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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 Thursday. It's

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April twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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El David Harris. I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,

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and our caption for today is a Light to the Gentiles.

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I like it a light to the gentiles. We'll get

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into that in just a moment, but first I'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask you to go

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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

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we do thank you this morning for the blessing that

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you have been to us, so we can be a

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blessing to others. Please help us to do that, Help

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us to be that be a blessing to others, and

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that people will be transformed by your spirit. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and amen again. Okay, a light to

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the gentiles. This is something that the people of God

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customarily got mixed up from the Old Testament era straight

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into the New Testament era. You see, the Bible says

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that God chose his people. He chose his people not

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because they were greater in number, not because they were

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more special in the sense of like they are a

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superhuman some kind of way, and the others are just human. No.

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But God chose his people because of his great love,

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and he intended for his people to be a light

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to the world, to reflect his image, to reflect the

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light of Christ. That is the goal, that is the purpose.

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Of God calling his people. Of course, I'm leaving some

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things out, but he wanted to show that in if

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he could transform his people who are now closest to him,

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who are now what we would call repositories of light,

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like we hold the oracles of God, then we could

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share with other people so they could see that. Oh

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wait a minute. If I was fill in the blank

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kind of sinner or I am, and these people were,

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then that means that God can transform me too. See,

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that's the goal. Let your light so shine before men,

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so that when they see your good works, they will

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glorify your father, which is in heaven. You see. Not

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that you can create an exclusive club or clique. Not

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for you to be able to lord power over somebody

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and say that I am better than you. And once

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you get to my stature, then you'll be qualified as

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a person of God.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: And in Isaiah chapter fifty six, the Bible gives us

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actually a great standard. Thus set the Lord, beginning at

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verse one, keep ye judgment and do justice, for my

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salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

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Blessed is the person that doeth this, and the son

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of man that layeth hold on it, that keepeth the

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sabbath from polluting it. Of course, there's the standard. The

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sabbath is a sog between God and his people, and

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that he is the one that sanctifies us. He is

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demonstrating that he is able to set us aside for

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a holy use and keepeth his hand from doing evil.

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Neither let the son of the stranger. So let's call

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those gentiles people who are not the people of God

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as yet, or who are learning to become the people

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of God. I'm oversimplifying here, that have joined himself to

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the Lord speak saying the Lord hath utterly separated me

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from his people. Wait a minute, no, no, don't say that.

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Neither let the eunuchs say, behold, I am a dry tree.

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That was another set of people for a reason, they

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were ceremonially unclean. I just don't have the time to

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drill that here. But understand same category. For thus set

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the Lord unto the eunuchs, that keep my sabbath. So

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people who would normally be seen as unclean, people who

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would have normally been seen as separated from God's people.

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If you are keeping the Sabbath, and you choose the

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things that please me and take hold of my covenant.

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Now we're starting to see what qualifies a person to

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become a person or a child of God in humility,

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take hold of my covenant. Even unto them, will I

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give in mine house and within my walls. Jesus is

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welcoming everybody who surrenders our will to him. He's welcoming

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everybody who keeps covenant with him, who are keeping his

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Sabbath as a sign that he is the one that

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sanctifies us. Even unto them, will I give in mine

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house and within my walls a place and a name

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that is better than of sons and of daughters. It

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is a name that will not be cut off, that

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will remain forever. And so God's people, we're supposed to

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be welcoming people, God's people to in twenty twenty five,

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are to be welcoming other people into the fellowship of God,

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to be surrendered to his will. And so the lesson

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writer begins in the Bible Book of Numbers, chapter fourteen,

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beginning at verse seventeen, and it reads, and now I

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beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great,

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according as thou hast spoken, saying, the Lord is long suffering.

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Yes he is, and of great mercy. Has He been

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merciful to you, brothers and sisters when you go to work?

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Is he merciful to you if God forbid you make

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a mistake? Huh? Has He been merciful to you when

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you in your home and your household relationships, and you're

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with your children, with your spouses, with your parents, when

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you have done something that is not right and you

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had to go back and say, please forgive me. Has

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He been merciful to you forgiving iniquity and transgression visiting

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the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the

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third and fourth generations. Pardon, and I beseech thee the

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iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy.

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And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.

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But as truly as I live, all the earth shall

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be filled with the glory of God. That is the

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goal of God's people to be among the people who

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are reflecting the glory, the brightness of God in his character,

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the brightness of God's love, the brightness of God as

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he teaches the truth in love, so that others who

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are not yet the children of God can become so two.

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In Isaiah chapter fourty two and verse six, the Bible reads,

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I the Lord have called THEE God's people. I added

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that word in righteousness, and give THEE for a covenant

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of people, for the light of the gentiles. And so

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we see that Jesus Christ is the light of the gentiles.

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We see that Jesus Christ in his people. The hope

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of glory is to be a light to every one

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that we come into contact with. Are you going to

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the gym this morning to exercise? There are people who

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don't know God today. They may say his name sometimes,

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but they don't really know him. They have not surrendered

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their will to him. He wants you to be a

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light to those people. Ah, are you going to work?

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Are you going to be in public transportation? Will you

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be in traffic where there might be a road rage incident?

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And God is saying to you, I want you to

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be a light in that situation, so that when they

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see you, and how you react in that situation or

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proact if the as the case may be, He wants you.

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He wants me to be a representative of Him. Okay,

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be a light wherever we go. And in Isaiah chapter

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sixty and verse three, the Bible says, and the gentiles

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shall come to thy light, people of God. Hah, I said,

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people of God. The gentile shall come to thy light

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and kings to the brightness of Thy rising. So when

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we represent God aright, then God will draw people to us,

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so we can draw them to Christ. And of course,

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in Revelation chapter eighteen, verses one through four, the Bible

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teaches that we who have unfortunately aligned ourselves with confusion

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with Babylon, with the false worship systems, that we are

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to come out and be separate. We are to come

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out of her and not partake of her sins. Why

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because Christ is the light to us people. God's people

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are a light to the world, and God is drawing

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all people to himself, starting with us. 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,