesn't come from Galilee, does he doesn't. The scriptures say
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  Speaker 2: that Christ comes from David's family and from Bethlehem, the
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  Speaker 2: village where David lived. So there was a division in
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  Speaker 2: the crowd because of him. Some of them were wanting
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  Speaker 2: to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.
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  Speaker 2: Then the officers returned to the chief priests and the Pharisees,
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  Speaker 2: who said to them, well, why didn't you bring him?
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  Speaker 2: See they were supposed to put him under arrest. Why
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  Speaker 2: didn't you bring him. The officers replied, mm mmm, No
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  Speaker 2: one ever spoke like this man. M m. I can
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  Speaker 2: see them like shaking their heads or or maybe in
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  Speaker 2: my I guess in my culture that's what it would be.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what an ancient Roman person would have done,
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  Speaker 2: but this these guys were like mm mmmuh never ah ah,
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  Speaker 2: no one ever spoke like this man. Then the pharisees answered,
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  Speaker 2: you haven't been deceived too, have you. You haven't been
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  Speaker 2: deceived too, have you. No, none of the rulers of
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  Speaker 2: the or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?
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  Speaker 2: But this rabble who you do not know the law
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  Speaker 2: are accursed. Nicodemus who had gone to Jesus. Remember we
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  Speaker 2: talked about Nicodemus and how Nicodemus was transformed. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: make a big fuss about it until maybe later where
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  Speaker 2: he was really just kind of out in the open
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  Speaker 2: about it. But Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before,
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  Speaker 2: and who was one of the rulers, said, our law
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  Speaker 2: doesn't judge a man unless it first hears from him
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  Speaker 2: and knows what he is doing, does it? They replied,
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  Speaker 2: Are you aren't from Galilee? Are you? Investigate carefully, and
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  Speaker 2: you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee. And
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  Speaker 2: everyone went to his own home. And so we see
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  Speaker 2: now that the influence of a man who was transformed
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  Speaker 2: by Jesus had an impact on the so called religious leaders. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so what was the witness of the crowd, really
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  Speaker 2: and truly, even though you had some detractors who were
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  Speaker 2: trying to say that Messiah didn't come from this place,
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  Speaker 2: or that and they have that argument. You know, those
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  Speaker 2: people always exist. But the people by and large were
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  Speaker 2: so impacted by Jesus and saying, but we hear these words,
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  Speaker 2: but we've never heard or experienced the presence like this before.
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  Speaker 2: When you are in God's presence, when you are praying,
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  Speaker 2: when you are singing praise to God, when you are
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  Speaker 2: sharing your testimony, do you experience the presence of God
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  Speaker 2: in such a way that you say, never have I
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  Speaker 2: experienced something like this before, to the point that it
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  Speaker 2: impacts others that when they are in your atmosphere, they're
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  Speaker 2: really in the presence of God because you and God
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  Speaker 2: go together. And so here are a few tips in
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  Speaker 2: the few moments that we have left. Because we need this,
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  Speaker 2: we need this to be our reality. Drink deeply from Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be satisfied with just one or two moments where
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  Speaker 2: you just shout a prayer real quick, but drink deeply
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  Speaker 2: from Jesus. Ask him what he would have you do.
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  Speaker 2: Ask him to transform your life and commit that he
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  Speaker 2: can have your mind fully and your commitment. And again
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  Speaker 2: number two, stay open to revelation. You see, the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit was to come in a measure that they had
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  Speaker 2: not yet experienced. When the Holy Spirit comes, be open
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  Speaker 2: to new understanding, open to more guidance, more counsel, open
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  Speaker 2: to your marching orders. And then, and then, of course
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  Speaker 2: I want you to embrace even difficult teachings. There are
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  Speaker 2: times that you may not have understood a thing, but
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  Speaker 2: once the Holy Spirit brings it home to your mind
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ is indeed who he said he is. Ah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: embrace him, Embrace him, don't reject him. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,