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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

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

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

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to 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

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morning. It is Sunday, July
twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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

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is your Daily Portion where we give
you God's word every single day and today

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has no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series through the Book

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of Mark, and our caption for
today is the Parable of the Sower,

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The Parable of the Sower. We'll
get into that in just the moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to please go

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world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue

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to build faith and fellowship. Good
morning. Yeah, let's go ahead and

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pray, and then we will get
underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you

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for giving us this new morning and
for the workweek that is ahead of us.

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Father, these moments are uncharted,
these waters uncharted, untested, but

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you have seen everything from before there
was a beginning. Please help us to

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only walk in the paths of righteousness, navigate the waters as you see fit.

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And Father, give us understanding concerning
your parables, because really and truly

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you only intended to speak clearly to
us, but because of the hardness of

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people's hearts, we have these parables. Please give us your wisdom today in

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Jesus, they might pray, Amen
and Amen again. Okay. And so

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we are going to begin this week
with the parable of the Sewer, and

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let me just read it clearly,
and then we'll jump into some lessons that

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we can learn. Okay. And
so from Mark chapter four, beginning at

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verse one, the Bible reads again
he began to teach by the lake.

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If you notice, Jesus had a
habit of just popping up teachings. There

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were times that he would just you
know, we're going along our journey,

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and he would just begin teaching.
It wasn't like how we do today where

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we stage these things at all times, like Okay, we're going to be

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meeting at this place at this time, and then we're going to have this

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series or these teachings. There were
times that he's just walking along the way,

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he is in a boat, he
is in the mountain range, and

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he begins teaching. And this is
one of those cases, such a large

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crowd gap that around him, that
he got into a boat on the lake

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and sat there while the whole crowd
was on the seashore by the lake,

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not the seashore, by the shore
of the lake. He taught them many

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things in parables, and in his
teaching he said to them, listen.

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Now, if Jesus says, listen, what should we do, go ahead

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and type it in the chat.
Yeah, it seems self explanatory. Yes,

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listen, listen. A sower went
forth to sow. And for people

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like me who grew up in a
big city, who don't know what that

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means. Naturally, he's saying that
there was somebody who's about to plant some

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seeds. They're going to sow or
plant seeds broadly, okay verse four.

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And as he sowed, some seed
fell along the path, and the birds

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came and devoured it. Other seed
fell on rocky ground, where it did

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not have much soil. It sprang
up at once because the soil was not

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deep, and the sun came up, and when the sun came up,

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it was scorched. And because it
did not have sufficient root, it withered.

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Other seed fell among the thorns they
which grew up, and they grew

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up it and choked it and did
not produce grain. But other seed fell

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on good soil and produced grain,
sprouting and growing, some yielding thirty times

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as much, some sixty, and
some a hundred times. And he said,

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whoever has ears to hear, let
them hear. You better listen,

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you better listen. And so God
is teaching us something very very key here

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at the very end of that part
of the parable, that the Bible is

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teaching us straight out of Jesus's mouth, that there is good soil, and

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the people who become, by God's
grace good soil will have the optimal outcome,

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the ultimate result of growth. For
some of us, it multiplies.

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What is the it God's word.
The seed that God sols into our lives

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is his truth, everything that He
wants for us, His truth, His

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word is truth in our lives.
And those who are good soil, whose

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lives and hearts and minds are good
soil, It grows and it continues to

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grow. And it says that it
grows in multiplication, some thirtyfold, some

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sixtyfold, some one hundred times.
Whoever has ears, listen, so let

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me ask you a question. We
see the other types of soil and what

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went wrong with them, But let
me ask you a question. Is there

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anything in your way today? I'm
talking about right now, almost six minutes

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after the hour, right now,
that is holding you up from becoming good

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soil. God wants your life and
your heart to become fertile, to be

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receptive to His will. Is there
anything that you are putting up as a

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barrier to having your life become great
soil for the growth of His word in

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your life, for the benefit of
others, and for connection with God.

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It's something that we need, with
which we need to contend. And so

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what we want to do is look
for just a few of some life lessons.

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I'm not going to necessarily interpret every
detail. But today we are going

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to focus on life lessons. Let's
go with five from this parable. The

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first one is be receptive to God's
word. I already preempted myself here,

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and I'm going again to verse eight. But the other seed fell on good

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soil and produced grain, sprouting and
growing, some yielding thirty times as much,

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some sixty, and some one hundred
times. So the lesson here is

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that we should be preparing our hearts
to be receptive to God's word like good

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soil, so that the word can
take root. It won't stay on the

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surface, but it will take root
and then begin to grow. How we

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treat people will be a manifestation of
whether this truth is growing in our lives.

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How we respond to God's truth,
whether we will yield our will and

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do his words, or we'll explain
them away as if they're not important,

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that we will explain away our responsibilities. It will be an indicator of whether

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we are accepting of God's word,
and if it is growing. Here's another

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one, gard against superficial acceptance from
verses five and six. And some fell

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on stony ground where it had not
much earth, and immediately sprang up because

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it had no depth of earth.
But when the sun was up, it

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was scorched because it had no root, and it withered away. So we

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shouldn't be okay with surface understanding,
surface acceptance, doing the bare minimum.

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Some people live at the bare minimum
status quo. Where God is concerned,

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He's saying, no, I'm giving
you the privilege to be fertile, receptive

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soil, so that the status quo
will not be good enough, that everything

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that I desire for you will become
fruitful in your life. Number three,

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Resist distractions and temptation. Verse seven. And some fell on thorns, and

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thorns among thorns, and thorns grew
up and choked it and yielded no fruit.

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And so we are to resist,
by God's grace, by yielding our

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will to God, submitting ourselves therefore
unto God, and resisting the devil,

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resisting temptation, and he will flee
from us. So distractions and temptations.

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Number four cultivate patience and perseverance from
verse h and another and verse eight.

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Again, another fell on good ground, and it yielded these increases. Yes,

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and so there are times that we
need to wait. The seed has

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to germinate, it has to grow
and only people who persevere will see the

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outcome. And then, finally,
the outcome is what we want to focus

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on. Expect a rich harvest if
we are fertile ground. Despite the risks

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of potential failures. There is a
promise that if we will yield our will

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to God, then his word will
yield much fruit. Peace. Thanks for

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joining us listening. Friends. Always
remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has been

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your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,