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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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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: 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 Sunday. It's

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the twenty second day of June in twenty twenty five. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris. I am your host,

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and this is your Daily Portion where we give you

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God's Word every single day and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our lesson study series how to

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Study Bible Prophecy. This is our final week of thirteen

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and our caption for today is the Reluctant Profit, The

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Reluctant Profit. Before we get into this, I'd like to

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just say welcome to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,

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We thank you for this day, thank you for the

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beginning of our work week and the strength that you

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have already provided us so we can do your will.

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Help us to do it willingly. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. It's the willingness to serve God

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that matters, and then we do it. Of course, it's

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the willingness that matters, but then we actually do God's will.

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So this again the caption the reluctant Prophet. Listen. When

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Jonah was on planet Earth as a prophet of the

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Most I God, Blessed be his name, God came to

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him and said, Jonah, I need you to go to

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Nineveh and I need you to preach this message, this

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specific message. Remember I said that Jonah was a prophet

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of God. That means that he had already signed up

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for and been anointed to be the mouthpiece of God.

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And the Bible says that instead of going exactly where

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God said, go and speak the message exactly as God said,

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speak it. Jonah decided that he knew more than God.

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I know, maybe you've not heard it contextualized in that way,

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but Jonah said, nope, I'm not going there. I'm going

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the opposite direction. I'm getting on a boat and I'm

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going to Tarshish. I'm not going nowhere near Ninevah. First

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of all, they need to die. They deserve whatever judgment

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you have planned God. But by the way, I know

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that you're not about to destroy them. So what will

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be the purpose of me going to Nineveh to say,

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turn around, live the life that God is giving you

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the opportunity to live, and then know that God, you

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are merciful God, and you will not destroy them. They're

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going to see me as a false prophet. This is

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what Jonah was dealing with. But really, if I were

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to say it in just a few words, Jonah was

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dealing with a lack of holiness, a lack of submission.

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See all of that goofy discussion that he was having

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in his mind. I know what I just said, All

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of that discussion that he was having in his mind

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and going round and round the bush about what if

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I do this, and what if I do that and

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God says, go left, I'm going right because I don't

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want to be seen as a Okay, all of that

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is resolved by simply admitting to God. And so my

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question to you is, what has God called you to do?

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What has he directly commanded you to do on this day,

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this Sunday morning in twenty twenty five. What has He

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said that you need to be doing? And I'm talking

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about even some of those things that you don't necessarily

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desire to do, you may be afraid to do. You

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may have some sort of reservations, or you have seventy

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five questions to decide if you're going to sign the

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contract with God to do exactly what he said. Okay,

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let's resolve that for you too. Simply submit. I've been

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in the situation where God says do this, and I'm

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just ah, my mind is spinning, spinning, spinning, But I

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have to make the same decision that you do. And Joana,

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of course, we know his story. He decided to do

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the opposite. Ultimately, he went but I'm not going to

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fast forward the story. It was a mess the love

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of God and how God did what he did in

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order to get Jonah to do what he needed to

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do in order to get the message message to the Ninovites. Ah,

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what a mess. The Bible says here in Matthew, chapter

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twelve and verse forty, retelling of this experience. For as

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Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales belly,

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so shall the son of Man be three days and

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three nights in the heart of the earth. And so

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the lesson for us in this case is Jonah's experience

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was a prophetic symbol of Jesus's death. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah yeah. So he was in the belly of the

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of the beast. Let's call it. Okay, maybe that's melodramatic.

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In one Testament, in the Old Testament it says a fish.

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In the New Testament it says a whale. It was

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a sea creature, full stop. Translators don't always get that

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thing just right, okay, But a sea creature, and this

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was a this was it was as good. He felt

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like he was as good as dead in the belly

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of this sea creature. But this was a symbol of

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Jesus's death burial. And then Jonah, when it was just

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the right time, was thrown up or regurgitated upon the

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earth again, and he went to do what he was

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supposed to do in the first place. So the action

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for me is every single time that I think about Jonah,

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I need to remember, and you do too, the ultimate cost,

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or I should say, value of your salvation. Jesus came willingly.

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Jonah did not. He ran. Don't run from God? Does

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it make sense to run from God when he has

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given you your calling? And in Jonah chapter one and

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verse three we see but Jonah rose up to flee

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unto Tarshish. I said that already from the presence of

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the Lord. I did not mention that when I said it. So,

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going the opposite direction of where God has called you

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to go is really like turning your back on God

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and fleeing from his quote presence. Remember, Adam, where are you?

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God is going into the garden of Eden. After Adam

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jumped into sin, Eve was deceived and fell into sin.

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Adam he jumped into sin, the very first man, the

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one that was created in the image of God, in

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a way that we had never will We have not

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seen since that man jumped into sin. And when he

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had jumped into sin, and God came to get an

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account from him. He said, Adam, where are you? I

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need you to know where you are. Adam, he said,

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I was naked and ashamed, and I hid myself. I

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was naked, ashamed and afraid. I hid myself. Who told you, Jonah? Whoops?

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Who told you? Fill in your name here? If you

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have a tendency to run? Who told you, Adam that

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you were naked? Did you eat from the fruit of

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the tree that I commanded that thou shouldest not eat?

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Then of course he plays the blame game. I wish

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I had the time to deal with men blaming their

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wives for sinning. But I just don't have the time. Men,

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stand up and own your responsibility. Own your responsibility. And

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I'm speaking to me, I'm a man, say so in

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this case. In this case, we're not looking to flee

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from God. Like Jonah. Some people hesitate to deliver the

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hard truths to go on the assignment that God has

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given us, especially in these last days. But let me

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just say to you, when God gives you a spiritual assignment.

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In every assignment that God gives you is spiritual because

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it's God that's giving it to you, move in obedience immediately.

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I don't know I don't know. I don't know, sister Patrese,

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if you're watching, But Lisa a Smith, she often says,

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it's about radical obedience, and I agree. So move radically

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in obedience and immediately pray daily for the courage to

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do God's will. And of course in the last days

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there was a call. There was a call for us

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to preach. We see in eighteen, chapter eighteen of Revelation

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and verse four, a call that God has given to

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his people to speak to those who are not his

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that are not really walking in the path that God

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would want them. He's giving them a warning. And just

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like Jonah's message to Nineveh, our call to people who

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are in Babylon spiritual Babylon demands repentance, which many resist.

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Expect rejection, but don't let that deter you. Do exactly

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what God says when he says, and He will be

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with you.

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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,