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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 Sunday, October fifteen,
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 moving beyond our comfort zone. And

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I'm going to illustrate this just in
a way like today, I'm moving beyond

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my comfort zone because I normally wouldn't
do this, but I just want to

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give God thanks for fifty strong years
of mercy in my life. It's my

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birthday. I am feeling blessed.
And I know that I am highly favored

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because God loves me just like he
loves all of you out there. And

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so I just want to give God
thanks on this platform to say, boy,

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if he had not been so good
to me, where would I be?

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Where would I be? So thank
God for his mercies fifty strong years.

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And yeah, let's go ahead and
pray and get underway. Father in

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heaven, thank you for giving us
this privilege to open your word again today

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and for starting and starting us off
in our week with your truth. Please,

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Lord, when we are in our
comfort zone, just disturb us a

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little bit, show us how we
can be better at re people. And

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I just want to give you thanks
God for extending my life so I could

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see today in Jesus name, I
pray, Amen and Amen again. Moving

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beyond our comfort zone now, the
lesson writer pointed out something very important.

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In order to reach others, God
intends for us to move beyond our comfort

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zone. Yeah, growth is not
comfortable. There are people all over the

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world who need to hear this message
and listen. You could be in a

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metroplex like the one I grew up
in. I grew up in New York

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City and in New York City like
it is the mixing pot or melting pot,

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depending on how you look at it. I lived in Washington, DC

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and then the DC region for twenty
some years, and that was also a

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mixing and melting or melting pot.
And how do you reach people when you

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live in these societies where there are
people from every nation, kindred tongue tribing

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people right where you are right And
so we have to move outside of our

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comfort zone. And in nineteen sixty
eight, March thirty one, a few

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short days before doctor Martin Luther King
Junior was assassinated, he preached at the

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National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
And all of these years later, something

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that he said there still resonates.
He said something very very key. He

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said, eleven o'clock on Sunday morning
is the most segregated hour of America.

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Of course, he was talking about
worship time for most Protestants and Catholics.

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Now, of course, even the
Sabbatarian sabbath keepers like me, sabbath keepers

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like many of you out there who
are listening and watching, it is the

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same. Eleven o'clock on Sabbath morning
is also among the most segregated. And

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even in twenty twenty three hours in
America, and maybe you could say so

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in other parts of the world as
well. And so what we want to

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do is really undo this and say, Okay, God, you confuse the

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languages at Babel Babel, you confuse
the languages of that time, and the

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people were scattered around the world.
Yes, but then you brought us back

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together over the years. Yes.
But then at the day of Pentecost following

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Jesus's resurrection, the Bible teaches us
that when Peter and the other apostles were

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there for one mission, which is
to reach as many people as possible.

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The Bible says that the people were
hearing God's word in their own languages Parthians

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and Meads, people of Mesopotamian,
Cappadocia, Panphilia, Phrygia, and other

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parts of the world way out they
were hearing the wonderful words of God and

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so and so it is necessary for
us to be intentional. It is necessary

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for us to unconfuse this reality and
begin to bring people together, because when

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you read in the Book of Revelation
in other places, God continues to sit

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on the point the messages for every
nation, kindred tribe tongue and people,

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Well, how do we do that
if we keep separating ourselves. I wish

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I had the time to deal with
that, But let's keep it very simple

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today and use action steps. Here
in the Book of Galatians, chapter three

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and verse twenty eight, the Bible
reads, there is neither Jew nor Greek.

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There is neither bond nor free.
There is neither male nor female,

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for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus. This was talking about people who

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accept the faith of Abraham, the
same Abram faith that Abraham had, the

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kind of faith that transforms our lives, and we begin to keep covenant with

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God. This is the driver for
this passage, that we all become heirs

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according to the promise that God made
to Abraham. Aren't you glad that God

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has given us unity and diversity in
Christ? Unity and diversity. In those

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days, the Bible says that they
that that God broke down the middle wall

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of partition between God's people who who
had one sort of ethnic perspective and spiritual

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and who would be called the gentiles
like everybody else. And he broke down

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that middle wall of partition and said, now we are no longer separating you.

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There is no separation for those who
are in Christ Jesus, and we

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build faith and fellowship together. That's
why I say it so often. And

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then another action step is to show
no partiality. Let's read from the Book

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of James, chapter two, verses
one through four, and the Bible reads,

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my brethren have not the faith of
our Lord j My brethren have not

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the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory. With respect

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of persons. For if there come
unto your assembly a man with a gold

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ring in goodly apparel, and there
come in also a poor man of vile

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arraignment, and ye have respect to
him that weareth the happy clothing, and

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say unto him, sit thou here
in a good place, And say to

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the poor stand there, or sit
here under my footstool. Are ye not

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then partial in yourselves? And are
become judges of evil thoughts? Now,

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there was not a race or ethnicity
thing here. It was all about to

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have and have not disparity. Sometimes
we have to get out of our comfort

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zone and call this challenge what it
is like to be honest and open and

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say, yeah, there are times
that we treat people who appear to be

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more well to do better. It's
true. Sometimes we treat those who seem

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not to have as much more terribly. It's true. This is why Jesus

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said, as ye have done it
unto the least of these, as ye

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have done it unto the least of
these, my brethren, ye have also

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done it unto me. As ye
have not done it unto the least of

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these, my brethren, ye have
not done it unto me. And so

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we need we need to see people
in the way that God sees people.

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Okay, now we have to look
at hospitality. The Bible reads here in

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the Book of Romans, chapter twelve
and verse thirteen, that we are to

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be distributing to the necessity of the
saints given to hospitality. So we pursue

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hospitality. He realized that on the
job description of the people that should be

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leading God's people is hospitality. And
I know it's not easy for all of

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us. So we talked about the
different races and ethnicities and tongues and tribes

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and people. We talked about the
have and have not disparity, people who

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have more money than others, who
have less money and means than others.

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And now we have to have an
open minded open armed approach to say we

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welcome you into the presence of the
assembly of God's people. We welcome you

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because God said that his house is
a house of prayer for all people,

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and that is not always comfortable,
but it's holy everyone over day peace.

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

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

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has been your daily portion with El
David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,