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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to 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

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morning. It is Wednesday, December
six, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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

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

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

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My Mission, our caption for today
is introducing a new God. Introducing

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a new God. We'll get into
that in just the moment, but first

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This is a way that we can
continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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

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Thank you for giving us this new
day and for the privilege we have to

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open up your word again. Please
help us to hear from you, experience

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you in the fullness, and learn
to love you. In Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again.
Sometimes people like me who teach the Bible

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like every day or on like some
frequent basis, we get concerned, like

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is the message coming through clearly?
Our people actually connect to God. It's

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easy to talk about him. It's
easy to read from the Bible and then

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say something that sounds fancy, but
really and truly, like, what does

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it take for someone to be connected
with God, transformed by God, and

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then live according to the principles of
this saying true and living God, blessed

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be His name? And so yeah, I struggle with this, but it

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occurs to me based on this lesson. Today's lesson, it's that God wants

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us to know Him. And I
just say that again, God wants you,

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brothers and sisters to know Him.
When you are sad and feeling lonely.

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He wants you to know him when
you are struggling with the voices of

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your past, where Daddy or mommy
used to say things that really hurt you,

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or God forbid they neglected to say
things that would help you and encourage

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you. Huh. God wants you
to know him even when you're in those

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strange, difficult situations when you have
made mistakes, you have sinned purposely,

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and then you say, well,
how did I get back here? And

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you're starting to feel sorrow for sin
and you want to do right. God

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wants you to know him. He
wants us to seek and find him.

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The paralytic in Mark chapter two that
was carried into the place where Jesus was

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by four faithful men. Yes,
he was found by them. The woman

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with the issue of blood, He
was found by her. The men in

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I think it's Matthew chapter nine,
who are blind. And they said,

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Jesus, son of David, have
mercy on us. And he said,

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what will you have me to do? And they said that we would receive

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our site. He wanted them to
find him. He wanted them to find

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him. That means that he positioned
himself to be found in this moment,

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this moment about four minutes now,
four minutes into our discussion here, God

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wants you to find him wherever you
happen to be in the world, in

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whatever situation you're in, if it's
a victorious or a defeated situation, if

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you feel positive or you are feeling
deflated, God wants you to know him.

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And this is the good thing because
in Paul's day, he was introducing

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that God, the one that was
not angry somewhere in outer space, looking

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down for someone to destroy, someone
needing to give him food and gifts in

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order to appease him. They needed
to meet the true and living God who

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created them and wanted to save them. And so from verses twenty four through

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twenty seven of Acts chapter seventeen,
we read God that made the world and

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all things they're in. So Paul
is already making a distinction between who they

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had, all all those gods,
the pantheon of gods, if you want

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to say lowercase g right. He
was distinguishing now between the one who creates,

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the one who is all intelligent,
all powerful, blessed be his name,

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the one who can be found if
we seek after him. He's making

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a distinction between this God and the
false gods. That really are an impediment.

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They are not an asset. They
are a liability because you gotta feed

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those, you gotta appease those,
You gotta, you know, make up

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arguments to make it make sense for
those. And So God that made the

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world and all things therein, seeing
that he is the Lord of heaven and

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earth, dwelleth not in temples made
with hands, Oh, like like this

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one, the areopagus marines hill.
No, not like this. Neither is

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worshiped with men's hands, as though
he needed anything. So all of those

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gifts that you're giving to those false
gods, all of those things you're doing,

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flagellating, hot dancing, beating yourself, all kinds of rights and passages

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in order to appease those false gods. God don't need all of that.

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He doesn't need that, He says, He's neither worshiped with men's hands,

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as though he needed anything. Seeing
he giveth to all life and breath and

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all things. He's the one that
gives. He's the one that pours into

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In fact, the Bible says that
if he were hungry and I think it's

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Psalm chapter fifty, the Book of
Psalms, chapter fifty. If I were

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hungry, I would not tell you, Huh, the earth is mine.

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I own the cattle on a thousand
hills. Yes, the earth and everything

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in it is mine, Even you
are mine, the Bible says, And

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then the Bible continues, Uh.
And verse twenty six. Hath made of

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one blood all nations of men,
for to dwell on all the face of

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the earth. And hath determined the
times before appointed and the bounds of their

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habitation, that they should seek the
Lord, if happily they might find or

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feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every

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one of us. Let me just
end right there. So listen when I'm

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going back to the story of Nebuchadnezzar, when he had the dream and wanted

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the interpretation, and then he said, tell me the dream and interpret And

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the men said, the ones who
were really trying to pull a wool over

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his eyes, the false prophets and
sorcerers and all of that, they were

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like. But King, nobody has
ever asked such a thing. And by

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the way, the answer belongeth unto
the gods, and the gods don't dwell

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among people. Oh, but I
think that the Bible teaches us hmm,

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that Jesus his name would be called
Immanuel. That being interpreted is God with

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us. I think that Moses received
the command from God that said, have

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them make me a sanctuary that I
may dwell among them. I think that

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the Bible gives us the example in
nebuchad Nezer's same story that when those three

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young men decided that they would only
worship God and not worship him, when

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he threw them down into that seven
times hotter fiery furnace, they walked around

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loose and freely. And then the
one that those soothsayers and whatever else were

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saying could not connect with us,
he was down in there with them.

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Jesus was walking down in the space
where humans are in order to change those

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same humans, to transform and deliver
those humans. This is the God that

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Paul was introducing, the one God
who loves you, the one who cares

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about when your child skins his or
her knee having fallen off their bike,

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like the one who remembers when you
used to be addicted to crack cocaine,

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the one who remembers when you were
in prison, and then when he spoke

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to you, you decided to give
your life to him. The one who

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in this moment is answering a prayer
that you've been praying for years, and

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you're wondering, how can you see
and know me? All the way down

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here with all of the billions of
people on planet Earth. God is the

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one who has given his only begotten
son, that whosoever believeth in him should

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not perish but have everlasting life.
God didn't send his son into the world

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to condemn the world, but that
the world, through him might be saved.

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It's this God that Paul was introducing. In that case. He gave

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those people the opportunity to look and
choose and live eternally. Are you introducing

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people to that God? Thanks for
joining us listening. 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,