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12 09 2023 Mission to the Unreached- Part 2 · 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 Sabbath, December nine, twenty twenty three. 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, God's Mission, My
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  mission, and our caption is Mission to the Unreached, Part two. We
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  broached that just a couple of weeks ago, and we're going to continue the
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  discussion here Mission to the Unreached Part two. First, I just want to
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  say happy Sabbath to you. Are you taking you in time? Are you?
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  Maybe I should say investing time to rest, to breathe, to experience
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  God, to experience nature. Yeah, you see how I'm bringing you down.
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  It's not because I've run out of things to say. How could I
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  do that? Right? But we do need to come aside and rest a
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  while, even on the Sabbath day especially, So please please please make a
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  special connection with God, with your family and with the community people that can
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  be benefited from your influence. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new
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  day and for the opportunity we have to continue in your word. Please give
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  us your understanding and wisdom as we reach the who don't know you. In
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  Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Mission to the unreached.
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  Part two. Okay, so we're going to begin straight out of the
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  Lesson Study, and it reads from the beginning, a loving God sought his
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  lost children, and even today that is the case. Do you remember in
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  the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve. He had already created them. He
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  gave them everything they could possibly need or desire, because remember, there is
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  no sin on planet Earth. And then he gives some very clear instructions and
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  both Adam and Eve violated those instructions. And to make a long story short,
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  remember God came to the garden as usual, and as he was in
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  the garden, the Bible says that God called out to Adam and said,
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  Adam, where are you? And Adam sheepish. He says, I'm hiding.
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  I was naked, and so I hid myself. And God said,
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  well, who told you that you were naked? Did I did you take
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  from the tree? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded that thou
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  shouldest not eat? And then he begins to blame his wife. And then
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  when God says something to Eve, blames the devil. The devil made me
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  do it. And then God deals with the situation from there. But the
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  fact is that the loving God did a couple of things. One he put
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  into place a plan before Adam and Eve sinned, that should they fall into
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  sin or jump into sin, that he would be able to save them.
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  Jesus was slaying from the foundation of the earth, as the Bible would give
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  us in those in that language, or because God is always on time and
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  cause his mind as eternal, the plan already existed, so that as soon
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  as Eve ate the fruit, Adam ate the fruit. God didn't have to
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  destroy them off the face of the earth. And so God had the plan
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  in place already, not because they had to sin, but he knew they
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  would sin. But apart from that, now we see that God didn't sit
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  up in heaven and just wait for Adam to come to his senses and then,
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  you know, do something about it. No, he goes after Adam
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  and says, where are you, Adam? Where are you? Adam?
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  Where are you? He calls out to Adam so that Adam would know the
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  state of his experience with God. So Adam would understand that he had so
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  far separated himself from God that he was in danger, in danger of being
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  that way forever, or being separated from God and then losing his life.
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  And that would have been any turn, no consequence. You see where that's
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  going. So God loved us so much that he put put us in position
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  to receive salvation. Now we know it's through Christ. And then he gives
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  Adam and Eve the opportunity to see where they were. And so that's a
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  good good way to begin this lesson study. And then it says that God
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  is still seeking to reach the lost, including those lost in the cities.
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  In twenty eighteen, the United Nations published its latest findings, which say that
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  fifty five percent of the planet's population lives in urban areas, and this will
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  grow if time should last, to sixty eight percent by twenty fifty. We
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  have no choice. We must witness to those in the cities. So let's
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  go ahead and read from Matthew, chapter fifteen and verse twenty eight, where
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  it reads, then Jesus answered and said to her, a woman, where
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  is your faith? Let it be to you as you desire. And her
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  daughter was healed from that very hour. God showed that at different times through
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  Christ, when Jesus lived on planet Earth. At different times, sometimes Jesus
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  was on his way on a particular mission, and then along the pathway or
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  the journey or the road, then an opportunity for healing would happen, an
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  opportunity to connect with someone would happen, right, an opportunity for a person
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  who was blind, or more than one person who was blind to be delivered
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  from that blindness so they could see. Or he would pass through cities or
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  buy cities, excuse me, and then he would heal everybody in the city
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  to where the Bible says there was not one sick or feeble one among them.
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  And so in this case we see a woman who has faith. She
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  puts her faith in God, and then the Bible says that her daughter was
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  healed from that very hour. That means that God's intent for us is to
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  be delivered from sin, delivered from earthly impediments and sicknesses and so forth.
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  So God loves people, and I really I couldn't resist. God loves people
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  more than anything. That's a song, by the way, all right,
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  and so let's look at a few principles before I let you go the Sabbath.
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  Okay, let's read from Genesis chapter chapter nine, I mean three,
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  verse nine again. And the Lord called unto Adam and said, unto him,
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  where are you recognize? Recognize that like Adam, everyone is sought after
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  by God. God is seeking to save the lost. He showed it with
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  Adam and Eve, and he is showing it with us. Number two,
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  embrace urban mission fields. Right, And I've already cited this, But from
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  Matthew chapter nine and verse thirty five, the Bible reads and Jesus went about
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  all the silly cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel
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  of the Kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. And
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  so if Jesus hadn't gone into these villages, he hadn't gone into these city
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  centers, how would this healing have happened. So he did it in two
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  ways. We see that he would teach the truth, teach the truth about
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  God's love, teach the truth from his word. He lived the truth before
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  them. In one of the ways that he lived the truth before them is
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  that he would deliver them from their physical, mental, and emotional maladies.
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  We know that he forgave sins, right, we know that Jesus came to
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  save people from our sins. He also made sure that their felt needs were
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  handled. There were people who were hungry, he would give them food.
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  People who were sick and diseased, he would give them what they needed.
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  And so our approach in those same areas, those same kinds of areas is
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  to do and live like Jesus did. And of course we should minister beyond
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  cultural boundaries. There's such a long list of discussion about who's a gentile,
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  who is a Jew, who was connected to God, who was not.
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  But ultimately, regardless of those details, Jesus came to save every nation,
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  kindred tongue, and people for those who will yield our real to him.
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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,