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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 Monday, July
one, twenty twenty four. 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, even on

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the days that I forget what day
it is, and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our new lesson
study series on the Book of Mark,

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and our caption for today is a
second Chance, a second Chance.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first I'd like to say

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

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

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thank you for this day. Thank
you for loving us enough to give us

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chances. Thank you for not giving
up on us. Thank you for your

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holiness. Please give your holiness to
us in Jesus name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again a second chance. Now that is the caption for today.

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But let me just ask you a
question, because I know we have

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all of these cliches and sayings and
idioms and stuff, right. I know

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that people say God is a god
of second chances. Is that something you

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believe that God is a god of
second chances? I'm just pausing for a

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moment so you can type it in
the chat. Okay, those on the

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radio, you just answer it as
you see fit. Okay, well,

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listen, I understand what we mean
by that. But if God were a

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god of second chances, then we
would be gone like this would be it,

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Like we would have been at the
end of the end of the line,

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the end of our ropes, like
that's it, because that would mean

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it's like the second chance and that's
it. And after the second chance,

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well you have to just get it
right. And that's it. And I

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know I'm being technical, but I
want us to really be thoughtful of the

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blessing that God is to us,
because He has extended hundreds and thousands and

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tens of thousands of chances to us
in order to give us an opportunity even

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when sometimes we reject it. And
it's like, God, why are you

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so good to us to give us
an opportunity to live according to His principles,

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to live holy, holy lives?
After we have made bad decision after

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bad decision, we've allowed ourselves to
be addicted to all kinds of behaviors and

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substances. We have allowed ourselves to
be addicted to our own reflections, like

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what we see and create on social
media about ourselves. Some of us have

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learned to worship and burn incense to
that false image, like some of us

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have learned to worship and bow down
and burn incense to the false image we

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have created of our spirituality that's not
even close to the standard that God would

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have for us. Because we're so
proud, some of us, I'm saying,

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and so I'm thankful today I just
want to start with a gratefulness,

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opportunity for all of us to say, thank you God for giving us chance

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after chance after chance. But God, please teach us not to take you

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for granted, not to take you
lightly, as if you're always going to

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be like that toward us. No
matter what we do, we can just

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keep falling down and getting up,
falling down, getting up. No,

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I know that at some point,
at some point, it will be enough.

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And so teach us, Father,
to do what we are to do.

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Teach us how to experience you in
the fullness as we should, and

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then live holy lives. Thank you
for being a God of so many chances.

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But we don't deliberately. I hope
we don't take you for granted.

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And so now we read from the
Book of Acts, the Bible Book of

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Acts from chapter fifteen, verses thirty
six through thirty nine, and the Bible

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reads and some days after Paul said, unto Barnabas, let us go again

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and visit our brethren in every city
where we have preached. Thank God.

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So they were being pastoral, they
were being protective. They were ready to

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feed the flock, not just baptize
the flock, not just teach the flock

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and then just leave the flock.
No, the people that God entrusted to

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their care in all of these places, these men now are going to pour

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into them and see how they do
verse thirty seven. And Barnabas determined to

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take with them John, whose surname
was Mark. Now we know that John

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Mark is the same person who is
who has been attributed to writing the Bible

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Book of Mark. Okay, and
so his name is surname was Mark.

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His last name was Mark verse thirty
eight. But Paul thought not good to

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take him with them, who departed
from them from Pamphilia and went not with

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them to the work. And the
contention was so sharp between them that they

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departed asunder one from another. So
Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus.

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What happened at the end, Barnabas
took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus. And

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so what we see now are two, let's call it two men of God.

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Were more than two, but two
men of God. In this case

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we're talking about Paul and Barnabas.
Okay, Paul and Barnabas, so two

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men of God who do the work
like they do the mission of God,

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and they are really just knocking down
doors that separate people from holiness. And

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together they run. Thank God,
John Mark has given the opportunity as well.

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He's a part of the squad.
And well, John Mark, as

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we read yesterday, allowed discouragement,
allowed fear and some other things to put

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him like out of the fight,
like this dude ran, he ran.

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And so now Paul is saying,
let's go, let's go do some more

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work and and and Barnabas is like, okay, cool, bring bring John

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Mark. And he's like, oh
no, no, no. Paul is

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like nope, I'm not bringing him
with me. And so now you can

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imagine the back and forth because two
men of God are now like hold up.

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One is saying, bring him,
the other is saying no. The

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one who's saying no is saying because
I see how he moves and I need

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I need somebody solid, like I
need a real soldier on this team.

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And Barnabas is like, no,
but we can work with him, we

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can work with him and John's and
Paul is like, brother, not,

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now, I gotta go. We
need to work. We need to work,

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not work with him. We need
to go feed these sheep. Like

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when we have spiritual battles, if
you want to say, we need the

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strongest soldiers on the battlefield. And
so the Bible does teach us that because

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God is good, and you want
to say, well, how good is

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he? He's so good that Barnabas
took Mark. Barnabas took Mark under his

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wing because likely his spiritual behavior style
was more accommodating to working with people who

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needed a little bit of extra help. Okay, And so I want you

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to determine which kind of mission airy
are you, Like what kind of worker

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are you? Are you the one
that's full steam ahead like lion, tigers

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and bears don't cause you to flinch. You're like Paul, no matter what

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if you're shipwrecked, if you have
a disease, like if you have food

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or you don't have food, You're
running forward no matter what. Or you

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like Barnabas, who may be like
that in a way, but he can

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understand like if people start to lose
a little bit of focus, that he's

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willing to work with those individuals along
the way, like what kind of leader

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are you? And so from the
Seventh Day Adventists Bible commentary on verse thirty

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seven. Determined. Determined is what
we're looking at. The textual evidence attests,

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so the reading was minded or desired. Undoubtedly it was Barnabas's family relationship

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with John Mark. Oh wait a
minute, so john Mark and Barnabas are

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closer than we knew. Their family
relationship that led him to wish to take

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the young man. Now we know
he was younger once more on a missionary

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tour to give him an opportunity to
show his fitness for service. Doubtless he

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recognized as Paul did not, circumstances
that at least in part excused John Mark's

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former turning back from the arduous task. Paul the earnest and courageous warrior for

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Christ. Anyone who had so acted
seemed, in the Lord's own words,

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not fit for the Kingdom of God, and was in need of discipline of

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rejection, at least for a time
to fit himself for further work. Very

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interesting discussion. This is real life
stuff. We'll talk about how this thing

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really pans out on another day of
the Lord Sphaar's life. But we see

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that God is a god of multiple
chances, and john Mark got his peace.

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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,