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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 fourteen,

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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 who is the Greatest? Who is the Greatest.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but before

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we do, I'd like to ask you to play. Please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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At your Daily Portion dot Com. This is a way

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day

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and for giving us your spirit to teach us. Please

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teach us and instill in us humility in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Who is the greatest.

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We're gonna go ahead and jump right into the Bible

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book of Mark Mark chapter nine, and I will read

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beginning at verse thirty Mark chapter nine, beginning at verse thirty.

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Hopefully you have your bibles to follow along with me.

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The Bible reads. Then they went out from there and

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passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,

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for he would teaching his disciples and telling them the

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son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men.

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They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.

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But they did not understand his statement and were afraid

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to ask him. Very interesting what happens next verse thirty three.

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Then they came to Capernaum. After Jesus was inside the house,

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he asked them, what were you discussing on the way.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: When Jesus asks such a question like Adam, where are you? Huh?

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What were you discussing along the way? Or when the

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prophet asked King Saul, what meaneth the bleating of the sheep?

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This means that God already knows what he's dealing with.

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He's giving you, he's giving me an opportunity to agree

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with him, to confess what is actually happening. But let's

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just see what the men. What the men did. But

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they were silent, for on the way they had argued

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with one another about who was the greatest. They were

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silent because they were arguing about who should be the greatest.

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Now you're in the presence of the most humble being

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in the universe, the one who created everything, the things

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that you can see in the things that you cannot see, right,

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the one who commanded and it stood fast, The one

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who said, let there be light, and there was light.

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The one as he took on human flesh and walked

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planet Earth. The one who could have called twelve legions

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of angels to do what anything he asked that could

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have defended him, that could have destroyed his enemies. The

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one who, when he did finally get on the cross,

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he actually allowed death to take him his divinity could

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have resisted death, but he did not allow his divinity

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to resist death, and then he did allow his humanity

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to die. Like Jesus, the most humble being in the universe,

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is right in front of you, and you are arguing,

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as his followers, who's the greatest. Something's really wrong. But

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Jesus understood their thoughts, and the Bible says Verse thirty six, No.

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Thirty five. After he sat down, he called the twelve

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and said to them, if anyone wants to be first,

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he must be last of all and the servant of all.

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He took a little child and had him stand among them,

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Taking him in his arms, he said to them, whoever

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becomes or welcomes excuse me, one of these little ones,

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these children in my name, welcomes me. And whoever welcomes

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me does not welcome me, but the one who sent me. So,

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if you're welcoming children, if you're in a humble state

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of mind to where you notice even the little children,

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you're welcoming Jesus into your life. Yes. And if you

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are welcoming Jesus into your life, you are welcoming God,

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our Father, into your life. Do you see how this goes?

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There are times that we wield power. Sometimes people God forbid.

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But sometimes people wield what authority. They're authoritarians, not authority figures.

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Sometimes people usurp authority. That's a long story. Lucifer attempted

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to usurp authority. But of course now we know that

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he's cast down, like there was no space found for

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him in heaven anymore, because he refused to repent. And

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these men are going down the same path that Lucifer

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went down. Who is the greatest? Who is the greatest?

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And Jesus taught them that we need to be followers

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of Jesus, welcome even the children, and in by welcoming them,

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we are welcoming Jesus and God our father. And the

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Bible says here in verse thirty eight, jod said, and

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John said, unto them, Teacher, we saw someone casting out

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demons in your name, and we tried to stop him

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because he was not following us. And Jesus said, don't

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stop him, because no one who does a miracle in

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my name will be soon able afterward to say anything

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bad about me. For whosoever is not against us is

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for us. Verse forty one. For I tell you the

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truth whoever gives you a cup of water to drink

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because you bear Christ's name, will never lose his reward.

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Oh there's so much there. But what I want to

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do now is go down through just about seven life

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lessons based on what we have already read. Okay, so

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number one, I want you to understand the sacrifice that

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Jesus has given for us. Jesus humbled himself. The Bible says,

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even to the death, unto the cross, and so he

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taught disciples that he was going to humble himself to

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the degree that others could be saved. So how can

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I be looking for authority? How can I be looking

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for being up above my fellow humans when the one

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who created everything is humbling himself to the point that

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he's giving his life, choosing to become guilty on our behalf,

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the one who never sinned, Yes, the one who has

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the power to destroy this earth and start all over again.

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He is humbling himself in order to save us. How

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can we be arguing about who is the greatest? How

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could we be vying for attention? How could we in

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the church be polititricking to see who will get the

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greatest and largest paying position in the church. Oh my,

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So Jesus is showing us how to be humble through

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his sacrifice. And of course we want to redefine greatness.

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Number two. Redefine greatness. The Bible again says in verse

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thirty five of the same chapter. And he sat down

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and called the twelve and said, unto them, if any

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man desired to be first, the same shall be last

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of all, and the servant of all. So servitude is

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the pathway to God's style leadership. Can I say that again?

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Servanthood or servitude is the pathway to God style greatness

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or leadership. So we diminish ourselves, we decrease that God

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may increase, and that is the pathway to godly leadership.

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Number three Acceptance of the lowly. With children, we see

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that sometimes people say they need to be seen and

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not heard with elderly people. With some people who are

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dejected and rejected in so society, we put them last naturally,

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And God is saying, no, servant leadership. Seize these people

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and honors them. They see these people and honor them

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as if they're honoring Jesus, as if they are honoring God,

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our father. So those who receive the least of these

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his brethren, they're receiving him. Acceptance of the humble or

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the lowly. Inclusivity is another way to look at it.

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We include those that the world excludes, positioning them to

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hear the word of God and be transformed. We can't

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get through our entire list of seven. I'll put it

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into the community for those who are in it, and

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you can see what was on my mind at the time.

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Speaker 1: Make it a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,