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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, August five,

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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 clean hands or clean Heart. Clean hands

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or clean Heart. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but before we do, I just want to take a

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pause right here. It is the fifth day of August.

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It's a special day for me and because Simone and

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I have been married for twenty three years, so I

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just want to say great, big, happy anniversary. Of course,

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I'm going to talk to you in just a minute, Simon.

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But I'm thankful. I'm thankful. It's a special anniversary for

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me because my parents, my late parents, they divorced at

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twenty three years and so God has given Simona and

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I the privilege, the privilege of breaking the cycle. And

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some people think that's too much information, but you just

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have to know the nature of my praise. I am

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grateful because God made a promise. He said that we

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if we just yield our will to him, that he'll

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do mighty exploits in our lives. And so I'm grateful.

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I'm grateful for you, Simon, and I'm really really happy

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that God has made us whole and made us holy

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so that we can live together in harmony for twenty

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three great years. So Lord, bless you. Lord bless you,

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and thank you for everybody who's watching and listening for

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giving me just that moment to give God thanks. Let's

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go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father in heaven, thank you for this day and for

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the privilege that we have in you to do your

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will and to hear your words. Help us to have

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congruence in our lives, so that what we do and

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what we say are holy. What we think and what

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we do, they are holy. In Jesus' name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Clean hands or clean heart. Well,

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I don't know that we have to decide between the two.

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But let's go in. Let's go in here and make

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some sense of this. Okay. I know what the context

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of the story is, because we started the discussion yesterday.

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But let's go now to the Bible Book of Mark,

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chapter seven, and I will read beginning at verse fourteen,

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And the Bible reads, and when he had called all

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the people unto him, he said, unto them, hearken unto me,

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every one of you, and understand, there is nothing from

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without a man that entering into him can defile him.

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But the things which come out of him, those are

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they that defile the man. If a man have ears

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to hear, let him hear. And when he was entered

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into the house from the people, his disciples asked him

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concerning the parable, and he said, unto them, are ye

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so without understanding? Also do you not perceive that whatsoever

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thing from without entereth into the man cannot defile him,

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because it entereth, not into his heart, but into his belly,

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and go without in the draft, purging all meats. And

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let me just say the obvious stuff here, Jesus gave

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a basic lesson about like when you're eating based on

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a ceremonial thing, like so you're having let's give it

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a real meal, right, say you're having peep to bread, right,

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some whole wheat pita bread, and in it you have hummus,

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and uh, maybe you have some vegetables and you have

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something else, right, and it's good food. Right, And because

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you don't ceremonially wash your hands. And I'm speaking now

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from the mindset of the people who were listening ceremonially,

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it had nothing to do with cleanliness. It had nothing

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to do with what they were about to eat. Of course,

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they were kosher as we call it today. They didn't

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eat unclean foods in an unclean manner. And they even

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took that to another level that was beyond what the

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scripture said. That's a different discussion. And so Jesus is saying, so,

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hold on, are you saying that if they pick up

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that same meal and then just begin to eat it,

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that you think that that makes a person unholy. Come on,

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come on, come on, come on, eating that meal that

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is clean, that meal that is healthy, that meal that

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is not in contrast to what God taught us about

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how we are to eat and to drink. You're saying

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that because they didn't do that ceremonial washing, that that

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makes them unholy. That is not the case. You should

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not be satisfied with simply washing your hands ceremonially and

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allowing your lives and hearts to be defiled. There are

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people right now who do all kinds of ceremonial things.

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I won't go into the details, but some religious practices,

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things that make us feel good, and we say that

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we have the truth, and we do all of these

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things in terms of our speech to show people that

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we have intellectual superiority. And then the way we treat

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people is foul and rude. Sometimes we who do these

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things that look like ceremonial and they look good. They're

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religiously pompous, like we give greetings in high places. When

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we're standing at the pullpit, we sing songs in perfect

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harmony and perfect pitch. We're never late to a religious

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organized a meeting. And then when it comes to how

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we treat our spouses something's wrong, or do our spouses

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even live with us? Like, what, where's my spouse? Hmmm?

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Sometimes we are in situations where we've done all of

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those things outwardly. And the way we treat our children,

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the way we treat people on the road who have needs, ah,

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the way we treat people when we are in our

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gyms working out and exercising, when we're on travel. How

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we are on travel may be different than how we

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are at home, and there is hypocrisy there. We fast,

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some of us long fasts and make ourselves look sullen

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and worn. And then we have the power to deliver

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people from oppression, and don't Some of us have people

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working for us direct reports one, two, three, or five

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or hundreds, depending on your level, and those individuals are

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not receiving the kind of love, the kind of attention,

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the kind of assistance that they need to do their

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work well. And we can make a difference and don't.

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And so Jesus is saying, don't worry about all that

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hand washing, all of that religious stuff that you all

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are doing. True religion and undefiled has a certain way

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that it acts under the power the Holy Ghost. How

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it actually lives from the inside out, not from the

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outside in. And so, of course I said something in

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the beginning that may have confused some of you. We

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don't have to choose, I say, clean hands or clean hearts. Well, scripturally,

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clean hands and hearts go together. The people who will

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see God in the end have clean hands. That is

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what we do. Our hands are clean. The things that

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we do are just like what God. What God has

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done in our hearts, in our minds. He said, as

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a human, as a man thinketh in his heart, so

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is he. So the way that I am connecting to God,

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Let's assume the way that I am holy, because God

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makes me holy, then that will come out in my

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actual way hands what I do. And if there is

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a contrast between the two, a conflict between the two,

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then we all who have these conflicts need to go

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to God and say, God, please wash my heart, make

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me holy. You promised that you would write your laws

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in my heart and on my mind so that I

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could be your child, so that I could represent you

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as a holy person in this world, a shining light

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in this wicked and perverse generation, so they would see

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my good works and glorify you. Because you're in heaven,

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and if we live that kind of lifestyle, then we're

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good to go. No contrast, it's not that we relax,

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but we continue to yield ourselves to God and surrender

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our will. So what can we learn here. You've already

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said that what defiles comes from within, that is the heart.

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So we need to yield our hearts, our lives to God.

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We have to have discernment over legalism. Over legalism, we

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can tick all of the boxes, we can color in

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all of the places, the circles and bubbles to say

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that we have completed this test of religious pomposity. Well,

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but God is saying, no, don't be legalistic. I want

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you to descern when it is appropriate for you to

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do X or y, and does it measure up to

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the spirituality of the law. And then finally, we should

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worship God. We have the privilege because God is a

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spirit and those who worship him must worship him in

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spirit and in truth. Your hands and your heart go

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together both under the power the Holy Ghost, must and

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can be clean 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,