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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, December two,
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 for today
is Mission to the Unreached, Part one.

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Mission to the Unreached Part one.
We'll get into that in just a

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moment, but first I'd like to
say welcome to you and ask you to

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go over to your Daily Portion dot
com, join our online community, and

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also let us know where you are
in the world. Again at your Daily

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Portion dot com this is a way
that we build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway bother and Heaven.

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Thank you for this Sabbath morning and
for the privilege you have entrusted to us

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to be able to connect with you
and then connect with others. Please fill

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us with your holy spirit. Teach
us not to try to do this on

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our own. Keep ministry simple and
powerful through your spirit. In Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and a man again. Mission to the unreached. There

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are people around the world that just
literally don't know God. There are some

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that don't even know what to call
God, much less to know and believe

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it him. There are people who
have rejected God. I have friends when

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in particular that it just is a
burden to me because this friend is so

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belligerent and antagonistic toward the concept of
God. And all of our friends are

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who are godly people who love God. So there is a mission to the

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unreached. Some of the people we
know, some of the people we don't

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know. But there is a mission. Nonetheless, I'm going to base really,

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I'm using the Lesson study. The
Lesson study is based on acts chapter

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seventeen and other passages that will go
throughout next week beginning tomorrow, but I

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want you to focus on chapter seventeen
of Acts. Okay, and so we

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begin by reading just a couple of
verse. Well, let's read verse seventeen

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first. Therefore did he in the
synagogue we're talking about Paul Synagogue with the

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Jews and with the devout persons,
and in the market daily with them that

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met him. So what we want
to do is make an effort to be

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in various settings. And I know
that that sounds simple, but the only

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way we can reach people who don't
know God is if we're with them.

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Some of you lives sterile lives.
Some of you take it too far where

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it comes to not connecting quote with
the ungodly. And it's like no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no.

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Wherever you happen to be, be
it in church or outside of church,

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in temple or outside of temple,
right, if it's in your gym

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where you do exercise, if it's
on a sports part of me, sports

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field, or some kind of coffee
shop where you do your work, right,

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and please don't get caught up on
coffee, and don't text me about

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that, because you would be missing
the point. In that case. Some

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people go to those places to use
the internet and do their work. It's

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better than working from home sometimes,
so in those settings, right, and

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so many others that I could cite, God is saying to engage in diverse

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communities, just like Paul did.
Also, we can get here in let

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me go through to Romans chapter one
and verse sixteen. It's very simple.

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For I am not ashamed of the
Gospel of Christ. It is the power

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of God unto salvation to everyone that
believes. I want you to get outside

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of your comfort zone. We all
need to do that. At times.

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There are people who are ashamed of
the gospel. They don't want to be

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stigmatized, they don't want to be
rejected, they don't want to be seen

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as fill in the blank. Who
knows what times we hold back when we

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see somebody who's in need of a
blessing, We see somebody who's in need

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of deliverance from some vice of sin
or besetting sin, and we are reluctant

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to share because we're like, oh, maybe they'll think we're judging them.

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Well, let me ask you,
if you have the kindness of God,

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do you have his spirit and you
see somebody who's drowning in the sea and

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you are a swimmer, do you
say that same thing? Then? Do

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you say, well, maybe the
person that's drowning is going to be offended

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if I go and save their lives. Maybe the person who's drowning who is

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fighting me as I go and attempt
to save his or her life, I

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have to knock him out so I
can drag him back into shore. Maybe

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they'll be offended. Or do you
say, wait a minute, now their

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life is at stake, and since
their life is at stake, I will

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stop at nothing to be of a
service and assistance to them for their quality

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of life to improve. Yeah,
okay, so I think that we get

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the point. The Gospel of Christ
is unto salvation. It is the rescue.

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It is the life saver for people
who are drowning in their human predicament,

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drowning and addictions, drowning in sin
problems, drowning drowning and broken relationships.

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God is saying, please, do
not be selfish, expand your comfort

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zone, and do not limit yourself
to say that, Well, maybe they'll

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think a certain way about me,
so I won't go to them. That's

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what Jonah did, and you see
where that got him. All right,

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let's read from Acts, chapter seventeen, verses twenty two and twenty three.

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This is very interesting to me.
As I passed by and beheld your devotions,

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this is what Paul is saying on
Mars Hill. Mars Hill, Okay,

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held your devotions. I found an
altar with this inscription to the unknown

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God. These individuals were polytheists.
They worshiped all kinds of different quote and

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unquote gods. Ha. And so
Paul was looking for an opportunity. I

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think a couple of days ago I
said that we should pray for wisdom and

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an opportunity to reach people. Well, he was looking for an opportunity or

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a basis for discussion or whatever in
order to lead these people to God.

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And so, among the hundreds of
gods, maybe thousands, I don't remember,

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Ah, among the hundreds of gods
that were there, false gods,

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he noticed one that he could capitalize
on. He said, okay, well,

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they're not talking about thor or Zeus
here. They're not talking about any

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of these others. A this one
says unknown. Aha, there is one

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that is not known to you.
Remember when Nebuchadnezzar had an encounter with the

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children of God, right three Hebrew
boys, in particular Hananiah, Michel Azariah.

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He said, who will this God? Who is this God? That

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he will deliver you from my hands? It's like, yeah, you on

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an introduction, I can give you
one of those. And God introduced himself.

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You can read about that in the
Fiery Furnace incident. I think it's

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Daniel chapter two. Yeah. And
so the Unknown God. This was the

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basis of the common ground connection that
Paul was establishing. Since we're talking about

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God, gods, since we are
talking about that, I want to capitalize

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on this, maximize it. And
then he begins to teach and share about

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the God who created the heavens and
the earth and the sea and all that

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in him is. He talked about
how they could connect to the one true

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and living God to the exclusion of
all of those others that they had fabricated.

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Long story, long story. Also, you can address intellectual curiosities.

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I'm sure as he opened up the
understanding and the word concerning the quote unknown

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God, there were people because of
where he was who had a higher sense

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of learning and thought and reasoning and
wanted to know more. And in this

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case the brother should be available.
We should be available to have conversations in

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all times. The Bible says that
we should be ready always to give a

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reason for the hope that is within
us, with meekness and with fear.

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And we adapt our methods to the
situation as God gives us strength of a

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wonderful rest of your sabbath, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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

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comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with el

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David Harris, make it a great
day. Yeah,