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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's Sabbath, August twenty four,

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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 Jerusalem Controversies. Jerusalem Controversies. Before before we

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get into that, I'd like to say welcome to you

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and ask you to please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up

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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 day and for the privilege

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that you have entrusted to us to open up your word.

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And I say this every day because every day it's

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a new mercy. Great is thy faithfulness. Father, Please help

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us not to just see sort of an intellectual or

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academic argument or discussion here, but help us to be

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transformed by the renewing of our minds today. Thank you

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in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and a men Again.

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I just want to say a great, big, happy Sabbath

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to anyone who's first time worshiping and experiencing God in

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this way on the sabbath. It's your first time, it's

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your first time with the people of God on a sabbath.

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I just want to say a great, big welcome and

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happy Sabbath to you, especially all right, so so much

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going on in the life of Christ and the people

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who hated him, and these people just had a habit

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of making up stuff to argue about. And I've said

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this to you before, right, and so we're going to

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begin with a passage of scripture that will likely look

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at again in a couple of days. But here it

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reads in Mark, chapter eleven and verse twenty five. And

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whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone,

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forgive him that your father in heaven may also forgive

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your trespasses. Now, for those of you who have been

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with me for years, you may have heard me tell

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this story over and over again, but it bears repeating.

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When I first became a believer, now, I grew up

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going to church, and then after I went away to

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school at age fifteen, I never went back home. I

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never lived at home again. So from age fifteen straight

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through I'm with me right, I would visit home, but

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I never lived at home again. And so like that

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whole covering of okay, mommy says, go to church, that's gone.

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And so I never was a believer anyway, And so

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without Mommy being that covering, then now I don't even

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go to church much less the fact that I wasn't

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a believer anyway. You see where this is going, and

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so it's the wrong path. I'm down the wrong path.

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But now I'm about twenty three years of age, and

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I get baptized, and immediately God is transforming my life

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and I'm actually a believer, like an actual believer. And

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I remember reading what we call the Lord's Prayer. I

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wish I had the time to deal with that one,

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but I remember it. And when Jesus said, and forgive

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us our debts as we forgive our debtors, I intentionally

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and actively skipped over that. I read it and said, no,

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I'm not praying this God, because there's there's somebody that

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I just really I'm not too much interested in forgiving.

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I don't. I don't, so I don't want you to

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forgive me like that because I know that that would

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be bad. So I'm going to skip over that. Well,

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I mean, I was a babe in Christ, so give

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me cut me a little slack here. I'm a babe

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in Christ. I thought that's what it was. I thought,

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if I just don't ask for that, then I won't

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get that I wanted. I wanted like the forgiveness that

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I don't deserve. But I didn't want to give my

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father in this case. I didn't want to forgive him.

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I didn't want to forgive him. And so yeah, well,

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now I know that's not how it works. Jesus is saying,

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this is the way that I forgive you in the

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same way that you forgive. That's how I forgive you.

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You can skip over it all you want, but this

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is how it works. And now I know you know

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that that makes all the difference in the world. And

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so what we need to do is bring this into

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our practical lives. I just told you some personal stuff

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like way back then, I was struggling with and trying

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to outsmart the reality of scripture. And now let me

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read it again in that context. And whenever you stand praying,

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since you're praying, you're praying people. If you have anything

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against anyone, forgive that person. So if you're praying Lord,

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please I need some rent money. And you remember that

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you have anything against anyone, forgive the person. And when

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you stand praying, Lord, please protect me as I go

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out on the roads and the highways and the byways.

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If you have anything against anyone, forgive him. Oh wait

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a minute, and you're praying God, I'm having this pain

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that I don't know what it is, and I need

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your help. Can you help me send me to the

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right way of dealing with this Doctor naturopathic person, somebody

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in some other science that can help me to the

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right pastor preacher, or sister or brother in the church

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that can anoint me. Father, can you help me? If

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you remember that you have anything against anyone, forgive him.

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You have a problem with your husband, Ladies, you have

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a problem with your with your with your wife. Gentlemen,

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your children seem to be driving you crazy, and you've

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not forgiven them because they seem not to be following

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your guidelines, and now you're upset and you and you

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are still holding it against Oh, if you have anything

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against anyone, forgive that person one that owes you money,

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the one that's always coming up with excuses. I think

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we're touching a chord here. Yeah, the person who who

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abused you when you were a child. I have stories

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I was abused when I was a child, and unmentionable,

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unspeakable ways, and not just by one person. If that's

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not bad enough. So I'm telling you my business. If

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you have anything against anyone, forgive that person that your

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father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. This

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is how it works. So many things to talk about

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over the next several days, but let's just touch a few.

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I think that one struck the court. I think you

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understand now it's clear in your mind. And so number one.

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As we think about what we'll be discussing throughout the

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next several days, I want to challenge prejudices with compassion

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and truth. In the Book of Mark, chapter two, verse seventeen,

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the Bible reads, when Jesus heard it, he saith unto

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them that they that are whole have no need of

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a physician, but they that are sick. I came not

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to call the righteous, but sinners to repentant. You see,

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religious bigots, people who were prejudiced among the so called

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people of God could not figure out why Jesus was

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so interested in being around the modern day gunman, Like

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why was Jesus so interested in being around the modern

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day street walkers? Like why would Jesus be so interested

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in being around with drug addicts and drug dealers? Like

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why would he be around gangsters? Well, because those who

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are sick need the physician. So hanging out with people

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inside church all the time, having meetings all the time

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about the work that we need to do when there's

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work out there to actually do. Jesus was like, I'm

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not about that life, so change of prejudices, like the

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people who are not like your chorra. Friends, like think

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about the number of people that are out there that

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need the truth that you have in your bosom, and

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ask God to teach you to be in the presence

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of people who need God the most so that we

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can help and call them to repentance. Let me just

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say one or two more, one or two more, probably

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one good one more. Let's read in Mark chapter three

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and verse five. And when he had looked around about

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them with anger, being greed for the hardness of their hearts,

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he said, unto the child, stretch out thine hand. And

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he stretched it out, and he was restored whole as

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the other, whole, as the other. Spiritual blindness will cause

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us to set up all kinds of walls and boundaries

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about who deserves to have God and who deserves to

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be healed by God, all kinds of controversies. But we're

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going to resolve them over the next couple of days. 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,