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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 Wednesday, December thirteenth,
twenty twenty three. Hello, my

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name is Elle David Harris. I
am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's
Word every single day, and today is

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no exception. We are continuing in
our Lesson study series. God's Mission,

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My Mission, our caption for today
I'm reading ahead is send her Away,

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Send her a We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say welcome to you and
ask you to please go over to your

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com. That's how we build faith and

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fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
and then we will get underway. Father

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in Heaven, thank you for giving
us the privilege to come into your presence

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and for not sending us away.
Please, Father, teach us how to

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be empathetic, knowing that we are
sinners saved by grace, and others around

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us also need to be saved,
no matter from where they come. In

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Can I just say

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that you religious people are just too
much sometimes and oh, okay, it's

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like you're pointing a finger at me, Dave, Well, I should say

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we religious people are to much at
times. Yeah, some of us have

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mistaken the privilege of being a part
of the family of God as a way

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to become elitists. Like somehow we
have taken the privilege we have to be

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in the presence of God to not
be transformed by his presence, not to

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be transformed by who He is,
and then begin to emulate and model who

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Jesus was when he lived on planet
Earth, and then somehow saying yes and

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we just kind of hang out in
the presence and feel like now we're special

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and the other people, I'm so
sorry for you. Yeah, you should

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probably do what I did in that
way you can get into this club.

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And God is saying, no,
I did not create you to become a

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part of a country club. I
did not create you to be in the

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so called first class of this plane
that is on its way to Heaven.

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I did not create you to to
get so called black car service and have

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your feet propped up in the back
of the vehicle while somebody is sweating for

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you in order to get you to
the Kingdom. And then yeah, sorry

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for the poor peasants who are out
there having to catch the bus or walk

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or worse. No, that is
not what God intended when he shared the

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truth with us. And you're like, with Dave, that's obvious. Yeah

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really, Okay, Well, let's
go to the Book of Acts, chapter

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ten and see how obvious this was
for the man of God, who,

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by the way, was the chief
preacher at the special day of Pentecost that

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is forever etched in spiritual history.
Peter. Let's see if Peter understood that

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that was so obvious, Dave.
Okay, And so, beginning at verse

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nine, the Bible reads in Acts
chapter ten. On themorrow, as they

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went on their journey and drew nigh
into the city, Peter went up upon

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the housetop to pray. So he's
there praying. He's not there playing around.

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He has already been converted. He
has received the Holy Spirit to an

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extreme and positive degree. And he
led that first century church on that first

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day of Pentecost. And uh,
let's see what happened. Peter went up.

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He went up to pray about the
sixth hour, that's probably I'm guessing

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about noon. And he became very
hungry. Yeh, that makes sense.

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It's lunchtime, and would have eaten. But while they made ready, he

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fell into a trance. So God
is about to tell you something, Peter.

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Okay, verse eleven. And he
saw and saw heaven opened, and

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a certain vessel descending unto him,
as it had been a great sheet knit

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at four corners and let down to
the earth. Okay, So maybe he's

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singing that song that we used to
sing, like I'm gonna sit at the

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welcome table right one of these days. I'm gonna eat and drink with Jesus

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one of these days. And he's
clapping his hands and that sheet has come

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down on with the four corners,
and finally it's time to eat. It's

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time to eat Verse twelve. We're
in all manner of four footed beasts of

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the earth and wild beasts and creeping
things and files of the air. Wait

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a minute, Wait a minute,
now, ray mint, like you're talking

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about like crabcakes and shrimp and what
way mint? Now, something's wrong,

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something's wrong. Then ring the bell
like this is not what I ordered Verse

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thirteen. And there came a voice
unto him, Rise, Peter, kill

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and eat. But Peter said,
no, not so Lord, for I

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have never eaten anything that is common
or unclean. Okay, so far,

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so good. Like some of you
are like, well, what's the problem,

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Dave, Like we eat that stuff
all the time. Yeah, well

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no, he's right. He's like, no, I don't eat that kind

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of stuff because you said. And
he's going back into his mind in the

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book of Leviticus, the Book of
Deuteronomy, where God was very clear about

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what is unclean and what is clean? Okay Verse fifteen, And the voice

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said, unto him a second time, what God hath cleansed? That?

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Call not thou common? Now let
me ask you a question, has God

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cleansed all manner of four footed beasts
and creatures pepperoni for your pizza, as

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he well, the answer is obviously
no. We'll come back to that.

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This was done three times, and
the vessel was again received up into heaven.

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Okay, now Peter must have been
confused, like, hold on,

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now I know it was the voice
of God. I am here praying.

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God has made himself very clear in
the scrolls, in the scriptures what is

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to be eaten and what is absolutely
not to be eaten. And this is

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not subjective, this is not depending
on who you are. God has been

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very clear. So what could this
have meant? Well, God, I

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didn't leave him in the dark,
like, let's go down to verse twenty

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eight, and he said, unto
them, ye know how that it is

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an unlawful thing for a man that
is one of God's people to keep company

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or to come unto one of another
nation. But God hath showed me that

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I should not call any person common
or unclean. So this was not about

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eating. It was that God was
showing him something through his belly, right

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like Adam and Eve should have learned
something at the Tree of the knowledge of

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good and evil through the possibility of
eating what God said, don't eat.

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They should have passed the test,
like Jesus absolutely manifest a lesson when he

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was in the wilderness being tempted of
the devil, when the devil said,

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if thou be the son of God, then make this stone to become bred,

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like Jesus manifest that you can trust
God and over your belly. And

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so God was using food again as
an example, like an object lesson,

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a case study. If you will
to teach Peter something valuable, what is

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it or invaluable that people no matter
if you call them gentiles, you call

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them Greeks, you call them a
dry tree, eu nuts, you call

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them separated from God. That if
anybody will keep covenant with me, then

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those individuals, just like who would
be called God's people, those individuals will

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have a name, according to Isaiah
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a name that is greater, that
is better than of sons and of

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daughters. It's a name that will
remain forever. So this was about people.

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Let me read it again, And
he said, unto them, ye

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know that it is an unlawful thing
for a man that is one of God's

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people to keep company or to come
unto one of another nation. But God

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has showed me that I should not
call any man or person common or unclean

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verse thirty four. And Peter opened
his mouth and said, of a truth,

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I perceive that God is no respector
of persons. But in every nation,

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he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness
is accepted with God. Listen.

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God wants us to get this point
and get it clear. Clear, clear

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clear. Jesus Christ came and gave
his life so that all people from everywhere

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in the world can be saved.
We just need to make the choice.

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Stop being elitists like welcome people into
the phone. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Friends, Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every

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word that comes from the mouth of
God. This has been your daily portion

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with el David Harris, make it
a great day. Yeah,