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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 Thursday, July
eighteen, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my Namezelle 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 Sandwich
Story Part two. Now you know

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what Sandwich story means. You can
go back to yesterday if you have not

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been here before and see what the
lesson writer meant by that. But we're

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in part two now, and before
we begin, I'd like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those
joining us for the very first time.

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I'm asking you to please go over
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the world at your Daily Portion dot
Com. Let's go ahead and continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray and get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this day and for the opportunity to

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open up your word. I'm asking
you to please fill us with your holy

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spirit, teach us how to serve
and to love you. I ask you

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to please give us the fullness of
power to do your will. In Jesus'

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name, I pray, Amen and
Amn again. Okay, So a lot

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is going on here in the scriptures, and I want to introduce now from

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the Bible Book of Mark three a
couple of verses. We'll go back to

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verses twenty and twenty one and see
what God, what God has has to

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say to us. Okay, and
we're back here again. We read it

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yesterday. But let's take another peek. And the Bible says, and the

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multitude cometh together again, so that
they could not so much as eat bread.

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And when his friends heard of it, they went out and lay hold

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on him, or they said he
is beside himself. Okay, And so

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the lesson writer says, a charge
of mental instability is quite serious. This

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is what they're saying about Jesus by
the way he's beside himself. What typically

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this arises from experiences where a person
is at a threat to do, a

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threat to his or her own safety. Jesus's family felt this way about him

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because he was so busy that he
did not take time to stop, even

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to eat. But they're saying he's
unstable. They set out to take charge

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of him. That there were the
outer story of the sandwich. This is

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where the story breaks off, interrupted
by the inner story about the scribes charging

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Jesus with being like with the devil. A strange parallel exists between the outer

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stories and the inner stories of this
sandwich. Jesus's own family seems to have

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a view of him parallel to that
of the scribes. The family says he's

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mad or crazy. The scribes say
that he's in league with the devil.

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You see where this is a problem. So in the middle of this story

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we're seeing like the common denominator is
that two sets of people think that Jesus

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is off track, one with the
devil one with his mental health. What

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in the world? Okay, So
let's go down to I'm just blown away

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by this. Let's go down to
verse thirty one, and the Bible says,

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and there came then his brethren and
his mother and standing without sent unto

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him, calling him. So we're
talking about the people with his the mother

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of his birth, and those brothers
that would have been attached to his stepfather

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Joseph. Okay, And so they're
calling unto him and the fat I shouldn't

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say stepfather, Maybe that's not the
right way to say it. But Mary's

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husband. It's not really a stepfather. You know how the miracle of his

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birth happened, right, So it's
hard for me to figure out how to

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say Joseph. Right, but Joseph's
son. So now those are his brothers,

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Okay, got it. And so
they're outside they're calling for him Verse

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thirty two. And the multitudes sat
about him, and they said, unto

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him, behold thy mother, and
thy brethren without they seek for thee.

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So who are we talking about.
We're talking about his mommy, Mary,

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and then the the brothers who are
the sons of Joseph. Okay, they're

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calling for thee and he answered them
saying, who is my brother? Who's

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my mother? Who are my brothers? Who is my mother? And he

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looked around about them which sat about
him, and said, behold my mother

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and my brethren. So he's in
the middle of doing what God wants him

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to do and his actual mother and
his brothers are calling unto him. And

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Jesus turns that into a teaching moment. Do you see all of these people

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or these people around? Do you
see all of these people? These people,

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if they do my will, are
my family. And I say that

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again, these people, if they
do my will, these people are my

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family. Who's soever ever shall do
the will of God? The same is

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my brother and my sister and my
mother. Some of you may have had

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difficulty vibing or connecting with family,
the family that you were born into.

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I know that I did. I
had a challenge because I didn't quite know

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how to. I didn't understand it, like it was disjointed. There were

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things going on in my household that
threw my whole understanding of family off.

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I heard the word, but I
couldn't understand it because I was like,

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well, I don't really think that
this is what God meant by family.

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I don't really think this is what
even even humans mean by family. It

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was not the right model, right, This is how I saw it,

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no disrespect. And so what Jesus
is saying is that, yeah, we

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have a new model of family here. The new model of family is everybody

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who has been adopted into the Family
of God through Christ. Those are your

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family worldwide. There are some brothers
and sisters you're listening right now. English

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is your second language, or you
don't speak English at all. Maybe you're

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reading captions in your own language or
dialect on this social media platform or on

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YouTube. You are learning to speak
or hear in English, but you don't

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even speak like I have brothers and
sisters in different parts of the world that

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don't even speak the same language that
I do. I have mothers and aunties

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and uncles, grandparents. I have
children around the world whose language I don't

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speak, people I've never met.
And I hear the song I'm so glad

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I'm a part of the family of
God. And what God is trying to

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tell us is that what brings us
together is are yielding to God through the

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Holy Spirit. What brings us together
is confessing and forsaking our sins. What

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brings us together is literally living like
God is our father and that Jesus is

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our savior. This is what makes
us family, brothers and sisters. This

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is what makes us family. Nothing
else, nothing more, nothing less.

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I hope you're getting this. Jesus
said to Nicodemus in John chapter three.

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I believe he was speaking to Nicodemus
right, Yes, he said, marvel

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not. When I say unto you
that you must be born again. That

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which is born of flesh is flesh. So your mommy and daddy, how

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that happened. That's that's a fleshly
reality. That is a biological process.

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They came together, and now you're
here. That which is born of flesh

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is flesh. But I'm showing you
away into the new family. I'm showing

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you away into the family of God. That which is born of spirit now

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is spirit. So marvel not when
I say unto you that you must be

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born again. Everybody who's born again
our family. And so I'm thankful that

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God gave us in this discussion the
key to our loneliness, the key to

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our isolation. In twenty twenty four, no person who is a part of

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the Family of God needs to be
isolated. No person who's a part of

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the Family of God should feel loneliness
because you have brothers and sisters all over

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the world beginning at where you are
that He wants to plug you into into

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the community and the family of God. I'm so glad I'm a part of

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the Family of God. Yeah.
We have our challenges sometime, but we

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are God's family nonetheless. Make it
a great day, peace, Thanks for

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joining us, listening to friends.
Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,