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11 30 2024 The Way, the Truth, and the Life · 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: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Sabbath, November thirty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Iselle 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 Way, the Truth and the Life.
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  Speaker 2: The Way, the Truth and the Life. I am excited
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  Speaker 2: that we are together this Sabbath morning, and I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community. I need you to also
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  Speaker 2: let us know where you are in the world. At
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: good afternoon, good evening. I know that you are all
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  Speaker 2: over the world, only one continent. I think we do
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  Speaker 2: not have covered. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful that we
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  Speaker 2: are here together. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new day and for the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath time that you have entrusted to us. And
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your word that is life to us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for Jesus Christ, who is the epitome of
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  Speaker 2: all that we need. Father, I pray now that we
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  Speaker 2: will surrender our will to you in Jesus' name. I
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  Speaker 2: pray a man and a man. And again Jesus said
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  Speaker 2: to his people, I am the Way, the Truth, and
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  Speaker 2: the Life. Now, there are so many people that miss this.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean intellectually, I mean in a practical sense.
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  Speaker 2: So many of us miss this. And if we didn't
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  Speaker 2: miss it, then we would never disconnect from God. You
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  Speaker 2: see what I mean. Like sometimes we talk about life
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  Speaker 2: support in medical situations, health care situations. If I believe
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is my life. We talked about the source
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  Speaker 2: of life last week. If I believe that God is
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  Speaker 2: the source of my life, or He is my life,
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  Speaker 2: then I would never disconnect. I would never stop praying.
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  Speaker 2: I would never miss an opportunity to connect with Him
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  Speaker 2: in praise and thanksgiving. I would never miss an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to do exactly what he says that I need to do.
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  Speaker 2: Why Because I would know that He's my life, not
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  Speaker 2: just a concept, not just something I should consider on
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  Speaker 2: a day to day basis. And it would just halfway
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  Speaker 2: make my life better if I would fill in the
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  Speaker 2: blank sort of no, no, no, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 2: If Jesus is the way to salvation, if Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: the truth, the manifestation of all that is Godly, and
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  Speaker 2: He is the life, and that means my life should
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  Speaker 2: look a certain way. Mm hmm. If I'm plugged into life,
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  Speaker 2: then my life will look like that which I'm plugged into.
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  Speaker 2: The holiness of God, the power of God unto salvation,
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  Speaker 2: m the kindness that comes in living the second great commandment,
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  Speaker 2: which is to love my neighbor as myself right. And
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  Speaker 2: so I'm grateful that God has not left us alone.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says here in John chapter one and
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  Speaker 2: verse eighteen. John chapter one and verse eighteen, no one
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  Speaker 2: has seen God at any time. The only be got
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  Speaker 2: your son, So Jesus, the Son of God, Jesus, who
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  Speaker 2: is also God the Son. He was with God, our
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  Speaker 2: Father throughout eternity past. There was never a time that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus did not exist. I need you to get that
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  Speaker 2: very clear in your mind. There was never a time
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus Christ did not exist. So when he's living
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth, it is a miracle of what we
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  Speaker 2: call the incarnation, the great mystery that God in the
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  Speaker 2: God puts on human flesh. That is Jesus Christ, God
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  Speaker 2: the Son. No one has seen God the Father at
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  Speaker 2: any time, the only begotten Son, that's Jesus Christ, who
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  Speaker 2: is in the bosom of the Father. He has declared him,
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  Speaker 2: He has declared him. If you want to know what
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  Speaker 2: God the Father is like, then look to Jesus. You see,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus didn't stay in heaven on his throne. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: stay in heaven receiving the worship that of which he
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  Speaker 2: is actually worthy while we are down here dying in sin.
