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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 Tuesday, August sixth,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Crumbs for the Dogs. Crumbs for the Dogs.

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

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community and pick up the Your

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is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and for

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giving us a message of hope. No matter in what

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state we are, what status socioeconomically, spiritually we are, we

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know that you love us and that you have created

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a pathway for us to live with you eternally. Please

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help us to get on that pathway. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Crumbs for the dogs.

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Oh boy, there is some harsh talking here in my

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mind based on the culture that I grew up in.

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Some harsh speaking here, But I want to give some

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context before before we really get into this discussion. From

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Mark chapter seven. Okay, and so in the Book of Isaiah,

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the Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty six, let me see

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if I can read. Yeah, let me go ahead and

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read that Isaiah chapter fifty six, and I will read

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beginning at verse one. We'll get a little bit of

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context Isaiah chapter fifty six, beginning at verse one, and

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the Bible reads, thus, set the Lord, keep ye judgment

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and do justice, for my salvation is near to come.

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Let me just say, justice in the Bible is righteousness.

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Oh wait a minute, it continues here, and my righteousness

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to be revealed. Blessed is he that doe this, and

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the son of Man that layeth hold on it, to

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keep the sabbath from polluting it, and keeping his hand

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from doing any evil. So now we know the pathway

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to success is not doing evil. It is keeping that

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which God has called holy in this case speaking of

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the Sabbath. And blessed is the one who is ready

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to receive this salvation, this righteousness that is near, and

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to keep judgment and righteousness. Okay, So this is something

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that is going to give us a little bit more

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context for today. He's saying, no matter who we are, man, woman, boy,

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or girl, no matter what culture we're in, no matter

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what socioeconomic class we're in, the rest of it applies.

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All of it applies to us. But listen to the transition.

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Now verse three, neither let the son of the stranger.

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So these are people who are not considered to be

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of the stock of Israel. Let me call it that

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that hath joined himself to the Lord speak saying, so

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what is the qualifier those who are considered to be strangers.

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I will also say gentiles, I will also say dogs

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in air quotes. Don't let those people feel that way anymore.

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Don't consider yourself anymore that way when you do what

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join yourself to the Lord. So don't let the son

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of the stranger that hath joined himself to the Lord

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speak saying the Lord hath utterly separated me from his people.

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Neither let the eunuch that person would have been ceremonially unclean,

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a man who has been castrated, so that the people

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in the harem supposedly were supposed to be safe while

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the king kept a harem. I'm oversimplifying, But neither let

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the eunuchs say I am a dry tree. For thus

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set the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbath,

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and choose the things that please me, and take hold

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of my covenant. So every category of people that would

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have been considered to be in that culture and spiritual time,

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those individuals who would have been considered unclean would have

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considered to be separated. Those people who would have been

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considered like in social science terms, what do we call it?

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In social science? We called them undesirables. Yeah, all of

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those individuals when they take hold of my covenant. Even

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to them will I give in my house and in

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my walls. He's welcoming them into his house, a place

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and a name that is better than of sons and

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of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that

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shall not be cut off. And so Jesus is welcoming

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just like in Isaiah chapter fifty six. He's welcoming this

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woman into a relationship with him, but he's testing her.

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He's testing her. And so now we go to the

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Bible Book of Mark chapter seven. Hopefully you will have

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gotten the message that Jesus is welcoming every class and

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category of people whom the people around them would have

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been considered to be unacceptable, undesirable, unclean, unholy. Once we

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keep covenant with God and we accept salvation and righteousness

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and judgment and justice, it's one big acceptance, then we

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are considered to be what no longer broken, no longer separated.

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Don't even call yourself that, because He is giving you

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a warm welcome. In fact, he continues by saying that

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the God's House is a house of prayer for all people,

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So relationship with God is open to all people. And

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then the Bible reads here in verse twenty four, mark

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chapter seven. And from thence he arose and went to

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the borders of tyren Sidon and entered into a house uh,

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and would have no man know it, but he would

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not be hid. A certain woman, she would have been

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one of those that would have been said separated, unclean, undesirable.

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She would have been considered by the people that way. Okay,

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who's a certain woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit?

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Heard of him speak and came and fell at his feet.

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She's showing humility. She's showing that she's ready to keep covenant.

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She's showing that she is coming to be in a

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relationship with God. She fell at his feet. And the

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woman was a Greek, a seraphiation by nation. She besought

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him that he would cast forth the devil out of

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her daughter. But Jesus said unto her, testing her faith

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by the way Ah, Jesus said, unto her. Let the

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children first be filled, for it is not meat for

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the children's bread to be cast unto the dogs. Now

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he's showing that line of demarcation, that separation that the

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people would have embraced. Unfortunately, the people would have embraced.

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But he's now about to do something. He's about to

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pull down what Paul would have called the middle wall

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of partition, right in front of her face. And he

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said God. And then she answered and said unto him, yes, Lord,

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Yet the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.

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And so Jesus answered in a way the only way

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he could have answered. He tests her faith. She demonstrates

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her faith. Her faith lays hold on God's power. And

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Jesus said and did the only thing that he could

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have done in response to this kind of faith. He said,

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unto her, for this, saying, go thy way, the devil

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is gone out of your daughter. When she was come

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to her house, she found the devil gone out, and

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the daughter was laid upon the bed. So Jesus kept

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his promise. He said, don't let anybody who feels like

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you're separated from me. As long as you are willing

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now now, and you actually are keeping covenant with me,

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as long as you are walking across that bridge that

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I have built between God and humanity, as long as

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you are accepting of judgment and justice and righteousness, do

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not consider yourself to be separated from me. Don't consider

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yourself to be undesirable. There are some people listening to

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me or watching me right now that feel undesirable, unaccepted,

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even in the house of God, and God is saying no, no,

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You are accepted in Christ Jesus. All you need to

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do is yield your will to me because God's house

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is a house of prayer for all people, including you.

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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,