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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, July

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thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle

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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 Studies series through the Book of Mark, and our

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caption for today is Rejection and Reception. Rejection and Reception.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. It seems that I was rushing the

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month along yesterday and said it was the last day

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of the month, but really this is the last day

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of the month. And yeah, it's hard sometimes remembering what

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day is which when you do what I do. So

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thank you. Anyway, we are here and God has been

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faithful to us. I'm asking you to please go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,

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pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and let us

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know where you are in the world. At your Daily

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Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue

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to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this new day and for the

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privilege that we have to open up your word again.

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Please give us the fullness of your holy spirit. Teach

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us to receive you into our lives and never reject you.

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In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So yesterday,

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because of time, I pulled the curtain down fairly abruptly

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and really almost not deliberately, but almost minimized the healing

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and deliverance of Gyrus's daughter. So let me just say

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very simply that when Jesus, even though it seemed that

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the woman was interrupting him, and it seemed especially as

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Jyrus and the team they're going toward his home and

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they're going to hopefully heal her, and then she dies.

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His daughter dies. Jesus didn't even act like something was wrong,

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except when people were in the way. When people who

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did not have faith were in the way, he put

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them out of the way. He put them out of

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the way, and he called the young woman by name

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and said, I say unto you arise. And so she

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go from this desperate situation where it's dire and she's sick,

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she's near death, and she does die. And Jesus doesn't

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change his demeanor at all because he's the resurrection in

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the life. When we are in dire circumstances. I need

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to say this here. You are in dire circumstances. You

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are panicking, you are frantic. Jesus doesn't have to change

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his demeanor. Why not, because he's the resurrection and he's

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the life. So no matter what is going on in

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our lives, he is able to handle it. His timing

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and our timing are not the same. And with that

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in mind, I want you to take your Bibles and

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go with me to Mark chapter six and we'll read

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beginning at verse one. God's timing and our timing are

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not the same. And so the Bible continues, and he

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went out from thence and came into his own country.

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He's leaving that scene. He's into his own country, and

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his disciples are following him. And when the Sabbath day

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was come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and

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many hearing him were astonishing, from whence hath this man

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these things? And what wisdom is this which is given

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unto him? That even such mighty works were wrought by

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his hands. So they realize that when he speaks, he's

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not speaking in that weakness of even the religious leaders

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of the day. And when he speaks the word of God,

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he also begins to work the works of God. The

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word of God is in his mind, between his eyes,

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the frontlets of his eyes, like Deuteronomy six says, and

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I think it's Exodus chapter thirteen talks about God's power

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in our foreheads and in our hands, and also in

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our hands. Yes, his works agree with what's in his head.

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His head is connected to God, his mindset, his holiness

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is fully connected with God, and his actions agree in

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the head. In the hand, they agree very good. And

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so the Bible says verse three, Is this not the

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carpenter the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph,

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and of Judah and Simon, And are not his sisters

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here with us? Like we know everybody. His pedigree is

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not aligning with the kind of power that he has.

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He did not go to the school of the prophets.

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He was not trained by the rabbis. He does not

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come from the stock that's supposed to be able to

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be this kind of powerful. And the Bible says, even

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though that family line is what they say it is

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verse four. But Jesus said, unto them, a prophet is

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not without honor, but in his own country and among

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his own people, and in his own house. So he

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sees right through them. They were more like skeptics than

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they were surprised and amazed they were skeptics. And then

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the Bible says, and he could there do no mighty

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work save that he laid his hands on a few

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sick folk and healed them, and he marveled because of

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their unbelief. And he went around the village's teaching, and

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he called unto him the twelve and began to send

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forth them two by two, and gave them power over

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unclean spirits, and commanded them that they should take nothing

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for their journey, save a staff, no script, no bread,

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no money in their purse, but be shod with the sandals,

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put and not put on two coats. And he said

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unto them, in the place, soever ye enter into an house,

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there abide until ye depart from that place. And whosoever

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shall not receive you nor hear you when you part,

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thence take off or shake off the dust under your

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feet for a testimony against them. Verily, I say unto you,

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it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in

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the day of judgment than for that city. And they

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went out and preached that men should repent, and they

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cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that

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were sick, and healed them. He's in his hometown, Jesus is.

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And because people decided that he did not fit the

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description of a man who was supposed to be powerful

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enough to deliver people from sin, because he didn't fit

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the description of someone who's supposed to understand the Bible. Sometimes,

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even in our own churches, can I just come right here?

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Sometimes even in our own churches, people reject truth because

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the messenger doesn't fit the bill that in people's brain,

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he or she was not preaching from the version of

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the Bible. We think we like he or she did

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not go to a particular university and get a PhD.

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Or a Master of Divinity or a Doctor of Ministry degree,

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and therefore we sometimes reject them. They did not come

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from the conference, they did not come from the union.

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That they did not come from the division. This is

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for Seventh day Adventists to understand what these words mean.

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They did not come from the General Conference of Seventh

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day Adventists, so we didn't treat them as honored people

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in the pulpit, as they were actually delivering the mighty

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works of God and manifesting through the power of the

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Holy Spirit that God was with them. And so Jesus

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is saying that there are times that we have to

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shake the dust off our feet when people don't see

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and experience the power of the Holy Ghost and they

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reject that, they reject his power. There comes a point

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when we have to move on and go to the

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next town, the next village, the next situation where people

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are receptive to His will. Now, the Bible continues that

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you know, people are hearing about what Jesus is doing,

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and they're wondering, like, is this John reincarnated? Like what

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in the world is going on? We killed him because

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he was holy, We killed him because he was against

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us Ah, but it looked like it looked like that

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Jesus and John were so close that they couldn't tell

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the difference. The bottom line is that when the Holy

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Spirit is moving, we get to receive him by faith.

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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,