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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, good morning, Good morning.

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It is Sabbath, June twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's Word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are beginning
our new Lesson study series through the Book

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of Mark, and our caption for
today is the beginning of the Gospel,

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the beginning of the Gospel. Now, let me just tell you if you've

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never been here before, first of
all, let me welcome you. But

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for those who have been with me
for years and years, every time we

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start a new twelve week study,
I get a little bit confused about which

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study we're doing, and I got
it right this morning. But when I

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mess up and say that we're talking
about the great controversy again, just give

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me a little grace. Right.
It takes me about a week to get

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it right. But we are in
the Bible, Book of Mark, and

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our caption for today, the Sabbath
morning is the beginning of the Gospel,

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the beginning of the Gospel. Before
I begin with prayer, I'd like to

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welcome you and ask you to go
over to your Daily Portion dot com join

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our online community. This is where
you can ask your questions and share your

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comments regarding the Lesson study. Not
just everything in the Bible, but the

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Lesson study, and it's one of
the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
pray, and then we will get underway.

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Bather and Heaven, thank you for
this new Sabbath morning that you have

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given us. Thank You for allowing
us to come into this truth of the

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Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's the
power of God unto salvation to those of

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us who believe. I pray God
that we will actually believe and live like

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we do in Jesus name. I
pray Amen and amen again the beginning of

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the Gospel. Ah, I can't
wait. We're gonna have a good time

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for the next twelve weeks. If
the Lord spaars life. Let's go ahead

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and begin with the memory text.
I don't call it that like I should,

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so you can remember to remember it, right, the memory text.

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Memorize it. That's what the intent
is. And it comes from the Bible

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Book of Mark, chapter one and
verses fourteen and fifteen from the New King

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James version of the Bible. The
Bible reads, now, after John was

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put in prison, this is John
the Baptist. Jesus came to Galilee preaching

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the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
and saying, the time is fulfilled.

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And immediately you should be asking yourself, okay, i't I'm reading this the

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time is fulfilled? Well, what
time is fulfilled? And the Kingdom of

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God is at hand? Repent,
that is, accept godly sorrow for sin

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in your own life, and accept
God's power to make an about turn or

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a rite about turn or about face
and turn away from sin. So godly

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sorrow for sin and a turning away
from it. Repent and believe in the

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Gospel. That is, believe in
God's power to save you, to save

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me through Jesus's ministry. He lived
a perfect life on planet Earth before us.

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Yes, under the power of the
Holy Spirit, he submitted his will

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fully to God. Yes, he
was victorious over every temptation that the devil

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could throw at him, lust of
the flesh, lust of the pride of

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life. He succeeded in this human
form. And then he gave his life

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in place of us, so that
we don't have to die. We don't

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have to die, brothers and sisters. Last quarter we talked about two eternities.

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We talked about the eternal death penalty
for those who hate love, those

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who decided that they did not want
to serve God. They did not want

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to be in eternity with God in
the bliss of holy relationship and limit less

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understanding. They didn't want that.
Well, the Bible is telling us here

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that Jesus Christ gave his life so
that we could be covered in his righteousness,

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turn away from sin, and then
we could live throughout the ceaseless ages

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of eternity, repent and believe in
the Gospel. Well, what is the

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time that is fulfilled? I am
so glad you asked the time is prophetic,

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prophetically, Yes, there were the
prophets foretold when Messiah would show up.

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In Daniel, the Book of Daniel, the Bible teaches that there was

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a time when when Messiah the Prince
would appear. And it's like, no,

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is that is that? Is that? It is that his birth?

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No, I'm stuttering today, I'm
stammering, is that his birth? No,

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when he appears, when the Messiah
appears, Messiah anointed one, When

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he appears as the anointed one.
That is when Jesus Christ was baptized in

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the Jordan River, and you hear
the voice of God, our Father,

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saying, this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased,

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just like the prophecies foretold. And
the Holy Spirit comes in bodily formed like

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as a dove, and lights upon
Jesus Christ while he, Jesus is in

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the Jordan River, coming up out
of the water, having been fully immersed

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and baptized, coming up out of
the water symbolizing victory, symbolizing coming up

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out of death, being able to
live for God. When that happens,

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that time is fulfilled. Now we
know, and knowing is just half the

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battle. I got that out of
something. The people my age would understand

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where I got that from. And
so now we know that the time is

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fulfilled, and we are about to
begin to see the work of God in

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the Gospel, in the Gospel to
save us all that he went through in

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order to bring us into a right
relationship with him, I thank God.

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And so the writer here, John
Mark, now we know his full name.

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That's not to be confused with John
the one who took care of Jesus's

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mother after Jesus was on the cross, right, Not him, Not John

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the Baptist. This is John Mark, a sometime traveling companion of Paul and

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Barnabas. So there was a big
blow up about John Mark when he was

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fearful at a certain time, and
Paul was like, you know what,

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brouh Like, we can't work together
right now because I'm running full steam ahead

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and you're kind of iffing and button
so I can't. I can't work with

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you right now. And then of
course something happens, and eventually Paul says,

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John Mark is all together profitable,
like he is okay with me.

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It's just that during that time John
Mark and Paul couldn't work together, right

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And so this same John Mark,
a sometime traveling companion of Paul and Barnabas

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and later an associate of Peter.
This is who we're talking about now.

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This is the one who's writing here. The first step in this week will

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be to learn about Mark as reported
in scripture, to see his early failure

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and eventual recovery. Remember, this
dude is a Bible writer. He's writing

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in the scriptures. That means he
is saved. That means we will meet

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him in eternity. Yes, but
he failed, he failed at some points

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of his life. Just ask you
a simple question, have you ever failed?

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Have you ever failed at anything in
life? Now, let me ask

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you another question, have you ever
failed at anything big? Spiritually? Where

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you drop the ball spiritually? And
there were incredible implications like Abraham who dropped

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the ball. He listened to Sarah. He then made Hagar his other wife.

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They had a child. And now
you have this conflict in the house,

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You have this conflict between the suns. And in twenty twenty four,

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on the twenty ninth day, this
Sabbath morning, there are people right now

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who are warring because of Abraham's failure. Have you ever failed and anything big

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spiritually. The Bible says that we
can recover from that. And I just

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want to ask while you're contemplating that, I'm thankful that God has given us

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this insight. I want to know, like how overcoming failure is illustrated in

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the Book of Mark any places.
But now I want you to just do

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some discovery. I want you to
go through the Gospel Book of Marks and

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see how people were able to overcome
failure so many places, different places.

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I planned to share some Peter denied
Christ three times he overcame failure m hm.

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In Mark chapter five, the Bible
says that that somebody overcame a lack

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or a weakness of faith, Yes, and so forth. I want you

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to go through and see where people
overcame failure in the Gospel Book of Mark,

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and keep a note of it.
We'll come back to it. Make

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it a great Sabbath, beeast.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Always remember we cannot live by bread
alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with E.

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L. David Harris. Make it
a great day. Yeah,