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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 Monday. It's

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June two, twenty twenty five. 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 day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our

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caption for today is Noah's Evangelism. Noah's Evangelism. We'll get

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

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to say welcome to you and ask you to go

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over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our

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online community. Also, please pick up the Your Daily Portion

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Life Application Guide. Also, let us know where you are

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in the world at your daily portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for

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giving us this new day and forgetting us into the

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work week even further. Please Father, give us understanding, help

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us to serve you with everything we have and everything

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we are. Help us to see ourselves as evangelists in

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this day in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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Pardon me Noah's evangelism. Okay, so if you were living

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no you're living in these last days. Let me switch

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it up. You're living in these last days? What message

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has God given you? I was about to take you

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back to Noah's day, but you're living in this day,

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like twenty twenty five, in the middle of the year.

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What message has God given you? That's the first question.

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And then how determined are you to share it? How

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determined When things get difficult, when people ridicule you, when

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people question you, when sometimes you have some doubts, not

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necessarily about the message, but about well am I to

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do it this way? Things are starting to feel a

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little fill in the blank. Whatever it is that causes

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your mind to start to think deeply, how determined are

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you to share it? And then how willing are you

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to remain focused? Because we're thins thinking about the time

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that Noah was living in He preached for one hundred

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and twenty years one message oh nine. And so now

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the Bible says, here in the day of Noah, and

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I want you to determine, like, is Noah's day and

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my day? Very are they similar? And the Bible reads

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in Genesis, chapter six and verse five, and God saw

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that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,

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and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart

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was only evil. Continually, if you turn on the news,

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if you turn on your social media, if you turn

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on video services like well, I won't say like, because

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then people will get all bent out of shape. But

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there are streaming services that you can watch videos. Do

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you believe based on what you see? You don't have

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to contextualize it, You don't have to editorialize, You don't

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have to make an explanation, but simply see and observe

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and listen. Are our hearts humans in these last days?

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Not yours? But in these last days are people's hearts

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and imaginations of our hearts always only evil continually. And

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of course the answer is yes. And so the Bible

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says here in verse eleven of Genesis chapter six, the

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earth also was corrupt before God? Do I need to

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ask the same question? And the earth was filled with violence?

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Do I need to ask the same question? Now? In

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Matthew chapter twenty four, verses thirty seven through thirty nine,

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we see something telling, and the Bible reads, but as

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the days of as the days of Noah were, so

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shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.

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For as in the days of Noah, before days that

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were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying

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and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered into

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the ark, and they knew not until the flood came

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and took them all away. So shall also the coming

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of the Son of Man be. The pastor who baptized

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me in nineteen ninety six, Pastor Henry M. Wright in Alexandria, Virginia,

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used to say it was business as usual. So sometimes

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you get focused on the eating and drinking and say

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that it was in temperance, the marrying and giving in

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marriage saying that people have a flippant attitude toward the

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holiness of marriage. And perhaps that's true. But Pastor Wright

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used to say it was business as usual and that

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was the problem. While there was a looming warning, there

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were impending crises, and people's arts were turning away from

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God to extreme proportion, in extreme proportions, he said that

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it was business as usual. And I tend to agree,

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all of these years later, business as usual, as though

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nothing is happening. In fact, there are scoffers in the

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last days that say exactly that, Like, listen, y'all been

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talking about Jesus coming for a long time, but it

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looks like everything's the way that it's always been. Huh,

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It's always been like this. And the Bible says that

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we are to count God's long suffering or his patients

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as salvation. It is salvafic in nature. God is giving

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us an opportunity to get closer to Him, which is

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why He is not yet here and so widespread wickedness

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and corruption. Genesis speaks of evil thoughts and violence in

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our world today is likewise filled with moral decay. Plea

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is preoccupation with pleasure and normalcy. Life went on as usual, eating, drinking,

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marrying until the judgment came. Today, many live distracted and

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unprepared sudden and unexpected judgment. It shouldn't be unexpected, because

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God has given us signs, He's given us warnings. But

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better than that, he has given us the opportunity to

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be in safety with him, to be in connection with him,

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to be in right relationship with him, to love him

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and keep his commandments, and keep his commandments. So let's

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see how many lessons we can draw here in the

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little bit of time that we have remaining. Number One,

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faithfulness is not measured by numbers. The Bible says here

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in Hebrews, chapter eleven and verse seven. By faith, Noah

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warned of God prepared the arc. He preparedared the ark. Well,

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how many people went in, it says here for the

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deliverance of his family. That wasn't the whole purpose. But

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his family were the only ones, and they only narrowly

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the ones that were saved in the ark. Now, let

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me just be clear, those were not the only people

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that were holy in that day. I mean, there were

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some people who died before the flood came that were

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God's people. So let me not say that there were

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only eight people who were holy in that day. Same thing,

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in the last days, there was a small number. Sometimes

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the Bible gives a symbolic number to a small number

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who were living in the last days. It's a symbolic situation,

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but that doesn't mean that those are the only ones

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that are holy. It just means that that number, in

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contrast to those who could have been saved, is small, minuscule.

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So many people turned away. Now the world will mock

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the truth before the floodgates. I already gave allusion to

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this in two Peter, chapter three and verse five. The

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Bible reads, they willingly are ignorant. Really, it's not the world,

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it's people of God too are It's supposed to be

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of God that the world perished being overflowed with water.

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So what we need to do is speak the truth

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gently but boldly, knowing. Knowing mockery is a sign of

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the times, not a sign to stop. Mockery is a

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sign of the times, not a sign to stop. What

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is the message God gave you? How determined are you

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to share it? How long are you willing to remain focused? 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,