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12 25 2024 Theology From “Above” or From “Below” · 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: 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 Wednesday, December
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is theology from above or from below?
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  Speaker 2: From above or from below. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to just talk about it. We need
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  Speaker 2: done in the church before, and so this is why
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: day and for giving us the privilege to come together
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  Speaker 2: and open up your word again and to be able
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  Speaker 2: to conceptualize whether we are above or beneath, whether we
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  Speaker 2: are connected to you or not connected to you. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please help us not to be so cerebral today, but
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  Speaker 2: to be passionate. Help us to think and apply in
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  Speaker 2: a way that we will relate to you in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. You know, there are
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  Speaker 2: times that we become so intellectual that we miss the connection,
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  Speaker 2: the divine connection God is making with us. I'm an
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  Speaker 2: intellectual person. Don't do not get that mixed up. I
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  Speaker 2: like to drill to the minutest detail the things concerning
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  Speaker 2: God and his word. I love details to the extreme,
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  Speaker 2: I promise you. However, I do realize that sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: like me get caught in the weeds and have examined
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  Speaker 2: and analyzed and broken down to the very last common
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  Speaker 2: pound shell to the people who know what I just said,
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  Speaker 2: and then miss a connection with God. Where he's saying that,
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  Speaker 2: like to pray is the opening of the heart to God,
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  Speaker 2: as to a friend like that, we should we should
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  Speaker 2: be compassionate and loving, like we should be seeking the
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  Speaker 2: good of others, you understand. And so the theology from
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  Speaker 2: above versus the theology from below is really about not
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  Speaker 2: just the air quotes study of God and whether it
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  Speaker 2: is what we believe from the Bible or something made
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  Speaker 2: up or coming from the enemy. No, no, no, no, it's
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  Speaker 2: bigger than that. We are looking for a connection with God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father. And so from the Bible Book of John
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  Speaker 2: chapter four, we're still there. Obviously. Beginning at verse forty six,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, so Jesus came again to Kana or
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  Speaker 2: Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And
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  Speaker 2: there was a certain noble whose son was sick at Capernium.
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  Speaker 2: You see. So this is an experience not to just
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  Speaker 2: intellectually understand God. It's not just for the man to
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  Speaker 2: have a context about how God thinks and how God behaves. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: this is now a man whose child is sick and
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  Speaker 2: likely will die right if he does not have a
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  Speaker 2: divine intimate touch from God. And the Bible reads in
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  Speaker 2: verse forty seven. And he heard that Jesus was come
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  Speaker 2: out of Judea into Galilee, and he went unto him
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  Speaker 2: and besought him that he would come down and heal
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  Speaker 2: his son. This is not intellectual, this is practical. I
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  Speaker 2: need you to heal my son. The doctors can't do anything. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: the people who are natural paths can't do anything. Herbologists,
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  Speaker 2: iridologists cannot do anything. God, I need you to do
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  Speaker 2: something that only you can do. And so he said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you come down and o my son, for he was
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  Speaker 2: at the point of death. And Jesus said, unto him,
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  Speaker 2: except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus is setting up a barrier and intellectual
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  Speaker 2: speed bump, Like Jesus is setting a moment in time
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  Speaker 2: of critical mass where the man has to think, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, is this about. I don't know what it's about,
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  Speaker 2: But whatever you're trying to teach me, Jesus, can you
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  Speaker 2: teach it to me? And so he said, he said,
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  Speaker 2: so the nobleman said unto him, sir, come down ere
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  Speaker 2: my child die. I'm not even sure what you just said, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you just said, but I know
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  Speaker 2: that my son is about to die, and I need
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  Speaker 2: you in a guttural sense like I'm talking about. It
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  Speaker 2: was a visceral response, like Jesus, could you just come.
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  Speaker 2: My money's not doing enough for me in this case, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: my influence is not doing enough for me. Jesus, I
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  Speaker 2: need you to come and take care of my son.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus saith unto him, go thy way, thy son liveth.
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  Speaker 2: And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken
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  Speaker 2: unto him, and he went his way. And as he
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  Speaker 2: was going, now down, did you hear this? I said?
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  Speaker 2: He went on his way, believing what God said. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus Christ said, he believed him. And while he
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  Speaker 2: was in motion. While he was in motion, his servants
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  Speaker 2: met him and told him, saying, thy son liveth you see,
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  Speaker 2: he's on the way to see the great things that
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  Speaker 2: the Lord was doing for him. He was going to
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  Speaker 2: see with his eyes the miracle that his faith had
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  Speaker 2: already seen. And some men were coming to him, his
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  Speaker 2: servants and saying, sir, your son is alive Verse fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: Then inquired he of them the hour. I need you
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  Speaker 2: to type in the chat the hour. Type it in
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  Speaker 2: the chat the hour. If you're on the radio, then
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  Speaker 2: you can come back and type it in the comments
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  Speaker 2: on your favorite YouTube channel that's carrying the program. Then
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  Speaker 2: he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend,
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  Speaker 2: when was he getting better? When was he getting better?
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  Speaker 2: And they said, unto him, yesterday, at the seventh hour,
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  Speaker 2: the fever left him. Now I realized that somebody missed this.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody missed it. You were in your intellect, you were calculating.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying we need to be foolish or stupid.
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  Speaker 2: I apologize if you don't like that term. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that we have to be unintellectual. What I am
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  Speaker 2: saying is that we need to be on the lookout
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  Speaker 2: for the times that Jesus moves in ways that are
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  Speaker 2: beyond our intellect. He moves in miraculous ways because the
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  Speaker 2: extent of our intellect and our prowess, our capabilities have
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  Speaker 2: been exhausted. Our techniques, our stratagem, our target, our tactics
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  Speaker 2: have expired. And now I need you to just look
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  Speaker 2: at your watch when you're praying and you're asking God
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  Speaker 2: for that thing that only he can do. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about that means of miracle thing. I'm talking about that
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  Speaker 2: let there be light and there was light thing. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to look at your watch because you're on
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  Speaker 2: the lookout for the moment that Jesus begins to move
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  Speaker 2: in a decided and very clear, miraculous way. So you
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  Speaker 2: can say it was at this hour I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: nine minutes into the program, when we were dealing with
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  Speaker 2: these great things on your daily portion. It was then
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  Speaker 2: that God he delivered me out of that abusive relationship.
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  Speaker 2: He taught my child that it was God that was
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  Speaker 2: saving him or her, and gave his life, gave her
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  Speaker 2: life to the King. It was at this moment that
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  Speaker 2: my diabetes abated. It was at this moment that the
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  Speaker 2: leukemia just mysteriously vanished. It was at this moment that
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  Speaker 2: they had me on the operating table and what they
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  Speaker 2: were going in to remove that disease had vanished, even
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  Speaker 2: in front of the doctors who had scanned and x
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  Speaker 2: rayed and tested, and now it's gone. It was at
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  Speaker 2: this moment, I said, this moment, at this very hour,
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  Speaker 2: that God did something very special. What did he do?
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  Speaker 2: He acted in the way that he always wanted to act.
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  Speaker 2: All he needed was for you to deploy hm that
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  Speaker 2: faith that you have in him, so that he could
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  Speaker 2: deploy miracles. That's the theology from above.
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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,