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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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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 Monday, August

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twenty six, 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 study series through the Bible Book of Mark, and

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our caption for today is a cursed tree and a

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cleansed temple. So much to say a cursed tree and

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a cleansed temple. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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the app we were using. But we're good now, thank God. Yes.

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And I also want to just say welcome to everybody.

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You're listening on two hundred radio stations, you are on

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watching on television, thirty online platforms. You're all over the world.

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And so what God wants you to do is brighten

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the corner where you are and continue to share programs

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like these, share the word of God in whatever way

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God has called you to do. Because because this is

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the way, we will continue to spread the gospel. So

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Jesus will come like he's coming in our day, brothers

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and sisters. That is the blessed hope. And so we

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just ask God to give us the strength to continue

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to do his work until Jesus comes. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then get underway. Father, Thank you for

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this day, Thank you for all that you have entrusted

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to us. Thank you. I just pray that you will

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cleanse our hearts, that you will come into our hearts

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and lives, and you will cleanse our hearts in Jesus' name,

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I pray amen and aamen again. Okay, so I'm not

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going to set this story up. We're going to just

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continue reading in the Book of Mark chapter eleven where

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we left off. I was tempted to go into the

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story yesterday, but I should not jump the gun. So

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let's continue now at verse twelve of Mark chapter eleven,

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and the Bible reads and on the morrow, so we

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now know the triumphal entry has happened. There's some controversy

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related to that, because the one that Jesus raised, Lazarus,

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he's leading that procession. It's a long story we didn't

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talk about yesterday. But the question for us was really like,

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are we willing to let Jesus into our lives? Are

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we willing to let him come in as the king

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and ascend and sit down on the throne of our lives?

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And then we raise him up in our mindset as

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king of kings and lord of lords, so that when

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he does come back to planet Earth as the one

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that we had been looking for to ascend the throne

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of David his father in air quotes, will we say,

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blessed is he that cometh upon in the name of

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the Lord. Will we say, lo, this is our God.

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We have waited for him and he will save us.

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Or will we run and ask the rocks and beg

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the rocks to fall on us and hide us from

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the face of him that is seated upon the throne.

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That is the question. And we need to be discerning

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and ask and answer that question in our lives today.

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And I hope it was the latter. That you will

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welcome Jesus into your life today and everything you say

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and do, all of your relationships, your business deal and otherwise,

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like I am making a decision as well, and so

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on the Morrow, verse twelve, when they were come to Bethany,

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he was hungry. Jesus was hungry, and seeing a fig

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tree afar off having leaves, he came if happily he

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might find anything there on. And he came to it,

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and he found nothing but leaves. For the time of

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figs was not yet. But let me just say to you,

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based on what we will see in a moment, and

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so you don't think it was extreme, Jesus saw signs that,

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even though it was not time for figs, he saw

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signs that this fig tree was supposed to bear figs,

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and Jesus verse fourteen answered and said, unto it, no

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man eat fruit of the hereafter or ever. And his

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disciples heard it, and they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus

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went into the temple and to began and began to

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cast out them that sold and bought in the temple,

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and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the

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seats of them that's sold doves, and would not suffer

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that any man should carry any vessels through the temple.

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There's so much to say, Lord, give us strength here,

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so much to say. And he taught them saying, is

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it not written that my house shall be called a

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house of prayer in all nations? But ye have made

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it a den of thieves. The scribes and the chief

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priest heard it and sought how they might destroy him.

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Why were the chief priests trying to destroy Jesus Christ,

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the ultimate high priest, the great high priest that stands

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and understands the feelings of our infirmities, like why would

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they want to destroy Jesus? Well, for they feared him

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because all the people and was astonished about his doctrine.

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And when even was come, he went out of the city.

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And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the

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fig tree, which fig tree, the one that he had cursed,

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and dried up from the roots. And Peter, calling to remembrance,

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seth unto him, Master, behold the fig tree which thou cursest.

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It's withered away. And Jesus answered said, unto them, have

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faith in God. Verily, I say unto you that whosoever

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shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be

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thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in

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his heart, but shall believe that those things which he

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seeth shall come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore,

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I say unto you, what thingsoever ye desire, when ye pray, believe,

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and ye shall receive them, and ye shall have them

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almost there, almost there, And when he and when ye

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stand praying forgive, if ye have aught against any that

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your Father also, which is in heaven, may forgive you

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your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will

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your Father, which is in Heaven, forgive your trespasses. Let's

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do this now partially in reverse. Now Jesus understand the

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hearts of the people around him. He came to his

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own and his own received him. Not they look like

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they were fruit bearers. The people who even led the

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people of God looked like they had all of the

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fanciful ways of looking like they were fruit bearers. But

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really they were his enemies, you know, Jesus said when

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he was being crucified, Father, forgive them, for they know

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not what they do. Even though, even though, even though

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when he saw the lifestyle of the people, think of

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the fig tree, he saw the lifestyle of the people

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who claimed to be his people, that they were unfruitful.

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They were not actually leading people to the kingdom. They

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were not actually kind and helpful to those who needed

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the lame, the main, the blind, the widows, the orphaned,

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a the people who needed God the most. They were

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not kind toward them and did not deliver them out

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of their sicknesses and infirmities and difficulties. All they wanted

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to do was stand up and have people to honor them.

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All they wanted was church position. All they wanted was

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to overthrow the government of Rome. They had no interest

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really in the things of God. They just wanted to

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look like they had interest. And so Jesus in the

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symbol now he did it in reality, but symbolically now

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he's showing his disciples that when people look like when

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they talk about it, but they're not really about it,

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when people are just looking like they are God's children,

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at some point the reality will be manifest And if

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we don't repent, if God's people don't repent, if people

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around the world don't repent, then they will no longer

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have the opportunity. And so the question for me today

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is when Jesus comes to cleanse my heart talk about

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the cleansing of the temple, When Jesus comes to cleanse

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my heart? Am I willing to allow him to? When

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he comes in and says, listen, I see that you're

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not doing things the way that we agreed that I

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said that you should. Will you yield your heart to me?

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Or will you be mad and try to kill Jesus

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out of your life, kill him out of all of

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your experiences, kill him out of all of your relationships,

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out of your business dealings. You're going to withhold the

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tithe and offering that he said bring into the storehouse.

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You're going to withhold from him the opportunity to help

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you choose a spouse and show you how to relate

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to that individual or will Jesus have to turn over

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the tables. Well, you have to expose the reality that

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really you just want to talk about it. God is

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saying that we can actually have a right relationship with

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Him and that he can bless our spiritual tree, he

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can bless the temple of our lives and say that

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you now are among the people who can be like

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a house of prayer for all people. You make the

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decision today.

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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,