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04 02 2025 Studying the Word · 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 Wednesday, April two,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 new
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series how to Study the Bible, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is studying the Words, studying the Word.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: are in the world at your dailyportion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the privilege of coming together again this Wednesday and
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  Speaker 2: giving us the privilege of opening up your word. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to please give us your mindset when
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  Speaker 2: we study your Word. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. So this is a question that we
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  Speaker 2: all need to be asking and answering for ourselves. What
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  Speaker 2: is the purpose? Like why do we study the Word?
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  Speaker 2: There are some people who study because you want to
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  Speaker 2: be intelligent and you want people to know that you're intelligent.
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  Speaker 2: There are some people that like to argue, and I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: you need to be honest with yourself, and I need
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with myself about the why that I
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  Speaker 2: study the Word. In fact, Jesus said to some folks
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  Speaker 2: that didn't really actually love him, he said, you search
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures for in them, ye think ye have eternal life. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So he was exposing the fact that they really were
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  Speaker 2: focusing on the words of the scrolls, the scriptures, and
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  Speaker 2: that is where they sort of pat themselves on the
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  Speaker 2: back and said, well, God owes me something, and God
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  Speaker 2: is saying to them, they are they that testify of Me.
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  Speaker 2: So they should have looked for Jesus in the scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: They should have looked for a relationship with Christ. They
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  Speaker 2: should have looked for the connection with God that leads
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  Speaker 2: to salvation. But instead they thought that they could derive
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  Speaker 2: and earn self from mastering understanding. There is a fine
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  Speaker 2: line that is between life and death when you look
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  Speaker 2: at it in those terms, because God is saying that
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  Speaker 2: I want to be found, and I am revealing myself
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures, and therefore the only way you can
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  Speaker 2: have life is when you find me. Those who have
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  Speaker 2: Christ have life, and those who have not the Son
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  Speaker 2: of God hath not life. You see where we're going
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  Speaker 2: with this, And so, of course we have a legacy
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  Speaker 2: in our faith community about how we study the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: and we could use many texts and take you into
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  Speaker 2: the history of our founders and those who laid the
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  Speaker 2: foundation as our church was developed back in the eighteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 2: But truthfully, it's right in the Bible, right in the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: One of the ways that we look at scripture. Besides
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  Speaker 2: what have already said is a comprehensive study method. And
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  Speaker 2: we get that from the Book of Isaiah, chapter twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight and verses nine and ten, and the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: whom shall he teach knowledge? So if you want to
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  Speaker 2: know knowledge, you want to have knowledge, whom will will
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  Speaker 2: God teach that? Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom
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  Speaker 2: shall he make to understand doctrine? Which really simply means
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  Speaker 2: Bible teaching. And then it tells us some more and
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  Speaker 2: gets to the point where it says, for precept must
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  Speaker 2: be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, here
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  Speaker 2: a little and there a little. So we study the
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  Speaker 2: Bible comprehensively. We don't leave parts of the Bible out.
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  Speaker 2: We compare scripture with Scripture number two. We look at
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  Speaker 2: context because that's key. One thing that really drives me nuts.
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  Speaker 2: And I seldom try to share my personal views, but
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  Speaker 2: it drives me bananas, especially inside of churches, when the
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  Speaker 2: Bible teachers and people who are in the pew or
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  Speaker 2: studying with us in church are just hopping around the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: like all of these Bible text just hopping around the Bible, no,
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  Speaker 2: with no regard for the actual context of the scripture.
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  Speaker 2: And so in two Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God,
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  Speaker 2: a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
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  Speaker 2: the word of truth. In another version, it says, teaching
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  Speaker 2: the message of truth accurately. Okay, so we want to
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  Speaker 2: see what God was actually saying, to whom, in what time,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. Before we even begin to make sense of
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  Speaker 2: what we are seeing as we are praying for God
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  Speaker 2: to give us our wisdom. We have to really see
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  Speaker 2: to whom it was speaking, for what purpose it was speaking,
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  Speaker 2: and all of the details surrounding the text. And I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time, but I don't. So here
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  Speaker 2: are some key study principles. Number one, avoid a fragmented approach.
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  Speaker 2: Don't isolate Bible texts from one another. See the bigger picture,
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  Speaker 2: connect related passages, and then consider the entire context and
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  Speaker 2: the lesson. Writer also identified that we are systematic, like
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  Speaker 2: a puzzle assembly. Gather all of the pieces, see the connections,
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  Speaker 2: build progressively, and then view the complete picture. There's so
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  Speaker 2: much more, and I'd like for you to ask inside
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  Speaker 2: of our community for my notes on this, because there
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  Speaker 2: are just too many principles that I'd like to share,
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  Speaker 2: and we simply do not have the time. And so
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  Speaker 2: now we go into the Bible Book of Matthew, chapter
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  Speaker 2: five and verse eighteen. Maybe I was speaking quickly. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't hear what I just said, Ask for my notes
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  Speaker 2: for today in you your daily portion community, Okay? And
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  Speaker 2: so in Matthew chapter five and verse eighteen, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for verily I say unto you to heaven and earth,
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  Speaker 2: pass one jot or one tittle, shall in no wise
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  Speaker 2: pass from the law. We're going to come back and
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  Speaker 2: make some sense of these passages based on what the
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer is teaching us. Okay. In two Timothy chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse fifteen, the Bible reads, and that from
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  Speaker 2: a child, thou hast known the holy scriptures which are
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  Speaker 2: able to make the wise unto salvation. So the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: are to connect us with God and make us wise
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  Speaker 2: unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. All
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  Speaker 2: scripture is God breathed. That's what it really means. All
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  Speaker 2: scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable
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  Speaker 2: for doctrine. That's Bible teaching for reproof, for correction, for
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  Speaker 2: instruction in righteousness, that the Man of God, and of
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  Speaker 2: course that means people, the people of God, may be perfect,
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  Speaker 2: truly furnished unto all good works. One more passage and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll wrap a bow on this. And Jesus when
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  Speaker 2: he was having an encounter with or people were having
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  Speaker 2: an encounter with Christ after he was resurrected. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in Luke chapter twenty four and verse twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: and beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded
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  Speaker 2: unto them, all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so here are principles, and I want you to
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  Speaker 2: take notes here principles for approaching prophecy. Number one, trust scriptures, reliability.
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  Speaker 2: Every detail matters, God's word endures, and nothing God says fails.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to trust the scriptures, reliability. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time. Number two, we're going to see
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  Speaker 2: Christ as central to the scriptures and prophecy for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: All of it points to Jesus. The whole Bible testifies
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. And there is a unity in the messaging.
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  Speaker 2: Number three except divine inspiration, God breathed this it's authoritative
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  Speaker 2: and trustworthy, and then apply everything practically. There's so much more,
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  Speaker 2: but I said, please ask for my notes in the
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  Speaker 2: community and I will share them. I'm not saying to
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  Speaker 2: ask in this chat because I won't be able to
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  Speaker 2: see that, but in the community, ask and I will share.
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  Speaker 2: 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,