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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, December nine,
twenty twenty three. 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, God's Mission, My

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mission, and our caption is Mission
to the Unreached, Part two. We

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broached that just a couple of weeks
ago, and we're going to continue the

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discussion here Mission to the Unreached Part
two. First, I just want to

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say happy Sabbath to you. Are
you taking you in time? Are you?

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Maybe I should say investing time to
rest, to breathe, to experience

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God, to experience nature. Yeah, you see how I'm bringing you down.

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It's not because I've run out of
things to say. How could I

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do that? Right? But we
do need to come aside and rest a

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while, even on the Sabbath day
especially, So please please please make a

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special connection with God, with your
family and with the community people that can

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be benefited from your influence. Let's
go ahead and pray, and then we

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will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new

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day and for the opportunity we have
to continue in your word. Please give

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us your understanding and wisdom as we
reach the who don't know you. In

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Jesus's name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Mission to the unreached.

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Part two. Okay, so we're
going to begin straight out of the

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Lesson Study, and it reads from
the beginning, a loving God sought his

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lost children, and even today that
is the case. Do you remember in

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the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve. He had already created them. He

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gave them everything they could possibly need
or desire, because remember, there is

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no sin on planet Earth. And
then he gives some very clear instructions and

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both Adam and Eve violated those instructions. And to make a long story short,

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remember God came to the garden as
usual, and as he was in

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the garden, the Bible says that
God called out to Adam and said,

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Adam, where are you? And
Adam sheepish. He says, I'm hiding.

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I was naked, and so I
hid myself. And God said,

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well, who told you that you
were naked? Did I did you take

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from the tree? Did you eat
from the tree that I commanded that thou

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shouldest not eat? And then he
begins to blame his wife. And then

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when God says something to Eve,
blames the devil. The devil made me

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do it. And then God deals
with the situation from there. But the

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fact is that the loving God did
a couple of things. One he put

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into place a plan before Adam and
Eve sinned, that should they fall into

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sin or jump into sin, that
he would be able to save them.

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Jesus was slaying from the foundation of
the earth, as the Bible would give

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us in those in that language,
or because God is always on time and

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cause his mind as eternal, the
plan already existed, so that as soon

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as Eve ate the fruit, Adam
ate the fruit. God didn't have to

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destroy them off the face of the
earth. And so God had the plan

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in place already, not because they
had to sin, but he knew they

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would sin. But apart from that, now we see that God didn't sit

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up in heaven and just wait for
Adam to come to his senses and then,

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you know, do something about it. No, he goes after Adam

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and says, where are you,
Adam? Where are you? Adam?

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Where are you? He calls out
to Adam so that Adam would know the

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state of his experience with God.
So Adam would understand that he had so

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far separated himself from God that he
was in danger, in danger of being

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that way forever, or being separated
from God and then losing his life.

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And that would have been any turn, no consequence. You see where that's

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going. So God loved us so
much that he put put us in position

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to receive salvation. Now we know
it's through Christ. And then he gives

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Adam and Eve the opportunity to see
where they were. And so that's a

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good good way to begin this lesson
study. And then it says that God

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is still seeking to reach the lost, including those lost in the cities.

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In twenty eighteen, the United Nations
published its latest findings, which say that

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fifty five percent of the planet's population
lives in urban areas, and this will

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grow if time should last, to
sixty eight percent by twenty fifty. We

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have no choice. We must witness
to those in the cities. So let's

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go ahead and read from Matthew,
chapter fifteen and verse twenty eight, where

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it reads, then Jesus answered and
said to her, a woman, where

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is your faith? Let it be
to you as you desire. And her

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daughter was healed from that very hour. God showed that at different times through

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Christ, when Jesus lived on planet
Earth. At different times, sometimes Jesus

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was on his way on a particular
mission, and then along the pathway or

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the journey or the road, then
an opportunity for healing would happen, an

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opportunity to connect with someone would happen, right, an opportunity for a person

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who was blind, or more than
one person who was blind to be delivered

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from that blindness so they could see. Or he would pass through cities or

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buy cities, excuse me, and
then he would heal everybody in the city

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to where the Bible says there was
not one sick or feeble one among them.

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And so in this case we see
a woman who has faith. She

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puts her faith in God, and
then the Bible says that her daughter was

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healed from that very hour. That
means that God's intent for us is to

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be delivered from sin, delivered from
earthly impediments and sicknesses and so forth.

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So God loves people, and I
really I couldn't resist. God loves people

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more than anything. That's a song, by the way, all right,

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and so let's look at a few
principles before I let you go the Sabbath.

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Okay, let's read from Genesis chapter
chapter nine, I mean three,

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verse nine again. And the Lord
called unto Adam and said, unto him,

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where are you recognize? Recognize that
like Adam, everyone is sought after

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by God. God is seeking to
save the lost. He showed it with

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Adam and Eve, and he is
showing it with us. Number two,

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embrace urban mission fields. Right,
And I've already cited this, But from

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Matthew chapter nine and verse thirty five, the Bible reads and Jesus went about

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all the silly cities and villages,
teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel

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of the Kingdom and healing every sickness
and every disease among the people. And

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so if Jesus hadn't gone into these
villages, he hadn't gone into these city

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centers, how would this healing have
happened. So he did it in two

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ways. We see that he would
teach the truth, teach the truth about

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God's love, teach the truth from
his word. He lived the truth before

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them. In one of the ways
that he lived the truth before them is

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that he would deliver them from their
physical, mental, and emotional maladies.

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We know that he forgave sins,
right, we know that Jesus came to

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save people from our sins. He
also made sure that their felt needs were

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handled. There were people who were
hungry, he would give them food.

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People who were sick and diseased,
he would give them what they needed.

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And so our approach in those same
areas, those same kinds of areas is

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to do and live like Jesus did. And of course we should minister beyond

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cultural boundaries. There's such a long
list of discussion about who's a gentile,

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who is a Jew, who was
connected to God, who was not.

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But ultimately, regardless of those details, Jesus came to save every nation,

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kindred tongue, and people for those
who will yield our real to him.

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Peace. 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,