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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 Wednesday, September

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

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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 in our final

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week in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,

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and our caption for today is appearing to Mary and Others.

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Appearing to Mary and Others. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to please go over to

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There is a number seven on the screen when you

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get there. I want you to take a good look

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at it and see what God wants you to do there. Also,

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and

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pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven,

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thank you for this day, for the opportunity that you

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have given to us to open your word. Please, God,

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I ask you to help us to see like you

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see and not as we as humans see. Give us

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your vision in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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I want to say that God respects his creation, and

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I want to be careful how I say it. He

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loves us, and you want to say, well, how much

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does he loves us? He loves us so much that

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not only did he give his life for us through Christ,

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like Jesus gave his life so that we can be saved.

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He blew his breath. He blew the breath of life

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into humanity, and we became a living soul. Adam. He

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blew his breath into Adam's nostrils, and he became a

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living soul. He created Eve from Adam's rib, and he

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made her a living soul. Each of them had their

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relationships with God. Adam when he was with God right

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after creation, he was with God. He was with God,

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just he and Adam, He and God, He and God.

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God puts him to sleep, and then God makes Eve.

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And while Adam is sleeping, Eve has her own connection

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with God. She's with God. She's with God. And then

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he wakes up Adam, and then the two together have

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their relationship with God. They formed that threefold chord that

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is hard to be broken. God, Adam and Eve. But

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sometimes we minimize what God did in Eve and her daughters.

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We minimize that and what God is doing right here

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in this aspect of the story. I was critical of

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us humans. I was critical of God's people yesterday. Not

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in a negative way. You heard me in a positive way.

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But we needed constructive criticism to say, well, why were

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these women at the tomb there to bury or to

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embalm a dead man when Jesus promised that he would

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wake up on or take up his life on the

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first day, and so he honors these women. Though they

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do come to the tomb, their intent is to worship

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at the tomb in their own way and to honor Jesus.

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While they were hopeless and sad, they should have been

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hopeful and looking forward to seeing him wake up. But

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that's beside the point. Now, they were going there with

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a heart that's positive toward God, a heart that was

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full of worship and gratitude, a heart that expressed thankfulness

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to God. Okay, but now they get the blessed surprise

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that Jesus actually did what he said he was going

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to do. He took up his life again. And so

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God honors these women. In Mark chapter sixteen, I will

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read beginning at verse nine. Now, when Jesus was risen

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early the first day of the week, he appeared first

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to Mary Magdalene. So he appears to a woman in

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a society of male domination. He appears first to a

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woman in a society of male domination, and not to

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his disciples. And this woman had seven experiences with evil spirits,

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plus some other stuff that she went through. So she

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wasn't even like the premiere, if you want to say,

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and I'm saying this for a fact, like she wasn't

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the number one person in her class, like she wasn't

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the most likely to success. But she loved God most

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because she had been delivered most her love quotient was

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very high because she appreciated what God had done for her.

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Some of us believed that she was the one that

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was at Jesus's feet. He was at Jesus. She was

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at Jesus's feet on multiple occasions, worshiping and getting as

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much from Jesus as possible, so that she could experience

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the fullness of God through him. Yes, and so it

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says here he first appeared to marry Magdalene, out of

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whom he cast seven devils. Where were his disciples? Anyway?

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Verse ten, She went and told them, And she went

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and told them that she had been with him, as

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they mourned and wept. And they, when they had heard

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that he was alive and had been seen of her,

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believed not. He appeared in another form unto two of them,

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as they walked and went into the country. They went

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and told it unto the residue. Neither believed they them. Afterward,

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he appeared unto eleven as they sat at meat, and

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upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because

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they believed, not them which had seen him. After he

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was risen, And he said unto them, go ye into

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all the world and preach the Gospel unto every creature.

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He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But

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he that believeth not shall be condemned. And these signs

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shall follow them that believe in My name. They shall

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cast out devils, They shall speak in new tongues. They

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shall take up serpents, and if they drink and any

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deadly thing, they shall not hurt them. And they shall

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lay hands on the sick. And they shall recover what

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a promise. And they so then even the Lord had

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spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven and

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sat at the right hand of God. And they went

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forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and

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confirming the Word with signs. So much to say, so

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little time. You see, God has a habit. What is

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the habit? He has the habit of choosing the least

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likely people to be his witnesses. Are you one of

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those least likely people? Brothers and sisters? Is it because

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of the way you speak? Maybe you don't speak as

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well as some others do. Is it the way that

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you think I said, you think that you look in

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contrast to the way others appear. I won't get into that.

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You know what it is. Is it because of the

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way you've been educated or not educated. Maybe you didn't

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choose or have the privilege to go to high school.

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Maybe you, like one Ellen White, Maybe you were a

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person who who was you were not in school from

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grade school. It was grade three that was her last

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time in school. Maybe you're a person who just really

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doubts yourself sometimes. And God is saying that he is

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able to do just like he did through these women,

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including Mary Magdalene, whose story was unlikely, unlikely as being

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the chief evangelist of that moment of time. But he

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because he loves us so much that he does not

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allow any human thing to limit what he promised he

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would do. He said, I will send you out and

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I will lead people to myself. I will give you power,

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I will give you authority. I will give you the

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privilege of being a representative of God through your experience,

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your testimony. And so the role of the unlikely witness

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is key for us to remember. We must never minimize

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the work that God has called for us to do. Yes,

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validation in difficult times is another principle that I want

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to share with you. It was extremely difficult. When these

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women appeared at the tomb, they were feeling hopeless, No

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doubt they were tired. I don't see how they could

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have gotten any sleep in that state. But when they

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experienced Jesus being alive, he validated their desire to be

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with him. He validated their ministry of going to others

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and sharing. Christ has risen you see. So God has

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so much to say in these scenarios, but we have

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to have our eyes and ears open waiting for God's guidance.

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Make it a great day, 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,