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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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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

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, August fourth,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Mark, and our caption

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for today is human traditions versus God's commands. Human traditions

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versus God's commands. Get into that in just a moment,

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But first I like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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up the Your Daily Portion book and let us know

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dot com. This is a way that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you

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for giving us this new day and for the opportunity

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that you've given us to pray. Please teach us to

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listen to your voice, and your voice only in Jesus name.

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yeah, sometimes humans have

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a problem, and our problem besides, you know, the really

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big stuff is a really big one here. I know

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what I just said. We don't listen to God's voice enough.

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Some of us don't listen to God's voice at all.

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And this is why we have this big contrast, like

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this challenge between what God says and what humans say,

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what God says and what the devil says. You see,

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at the Garden of Eden, the devil tried this plan

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out and it worked. You know, God had already made

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himself very clear about the knowledge, the tree of the

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knowledge of good and evil. And when he goes to Eve,

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he said, yeay hath God said, and then he starts

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to mess around a little bit with what God says.

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And then he goes in complete, diametrically opposed language from

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what God said. He said, you shall not surely die,

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when God said you shall surely die. And it's like, okay,

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we need to listen for God's voice, and when we

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hear or listen, we actually do what he says. That

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is the antidote. Like if we stopped right here, if

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the current cut off and the broadcast stopped right here,

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we will have gotten what we need for today. Whatever

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God says, we listen to it and then just do it.

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Everything else has to go okay. And so the discussion

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is taken up here in the Bible Book of Mark,

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chapter seven, beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads

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then came together unto him, the Pharisees and searching of

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the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. Oh, they're coming from

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they're coming from home. Base hold on. And when they

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saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled that

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is to say, with unwashing hands, they found fault for

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the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their

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hands oft eat not holding the tradition of the elders.

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The what tradition of the elders? Okay? Verse four. And

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when they come from the market, except they wash, they

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eat not, And many other things there be which they

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have received to hold, as the washing of cups and pots,

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brazen vessels, and tables. I went to a actually went

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to a kosher pizza shop one time in Maryland, and

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I saw the ritual washings even there. Very interesting. Verse five.

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Then the pharisees and scribes asked him, why walk not

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the disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but

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eat bread with unwashing hands. He answered, and said, unto them,

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Well has said essays prophesied of you hypocrites, as it

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is written this people honor with me with their lips.

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You see, there are a lot of people who talk

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a good talk, like like I say, like you ask

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somebody how they're doing. And I'm not talking about everybody

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who does this. I'm talking about the people who are

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actual hypocrites. How you doing? And then they use his

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name he is good, and it's like, Okay, I got you.

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I agree that God is good, but how are you right?

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And then you find that this person is abusive to

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his or her spouse, like then you find that this

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person has been stealing from the treasury, And then you

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find out that the sanctimonious language and outward or external

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behavior of interesting long term fast and these kinds things

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are in opposition to the lifestyle that they live at home.

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Like I grew up in a situation like this, where

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it was like, Wow, I wish I could see the

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person that I hear about from that pulpit. I wish

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that person lived in my house. But alas it was

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not the case. And so I just want to say,

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thank God that he is giving us the privilege, the

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privilege to open up his word and see what God

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is saying here. He said that they honor me with

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their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Verse seven,

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How be it in vain do they worship me teaching

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for doctrines, the commandments of men, for laying aside the

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commandment of God, Ye hold many other traditions of men,

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as washing of pots and cups and so forth. And

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verse nine, he said, unto them, full well, ye reject

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the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

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For Moses said, honor thy father and thy mother. And

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whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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But ye say, if a man say to his father

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or mother. It is corbon, that is to say, a

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gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, he

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shall be free. And he suffered them no more to

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do aught for his father or mother, making the word

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of God of none effect through your tradition which ye

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have delivered, and so many such things. So I'm not

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going to go into the details of that particular tradition

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because it's not likely that wherever you happen to be

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living in the world, that you're dealing with this particular one.

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What Jesus was dealing with in this moment, he was

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dealing with hypocrisy. That's what he was dealing with. He

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was dealing with hypocrisy. He was dealing with people switching

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things up in order to serve themselves, even though they

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want to have people think that they're holy. So let's

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deal with hypocrisy. You can study exactly what Jesus was

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talking about in those details, but again, it's not something

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that we can necessarily apply to ourselves, most of us.

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So let's get to the root of the matter. What

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is he really talking about? And so let's look at

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hypocrisy and how we can avoid it. Can we agree

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that we all need to agree. We need to avoid hypocrisy.

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The first thing that we need to do is examine

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ourselves and be honest. We need to yield ourselves to

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the Holy Ghost and have self examination. And according to

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the Bible Book of Tewod Corinthians, chapter thirteen and verse five,

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the Bible reads, examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith,

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and prove your own selves. Let me say it again,

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examine yourselves. I need to add my name here, David.

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Examine yourself, David. Examine yourself whether I be in the faith,

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and prove your own selves. Hm. Oh, so I need

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to actually look in the mirror. I think the Bible

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teaches us that the Law of God is a mirror,

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and we need to determine whether we're going to look

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into that mirror and see what it is and see

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the contrast between what the law says and is and

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who I am, and then ask God to actually deliver

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me from the contrast. Deliver me from the hypocrisy, deliver

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me from the shortcomings and shortfall here, deliver me from myself. Yeah.

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Self examination regularly assess your actions and your belief systems

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and see that they align with the scriptures. I'm talking

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about what you believe, and now what you do. What

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is in your forehead and what is in your hand?

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What is in your forehead, That is what you think,

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and then what you actually do. And I'm doing the

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same thing Deuteronomy chapter six and in Exodus chapter thirteen.

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We see that God wants us to think and to

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do and have these as our reality check on a

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regular basis. And then I've already said that we need

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to be honest. But let me say it one more time,

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transparency and honesty. In Colossians chapter three and verse nine,

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lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put

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off the old man with his deeds. You see in

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the Shakespearean play Hamlet, we see Polonius saying to his son,

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to thine own self be true, and then you won't

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be able to lie to anybody else. So we need

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self examination, and then we need to be honest with ourselves,

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with God and with others. We need to flee hypocrisy

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because God wants us to be holy. Make it a

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great day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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