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08 20 2024 The Best Investment · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, August twenty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series. This is lesson number eight through the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Mark under the caption the Best Investment, the Best Investment.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this day and the privilege that you
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  Speaker 2: have entrusted to us to live and to breathe and
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  Speaker 2: to have our being. Father, thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: the best example of investment in this life through Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I pray now that we will make that investment and
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  Speaker 2: live eternally in Jesus name. I pray, amen and amen again.
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  Speaker 2: The best investment? I am tempted to ask you to
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  Speaker 2: type in the chat what the best investment was that
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  Speaker 2: you have made. It could have been financial, it could
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  Speaker 2: have been based on relationship, it could have been otherwise. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll go ahead and ask you to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And please don't try to sell anything in the chat,
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  Speaker 2: because that's disrespectful, right, That's not what I'm asking you for.
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  Speaker 2: What is the best investment you've made? Was it in
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  Speaker 2: real estate? Was it in you getting your health on
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  Speaker 2: track because there was something not so right about your
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  Speaker 2: health journey? Was it something in terms of business? What
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  Speaker 2: was the best investment that you made? And of course
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  Speaker 2: we know that our investment in our children is a
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  Speaker 2: big one. We know that the absolute best that trumps
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  Speaker 2: everything is in our relationship with God, so maybe that
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  Speaker 2: should be a foregone conclusion. But apart from your relationship
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  Speaker 2: with God, what is the best investment that you've ever made?
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting question, and yeah, let's let's tease it out
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit. But let's begin now from the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Mark, the Book of Mark, chapter ten, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read beginning at verse seventeen, and I'll say
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  Speaker 2: that probably the best, and I'll have to think it
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  Speaker 2: through some more. The best investment that I ever made
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  Speaker 2: was becoming a coach, a life and success coach. That
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  Speaker 2: was probably the best one that I made. Apart from
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  Speaker 2: relationship with my wife and my son and connection with God.
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  Speaker 2: That was probably the best investment that I've ever made. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we begin with verse seventeen of Mark, chapter ten,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads And when he was gone fourth
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  Speaker 2: into the way, there came one running and kneel down
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  Speaker 2: to him and asked him, good Master, what shall I
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  Speaker 2: do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, why callest thou me good? There is none
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  Speaker 2: good but one that is God. Thou knowest the commandments.
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  Speaker 2: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal,
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  Speaker 2: do not bear false witness, defraud not honor thy father
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  Speaker 2: and mother. And he answered and said, unto him, Master,
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  Speaker 2: all these have I observed from my youth. Then Jesus
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  Speaker 2: beholding him, loved him. I want you to get that part.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus is giving the man what he needs to
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  Speaker 2: consider intellectually. But he's about to make a transition, right.
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  Speaker 2: He's appealing to his understanding first. It's very interesting, probably
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  Speaker 2: because Jesus understands how this man thinks. And then he
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  Speaker 2: looks on him deeply, like he's looking into his eyes,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt, And he loved him and said unto him,
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  Speaker 2: well there's one thing that thou lackest. And I can
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  Speaker 2: imagine the man thinking, well, what else could there be?
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  Speaker 2: And he said, go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast,
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  Speaker 2: and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure
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  Speaker 2: in heaven, and come take up the cross and follow me.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, now, hold on, hold on, hold on,
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  Speaker 2: hold on. Remember when I asked you what your greatest
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  Speaker 2: investment was, what if God said, okay, turn away from
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  Speaker 2: that investment. I have to apply that to myself. I said,
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  Speaker 2: likely the best investment I had was in becoming a
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  Speaker 2: coach of successful people. And if God said, turn away
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  Speaker 2: from that, and I'm thinking, okay, nineteen ninety six, this
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  Speaker 2: is when I began my career in behavior modification and management.
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  Speaker 2: Two thousand and one I started to get into behavior
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  Speaker 2: style and personality assessments, etc. And that is the driving
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  Speaker 2: force for whatever I am doing in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: So from nineteen ninety six to twenty twenty two, I
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  Speaker 2: was building in my mind, my intellect, my ability to
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  Speaker 2: reach people in a certain way, to get to where
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  Speaker 2: I am now in twenty twenty four, at the level
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  Speaker 2: that I'm doing it. And God says, turn away from
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  Speaker 2: all of that, turn away from all of that, And
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  Speaker 2: I want you. I want you to to give to
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  Speaker 2: the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. What
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  Speaker 2: would I do? What would you do? Considering your answers,
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  Speaker 2: what would you do? And he says, and take up
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  Speaker 2: the cross. Wait a minute, now, the cross is not
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  Speaker 2: something that doesn't sound complementary. The Cross doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 2: something that I would be interested in having. It's not
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  Speaker 2: something that seems like a light burden. We know what
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  Speaker 2: happened on the cross? Don't we? I think the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says cursed is the one who is hung upon a
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  Speaker 2: tree or the cross. It was an instrument of torture
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  Speaker 2: and of death. It was it was. It was done
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  Speaker 2: against criminals or those being suspected to be criminals. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: He said, take up your cross and follow me, Follow
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  Speaker 2: you where. Jesus, thinking of my behavior style, my natural style,
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  Speaker 2: would ask the questions like, Okay, I hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: You're setting up a contrast. I think I know where
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  Speaker 2: you're going with this, but I'm not too sure. So
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  Speaker 2: I have about twenty seven questions before I can follow you.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus does not make provision for that. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to sell right now, give to the poor,
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  Speaker 2: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. Come, take up
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  Speaker 2: your cross and follow me. Follow you where, wherever, wherever
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  Speaker 2: I am going Verse twenty two. And he was sad
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  Speaker 2: at that saying. Why was the man sad at that? Saying?
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  Speaker 2: Because because he went away grief, for he had great possessions.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus look round about and seth unto his disciples.
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  Speaker 2: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of God. And the disciple were astonished at his words.
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  Speaker 2: But jesus answereth again and said, unto them, children, how
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  Speaker 2: hard is it for them that trust in riches to
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  Speaker 2: enter into the Kingdom of God. It is easier for
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  Speaker 2: a camel to go through the eye of a needle
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  Speaker 2: than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of God. And they were astonished out of measures, saying
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  Speaker 2: among themselves, who then can be saved? And Jesus looked
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  Speaker 2: around upon them and saith with man, it is impossible,
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  Speaker 2: but not with God. For with God all things are possible.
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  Speaker 2: Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, Lord, we
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  Speaker 2: have left all and have followed thee. And Jesus answered
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  Speaker 2: and said, verily, I say unto you, there shall no
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  Speaker 2: man that has left his house or brethren, or sisters,
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  Speaker 2: or father or mother, or wife, or children, or lands
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  Speaker 2: for my sake and the gospels. But he shall receive
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  Speaker 2: an hundredfold now in this time houses and brethren and
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  Speaker 2: sisters and mothers and children, and lands with persecutions, and
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  Speaker 2: in the world to come eternal life. But many that
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  Speaker 2: are first shall be last, and the last first. So
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  Speaker 2: much to say, so little time. Jesus gave us the
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  Speaker 2: blueprint for investing in eternity, and he said, even as
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  Speaker 2: you are living on planet Earth, if you invest in me,
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  Speaker 2: invest in eternity. If you seek first the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 2: God and his righteousness, all of the things that are
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  Speaker 2: needful will be added unto you. I will give you
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  Speaker 2: a community of believers. I will give you the kind
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  Speaker 2: of faith that you need to get through trials, and
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  Speaker 2: I will make provision for all of your temporal and
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  Speaker 2: eternal needs. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,