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12 11 2023 Seeking the Multitudes · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's 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 to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Monday, December eleven, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is Elle 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, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is seeking the multitudes. Seeking the
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  multitudes. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  to just say welcome to you, and for those who join us regularly,
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  I just want you to know that I do not take it lightly. It
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  is a privilege for me to share with you every day, every day.
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  Did you hear that every day and it's been such for years, and I'm
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  thankful that we have this opportunity. Also, I want to say welcome to
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  those coming to us for the first time. Please go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com, join our online community, and also let us know where
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  you are in the world in the little box that asks that question at your
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  Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
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  get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of
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  being called by your name. And I ask you now to fill us with
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  your holy spirit. Teach us how to love you, teach us how to
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  have compassion, give us compassionate hearts like you have like Jesus has. In
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  Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Seeking the multitudes,
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  I'm going to the Book of Matthew, the Book of Matthew, chapter nine,
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  and I'm going to read beginning at verse thirty five. And a great
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  big shout out to those who are listening on the radio. You're on your
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  way to work or whatever it is that you do for the day. Yeah,
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  thank you for joining. So beginning at verse thirty five, and the
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  Bible reads and Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their
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  synagogues. So he's moving around. He's not staying in one place. He
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  is not making it so that people have to find him. I want us
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  to get everything we can from these simple words. So he's moving around.
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  He's going to cities, he's going to villages, and he's going to the
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  places of worship in this case. In this case it's synagogues and preaching what
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  the gospel of the kingdom. So he is going around in the cities,
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  the villages. He's also teaching in their places of worship. What is he
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  preaching? What is he teaching? He is preaching the gospel of God's Kingdom.
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  There are times that we move around and we don't do as well.
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  Sometimes we move around and are not clear on what our message must be.
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  But God is showing us that when we are moving around, we're on our
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  way to work, we're on our way to play, We're on our way
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  to volunteer, to exercise, to drop someone to school, to be of
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  assistance to someone in shopping, or whatever it is that we're doing in the
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  daytime or in the evening for that matter. Now, we have to make
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  sure that we have a clear view of our purpose when we're moving around.
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  Does it mean that we'll preach at all times? No, not necessarily,
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  But the mission of the Gospel must go wherever we go. Okay, And
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  then it says, and he was healing their sicknesses and every disease among the
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  people. What does that teach us about Jesus. Well, we can say
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  that it teaches us he was intentional. We can say that it teaches us
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  that he was focused, he was clear about his mission. But what else?
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  It teaches us that he had compassion. He had compassion. There are
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  people sick and dying like there are people who did not know God, like
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  there are people in these cities and villages and places of worship who were disconnected
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  from God. And so the Bible is teaching us through this example that Jesus
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  Christ had compassion. Let's keep going, Let's keep going, verse thirty six.
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  But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved. Oh, now
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  we don't have to get with compassion on them, because they fainted and were
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  scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. So few people have clear direction,
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  so few people understand what God's call on their lives is. And so God
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  is saying, when we move around, I'm going back to the places,
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  the cities, the villages, those places of worship, and everywhere else we
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  encounter people. Our only goal is to lead them to Him, and when
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  they have felt needs, if we are able to supply them. Somebody needs
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  food, somebody needs clothing, shelter, someone needs a helping hand, a
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  smile, a kind word. Yes, sometimes people just need an ear,
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  an ear that is attentive to them and not rushing them. The Bible is
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  saying that this is the way Jesus moved verse thirty seven. Then seth he
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  unto his disciples. The harvest is truly plenty us, but the laborers are
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  few verse thirty eight. And final pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest,
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  that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. We should be praying
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  that we are those laborers. We should be praying that people we know will
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  be those laborers. Because really the time is coming when we cannot be of
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  service to people anymore. People will have already made their final decisions for or
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  against God, and unfortunately most people will have chosen against God. So in
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  the meantime we need to do all that we can so that as many people
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  as possible will say yes, Lord, yes to your will and to your
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  way, and not allow life to separate them from him. And so one
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  thing that we can see here is that he was offering himself to be the
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  shepherd that they needed. He wasn't just clicking a link or clicking a button
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  to say, let me find somebody for you. He was also making himself
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  available to those who needed him. Now, let's go to Matthew chapter four.
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  Matthew chapter four, and we will read verses twenty three through twenty five.
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  We should be seeing ourselves in the passage and asking God, well,
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  what must I do to be of service? Okay? And so the Bible
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  reads in verse twenty three, and Jesus went about all of Galilee. Wait
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  a minute, this sounds like an echo. He went about all of Galilee,
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  teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom. Yep,
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  I've heard this before, and healing all manner of sicknesses. Yep, I've
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  heard this one before, in all manner of diseases among the people. And
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  his fame went through all Syria, and they brought unto him all sick people
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  that were taken with diverts, diseases and torments, and those which were possessed
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  devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy,
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  and healed them, and he and there followed him great multitudes. Why did
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  the multitudes follow him of people from Galilee and from the capitalist that's the city
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  of Yeah, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea and from beyond the Jordan.
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  Why did his fame spread? Why were there so many people following him?
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  Well, because he was healing people, because he had a message of
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  peace, even when he had a message of conflict, which would separate people
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  who love God from people who do not. It was always so that people
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  could get connected to him. So if there's a person, if there are
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  a people, if there are multitudes of God's people stationed a the world.
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  Remember I always ask you to go to your Daily Portion dot com and type
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  in the thing where are you in the world, wherever those places are.
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  If there's an army of people around the world who are like Jesus, do
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  you think that he will send the multitudes to us? M he sends the
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  multitudes to me. I'm sure he sends the multitudes to you and for those
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  who are trying to get it figured out. Really, all you have to
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  do is lead people to Christ. Lift him up, he said, and
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  I will draw all people unto myself. So if you have the power to
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  heal, you have the power to be of encouragement. Definitely lead people to
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  Christ, and He will lead them to you. Have a wonderful day,
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  peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,