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  Speaker 2: No Jesus volunteered during that planning that they had in
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  Speaker 2: heavenly places. It's not my business the details. I can't
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  Speaker 2: speak on the details, but I know that they met,
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  Speaker 2: they discussed, and they decided that Jesus Christ would come
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  Speaker 2: down and be the one to quote save us from
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  Speaker 2: our sins by taking on human flesh and being victorious,
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  Speaker 2: taking on our sins on his charge, on his account,
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  Speaker 2: and then dying the death that we deserve, as I
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  Speaker 2: read the other day, so that we can live the
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  Speaker 2: life that he deserves. And so the Gospel of John
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  Speaker 2: is divided in four main sections into four main sections,
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  Speaker 2: the prologue, the Book of Signs, the Book of Glory,
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  Speaker 2: and the epilogue. Okay, and so the lessons we now Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we now shift part tarticularly to the third section
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  Speaker 2: of John, and that is the Book of Glory. This
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  Speaker 2: week's lesson will begin with the purpose of the Farewell
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  Speaker 2: Discourse and its introduction with the significant episode of Jesus
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  Speaker 2: washing his disciples feet. I want you to give keen
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  Speaker 2: attention here washing his disciples feet. Then it will turn
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  Speaker 2: into the I am statement in chapter fourteen. I am
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  Speaker 2: the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And so really
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  Speaker 2: I have a question, and I wrote it in my
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  Speaker 2: lesson because I need to be considering this for my
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  Speaker 2: life this Sabbath morning too. Were the disciples receptive to
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  Speaker 2: this quote way? Were they? Were they receptive to this
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  Speaker 2: way or this pathway to humbly connect with him? And
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking of when Jesus washed his disciples feet. Were
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  Speaker 2: they willing to serve each other? Was Peter willing to
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  Speaker 2: receive from Christ the lesson that Jesus was teaching? Was
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  Speaker 2: Judas ready willing and available to receive the blessing and
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  Speaker 2: the lesson of humility that Jesus was teaching. We know
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  Speaker 2: which way Judas's life went, and so we need to
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  Speaker 2: be asking ourselves. We need to be living vicariously through
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  Speaker 2: their stories and say, if I were in that situation,
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  Speaker 2: which one of the disciples would I be most like?
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  Speaker 2: I've identified one I would be most like, And now
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  Speaker 2: what is the pathway to victory? Knowing that I am
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  Speaker 2: most like this particular disciple, I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: This is coaching, like when you really identify what the
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  Speaker 2: reality is of your personal development space and spiritual development space,
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  Speaker 2: then you begin to take steps to overcome challenges, take
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  Speaker 2: steps to set real lifealistic goals and move from point
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  Speaker 2: to point to point, in this case, toward victory and
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  Speaker 2: spiritual success. I wish I had the time, but I don't.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what we're gonna do. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: find seven biblical tips based on what we had already
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  Speaker 2: said for today as we come to a swift close.
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  Speaker 2: Number one comes from John chapter one and verse eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: We read it already discover God through Jesus Christ. Discover
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  Speaker 2: God our Father through the life work ministry of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: God the Son. Number two embrace Jesus as the bread
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  Speaker 2: of life in John chapter six, verse thirty five. So
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  Speaker 2: we don't just intellectually identify. Sometimes we are accustomed to
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  Speaker 2: just answering and giving the right answer and being happy
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  Speaker 2: that we have the right answer. No, that's not good enough.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible is teaching us, and Jesus said, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: I am the bread of life. He that cometh to
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  Speaker 2: me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me
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  Speaker 2: shall never thirst. So we accept Jesus. We imbibe Jesus
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  Speaker 2: as the bread of life, and then we follow him.
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  Speaker 2: We follow him the light of the world. John chapter
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  Speaker 2: eight and verse twelve reads, then spake Jesus again unto them,
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  Speaker 2: saying I and the light of the world. He that
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  Speaker 2: followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have
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  Speaker 2: the light of life. And so we follow Jesus in
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  Speaker 2: our actual footsteps, our actual walking, actual living the way
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  Speaker 2: the truth in the life. Is not an intellectual pursuit.
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  Speaker 2: This is a relationship that we can have with Jesus.
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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,