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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 Tuesday, December
twelve, 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 in tire and Sidon.

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In Tire and Sidon, We'll get
into that in just a moment, but

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first I'd like to just say welcome, Welcome, Welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very
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Also, let us know where you
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Portion dot com. And before we
pray, I just want to say a

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great, big happy birthday to Simona, my my one and only son,

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Josiah. He is thirteen today.
Say happy birthday to him if you happen

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to see him somewhere. And we're
grateful, grateful, grateful that you are

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here. Even though you don't listen
to your Daily Portion, somebody's gonna let

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you know that we are grateful.
Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father in
Heaven, thank you for giving us this

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day and for giving us the example
of Christ, who loves and who gave

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everything for us so we can be
saved. I pray that we will do

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as much as we can to lead
others to salvation. In Jesus's name.

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I pray Amen, and a man
again entire and sidon. I'm going to

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read before we go to two passages
of Scripture. I'm going to read from

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the book Desire of Ages, the
Desira of Ages, page four hundred and

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then just to get us started,
and it reads Christ did not immediately reply

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to the woman's request. And again
we're going to read two accounts of the

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same story if we have enough time, and it'll make sense. He received

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this representative of a despised race as
the people of God would have done.

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In this he designed that his disciples
should be impressed with the cold and heartless

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manner in which the people of God
would treat such a case, as evinced

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by his reception of the woman,
and the compassionate manner in which he would

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have them deal with such distress,
as manifested by his subsequent granting of her

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petition. And so basically, and
by the way, that's the end of

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the quote. And so basically,
this woman appears before Christ and makes a

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request and Jesus behaves like the people
of God treat people from her particular race.

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And that was supposed to wake up
something in his disciples to say,

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wait a minute, that's not right, that's not right. And of course

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Jesus showed that that was just an
object lesson because he ultimately, he ultimately

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heals her. Okay. And so
we're going to go first now to Matthew

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chapter fifteen, and we will read
beginning at verse twenty two to make this

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make sense. And the Bible reads
and behold, a woman of Canaan and

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came out of the same coasts and
cried unto him, saying, have mercy

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on me, o, Lord DAWs, son of David, My daughter is

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grievously vexed with a devil. So
this is one of the worst ways someone

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can find themselves, really, and
so she's vexed with the devil verse twenty

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three. But he answered her not
a word, and his disciples came and

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besought him, saying, send her
away, for she crieth after us.

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Now hold on, the woman's daughter
is being tormented by the devil, and

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and they're saying, send her away. Wait a minute verse twenty four.

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But he answered and said, I
am not sent but unto the lost sheep

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of the House of Israel. So
this is what he's saying to this woman

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who is in a desperate way.
And by the way, the disciples are

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already saying, like, send her
away, Jesus, We're like, she's

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crying after us. This is aning
send her away verse twenty five. Then

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came she and worshiping, saying,
Lord help me. So she does not

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change God's mind, like she doesn't
change Jesus's mind. She's just now doing

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what exercising her faith. This is
what Jesus wanted anyway, And he knew

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that she had faith, and he
knew exactly what he was planning to do.

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But the disciples needed to learn a
lesson, okay, verse twenty six.

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But he answered and said, it
is not meat to take the children's

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bread and to cast it to dogs. Wait a minute, that's so harsh.

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Well, that's the way the people
of God behave toward the east verse

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twenty seven. And she said,
truth Lord. So she humbles herself a

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little bit early. She worships.
She presses him with the request again,

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and she's not taking no for an
answer. But did I mention again?

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Can I mention again that she's a
worshiper? And she says, a truth

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lord? Yet the dogs eat of
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And Jesus answered and said, unto
her, O woman, great is

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thy faith, be it unto thee, even as thou wilt. And her

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daughter was made whole from that very
hour. So much to say, so

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little time. Number One, Jesus
is impartial. It sounded in the beginning

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like he was just like the people
around him, But now we understand that

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it was an object lesson. It
was a way for the people of God

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to see that you are discompassionate people. You put up artificial and unnecessary borders

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where having connection to God is concerned. So what I'm gonna do. I'm

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gonna show how you look. I'm
going to show how you sound. I'm

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going to show who a true worshiper
is. This woman persisted as a true

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worshiper. She humbled herself. She
did not take offense, she did not

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take no for an answer, but
she said, okay, this is how

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you all treat us, but this
is what I need, and I need

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it for the sake of my daughter. She showed that she was unselfish and

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humble, and Jesus answered her prayer. Now we're going to read the same

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story from Mark chapter seven, the
Book of Mark, chapter seven, and

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I will read verse twenty beginning at
verse twenty four Mark chapter seven, and

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I will read beginning at verse twenty
four. And from thence he arose and

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went into the borders of Tyron Sidon, and entered into a house, and

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would have no man know it.
But he could not be hid, for

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a certain woman whose young daughter had
an unclean spirit, heard of him and

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came and fell at his feet.
The woman was a Greek, a serophonician

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by nation, and she besought him
that he would cast forth the devil from

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out of her daughter. But Jesus
said unto her, let the children first

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be filled, for it is not
meat to take the children's bread and cast

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it unto the dogs. And she
answered and said unto him, yes,

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Lord, yet the dogs under the
table eat of the children's crumbs. And

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he said unto her, for this, saying, go thy way, the

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devil is gone out of thy daughter. Verse thirty and final. And when

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she was come to her house,
she found the devil gone out, and

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her daughter laid upon the bread upon
the bed. And so Jesus, I'm

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not gonna say anything too fresh and
new. We've already covered it. But

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Jesus, now you can see from
another way. Let me go here,

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answers a need inside her. Where
he went, he says, for this,

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saying, go thy way, the
devil is gone out of her.

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He is showing that, even though
she was not aware that he had already

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answered her prayer, he now announces
it. There are times that we feel

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desperate, brothers and sisters. Some
of us feel cut off from God's people.

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Some of us feel rejected because we
don't look and behave and sound like

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or come from a certain in Air
quotes pedigree, and Jesus is saying that

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at the time that you need me
most, I'm going to answer your prayers

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in the affirmative. Just humble yourself, continue to be worshipers, and I'm

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going to show everybody how this is
done. Have compassion on people who mean

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God. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live

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

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

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great day. Yeah,