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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 Thursday, July eleven,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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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 can
you Keep a Secret? Can you

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keep a Secret? We'll get an
to that in just a moment, but

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first I'd like to say welcome to
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and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father in heaven, thank you for
giving us the opportunity to open up

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your word, and I'm asking you
to please fill us with your holy spirit.

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Teach us how not to keep a
good secret when it has to do

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with your goodness. Father, Please
teach us to serve you with all of

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our heart. In Jesus name,
I pray Amen and a men Again.

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I'm going to share a secret with
you. I'm very, very good at

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keeping secrets. I don't even talk
in my sleep. That's what I say,

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tongue in cheek, Like I don't
even talk in my sleep. So

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if you tell me something and I'm
not supposed to tell anyone, like I

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won't tell anyone, not even my
wife, who is the closest person in

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the world to me, Like I'm
not telling It's just not my style.

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Like I like to keep secrets,
I don't necessarily like to know your secrets.

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If I can avoid it, I
won't know your secrets. But if

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for some reason, providence leads you
to share something that's just something you need

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to work through, and it's a
secret, then I'll keep it. Yeah.

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Well this is interesting because in regards
to what we'll read about today,

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Yeah, it's a different kind of
secret. And you have to decide like,

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are you going to keep the secret
or not? Are you going to

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follow the command of God and keep
the secret or not? Okay, And

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so just before we begin there,
I'd like to read from the lesson directly

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and give you my thought ahead of
the time. Jesus become one with us.

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When I say us, i'm talking
about human beings in order to cleanse

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human beings. He becomes one with
human beings in order to cleanse human beings.

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He became one of us and did
not seem or he did not see

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himself as being defiled by being a
human being. And this is why his

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ministry was so effective, apart from
what we talked about yesterday, him being

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one with us and not running away
from us as if we are unclean unclean,

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and we are, but he did
not allow himself to sense defilement or

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be defiled as an impediment between him
and us, as an impediment to us

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being cleansed. Okay, that sounded
real intellectual. What does that mean?

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Well, the lesson writer says,
the leoper places faith in Jesus that he

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can cleanse him, and according to
Leviticus chapter thirteener was ritually unclean and had

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to avoid contact with others. Jesus, however, was moved with compassion.

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Now what word did I just use? Compassion? Jesus was moved with compassion.

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He stretched out his hand and he
touched him. Remember, this is

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a highly contagious disease in real life, and besides this, besides this,

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it would have made him ritually unclean
technically, according to the way that the

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customs were. So, the Bible
says that he was moved with compassion,

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stretched out his hand and touched him
and said, I am willing. When

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the man said, if you're willing, you can make me clean, he

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said, I will be thou clean. He could have just waved his hand.

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He could have from a long,
far distance, like he did in

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healing someone's child, like he could
have stayed far and just said, yeah,

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you're you're, you're healed. But
no, Jesus physically touched the broken,

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very contagious ill man and healed him, and then the Bible I mean.

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And then the lesson writer continues,
this action should have defiled Jesus until

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the evening, when he would be
required to bathe become ritually pure again.

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But Mark is clear that Jesus,
that Jesus his action of touching the sick

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man cleansed him from leprosy. Thus, Jesus was not defiled by touching the

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man. Jesus was not defiled by
touching the man. Are you hearing this?

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Let me read the text now from
Mark chapter one, beginning at verse

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forty. And there came a leper
to him, beseeching him and kneeling down

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to him, and saying to him, if thou wilt, thou canst make

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me clean. And Jesus moved with
compassion, put forth his hand, he

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touched him, and seth unto him, I will be thou clean. And

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as soon as he had spoken,
immediately the leprosy departed from him, and

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he the leper, was cleansed.
And he straightly charged him forthwith and sent

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him away, and seth unto him. See thou say nothing to any man

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now, Jesus said, keep a
secret. There was a reason. See

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that you say nothing to anyone.
Now, go and show yourself to the

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priest and offer for thy cleansing those
things which Moses commanded for a testimony unto

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them. But this dude did not
listen. He did not keep a secret

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verse forty five. But he went
out and began to publish it much and

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to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch
that now we know why Jesus said keep

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it a secret. Not because he
didn't want people to know what great things

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God had done for him, not
because he wanted him to keep a testimony

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and sit on it and keep himself
away from people, but because in this

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case, it says insomuch that Jesus
could no more openly enter into the city,

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but was without in desert places,
and they came to him from every

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quarter. And so Jesus knew that, in the context of the work that

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he was doing early in his ministry, this was early in his ministry,

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that a testimony of that sort would
have interrupted the ministry at some point.

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Obviously the man would shout from the
mountaintops from the rafters and say, look

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at what God has done for me. But in this moment of time,

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Jesus asked him not or commanded him
not to tell. In fact, in

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fact, if the priests had heard
that Jesus had done it too early and

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before he was pronounced clean, then
that would have been an impediment even to

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the pronouncement of this man being clean, because the priests were not really with

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Jesus like. They didn't like him, they didn't like them, They were

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discriminatory toward Christ. They did not
approve of Jesus's ministry. And so if

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you appear and say, Jesus healed
me, now see if it's true,

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am I healed? Then now you
have a problem, right, And so

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Jesus was telling him in that moment
to please just keep it, keep it

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quiet for now, for now.
But the man, of course could not

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keep a secret. Now you see
where we're going today. And so in

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the Book of Isaiah, chapter one, we see a symbol in a language,

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symbol that shows that something like leprosy
is like equated to sin, like

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sin and leprosy, So leprosy,
the real life disease, can be seen

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in symbol as sin. It's contagious, it's deadly. Anybody who comes into

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contact with you, if they are
susceptible, will also be sinful in the

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way that you influenced them, unless, of course, they decide to be

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insulated by the power of God.
You see, and so the Bible teaches

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us that Jesus, even though he
came into human flesh, was not defiled

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by human flesh. Jesus came near
to us while we were contagious, while

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we were breaking down spiritually, more
and more and more and more, and

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he healed us. Not worrying about
the fact that he was connected as God

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and human, he decided to heal
us. Well, can you keep a

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secret? When God does great things
for you? Can you keep it a

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secret? Very interesting lesson for today. Make it a great day, peace.

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Thanks for joining us listening to 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,