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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 Friday, December five,

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twenty twenty five. 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 lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for today is a call for true missionaries. A call

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for true missionaries. Go ahead and type of one in

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the chat. If you were confused when you opened up

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your Adult Study Guide and then you saw was Sunday,

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well yeah, sometimes that happens, but we know that it's

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actually Friday. It's actually Friday. Before we get into that

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I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. Please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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donate button as well. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father,

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We thank you for the privilege of coming together on

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this day of preparation. Please prepare our hearts for the

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Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. In Jesus' name,

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I pray a man and a man again. So in

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a coaching community, I often say that without mission clarity,

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you cannot have missionaries missionaries. So I'm coaching with a

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lot of business people and others who run teams, and

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a lot of times people are scattered. I don't mean

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necessarily in our group, but I'm saying when you're leading

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teams that are scattered, it's often because the mission is

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not clear. It's not the only reason, but the mission

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is not clear, or sometimes it shifts, and so with

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the clarity of mission. Then you have people who are

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willing to march in lockstep toward whatever goals are set

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based on that mission. Okay. And so when Christ gave

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the Great Commission, that was clarity, and he said he

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would be with us alway, even to the end of

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the earth. And so even in the Old Testament, even

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in the Old Testament, God gave us a glimpse of

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him doing something very similar. Now, let me go back

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a little bit to Hebrews chapter ten and verse one

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and make this all make sense. Hebrews chapter ten and

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verse one says, for the law having a shadow of

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good things to come, what are the good things to come?

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That's a question you need to be asking and answering,

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and not of the very image of the things. Can

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never with those things, or with those sacrifices which they

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offered year by year, continually make the comers there run

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too perfect. Let me read it in a clearer language.

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For the law possesses a shadow. We've talked about that

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probably three or four days during the week. For the

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law possesses a shadow of good things to come, but

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not the reality itself. And so what God was giving

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us was what I call a kindergarten view, a kindergarten

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view of the plan of salvation, a kindergarten view of Oh,

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wait a minute, this is what God is doing in

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order to save me from my sins and then to

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put me into ministry so that others can be saved. Yes,

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so those sacrifices were showing us the reality of the Messiah,

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the reality of what God is going to do in

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order to save us from our sins, and then by extension,

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use us to reach other people so they can be

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saved by Christ. The Bible continues, and it is therefore

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completely unable by the same sacrifices offered continual. So the

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fact that you got to continue to offer sacrifices over

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and over again. You know, if you read in Leviticus

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chapters one through through seven, then you see the system

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in a very clear and distinct way of teaching sacrifices

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for what purpose, and the details of it are really

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really clear there, and it's like over and over and

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over and over, and none of them have the power

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to deliver us from sin. So they were as shadow

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leading us in the direction of Christ, who is the

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ultimate power to save us from our sins. And the

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text continues to perfect those who come to worship. So

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God wants to perfect us, and it requires Jesus Christ

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and all that he has done and is continuing to

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do as he is in his cleansing ministry, cleansing work

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right now preparing to come get us. Yes, and so

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I'm thankful that he gave us the shadows, he gave

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us the symbols. But those sins should always leave an

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appetite in us to say, but God, there has to

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be more. But God, there has to be more these sacrifices,

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there has to be more. The materials that the sanctuary

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was made of, that there has to be more. The

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priests and the high priests, there has to be more.

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And of course, indeed, and in fact there is. And

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so the Greek word for shadow skia, it means outline

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or fate image. The ancient ceremonies pointed to Christ. Yet

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many clung to the symbols, even though we just read

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that there were inherent flaws in the symbols because you

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had to, because they couldn't actually save us. They clung

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to those. When Jesus himself appeared, there were a lot

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of people who did that to embrace Jesus. Fully, we

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must let go of those traditions, let go of those

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things that were symbols. Now how God is showing us

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in the person and work of Jesus Christ the reality,

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the genuine article. So let go of those things are

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that are no longer useful, and those things do obscure

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His truth and power. So today we need to be

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asking God to reveal any traditions or habits or mindsets

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that distract us from having a relationship, a living relationship

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with Jesus the reality of every promise. Let me go

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to lesson number two. It comes in from Isaiah chapter

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six and verse eight. This is after Isaiah has been

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cleansed and he has experienced God in the fullest sense

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that he could on planet Earth. And the question goes

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out here it is also I heard a voice of

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the Lord saying, whom shall I send? Remember mission clarity, missionaries,

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whom shall I send? Here comes the mission? Who will

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go for us?

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Speaker 1: Then?

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Speaker 2: And I said, here am I send me? Here? Am

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I send me? And so the Hebrew word for send

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in this case is shallockh, meaning to dispatch with purpose.

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Remember mission clarity, who shall we send for us to

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do what? And then God gives the actual message. If

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you continue reading through Isaiah's story, Uh huh, So he

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is being dispatched. He's the missionary. Isaiah is the missionary

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and people like him as are the missionaries. Why because

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there is mission clarity. So he's being dispatched with a purpose.

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That's what the word literally means. So God still seeks

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volunteers who will carry his message of love and obedience

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to the world. Are you being transformed by God's love?

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Are you being transformed by His message to the world you?

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And if the answer is yes, if you are being

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transformed by the renewing of your mind, if you are

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grateful for what great things God is doing in your life,

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in your very key various key areas of life, then

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you too become dispatched with purpose. You are a missionary

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like Joshua and Caleb. True missionaries trust God's power more

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than they fear the obstacles. So here is the action step.

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Commit to sharing your faith. Commit to sharing your faith

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consistently through conversation, prayer, and or service. Respond to God's

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call with your own. Here I am send me, make

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it a great day. See you tonight.

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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,