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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 Friday, August thirty,

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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 living to Give, Living to Give. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say, well, welcome to you and ask you

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to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion book,

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At your Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Good morning again, Good morning. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank

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you for all of the people that you have brought

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on these platforms all around the world. I'm asking you

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please to transform all of our minds, transform their minds,

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and people who are contemplating continuing in sin or to

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serve you, help them to choose to serve you. Help

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us to serve you with everything that we have. Live

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to give according to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Living to give, living to give.

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If you want to enjoy a really really invigorating and

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and really telling fascinating discussion, I want you to look

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up symbiosis or symbiosis s Y M B I O

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S I S I think that's how it's spelt, or

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look up or look up the Amazon. The Amazon. I'm

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not talking about Amazon dot Com. I'm talking about I'm

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talking about the place on planet Earth called the Amazon.

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And see how all of what happens inside of the Amazon,

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that ecosystem in nature, how each of the creatures, each

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of the things in plant life how things related to

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water systems and everything else is symbiotic, meaning they have

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relationships where they are living to give. Every part of

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the system is giving to every or other parts of

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the system. And I like it because it shows us

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that God intended for us not to be solitary, not

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to be by ourselves, not to just have life pass by,

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not to be selfish. Oh, I think I'm getting somewhere now.

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God intends for us to live and give like God does. Okay,

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let me begin by reading I think it's starting to

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settle in from the book titled The Desire of Ages.

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The Desire of Ages, I will read from page five

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hundred and eighty four directly out of the lesson, and

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it reads Christ's act in cursing the tree, which his

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own power had created, stands as a warning. And I

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know that there are times that we believers don't like warning.

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So we don't like how that feels. We feel like

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that somebody is spying on us and looking for a

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way to condemn us. That is not true. There are

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times that we are on the precipice, on the edge

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of something very destructive in our lives, and God has

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to sound an alarm. He has to sound an alarm

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and say danger, like you are on the wrong track.

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And if you continue along that pathway and don't turn

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around or repent, then you are going to self destruct.

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You will destroy yourself. So God is giving us a

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warning in this discussion about what happened when he cursed

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the fig tree. This is a warning to all churches

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and to all believers. Not one can live the law

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of God without ministering to others. That's why I gave

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you that whole discussion about living in order to give

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Let me read that again. No one, not one of us,

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can live the law of God without ministering to others.

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Remember yesterday we said that the second and great commandment

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is like unto the greatest commandment of all, it's miraculous,

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and it's to love our neighbors as ourselves miraculously and

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the fact that God has to empower us to love

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Him with everything we have and everything we are. And

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that is the first and great commandments, or the greatest commandment.

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And then the second, which is like unto it is

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to love others as we love ourselves. Well well, to

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love others as we love ourselves is to minister to

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them it's to minister to them. It is to give

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what we can give for the benefit of their well being.

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I said, what we can give, we don't worry about

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what we cannot give. If we're in a symbiotic relationship. Remember,

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you're going to look about the Amazon them on when

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you have an opportunity and see like there are creatures

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that serve other creatures in certain way. So God, according

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to your gifts, can have you to serve people, not

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with who you're not, but with who you are. And

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then let me continue the reading. But there are many

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who do not live out Christ's merciful, unselfish life. Some

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who think themselves excellent Christians do not understand what constitutes

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service for God. They plan and study to please themselves.

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They act only in reference to self. Time is of

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value to them only as they can gather for themselves

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in all the affairs of life. This is their object,

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not for others, but for themselves. Do they minister? Oh

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wait a minute, wait a minute, you just said not

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for them, not for others, but for themselves. They do minister? Well,

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is that ministry really?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes people feed the homeless in order to make themselves

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either look big or feel good. Sometimes people do it

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only so that they can receive some benefit. I said,

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only only to receive or derive some benefit from a

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government entity. If I give this so much of my

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material resources, then this will be the outcome. And I'm

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not saying that we should not benefit from those things

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that the tax code does provide. But what I am

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saying is that there are some people who only do

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it in order to receive that benefit. That is their

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only purpose. Remove that benefit, and they would not be

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of service in that way. And so there are people

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who speak and preach and teach the Word like I

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do every single day of my life, every single day

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for many years. I've been teaching this Word of God

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for a long time. And some people who do what

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I'm doing right now do it so that we can

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fill in the blank something that has to do with

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ourselves feel a certain way, be seen by others a

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certain way. Sometimes even God forbid, people are preaching and teaching,

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quote the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to gain

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brownie points or somehow recommend ourselves to God, as if

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God now has to give us some kind of a reward.

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And the Bible is teaching us and this writing here

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in the book Desire of Ages is teaching us that

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we need to be transformed by God. We need to

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be converted by God, so that when we are serving

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or ministering, we are only serving and ministering because we

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want to be a blessing to people under God. We

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want them to be transformed, and so we are just

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doing whatever it is that we can do so that

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they can be benefited. God created, continuing the quote, them

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to live in a world where unselfish service must be performed.

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He designed them to help their fellowmen and every in

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every possible way. But self is so large that they

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cannot see anything else. They are not in touch with humanity.

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Those who thus live for self are like the fig tree,

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which made every pretension, but it was fruitless. They observed

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the forms of worship, but without repentance or faith in profession.

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They honor the law of God, but obedience is lacking.

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They say, but do not, They say, but do not?

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And so Jesus is giving us the opportunity today to

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observe how he lived and then live in order to

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give under the strength of the Holy Ghost.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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