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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, vibrant lives.

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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 Sabbath, August three,

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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 inside Out, Inside Out. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online

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community and let us know where you are in the

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world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a

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way that we continue to build faith and fellowship let's

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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Bothering Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day

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and for the privilege that we have to open your word.

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And I'm asking you now to give us the fullness

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of your holy spirit, make us holy from the inside out.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so,

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especially in twenty twenty four, but this is not the

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only time in Earth's history people are more concerned about

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the outside than we are the inside. Yes, if you

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go to a hotel in twenty twenty four, yeah, yeah,

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we ain't no telling how nasty it might be. As

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beautiful as it may be. May go in in the

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sheets look beautiful, you may go in. And if there

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are glass glasses from which to drink, they may look

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shine and nice. The surfaces in the bathroom may look wonderful.

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And we have seen on all kinds of documentaries and reports,

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news reports, where in some of these places, if you

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turn on a certain kind of light that can detect impurity,

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you see all kinds of creepy stuff. Because sometimes the

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cleaning crew are using contaminated items. They may wipe the

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toilet with cloth and then use the same cloth to

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shine the glass that you're supposed to drink out of,

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and so on the outside it looks perfect. And I

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could give some more creepy examples, but I think you

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get the point. On the outside, it looks wonderful, But

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what is it like on the inside. The same thing

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with some of our social media tools. If I hold

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up my phone using certain apps in front of my face,

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I'm going to speak to people as I'm walking along

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the road. There are options to put filters on and

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so to you, I look exceptional, but in reality I

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look like something else. And it's like because sometimes people

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are more interested in how we appear than how we

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actually are. Now, if we put this into a supernatural

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or a spiritual discussion, now we need to be thinking.

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But wait a minute, when I look like I'm holy,

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because maybe I use holy language? How many times have

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I spoken to someone and said, hey, how you doing?

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And then they say God is good and listen, no disrespect.

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If that's how you respond, then find but that's not

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the question that I asked you. I did not ask

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you how God is. I know how God is. He's

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good and his mercies endure forever like we know this,

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and as truth endures to all generations, we know how

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God is. What I'm asking you, brother, what I'm asking

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you sis is how are you? And sometimes in our

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religiosity we are more concerned with how we look than

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how we are. I may not go into the rumbar

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because I think you might see me, but I may

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secretly drink rum behind a bush somewhere because I am

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more concerned about what you think of me than I

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am about who I really am. And I could make

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up more and more examples. But again, I think you

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understand where I'm going with this. In Mark chapter seven.

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In Mark chapter seven, Jesus actually fires on this reality

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when he says, there is nothing that enters a man

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from the outside which can defile him. It was a

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long discussion we'll get into another day. But the things

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which come out of him, those are the things that

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defile a man. I remember the Bible says, as a

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person thinks, as a man thinketh in his heart, so

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is he. As I have my mindset. Whatever my mindset is,

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that's my reality. However, I think that is my reality.

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What's inside of me is my reality, not the way

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that I appear when I get a perfect haircut and trim.

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How I appear. My vehicle is shine and nice, and

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I have on beautiful clothing. How I appear When I

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put deodorant over odor, I said, deodorant over odor without

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actually bathing like that is not real. It's a figment

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of what I want your imagination of me to be.

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And so Jesus is saying, don't be so concerned about

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this external stuff unless they are a fruit of the internal.

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If internally you are holy, then holiness will come out.

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If internally you are dependent upon God, then externally that

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dependence will manifest itself. You see. And so Jesus is

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concerned about changing us from the inside out. He dealt

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with those people who were supposed to be his friends,

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but they were really critics of his And that's really

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being flattering toward them. He said, you are white washed sepulchers.

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On the outside you're bright and shiny and white, but

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on the inside you are dead men's bones, full of

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dead men's bones. He doesn't want us to live that way.

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He wants us to simply surrender to him. I think

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I've said enough there. Let's go into the Bible now.

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From the Book of Proverbs chapter four, us we prepare

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for the coming week. Proverbs chapter fourget at verse twenty three.

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The Bible reads, keep your heart with all diligence, for

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out of it are the issues of life. Let me

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read it in another version, net version, guard your heart

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with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

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So when God lives in us, he is the one

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who is in control of our minds and our mindset.

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Then everything that we do is from an overflow of

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life that God is inside of us. Okay, let's read

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now from Galatians chapter three and verse twenty eight. He

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said that there is neither Jew nor Greek. There is

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neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female,

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for we are all one in Christ Jesus. It's a

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discussion of people who are yielded to God, who are

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keeping covenant with God. And he said, when we are

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baptized into Christ, we are Abraham's seed and heirs according

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to the promise. So the promise God made to Abraham

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is what he is promising to us. When he has

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his laws written in our hearts. Oh inside again, yes,

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and in our minds. Oh that's internal again yes. And

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then we live in such a way that we are

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unified in Christ. All of us, everybody who yields our

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will to Christ, are now bound together to do the

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will of God on planet Earth. And so I read

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also from Matthew chapter sixteen. Matthew chapter sixteen and verse six,

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Jesus said, unto them, watch out, watch out, and beware

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of the leaven or the yeast of the Pharisees and

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the Sadducees. He was saying, like, do what they tell you.

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There are times that they would teach holy words, but

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don't do what they do, because they're showing you that

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really they're about talk and not action. He said, do

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what they teach you, but don't do what they do.

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And of course he wasn't saying absolutely, because some of

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the stuff they taught wasn't true. But he's showing us

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that there are times that we will again behave on

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the outside in a way that is really life like.

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If you listen to the four friends of job, we

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say three friends, but there was one dude at the

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end that criticized the first three friends. And we listened

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to what they said to him as he was going

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through struggles, and it seemed like what they were saying

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was really good. Like if you just listen to the

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words that they spoke, it was like, whoa, this is poetic,

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this is holy stuff. But when you realize that they

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were giving him bad advice and they were just pompous

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and religious, and Jesus actually told them, you need to

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go repent and let this dude offer sacrifice for you

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because you were on the wrong track. Yeah, we need

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to be allowing God to change us from the inside

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out and then the outbo.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,