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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, July twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El 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 no

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series through the Book of Mark

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and our caption for today is lamp
and measuring basket. And you're like,

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what is that about. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but

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before we do, I'd like to
say welcome to you and ask you to

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in the world at your Daily Portion
dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Bather and Heaven, thank you for

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giving us this new day and for
the privilege we have to be a light

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in this wicked and perverse generation to
be able to reflect You into this world.

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Please, Lord, teach us how
to surrender our will so we can

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be the best representatives of You as
we can. In Jesus name, I

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pray, Amen and a men again. Lamp and measuring basket. Okay,

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so I'm going to just jump right
into the passage from the Bible Book of

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Mark chapter four, and I will
read beginning at verse twenty three, and

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this will give us the baseline for
our discussion today. Okay, so the

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focus here is beginning at verse twenty
one. He also said to them,

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a lamp is not brought to be
put under a basket or under a bed,

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is it? Did you get that? That was simple, wasn't it?

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A lamp was not brought to put
under a basket or under a bed.

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So what is the primary purpose of
a lamp? Y'all? Just really

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quickly. What is the primary purpose
of a lamp or a light? Okay,

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to give light to those who are
in the house, the room,

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wherever you happen to be. Okay, isn't it to be placed on a

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lamp stand? For nothing is hidden
except it to be revealed, and nothing

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concealed except to be brought to light. If anyone has ears to hear,

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let him here. So what we're
going to do is share a few takeaways

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that will help us understand. First
of all, the visibility of the gospel.

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See, God has not intended for
us to receive from him and then

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hold it and keep it to ourselves. He said, freely, ye have

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received, freely give. And so
when God opens your eyes, when God

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gives you the light of the truth
concerning Christ, when God shows you the

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way to righteousness, he wants it
to be like a lamp. He wants

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people to see. Wait a minute, it's dark all around me, but

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there is a light over there.
Jesus said it this way. He said,

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let your light so shine before people, before men, that when they

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see your good works, they will
glorify your Father, which is in heaven.

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So the visibility of the gospel is
that we are not concealing our faith.

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We're not concealing our connection with God. Because there are people who are

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bound to certain habits. They don't
know how to be free from different habits

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related to sexual sin. Right,
you have a habit of having too many

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women. You may have a habit
of having too many men. You may

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have a habit of taking illicit drugs, and you're bound to that habit.

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You may have a habit to drink
from the rum bottle and you get drunk

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on a regular basis, and it's
like, God, how do I get

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out of this situation? You have
a habit God forbid of gossiping, of

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lying, a habit of turning your
mind away from God when you're going through

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challenges and turn your mind towards something
that is sinful because it makes you feel

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better. You see. And so
God is saying, everybody who has learned

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to surrender your will to Me have
now become ambassadors with bright lights, who

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are bright lights shining in the dark
place. So people can say, oh,

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wait a minute, that brother,
that sister has learned to connect with

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God and to be delivered from these
things, and that must mean that I

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can be two okay, And so
we go to verse twenty two again.

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Let's read it again. For there
is nothing hid which shall not be manifested.

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Neither is anything kept secret that it
should not, that it should come

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abroad. Let me read it in
another version. For nothing is hidden except

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to be revealed, and nothing concealed
except to be brought to light. So

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there is a revelation of truth,
revelation of truth, just like we see

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in the Book of Revelation and Daniel. The Bible says, seal up the

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vision until the end, or until
the appropriate time. And the Revelation says,

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now that we are to speak the
vision, preach the vis teach the

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vision, open it up before the
people, because the time is at hand.

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The time for what the time for
the revelation of truth. So the

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messages is that nothing hidden will remain, so that all will be disclosed.

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Reflects the ultimate revelation of truth,
encouraging transparency. Did you get that word?

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Transparency in our actions and honesty in
our dealings. Another lesson responsibility of

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reception. So when God opens up
the truth to us, than we are

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to what receive it. I don't
mean see it, I don't mean identify

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that it is. It is in
existence. I'm saying that when God brings

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the light of truth to us,
we get to open up our arms and

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begin to enfold within us and embrace, embrace the truth or the life that

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God has given to us. The
way we measure or give in our interactions,

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whether it is kindness, judgment,
or forgiveness, will determine will determine

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what we receive in return. And
so if you're kind to others, then

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God will return kindness to you.
If you're forgiving toward others, especially those

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that you find it difficult to forgive, God is going to give you forgiveness.

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And so when God gives us things, this principle teaches us the importance

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of generosity in sharing with others and
grace ah the willingness for us to allow

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people to grow, the ability for
us to see when somebody is not quite

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there in terms of how they relate
to us. But say, you know

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what, God is going to work
with them, and I'm going to work

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with them as well. And then
we go with generosity again from verse twenty

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five. For he that hath now, let me read it this way.

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For whosoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even

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that he has will be taken from
him. And so when God gives us

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a gift, it's one gift,
it's ten gifts, it's one hundred gifts.

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If we use them according to what
God would want us to do,

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then he'll multiply those things. If
you're kind, he'll multiply your kindness.

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If you're able to sing for His
glory and you do, then he'll multiply

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your reach. He'll multiply the favor
that you find when you're singing. He'll

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multiply your skill and ability. Yes, but what if we withhold forgiveness,

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then the little forgiveness that we had
I just said little, I shouldn't have.

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Forgiveness that we had will be taken
from us. Huh. If he's

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entrusted financial gain to us, it
doesn't matter what the mount is and we

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don't use it wisely, he'll take
away that financial gain and we'll be stuck

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with status quo. And so what
God is saying is that when we receive

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it and we're generous with it,
it will multiply. He will multiply it.

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And of course God is giving us
a warning beginning at verses twenty four

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and twenty five to say that there
is a spiritual risk to ourselves if we

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receive or see and experience God's word
and don't share it abroad. God has

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given us the ability to become as
lights in this wicked and perverse generation.

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Now what are we going to do
with it? And we're going to maximize

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it or reject it. You'll be
the judgment. Peace. Thanks for joining

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us listening. Friends. Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the
mouth of God. This has been your

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