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

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

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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, October twenty one, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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my name is Elle 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 is

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no exception. We are continuing in
our Lesson study series now with Lesson number

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four. The the series God's Mission, My mission and our caption for today

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is sharing God's Mission. Can I
just give God thanks for just a moment?

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I seldom look back, And You're
like, Dave, what do you

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mean by look back? Like?
People say, how many of this have

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you done? How many books have
you published? How many times have you

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done X? And I'm like,
I don't keep track of that kind of

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stuff real talk, but I look
back. I took the time to look

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back on this Your Daily Portion program. Just the Your Daily Portion program.

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We are at like episode sixteen hundred
and something. We're pushing seventeen hundred episodes.

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That means every single day, just
with Your Daily Portion, God has

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given us the strength to come every
single day to give God's word. And

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before that on another program, thousands
more episodes, thousands more days. What

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does that mean? God is so
good? Well, how good is he?

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He's so good that if we will
just dedicate ourselves, brothers and sisters.

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You can see it here. If
you will just dedicate yourself to God's

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mission, he will strengthen you and
He will give you what you need in

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order to accomplish the mission. Where
you are, whatever it is. You

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may not be into radios, televisions, microphones and all that kind of stuff.

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But whatever God has called you to
do, I implore you to trust

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him and he will do it for
you. Come what may. Let's go

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ahead and pray and then we will
get underway. Father in Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this new Sabbath
and the privilege to share in your mission.

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Help us to do just that.
Share in your mission and not create

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one for ourselves. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.

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Sharing God's mission. Now, I
was thinking about this one heavily. God

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demonstrated his mission. I said,
God demonstrated his mission. So he's given

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us the blueprint. He demonstrated his
mission by sending his son. Right.

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So when we're sharing in God's mission, we have to think, okay,

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well, where does Jesus come into
this equation? What is my part in

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this mission? Right? So now
we can see how God moves because he

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loved the world so much that he
gave us his only begotten son. Yes,

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the Bible teaches us him being the
only begotten, he's the one of

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a kind son like he is unusual, he is one hundred percent God,

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he's one hundred percent human. And
all of this mystery of Godliness was wound

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up together, all of heaven in
one gift in order to lead us into

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a right relationship with him. So, if we're sharing in God's mission like

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that is our perspective. Whatever we
need to do, whatever sacrifice we need

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to make, whatever we need to
yield, that is all for the mission.

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We'll come back to that in just
a moment. Let's read now,

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beginning in the Book of John.
The Book of John, chapter thirteen.

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Will begin reading at verse thirty four
John, chapter thirteen, and I will

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read, beginning at verse thirty four. Something very interesting here. A new

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commandment I give to you. This
is Jesus speaking that you love one another.

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And I'm thinking, well, why
did Jesus call that commandment new?

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I'm coming back to that as I
have loved you. This is something that

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I missed before, that you also
love one another. And you're like,

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Dave, it's right there, what
do you mean by you missed it before?

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Jesus loves us? Right? Okay, yeah, you keep that thought

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for a moment. Continuing by this, all will know that you are my

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disciples if you have love one for
another. And so at first I'm thinking,

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well, why in the world did
Jesus say this is a new commandment?

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And many times I have rehearsed and
taught and it is true indeed,

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but I still missed something that the
reason Jesus said this this is a new

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commandment is because it's because like the
people really didn't love like Jesus love like

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the people did not. The people
did not come up to the standard,

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and so to the people it was
new. And I thought, wow,

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that's an amazing thought. Well that's
true, but there is more right as

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I I underscored this in my lesson
and read as I have loved you,

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this is a standard, this is
a measure, This is a metric,

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so to speak to let us know
what kind or what brand of love this

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is. And I wrote in my
notes the world has never underscore, underscore,

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underscore, seen this kind of love
before. Why not? Because Jesus

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wasn't the Messiah in our eyes yet
the world had not seen him born of

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a woman prophesied the word prophesiede of
this. But when we actually truly saw

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Jesus Christ born into human flesh,
being one hundred percent God the Sun,

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and then taking on humanity after four
thousand years of degradation, we've never seen.

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For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son,

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that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish but have everlasting life. We had

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never seen this brand of love before. So when he says loves as I

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have loved, see, the Bible
does teach in Leviticus chapter nineteen. We

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often go into the New Testament for
this, But nineteen verse eighteen, thou

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shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge
against the children of thy people, But

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thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. I am the Lord. So this

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is not new intellectually, it's not
new principally. But in practical terms,

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we are seeing something we have never
seen before. But let me tell you

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what the Seven day Aventist Bible commentary
says. The command was new in that

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the demonstration had been given of love, which the disciples were now bidden to

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emulate. By his revelation of his
father's character, Jesus had opened to humans

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or men, a new concept of
God's love. This is a new revelation

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of God's character. Brothers and sisters. The new command and joined men to

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preserve the same relationship with one another
that Jesus cultivated with them and mankind generally.

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Where the old commandment enjoined men to
love their neighbors as theirselves, the

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new commandment urged them to love as
Jesus had loved. We've never seen this

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before until Jesus was manifest in the
flesh right. The new was in fact

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more difficult than the old but great, for this accomplishment was freely provided.

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We had never seen God in the
flesh smitten by people he was saving.

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We never saw God in the flesh
giving his life a ransom for many.

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We had never seen where people who
were supposed to love him rejected him.

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We've never seen this brand of love
God coming into human flesh to save his

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people from our sins. And so
when God says to love as I have

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loved you, now we're taking it
to a new level. But it's not

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for us to try to do it
in our own strength. From the start,

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as the lesson writer says in these
closing moments here, Abraham wanted to

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be used by God for mission.
This truth can be seen, for example,

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in Genesis chapter eighteen, when God
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happen to Sodom and Gomorrah. Surely, the Bible teaches us, the Lord

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does nothing, and I'll say important, except he reveal it first, or

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this secret unto his servants the prophets. That's from the Book of Amos,

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chapter three and verse seven. And
in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah,

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his servant God's servant was Abraham.
Was Abraham. So the Father, God,

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our Father, sent Jesus the Son
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Old Abe, like Abraham, was
a microcosm of that. He was a

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symbol or a type of that,
because God gave him, Abraham the opportunity

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to intervene, intercede to keep the
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Long story we'll get into as the
days come on. Every wonderful day,

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Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of

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God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,