Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, September
twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
and today is no exception. We are continuing in the
final week of our Lesson study series through the Book
of Mark, and our caption for today is go into
all the world. Go into all the world. And I
suppose that that is more than just a caption. It
is a call for all of us go into all
the world and share the great news of Jesus Christ
and how he can save any of us from our sins.
We'll get into that in just a moment. But first
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Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new
day and for loving us so much that you and
trust the goal of reaching the planet for you to us. Father,
Please empower us today, help us to experience your love
to the degree that we will reach as many people
around us as possible. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again go into all the world. Now I
am going to read from Mark chapter sixteen. Something very
interesting to me. It has some interesting things that I
never noticed in the other Gospels. And I said, never noticed.
I may need to go back and look. But the
Bible reads here beginning at verse fourteen. Then he appeared
to the eleven themselves while they were eating. Now this
is a detail, And I always say that when you
see a detail in the scriptures, whatever the detail is,
you should pay attention to it, because sometimes it's a
teaching tool. It's something that we can learn about ourselves,
something we can learn about God. And so I'm seeing eleven,
and I'm like, Lord, what happened to them? Twelve? What
happened to the twelve? And of course all of his
disciples when Jesus was about to be crucified, they, as
the Bible says, forsook him and fled. But one of them,
the same one who Jesus said earlier, well one of
you has a devil. Well, he never repented, and then
he he he what do they say on the internet?
Now he unalived himself because for some reason, the algorithm
messes up the program. If you say it in real words,
he unlived himself. Judas is no longer with us because
he turned his back on God, and in a hopeless,
weakened state, he decided that he was not going to
be here anymore. And so now there are only eleven.
There are only eleven, Thank God, there are eleven. But
but what happened to the twelve? And the Bible continues,
and he rebuked the for their unbelief and hardness of heart.
So Jesus is still now. He is still at the moment,
in the moments before he goes back to heaven. And
I'm exaggerating, he has some time left here, but he's
still saying to his disciples, like, listen, there is so
much more that I can do through you. There was
so much more I can do if you will just
have faith and believe what I said to you. The
prophecies said that Jesus would come back, Messiah would come back.
The prophecy Jesus himself said, in real words, what would
exactly happen? And these people couldn't believe. God's people couldn't
believe that he did exactly what he said he was
going to do. And it wasn't even like a long
term prophecy, you know what I mean. Like, it wasn't
a seventy weeks of years prophecy. It wasn't the twenty
three hundred days prophecy. It wasn't seventy years of captivity
told to Jeremiah and Daniel being distraught, wondering like, Okay,
I see the seventy years coming up, but something's weird here.
Nothing is simple. On the third day, I'm going to
take my life back up. Because they had not believed
those who had seen him after he had risen. So
he rebukes them verse fifteen, and he said, unto them,
now you go into all the world and preach the
Gospel to every creature. Now that you know I'm here,
Now that you know that my word is my bond,
Now that you know that I have all power in
my hands, Now that you know that the grave cannot
keep me, that hell, grave and death are under my feet.
When I say I am empowering you, you can be
sure that I will be with you, like I said.
So he said, unto them, go ye into all the
world and preach the Gospel to every creature. Don't leave
anybody out. Don't discount anyone. Don't discount the gunman that
lives on your corner. Don't discount the woman who does
some things that you don't really eat and want to mention.
Don't discount the child or the youth that seems to
have gone so far astray that you can't reach him
or her. Do not withhold this truth from anyone. Do
not withhold this power that I have given you, that
you have seen in living color, Do not withhold it
from anybody. Preach this to every creature verse sixteen. The
one who believes and is baptized will be saved. But
the one who does not believe will be condemned. Remember
he rebuked them for their unbelief for him coming out
of the grave like he said he would, and they
didn't believe. So if you continue in that kind of
a state or worse, yeah, condemnation for those kinds of people.
But he's saying, if you are willing to go under
the water symbolizing symbolizing that you are giving your life
to God, symbolizing that you're dying to sin, and come
back up out of the water in this baptism, just
like Jesus did, symbolizing the newness of life, you will
be saved. Verse seventeen. These signs will accompany those who
believe in my name. They will drive out devils, they
will speak in new tongues, they will pick up snakes
in their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison,
it will not harm them. Now, this is not an
invitation to go mess around with snakes. It's just like
in the Book of Acts, the Book of Acts where
we see in chapter twenty eight where it happened that
Paul got caught while he was bundling sticks and laying
them on a fire and a snake got them, and
the snake had held on to him, and the people like, okay,
he's dead now. But then of course he didn't die
because God chose to protect him in that instance. And
then of course they're wondering, like is he a god?
Like who is this dude that can be bitten by
a snake and nothing happened to him, And so God
is saying that there will be instance in where things
that would normally harm us won't because God will protect us. Now,
there are times when he won't choose to protect us
on earth, but he said he would. And so we
saw an example of that again in Acts, chapter twenty eight.
And then it says here it will not harm them.
They will lay their hands on the sick and they
will get well. And Jesus said he had spoken unto
them that he was after the Lord Jesus had spoken
to them, he was taken up into heaven and he
sat at the right hand of God. He went back
to heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
Did you get that detail. After he had spoken to them,
he went to the position of authority. After he had
spoken to them, he went to the place and assumed
a position so that he could actually do what he
said he would do. He will protect you. Now he's
demonstrating that he will be able to do it. He
will give you the kind of faith that you need
to believe that he has power to deliver you from
your sins. Now he is visually physically demonstrating that authority.
He's at the right hand of God. Yes, and so
the Bible continues. Then they went out and preached everywhere,
while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message
by accompanying signs. Go into all the world and know
that when you go there, Jesus has the power the
authority to do exactly what he said that he would do.
He will be with you always, even until the end
of the world. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with el David Harris make
it a great day. Yeah.