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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 Sabbath, November
eleven, twenty twenty three. Hello,

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my name is Elle 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, and our caption for
today is mission to my neighbor,

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and I just want to underscore or
my neighbor. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I'd
like to say welcome and happy Sabbath to

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everyone joining us and ask you,
if you've not gone over to your Daily

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Portion dot com, to please go
ahead and do so right now to your

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Daily Portion dot com. And please
also put in that little box where you

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are in the world so we can
continue to grow in faith in fellowship.

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And when you have an opportunity,
please pick up the your Daily Portion book

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again at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven. Thank you for giving us

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this new day and for the privilege
we have to pray. Please open up

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our understanding, teach us who our
neighbor is and how best to serve our

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neighbor. In Jesus' name, I
pray, Amen and Amn again. I

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suppose I preempted myself while I was
praying because I knew where I was going,

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but I didn't intend to talk about
it right there. But yeah,

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the big question is who is my
neighbor? First, let's begin with Luke,

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chapter ten and verse twenty seven.
We'll circle back to that passage in

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a moment, and the Bible reads
he answered, love the Lord your God,

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with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all

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your strength, and with all your
mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.

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And reality is when you hear something
like this, Jesus was speaking.

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We'll give some context. In a
moment, you have to ask the obvious

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question like who is my neighbor?
And then some other questions regarding love and

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so forth, who is my neighbor? And so the person that he was

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speaking to we will see now as
we pick up the story in verse twenty

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five of Luke, chapter ten,
and behold a certain lawyer. So he's

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speaking. Jesus is speaking to a
certain lawyer and tempted him, saying,

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Master, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life? And if I'm not

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mistaken, tomorrow we will deal with
eternal life. And Jesus said, unto

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him, what is written in the
law, How readest thou? And he

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said, thou shalt love the Lord
thy God, with all thy heart,

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and with all thy soul, and
with all thy strength, and with all

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thy mind, and thy neighbor as
thyself. And he said, unto him,

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thou hast Us answered, right,
this do, and thou shalt live

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like I said, We're gonna deal
with that in the coming days. But

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he asked a question, it says
here in verse twenty nine. And it

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seems that the man was disingenuous,
like he was not being really honest as

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he was asking the question. But
this is what he said. But he

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willing to justify himself, said,
unto Jesus, who is my neighbor?

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Yeah, he's ready to give Jesus
a resume, right, but he starts

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with this, who is my neighbor? And Jesus answering said, a certain

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man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho
and fell among thieves, which stripped him

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of his raiment and wounded him and
departed, leaving him half dead. And

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by chance there came down a certain
priest that way, and when he saw

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him, he passed by on the
other side. And likewise a levite,

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when he was at that place,
came and looked on him and passed by

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on the other side. So these
are people that were supposed to be people

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of God. They were supposed to
be holy. Like in air quotes,

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these are individuals who decided based on
their customs and understanding or misapplication of the

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sanctuary and the law of Moses.
They decided that this person who was wounded

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was unclean, and therefore as an
interruption, he would have been an interruption

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to whatever they were doing. They
decided to walk and leave him right where

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he was boy, I wish I
had the time, and verse thirty three.

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The Bible continues, but a certain
Samaritan see this individual, was seen

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as also unclean like this person was
seen as someone who was not of the

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household of God by the people there. As he journeyed, he came where

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he was and saw him. He
had compassion on him, and went to

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him and bound up his wounds,
wait a minute, pouring in oil and

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wine, and set him on his
beast, meaning the man the Samaritan had

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an animal, likely a donkey,
And he set him on his beast,

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and brought him to an inn and
took care of him verse thirty five.

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And on the morrow, when he
departed, he took two pence and gave

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to the host, and said to
him take care of him. And whatsoever

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thou spendest more, when I come
again, I will repay the And so

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Jesus is showing in this situation that
the one who was supposedly not clean,

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like the one who was not a
priest, was not a levite, one

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who was not considered to be a
part of the household of faith. Yes,

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that individual actually showed holiness, showed
deference, showed compassion, for the

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man, and thus fulfilling the second
and great commandment, which is to love

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your neighbor as yourself. And that
one was like unto the first, which

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is to love God with everything we
are. And so by serving his neighbor,

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by serving the individual who was in
need, he was showing love for

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God and also love for humanity.
How could you see somebody in that state

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and just walk on by? Let
me continue. And of course he by

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the way, left payment, so
that whatever that man or who was wounded

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needed, that he would have been
taken care of. Hmm. Verse thirty

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six. Which now of these three
thinkest thou was the neighbor of him that

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fell among thieves. Remember, he
was wounded, he was beaten, He

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was in a terrible state, verse
thirty seven. And he said, he

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that showed mercy on him, then
said Jesus unto him, go and do

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like wise. He wanted to justify
himself. That man wanted to justify himself.

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He wanted to show that he was
all of that in a bag of

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chips, if you want to say. And Jesus exposed his reality, which

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was, yeah, that he needed
some more work. We all need more

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work. But this man had to
learn the lesson that even though there was

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a man who was supposed to be
a levite, there was a man who

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was supposed to be a priests.
Those individuals committed one of the worst sins

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ever, which is in humanity toward
humanity. And I know people say all

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sin is the same, right sin, a sin, as we say here

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in Jamaica. But the reality is
that there are exactly levels to this.

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There's no question like there are levels
to this. There are some sins that

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are of greater magnitude. This is
why Jesus said, unto whom much is

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given, much is to be required. So not every sin is of equal

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magnitude. Murder is not the same. If you murder someone is not the

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same as if you gossip, even
though spiritually it's the same. In terms

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of the impact and the outcome,
the loss of life is of greater magnitude

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because of what is left behind.
I wish I had the time, but

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the bottom line is that when we
don't show mercy to someone, we are

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indeed murdering them. What what if
nobody took care of that man who fell

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among thieves? You see? And
so what God is saying to us is

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if we have a mission to our
neighbor. First of all, we need

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to know who our neighbor is.
Then, of course, with the love

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for God and love for humanity,
principles of the law, the Ten Commandments

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law, when we go out on
a mission to our neighbor, Now we

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know we go on a mission with
the one with the spirit of the one

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who gave us this mission, which
is Jesus Christ. Jesus identified with the

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Samaritan and showed mercy where the priest
the Levite didn't. Have a wonderful day.

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

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

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This has been your daily portion with
El David Harris. Make it a great

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day. Yeah,