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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 us

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

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

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

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

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It is Sabbath, July thirteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,

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and our caption for today is controversies. Huh, controversies? Have you

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ever been in a controversy before?
We'll get into that in just a moment,

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

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those joining us for the very first
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world at your Daily Portion dot com. I neglected to say to join our

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online community. I'm literally thumbing through
some people who joined just a while ago,

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and I'm looking at them and I'm
going to go ahead and hit the

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approve button. Yep, approve button
there it is approve all and this is

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one of the ways that we continue
to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray and get underwigh,
Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving

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us the opportunity to open up your
word this Sabbath morning. Thank you for

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giving us your word. And I'm
asking you now to help us to see

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the way that you see. Help
us to hear and experience like you hear

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in experience, at least within our
sphere as humans. Please help us to

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serve you with our whole hearts and
Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. Controversies, let me
just say that there are some people that

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just love controversy. Some people are
cantankerous and just love controversy. Some people

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just love to start, as we
would say in Jamaica and Jamaica olipa argument

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just want to just come miserable and
constantly looking for contention. But what God

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is saying to us is, if
you're going to have a controversy, have

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that controversy with the devil. Like, if you want to have a controversy,

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let the enmity that God put between
us and the devil, let that

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stand, like we wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities and

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against powers, and against the darkness
of this world and spiritual wickedness in high

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places. Like, if you want
to have a controversy, controversy, have

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your controversy with the devil under God. Though of course, let God deal

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with that. But don't don't don't
stir up. Don't stir up controversy among

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people, bro Like, sister,
don't stir up controversy on planet Earth with

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people. Okay, yeah, it's
a whole soapbox for me, But let

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me go ahead and read. Let
me go ahead and read from people.

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Read based on something that you know, people were doing when Jesus was on

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planet Earth about the Sabbath, and
Jesus had to respond because these people just

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had It's always something, there's always
something, And so now in my frustration,

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I read the Bible, Book of
Mark, chapter two, beginning at

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verse twenty seven, and the Bible
reads, and he set unto them the

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Sabbath was made for man, meaning
humans, and not humans for the Sabbath.

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So where goal is not to serve
as some slave. We're not slaves

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serving a twenty four hour period of
time. We're not slaves looking for unnecessary

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and difficult rules to somehow bend the
backs of people and beat them because the

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Sabbath somehow is an arduous, difficult
time in space. No, and so

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he said unto them, the Sabbath
was made for man, and not man

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for the Sabbath. Therefore, the
son of Man is also the lord of

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the Sabbath. Can I just say
that again? Therefore the son of Man

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is lord also of the Sabbath,
is also lord of the Sabbath. So

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why would you try to start an
argument with the one who is the lord

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of the Sabbath. It's the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God. Like if

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you have Jesus Christ here on planet
Earth, why would you want to start

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an argument with him about what he
created? What the Bible says that on

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this seventh day he rested, he
wrested from what he had created and made

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and blessed and sanctified and made it
holy. Like he blessed it, he

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rested on it, and he made
it holy. So how in the world

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can you talk to the one who
did that? How can you talk to

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him and tell him how this is
supposed to go? That doesn't even make

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sense. So, like I said, there are some people who just live

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for controversy. How can you have
controversy with the creator of life, the

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creator in this case of the Sabbath. Well, during the days coming now

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Sunday through Friday, we are going
to look through different parts of the Book

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of Mark and learn some lessons.
I want to give a few lessons that

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may intersect with some of what we'll
talk about over the next coming few days,

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and some also some different and new
ideas not necessarily related. But we're

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in the Book of Mark in the
same chapter chapter two, verse one,

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straight through to chapter three and verse
six, and I just want to give

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five lessons that I'm picking up in
those passages. Okay, in the Book

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of Mark, chapter two, the
Book of Mark, chapter two, we

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see a man who is paralyzed and
inspiration says that it was based on some

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things that he had done to himself. And now he has four faithful friends

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who take him into the presence of
God, meaning Jesus, while he's preaching

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in a home, and there was
no way for him to get in the

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normal way, And so those men
took him up to the top of the

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house, pulled up the tiles or
whatever it is that or whatever how it

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was, and let him down right
in front of Jesus like they skipped the

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line. And so Jesus basically says, when he sees him, he says,

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son, thy sins are forgiven.
And the haters, the ones who

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loved controversy, the cantankerous and miserable
ones that I mentioned, wicked minded men,

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they said, well, who can
forgive sins? But God only.

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They're in the presence of Jesus,
like they know who he is. Even

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the devils know who he is.
We talked about that the other day yesterday.

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But the Bible says that Jesus had
to deal with them, and he

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said, at the end of all
of this, and he is now healing

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the man. He said, but
that ye may know verse ten of Mark

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chapter two, that the son of
Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.

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He said to the sick of the
palsy, I say, unto thee

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arise, take up thy bed and
go thy way into Thine house. And

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so Jesus shows them that he has
the power to forgive sins. And he

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showed them in a way. He
showed them in a way that they could

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understand if they were willing. And
so I thank God that he ended that

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controversy right there. And of course, or on the Sabbath on healing on

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the Sabbath in Mark chapter three and
verse four, and it says, and

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he said, unto them, is
it lawful to do good on the Sabbath

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days? Or to do evil to
save life or to kill? But they

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held their peace. So there's this
big discussion if he's supposed to heal somebody,

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to set somebody free, like to
heal somebody of a disease, to

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have compassion on them. And they're
saying it's not lawful to heal on the

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Sabbath, and he's like, hold
a hold on, hold up, pause,

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hold on for a moment, hold
on for a moment. Is it

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lawful to moment? Is it lawful
to do good on the Sabbath? So

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are you trying to say that you
would watch somebody in pain. You would

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watch somebody imperiled, someone in danger, someone who needs to needs deliverance,

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someone who needs healing. You would
watch them remain that way and say,

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Okay, let me wait until a
boy. I hope they make it.

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I hope they make it until sun's
because at sunset then I can do something.

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Come on now, So Jesus ends
that controversy right there. Let me

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continue. I'm all in my feelings. I'm all in my feelings. Let's

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go. Let's go to the old
wine skins here new wine skins, excuse

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me. In Mark chapter two and
verse twenty two, he says, and

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no man put a new wine in
old bottles, else the new wine would

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burst the bottles and the wine would
be spilt, and the bottles would be

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marred. But the new wine must
be put into new bottles. The bottom

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line of this is some of us
are so rigid that when God pours into

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us, it doesn't work. We
need to be pliable and receptive. Thank

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it a great day, Thanks for
joining us listening to friends. Always remember

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

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mouth. Of God. This has
been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,