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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 Thursday, December
seventh, twenty twenty three. 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 continuing
in our Lesson study series. God's mission,

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my mission, and our caption for
today is crossing a line. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

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way we can continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Father in Heaven, thank you for

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giving us the privilege of opening your
word again. And Father, please teach

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us how holy you are and how
much you love us. Thank you for

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making us all the same. We
are all humans who need to be saved,

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and I pray God that we will
see it that way. In Jesus's

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name, I pray Amen and aymen
again. I don't know if you realize

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this or not, And really I'm
just saying that for a fact, there

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are some people in everywhere in the
world who believe that they are better or

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different than you, and you're like, but Dave, everybody's different. Like

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I don't think like you, you
don't think like me. You're a man,

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I'm a woman. Right, You're
from whatever country. I'm from whatever

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country. That's not what I mean. I mean that we were created in

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the image of God. Adam and
Eve were created in the image of God.

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We are their descendants. All of
us have that in common. Okay,

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Well, if you don't like that, then after the flood, like

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all of us came through the line
of Noah somehow, someway, we all

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came from that lineage. Okay,
so we're all humans. And it's like,

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well, that's obvious. Day.
Well, if that's obvious, why

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is there racism? If that's obvious? Why is there human trafficking? If

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that's obvious? Why do some people
believe in evolution and that some certain subsets

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of people are so period than other
subsets of people. But what does that

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have to do with today's lesson?
I'm so glad you acts. Let's go

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ahead and begin by reading from the
Book of Acts. That's the Book of

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Acts, chapter seventeen, and I
will read beginning at verse twenty four.

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And the Bible reads the God who
made the world and everything in it.

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So we're talking about the one true
and living God, Blessed be his name,

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who is Lord of heaven and Earth. Does not live in temples made

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by human hands, nor is he
served by human hands. As if he

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needed anything. We kind of talked
about this the other day. I won't

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go into that today, because He
himself gives life and breath to everything and

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everyone. May I just say here
that since God is our creator, since

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God is the one who knew what
was in him his mind when he made

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you, then that means you're responsible
to him. We are all responsible to

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the one true and Living God,
blessed be his name, who created us.

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We keep going verse twenty six.
From one man, he made every

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nation. I think I said that
already of every of the human race,

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excuse me to inhabit the entire earth, depending determining their set times and fixed

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limits of the places where they would
live. So wherever you happen to be

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like me, it's uh, what
is it five oh four in the morning

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where I am wherever you are.
It may be a different time, different

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time zone. But no matter what
that is. You may have come from

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a different culture, You may have
a different native tongue, You may who

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knows. There's a lot of things. You could be shorter than me,

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taller than me. You could be
larger in stature than I am, or

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smaller in stature. But we are
all created from one root person, and

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every nation on the human race that
would inhabit the entire earth. God said

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where we would live. He gave
fixed limits. You're not going to live

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on Mars or Pluto. You're not
going to live in the water. You're

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going to live on the land,
and so forth. Let me keep going.

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Okay, so verse twenty six gives
something very interesting. I went to

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read from the SDA Bible commentary on
that. Paul is stating the historical truth

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that all people and consequently all nations
sprang up from one common ancestor adam.

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Okay, nothing to see here,
folks, that's not new. The belief

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was one that no Greek, especially
no Athenian, was likely to accept.

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This is why we need to understand
context, brothers and sisters here. It

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is for such the distinction between Greek
and Barbarian was radical and essential. The

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one was, by nature meant to
be a slave of the other. What

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they believed that one was to be, the Barbarian was to be the Greek's

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slave. I think that there are
cultures all around the world, there are

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situations all around the world where there
are people who believe that way. It

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may not be that you're Greek and
you have Barbarians. We're talking about a

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long time ago but we see where
the classism and racism thing has gone completely

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awry on planet Earth. Let me
keep reading, but there was no place

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in Paul's theology for a quote superior
race. Y'all can fill in the blank

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there. You understand this happens today
on planet Earth. Let's keep going verse

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twenty seven, so that they would
search for God and perhaps grope around for

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him and find him, though he
is not far from any one of us.

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Let me just say here, have
you ever felt like you couldn't find

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God? Have you ever felt that
because somebody said that you did not measure

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up to their standard. It doesn't
matter what the standard was, but they

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gave one, they invented one,
and they say you can't measure up,

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and therefore you're less than. You
are not qualified, you are not great,

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you are not accepted acceptable. Well, God is saying here that there

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is no superior person, no matter
what the distinction is. And by the

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way, he is making himself available
to all who ask seek and enough huh,

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even those who are not quite sure
how to find God or to seek

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after God. The Bible says that
the heavens declare the glory of the Lord.

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Yes, and all that he made
display his handiwork. And in the

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Book of Romans he said that all
of nature is a testament of God,

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and it reveals the eternal Godhead.
Like so we need to understand this again

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from the commentary on verse twenty seven. Might feel after him. That means

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to touch and to feel, or
to grow. This describes how blind people

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may grow to find their way,
wondering where the obstacles may be right,

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to feel around, to say,
okay, how can I move safely from

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one point to another? But this
is now for us, in our spiritual

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blindness, to be groping for the
knowledge of God. This is how people

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find him. Okay. The altar
of the unknown God was a witness that

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they had not found the war the
world by wisdom. They did not know

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God. They did not find God
by But Paul brought the assurance that the

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true seeker could know God desires to
be found. He is a rewarder of

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them that diligently seek Him. Okay, verse twenty eight. For in Him

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we live and move about and exist, as even some of your poets have

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said, for we too are His
offspring. I'm going to read from the

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book Ministry of Healing, page one
twelve. Here, through the agencies of

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nature, God is working day by
day, hour by hour, moment by

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moment to keep us alive, to
build up, and to restore us.

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The power working through these agencies is
the power of God. You see.

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God did not wind us up and
say all right, well, yeah,

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let me know how it happens,
whatever happens in your life, just let

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me know. No, God actively
keeps us alive, and he actively positions

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us so we can get to know
Him no matter who we are. Have

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a wonderful day, Peace. Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends. Always

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

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the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,