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10 27 2023 Rescue the Perishing · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Friday, October twenty seven, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion 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 study series. God's
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  mission, my mission, and our caption for today is rescue the perishing.
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  Rescue the perishing. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  thing, let me know where you are in the world at your Daily Portion
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  dot com. And yeah, great, big good morning to those who are
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  listening on the radio two hundred stations around the world, mainly in North America,
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  and also those watching on so many different social media platforms listening on aggregator
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  sites for podcasts and YouTube. So welcome to everyone, and let's go ahead
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  and pray and then get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  us this new morning and for the privilege we have to pray. Please give
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  us the spirit of Christ in rescuing the perishing. In Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. You know, the Bible says very clearly
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  that Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. It also
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  says in the Book of Matthew the first chapter that Jesus came to save his
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  people from their sins, and so rescuing the perishing is an overarching theme where
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  God is concerned. Remember that passage in John chapter three and verse sixteen.
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  Some of us have taken it for granted because we've said it a million times.
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  It says, for God's so loved the world that he gave his only
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  begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world,
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  but that the world through him might be saved. And I'm thankful that God
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  has invested so much in saving me. So what little I have I need
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  to dedicate to Him so that I can at least hope for someone else to
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  be saved through my influence. That's the case with you. God said that
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  through Paul. He said that for we give, He's given us. He's
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  given us the ministry of reconciliation. Like freely we have received, Jesus said,
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  freely, we have the opportunity to give. I'm going with just a
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  little bit from the hymn number three hundred and sixty seven in the Seven Day
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  Adventist hymnal and it reads, I'm not going to sing it today. Rescue
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  the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and
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  the grave weep or the erring one, lift up the fallen, tell them
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  that Jesus. Tell them of Jesus the Mighty to save, Rescue the perishing,
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  care for the dying. Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. And
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  then the final final stands up rescue the perishing. Duty demands it. Strength
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  for thy labor, the Lord will provide. Back to the narrow way,
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  patiently win them. Tell a poor wanderer, a savior has died. Rescue
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  the perishing. Can you hear it? Brothers and sisters, care for the
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  dying. Jesus is merciful. Jesus will save, and that is our privilege.
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  I'm reading now from the book Patriarchs and Profits, page one hundred and
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  forty, about the man who had that moniker, if you want to say,
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  it was his focus when he was interceding for the inhabitants of Sodom and
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  Gomorrah Abraham, and it reads us and I quote love for perishing souls inspired
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  Abraham's prayer. While he loathed the sins of that corrupt city, he desired
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  that the sinners might be saved. His deep interest for Sodom shows the anxiety
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  that we should feel for the impenitent. Did you get that? Let me
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  go back, Let me go back. His deep interest for Sodom shows the
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  anxiety that we should feel for the impenitent. And you're like, but Dave.
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  The Bible says that we are to be anxious for nothing, but in
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  everything give thanks. What is the will of God concerning us? Well,
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  that's true. We're not worried about ourselves because we know God It's taken care
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  of us. Right. Yeah, be not dismayed with air. Betide God
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  will take care of you. But there are people who are dying. Can
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  you see somebody bobbing up and down in a tumultuous storm in the sea and
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  not think God, please deliver them? When you feel that you are so
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  far from them, And even if you could jump into the raging sea and
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  swim out to them, you wonder, can I do I have the capability
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  to do anything to save this person who is about to drown? And so
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  when we see people who are not willing to yield their will to God,
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  they are in a tumultuous storm, they are drowning, they aren't taking on
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  water, and it's not looking good. And so in those moments we should
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  be pressing God, pressing God giving him the permission. If you want to
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  say, to show mercy to them, we are interceding for them. If
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  you ever walk the streets, just going about your daily duties, going to
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  the supermarket, going to school, to work, to play, and then
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  see people that you can see obviously are not connected to God. You know,
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  I'm going to make it a commitment in my mind that if I am
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  going to the gym, that I need to be praying for people in my
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  mind, in my mind praying, God, spare this one from the sins
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  that so easily beset her. Say this one, God from the sins that
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  so easily beset him, and then see what God will do. Yes,
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  And so we should cherish hatred for sin, but pity and love for the
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  sinner. And you see the difference there, brothers and sisters. There are
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  times that you hear of the sinful lifestyles of people that you encounter. Are
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  you hating them or are you hating the sin? Are you showing love to
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  them? Are you showing love for the sin? You see, there is
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  a fine line. There are times that we are in company of people who
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  are impenitent, They are not yielding their will to God, and we have
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  to make a decision. Will we do as they do in order to hopefully
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  quote win them to Christ? And of course the obvious answer is no.
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  And okay, we'll look at it from another perspective, when those individuals are
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  perishing, should we just walk on by and say, oh, well,
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  I cannot keep company with sinners. Well, of course, the answer obviously
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  again is no. So we keep company with those individuals in order to be
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  an influence for holiness, an influence for God, an opportunity for us to
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  point them in the direction of Christ through our interaction. God said, let
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  your light so shine, brothers and sisters, before people, that they may
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  see your good works. And then glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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  Abraham. According to the quote, every day the probation the every day,
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  the probation of some is closing. Every hour. Some are passing beyond
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  the reach of mercy. And where are the voices of warning and entreaty to
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  bid the sinner flee from his from this fearful doom? Where are the hands
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  stretched out to draw him back from death? Where are those who, with
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  humility and persevering faith, are pleading with God for him? Let me continue
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  the quote. The spirit of Abraham was the spirit of Christ. Did you
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  get that? That can be your testimony right now, brothers and sisters.
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  The spirit of Abraham was the spirit of Christ, the son of God,
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  it is himself the great intercessor on sinner's behalf. He who has paid the
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  price for its redemption, shows the worth of the human soul with an antagonism
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  into evil. Excuse me, such can exist only in a nature spotlessly pure
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  christ manifested toward the sinner of love, which in finite goodness alone could conceive.
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  Rescue the perishing brothers and sisters, and call to God for the dying,
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  because Jesus is merciful and He's ready to save. Have a wonderful day,
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  peasts. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with l David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,