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12 08 2024 The Heavenly Father · 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, December eight,
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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 Heavenly Father. The Heavenly Father
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  Speaker 2: I typed in my notes our Heavenly Father. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you, and welcome to a whole
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  Speaker 2: new work week, especially those who are joining us for
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  Speaker 2: the very first time. I'm asking you to go over
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  Speaker 2: to your Daily Portion dot com. You'll see it pop
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  Speaker 2: up right about here. Throughout the rest of the program,
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. I want you to join
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  Speaker 2: our online community, and I need between one and ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand of you to join. Clicking that number seven as well.
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  Speaker 2: Join right there. That is spiritual development further beyond your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion, and I want you to let us know
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  Speaker 2: where you are in the world at your Daily portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this day and for this new
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  Speaker 2: work week. Father, I pray that you will teach us
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  Speaker 2: to to revere you as our father, to embrace you
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  Speaker 2: as the one who has only our best interest at heart.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to love you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again in my mind immediately, the transformative
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  Speaker 2: word for today is our Father, which art in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Because remember when Jesus was praying, he was praying talking
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  Speaker 2: to God the Father, and his disciples said, Jesus, will
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  Speaker 2: you teach us, Master, will you teach us how to
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  Speaker 2: pray like John taught his disciples, and he said, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: come here, I'm gonna teach you. He wasn't teaching him
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  Speaker 2: the specific words, he wasn't teaching them to recite what
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  Speaker 2: he prayed, but he was teaching the principles that come
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  Speaker 2: through what he was saying. And the first thing that
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  Speaker 2: he said was our Father, our father, not just my father,
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  Speaker 2: not just your father. In unity, we can come together
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  Speaker 2: knowing that God, who is the universe's creator, God our Father,
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  Speaker 2: is not just for one or ten. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: for one so called race of people, not just one
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  Speaker 2: for a particular tribe, nation, kingdom, or people, but God
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  Speaker 2: our Father, for every human being that chooses to have
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  Speaker 2: God as our father and not to reject him. He
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  Speaker 2: is for us. But he is in heaven. And when
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  Speaker 2: I say that, that is his vantage point. It is
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  Speaker 2: his throne, and earth is his footstool. He is, he
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  Speaker 2: is the sovereign over the universe, and yet he is
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  Speaker 2: our father. I won't get too far into that because
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  Speaker 2: because we have some more, some more to say, so
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  Speaker 2: much to say there. But according to the lesson right,
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  Speaker 2: God's purpose, God's purpose for creating us, creating humanity, was
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  Speaker 2: that we should live in loving harmony with him and
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  Speaker 2: with one another. Is that not what the Ten Commandments
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  Speaker 2: are all about? Love for God, miraculous love for God.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't have the ability to love God. We were
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  Speaker 2: hostile naturally toward God innately. And God gave us the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of being reborn through the power of the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost and being accepted in a relationship with God through Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so that is what It's God's love for God
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  Speaker 2: and love for humanity. That's what the Ten Commandments are
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  Speaker 2: all about. Okay, And so this is what he wants.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately, and that's really an understatement. The lesson writer said, Lucifer.
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  Speaker 2: But I just want to give you a moment here
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  Speaker 2: to think this through no disrespect, but Lucifer was the
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  Speaker 2: name that he had before he fell, or I should say,
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  Speaker 2: jumped into sin. You see, Lucifer was the son of
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  Speaker 2: the Morning Jesus is the ultimate morning star, the sun
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  Speaker 2: Sun of righteousness. According to Malachi, now Satan not Lucifer.
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  Speaker 2: He does not have the name Lucifer anymore because his
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  Speaker 2: character is not luminescent. His character is not after the
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  Speaker 2: brightness of God our Father. So his name is now Lucifer.
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  Speaker 2: Are not Lucifer anymore. But now Satan, Unfortunately, Satan brought
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  Speaker 2: sin into this world. See, he spread, He spread the
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  Speaker 2: pandemic here. He brought every single strain of sin to
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. And now every human has been infected. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine when we were going through the COVID nineteen crisis,
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  Speaker 2: not everybody was infected. I've never had COVID, my wife,
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  Speaker 2: my son, never had COVID. We prayed a specific prayer
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  Speaker 2: throughout the crisis, and God chose to say yes to us.
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  Speaker 2: But listen, every human being who has ever been born
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  Speaker 2: or ever will be born, will have the deadly disease
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  Speaker 2: of sin. And it is highly contagious. It is airborne.
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  Speaker 2: Sin is airborne. It is contagious, and every human will
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  Speaker 2: have gotten it. But the antidote now is that we
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  Speaker 2: would yield our will to God through Christ and the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Holy Ghost. But sin, among other things,
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  Speaker 2: a disruption of our relationship with God. It misrepresents who
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  Speaker 2: God is. Thus Jesus took upon himself. I need you
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  Speaker 2: to say, Jesus volunteered. Type it in the chad. If
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  Speaker 2: you can spell volunteered, go ahead and type it in
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  Speaker 2: the chad. Jesus volunteered to take on human nature just put.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus volunteered. Nobody forced him, nobody made him. Because he's eternal.
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  Speaker 2: Just like God our Father, he is all powerful. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ blessed be his name, so he did not have
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  Speaker 2: to do this. But the Bible says that he became
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  Speaker 2: obedient unto death. He said, I lay down my life
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  Speaker 2: that I may take it again. So in his own life,
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  Speaker 2: unborrowed and underrived, he decided that he would take on
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  Speaker 2: the limitation of humanity. For thirty three and one half years.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus had to eat, he had to sleep, he had
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  Speaker 2: to drink, He had to call on God our Father
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  Speaker 2: for assistance. He needed to rely on the power of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit to overcome temptation in his own life
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  Speaker 2: when the devil came to tempt him. Thank God, we
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  Speaker 2: already know that the Holy Spirit had already filled Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, and even today in twenty twenty four and
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  Speaker 2: throughout eternity, Jesus will have a body. He has limited
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  Speaker 2: him himself to one space in the universe at one time,
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  Speaker 2: except through the agency of the Holy Ghost. But Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ took on a human body now glorified. Thank God,
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  Speaker 2: but he took on a human body, and he still
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  Speaker 2: has this body in the heavenly sanctuary as he ministers
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  Speaker 2: on your behalf. I wish I had the time, but
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  Speaker 2: the Bible, I mean, but the lesson still says, thus
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  Speaker 2: Jesus took upon himself our human nature in order to
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  Speaker 2: restore the knowledge of God and to bring salvation to
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  Speaker 2: all of us. I thank God for this. There's so
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  Speaker 2: much that I don't have the time to say. So please,
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  Speaker 2: as usual, go into the community once we're done here,
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  Speaker 2: and ask me to give you some notes, some notes
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  Speaker 2: about the rest of the study. But in John three
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  Speaker 2: point sixteen we see the role the role because there
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  Speaker 2: is this question about the roles of the fi as
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  Speaker 2: described in these passages. So I'll run through them, but
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  Speaker 2: I won't read the passages. The Father as the source
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  Speaker 2: of salvation through his love in John chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse sixteen. The Father as teacher who draws people to
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  Speaker 2: Jesus in John chapter six and verse forty five. The
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  Speaker 2: role the Father as judge who has entrusted all judgment
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  Speaker 2: to the Sun John chapter five, verses twenty two and thirty.
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  Speaker 2: The role of the Father as giver of the true
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  Speaker 2: Bread from heaven, who is Jesus Christ and John six
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  Speaker 2: and verse thirty two. And as I said, go into
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  Speaker 2: the community and say hey, remember to share your notes
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  Speaker 2: with us today. 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.