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

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

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

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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

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

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, August one,

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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 a different kind of Messiah, a different

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kind of Messiah. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd 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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This is one of the ways 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 morning and getting us just

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one more step closer to the coming and one more

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step closer to this Sabbath. I pray now that you

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will give us a clear view of who you are

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and who Jesus is as Messiah. Please help us to

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

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Amen and Amen again. A different kind of Messiah now,

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I just want to say, based on what we will

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read in just a moment, that Jesus is the kind

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of Messiah that has compassion. He's compassionate, He's the kind

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of Messiah that is is caring. He's the one that

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provides for us. He's the one that gives us guidance.

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He said that he would guide us on the paths

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of righteousness. And I'm thankful because not all messiahs and

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their quotes have these qualities. MAT just say for a

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moment for the people who are just saying, but why

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are you talking about there are no other messiahs. I'm like, well,

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that's not what Jesus said. He said in Matthew twenty four.

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It's recorded in Matthew twenty four that he said that

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there will be false Christs and false prophets, so there

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will be false messiahs, and those messiahs are not Jesus.

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He's compassionate, he's holy, he is caring, He provides for us,

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he gives us guidance. But in the context of his day,

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when Jesus lived on planet Earth, he was not the

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one the kind of messiah for revolt, He was not

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the kind of messiah for incursions. He was not the

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kind of messiah that would try to overthrow any government. No,

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he was compassionate and caring and holy, and he was

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our provider and he gave holy guidance. But the people

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were so beside themselves when they experienced Messiah, because because

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they could not imagine that someone could be like this,

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they were beside themselves with amazement. And so the Bible

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reads in Mark chapter six, beginning at verse thirty four,

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and Jesus when he came out, saw much people and

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was moved with compassion toward them because they were as sheep,

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not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them

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many things. And so Jesus didn't try to capitalize on

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these people's vulnerability. He did not try to capitalize on

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their aimlessness. What happens with the false messiahs, these false christs,

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these individuals who are opportunistic. They prey upon people who

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seem not to have a right focus or an aim,

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and then they make money of them, They make sport

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of them. They do all kinds of unmentionable evils toward them,

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and use their power and influence to do evil in

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the world. But Jesus, he had compassion on them because

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he could see their aimlessness verse thirty five. And when

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the day was now far spent, his disciples came to

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him and said, this is a desert place, and now

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the time has far past. Send them away, that they

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may go into the country round about, go into the

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villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.

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And that sounds actually sounds pretty good. Like the disciples

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had compassion, like they cared for the people. But Jesus

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did something special here, He said something special. Verse thirty seven.

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He answered and said, unto them, give ye them to eat.

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You don't have to send them away. He sang to

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his disciples, you don't have to send them away. All

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that you need you currently have. Whatever you need, you

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currently have. What they don't have, anything to eat. What

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they need you have, you give them to eat. And

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they say, unto him, shall we go and buy two

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hundred penny worth of bread and give them all to eat?

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And he said, unto them, how many loaves have ye?

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Go and see? And when they knew, they say, five

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and two fishes. And he commanded them to make them

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all sit down in companies upon the green grass. You see,

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Jesus had an organized way of providing for his children.

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Let's just continue to read verse forty. And they sat

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down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. And when

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he had taken the five loaves and the two fish,

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he looked up to heaven and blessed and break the

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loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before them,

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and the two fishes divided. He among them all, how

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many people did he give these five loaves and fish?

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And I want you to be careful here. Let's keep going.

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Let's keep going. And they all did eat and were filled,

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and they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and

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of fish. And they that did eat of the loaves

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were about five thousand and most of you forget it

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says men. It doesn't say five thousand people. Unfortunately, the

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women were not counted. Unfortunately, the children were not counted.

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So if there were five thousand men and then you

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add women, I don't know if all of the men

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were connected to women, but just let's just say a

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portion of them were. Three thousand of them also had women,

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so that would be three thousand plus five thousand, that

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would be eight thousand. And let's just say that they

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had children. Let's say they had four children, so that's

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eight thousand times four. Now you see where we're going

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with this. So it was already miraculous when it was

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just five thousand men, But now we're talking about tens

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of thousands of people, real live humans who were able

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to eat because Jesus performed a miracle. Why because he's compassionate,

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he's caring, he makes provision, he gives guidance. He's not

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going to overthrow any human governments. Not this way, okay,

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And the Bible continues and straightway. He constrained his disciples

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to get in the ship and to go on the

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other side. Before onto bethsaida while he sent them away.

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He sent away the people, And when he had sent

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them away, he departed into a mountain to pray. Can

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you imagine Jesus, the all powerful One blessed be his name,

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is now condescending and living in human form, and he's

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showing us that even he, as he lived on planet Earth,

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needed to rely on his father. He couldn't do all

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of this work in his own strength as a human.

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He needed to be filled with the power of God,

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so that when he went out and served, he would

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be serving from a fullness and overflow from what he

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experienced and received from his father. There is a lesson

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here for us. We can only serve as we are

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filled by the power of God. The Bible continues. The

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Bible continues. And when even was come, the ship was

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in the midst of the sea, and he alone on

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the land, and he said, unto them toiling and rowing.

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He saw them toiling and rowing, and the wind was

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contrary unto them. And about the fourth watch of the

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night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and

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would have passed by them. But when he saw them.

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When they saw him walking on the sea, they supposed

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that it had been the spirit and cried out, or

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all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he talked

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with them and said, be of good cheer. It is

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I be not afraid. And he went up into them

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unto the ship, and the wind ceased. And they were sore,

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amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered, for they considered

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not the miracle of loaves, or their heart was hardened.

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Let me just say right here, ha, when they received

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Jesus into the ship they arrived at the other side.

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Why because he's a different kind of Messiah, compassionate, caring,

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giving guidance and provision.

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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,