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07 11 2024 Can You Keep a Secret · 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 Thursday, July eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,
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  and our caption for today is can you Keep a Secret? Can you
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  keep a Secret? We'll get an to that in just a moment, but
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  first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  for the very first time. I'm asking you to please go over to your
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  your daily portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Father in heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to open up
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  your word, and I'm asking you to please fill us with your holy spirit.
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  Teach us how not to keep a good secret when it has to do
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  with your goodness. Father, Please teach us to serve you with all of
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  our heart. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a men Again.
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  I'm going to share a secret with you. I'm very, very good at
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  keeping secrets. I don't even talk in my sleep. That's what I say,
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  tongue in cheek, Like I don't even talk in my sleep. So
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  if you tell me something and I'm not supposed to tell anyone, like I
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  won't tell anyone, not even my wife, who is the closest person in
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  the world to me, Like I'm not telling It's just not my style.
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  Like I like to keep secrets, I don't necessarily like to know your secrets.
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  If I can avoid it, I won't know your secrets. But if
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  for some reason, providence leads you to share something that's just something you need
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  to work through, and it's a secret, then I'll keep it. Yeah.
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  Well this is interesting because in regards to what we'll read about today,
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  Yeah, it's a different kind of secret. And you have to decide like,
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  are you going to keep the secret or not? Are you going to
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  follow the command of God and keep the secret or not? Okay, And
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  so just before we begin there, I'd like to read from the lesson directly
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  and give you my thought ahead of the time. Jesus become one with us.
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  When I say us, i'm talking about human beings in order to cleanse
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  human beings. He becomes one with human beings in order to cleanse human beings.
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  He became one of us and did not seem or he did not see
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  himself as being defiled by being a human being. And this is why his
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  ministry was so effective, apart from what we talked about yesterday, him being
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  one with us and not running away from us as if we are unclean unclean,
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  and we are, but he did not allow himself to sense defilement or
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  be defiled as an impediment between him and us, as an impediment to us
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  being cleansed. Okay, that sounded real intellectual. What does that mean?
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  Well, the lesson writer says, the leoper places faith in Jesus that he
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  can cleanse him, and according to Leviticus chapter thirteener was ritually unclean and had
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  to avoid contact with others. Jesus, however, was moved with compassion.
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  Now what word did I just use? Compassion? Jesus was moved with compassion.
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  He stretched out his hand and he touched him. Remember, this is
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  a highly contagious disease in real life, and besides this, besides this,
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  it would have made him ritually unclean technically, according to the way that the
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  customs were. So, the Bible says that he was moved with compassion,
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  stretched out his hand and touched him and said, I am willing. When
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  the man said, if you're willing, you can make me clean, he
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  said, I will be thou clean. He could have just waved his hand.
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  He could have from a long, far distance, like he did in
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  healing someone's child, like he could have stayed far and just said, yeah,
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  you're you're, you're healed. But no, Jesus physically touched the broken,
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  very contagious ill man and healed him, and then the Bible I mean.
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  And then the lesson writer continues, this action should have defiled Jesus until
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  the evening, when he would be required to bathe become ritually pure again.
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  But Mark is clear that Jesus, that Jesus his action of touching the sick
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  man cleansed him from leprosy. Thus, Jesus was not defiled by touching the
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  man. Jesus was not defiled by touching the man. Are you hearing this?
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  Let me read the text now from Mark chapter one, beginning at verse
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  forty. And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down
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  to him, and saying to him, if thou wilt, thou canst make
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  me clean. And Jesus moved with compassion, put forth his hand, he
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  touched him, and seth unto him, I will be thou clean. And
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  as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and
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  he the leper, was cleansed. And he straightly charged him forthwith and sent
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  him away, and seth unto him. See thou say nothing to any man
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  now, Jesus said, keep a secret. There was a reason. See
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  that you say nothing to anyone. Now, go and show yourself to the
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  priest and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded for a testimony unto
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  them. But this dude did not listen. He did not keep a secret
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  verse forty five. But he went out and began to publish it much and
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  to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that now we know why Jesus said keep
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  it a secret. Not because he didn't want people to know what great things
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  God had done for him, not because he wanted him to keep a testimony
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  and sit on it and keep himself away from people, but because in this
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  case, it says insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city,
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  but was without in desert places, and they came to him from every
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  quarter. And so Jesus knew that, in the context of the work that
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  he was doing early in his ministry, this was early in his ministry,
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  that a testimony of that sort would have interrupted the ministry at some point.
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  Obviously the man would shout from the mountaintops from the rafters and say, look
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  at what God has done for me. But in this moment of time,
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  Jesus asked him not or commanded him not to tell. In fact, in
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  fact, if the priests had heard that Jesus had done it too early and
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  before he was pronounced clean, then that would have been an impediment even to
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  the pronouncement of this man being clean, because the priests were not really with
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  Jesus like. They didn't like him, they didn't like them, They were
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  discriminatory toward Christ. They did not approve of Jesus's ministry. And so if
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  you appear and say, Jesus healed me, now see if it's true,
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  am I healed? Then now you have a problem, right, And so
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  Jesus was telling him in that moment to please just keep it, keep it
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  quiet for now, for now. But the man, of course could not
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  keep a secret. Now you see where we're going today. And so in
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  the Book of Isaiah, chapter one, we see a symbol in a language,
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  symbol that shows that something like leprosy is like equated to sin, like
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  sin and leprosy, So leprosy, the real life disease, can be seen
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  in symbol as sin. It's contagious, it's deadly. Anybody who comes into
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  contact with you, if they are susceptible, will also be sinful in the
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  way that you influenced them, unless, of course, they decide to be
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  insulated by the power of God. You see, and so the Bible teaches
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  us that Jesus, even though he came into human flesh, was not defiled
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  by human flesh. Jesus came near to us while we were contagious, while
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  we were breaking down spiritually, more and more and more and more, and
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  he healed us. Not worrying about the fact that he was connected as God
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  and human, he decided to heal us. Well, can you keep a
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  secret? When God does great things for you? Can you keep it a
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  secret? Very interesting lesson for today. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by
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  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 great
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  day. Yeah,