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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 Wednesday, August

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twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single

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day and today is no exception. We continue to study

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in the Book of Mark and our caption for today

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is Earthly Duties and Heavenly Outcomes. Earthly duties and Heavenly Outcome.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to welcome you

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from wherever you happen to be in the world. I'm

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thankful that you are here. It may be early in

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the morning, it may be mid morning or even into

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the evening. Because you are on almost every continent of

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this world, this planet, and I'm thankful two hundred radio stations,

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all kinds of different apps definitely, thirty online platforms, etc. Etc.

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And that simply means that you have the capacity to

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hasten the coming of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ

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by sharing the good news, the great news of Jesus Christ,

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and the fact that his judgment is come. He's welcoming

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us into his judgment so he can see us as

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holy covered in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. So welcome

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somebody into that fellowship, that relationship today and we can

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

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and then we will get underweigh. Father, thank you for

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the privilege we have to be in league with you,

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to be on your team in your community. But not

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just to say that we're with you and take pictures

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and take pictures and share everybody we're friends with Jesus,

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but to go ahead and actually welcome other people into

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right relationship with you, welcome them into the life rather

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than death that they are now experiencing. Please give us

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your holy spirit today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Well, we're running. We're running. We're running

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through the Book of Mark. Now we're in chapter twelve.

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I took you into chapter twelve without reading it yesterday,

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but now we are at verse thirteen. So much to say,

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so many controversies, unnecessarily so. And these controversies were with

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the people that God, that God wanted to use to

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save others. Can you imagine Jesus is having so much

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trouble inside the fellowship in twenty twenty four? Is it

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true still that God's people still have problems with God's

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peaple people, that we still want to just talk about

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the work and not do it according to the principles

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God has given to us. Are we still having the

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same challenges? Well, of course that's a rhetorical question. The

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obvious answer is yes. Sometimes we don't humble ourselves before

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God and do things in the way that He has

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prescribed and given us the blueprint to do because we're

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just too proud, some of us, not all. There are

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people who are choosing to do things just like Jesus did,

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And I'm thankful so hopefully everybody listening, everybody who's watching

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me right now are among those who do it just

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like Jesus did. Earthly duties and heavenly outcomes. Now we

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are in chapter twelve of Mark, and I will read

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beginning at verse thirteen, and the Bible reads, and they

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send unto him certain of the Pharisees. Here we go again.

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Here we go again, searchain of the Pharisees and Herodians

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to catch him in his words when you are sending

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a message, a messenger to God, like if you're sending

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someone to God for any purpose, are you sending them

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in order to get transformed by God or for some

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other reason? When you're sending people to God, when you're preaching,

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if you're a preacher, if you're teaching something, if you

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are sharing a link to something on the internet, when

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you're writing, when you're sharing yourself in a video a

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quick video on Instagram, TikTok or some other platform, and

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you are invoking the name, invoking the name of God,

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and you are giving people to go and be attentive

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like to hear about Jesus, Like what are you giving

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them when they get there? It is it to trap

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him in his words or attempt to him trap him

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in his words, to say gotcha? Like some of these

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people out here, dissident minded people who are out here

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putting up pictures of God's people and all kinds of

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stuff to show that they, in these people's minds, have

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done things against God's word, when really that's not the truth.

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Like what is your purpose? Like what are you doing

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when you use Jesus's name? Well, well, these people wanted

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to catch Jesus in his words verse fourteen. And when

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they were come, they say, unto him, Master, we know

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that thou art true and cares for no man. First

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of all, they're lying. They're not telling the truth about

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what they think about him. For thou regardest not the

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person of men, but thou teachest the way of God

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in truth? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar?

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Speaker 1: Or not?

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Speaker 2: What to pay taxes? Is that what they're asking? Of course,

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you're supposed to pay your taxes. But anyway shall we

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give or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy,

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said unto them, why tim gimi bring me a penny

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and that I may see it? And they brought it,

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and he said, unto them, whose image is on this

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and superscription? And they said, unto him Caesar's Jesus answering

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said unto them, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,

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and to God the things that are God's. They marveled,

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and they marveled at him, and then come unto him

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the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection. And they

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asked him, saying, Master Moses wrote unto us, if a

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man's brother die and leave his wife behind and leave

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no children, that his brother should take his wife and

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raise up seed unto his brother. And there were seven brethren,

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And the first took a wife, and dying, left no seed,

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and the second took her and died, and neither left

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he any seed, and the third likewise, and the seven

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had her and left no seed. Last of all the

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woman died also in the resurrection. Therefore they want to know,

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they don't really want to know. They're really saying, we

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don't believe in the resurrection. Look at this complicated thing,

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because your law, like the law of Moses, actually says

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that this is how it's supposed to work. And now

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it looks like like if you're saying that there's a resurrection, Jesus,

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it's going to be as the world turns in like

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it's gonna be the guiding light in eternity. If you

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don't know what that is, those are old soap operas.

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It's gonna be a mess conflict. Huh, it's gonna be

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Housewives of Whomever a show again, it's gonna be a mess,

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a reality show. And Jesus is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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I see what you're doing. No, no, no, Let me

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just say something to you that in the Resurrection. In

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the Resurrection, you're deceived by the way and you don't

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know the power of God. In the Resurrection, there shall

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neither be marrying or giving in marriage. There will be

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neither marrying nor giving in marriage. You see, you will

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be like the angels. And then in verse twenty six Jesus,

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Jesus said, now, as for the dead being raised, have

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you not read in the Book of Moses, in the

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passage about the bush, how God said to him, I

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am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and

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the God of Jacob. You see, these men had already

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passed away. Can I just say that He's resolving the

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conflict right here, the controversy right here. These men had

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already passed away. They were resting in their tombs and

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So if God is the God of Isaac and the

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God of Abraham and the God of Jacob verse twenty seven,

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he is not the god of the dead, but of

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the living. So Jesus resolves these arguments with the same

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word that they were trying to use against him. Remember, Jesus,

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Jesus is the living Word of God. In him was life,

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and the life was the light of men. Hah. Yeah.

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And so the question really is, when we are on

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planet Earth and we are moving and breathing and living

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among other humans, are we guiding them to the paths

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of righteousness? Or are we looking for controversy? Are we

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teaching people that while we live on planet Earth? Just

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as the children of Israel when they were in Babylonian captivity,

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God had told them that even though you're in captivity,

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to cause Babylon to prosper while you're there. When Joseph

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was in captivity, he caused everything in Potterphar's house, in

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Pharaoh's house to prosper. When you are living on planet Earth,

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are you making the place a better place while you're

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here influencing people for the purpose of bringing them closer

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to God? Are you controversial? You controversial? Speaking against the government,

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Are you controversial speaking against the church? Are you controversial

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or are you looking for ways to lead people into

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right relationship with God, earthly duties with eternal, heavenly outcomes.

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Make it a 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.