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07 16 2024 The Lord of the Sabbath · 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 Tuesday, July sixteen, 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 the Lord of the Sabbath, The Lord
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  of the Sabbath. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  I'd like to say welcome, Welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  us for the very first time. I'm asking you to please go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up your
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  Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in the world at your
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  Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underwaigh.
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  Father in Heaven, thank you for this new day, and I thank you
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  for giving us the opportunity to look into the true meaning of Sabbath. Father,
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  I'm asking you to give us understanding, but not just understanding, help
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  us to will and to do of your good pleasure in Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. All right, So the Lord of the
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  Sabbath, the Lord of the Sabbath. I hate to keep saying this,
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  but we were talking about controversial stuff, right, and how people, for
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  whatever and their pride, decided to try to teach Jesus. Can you imagine
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  you're trying to teach Jesus, the author of life, the one who was
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  the author and finisher of our faith, the one who created all of us
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  and created this planet. The Bible teaches us in John chapter one, Hebrews
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  chapter one, and in other places that Jesus is the one through whom this
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  planet was created and all of the humans. Right, and you want to
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  have an argument and a discussion, philosophical discussion with Jesus about his word,
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  his law, his truth. The one whose voice you heard thunder from Mount
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  Horeb Mount Sinai, as some know, it was Jesus's voice. The one
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  whose finger emblazoned on those sapphire tables of stone the ten words ominous words,
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  the commandments. Jesus. The one who said, let there be light,
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  and there was light, Jesus. The one who said, according to your
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  faith, be it unto you was Jesus. The one who said, take
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  up your bed and walk. It was Jesus, the one who said,
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  remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and
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  do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
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  thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son,
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  nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy
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  cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days
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  the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
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  is, and rested on the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath
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  day and hallowed it, made it holy This is Jesus the same way,
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  the same one who gave the message that Jesus, the same one who gave
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  the message that that the Sabbath is a sign between God and humanity, that
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  he is the one that doth sanctify us, that sets us aside for holy
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  use, The same one is the one that these dudes want to have an
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  argument with about the Sabbath. Are you serious right now? Like? Are
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  you serious? Well? Yeah, Sometimes we get so smart that we outsmart
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  ourselves, and we add all kinds of extra rules and regulations to things that
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  God would have said. And this is what Jesus was dealing with. In
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  Mark chapter two. We read beginning at verse twenty three. And it came
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  to pass that he went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day, and his
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  disciples began as they went to pluck the ears of corn, and the Pharisee
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  said unto him, behold, why do they on the Sabbath day do that
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  which is not lawful? And he said, unto them, have ye never
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  read what David did when he had need? When he had need? Did
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  you hear that God is a compassionate god? When he had need? What
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  was the need? And had hungered. God is a compassionate God, and
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  hungered he and they that were with him. How he went into the house
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  of God in the days of Abiathar, the high priest, and did eat
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  the show bread, which it was not lawful to eat, but for the
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  priests. And he gave also to them which were with him, And he
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  said unto them, the Sabbath was made for man, meaning humans, for
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  the service of humans, by the way God created, created the heavens and
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  the earth, the see and all that in the z And He rested on
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  the Sabbath day so that we could we could rest in God, so that
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  we could experience God in the fullness, not so that we could have more
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  rules of burden on the Sabbath. I have been in religious organizational structures where
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  it where it was burdensome to serve God. I have been in situations where
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  people who said that we were purveyors of truth and tea, teaching God's word
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  and that we cared for the people made it more burdensome on the people on
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  Sabbath and made it difficult to keep the Sabbath holy. And we say that
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  the seventh day is the Sabbath, and we say that as as though nobody
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  else in the world knows it. Sometimes and we say the true words that
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  the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Holy the Lord Die God. And
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  then and then on the Sabbath we we backbite more. On the Sabbath,
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  we we lay extra burdens. Sometimes God's people, I'm talking about I'm not
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  talking about world people. God's people sometimes lay heavier burdens on the backs of
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  people on the Sabbath and make things more rigid and painful on the Sabbath.
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  And Jesus was dealing with that when he said that the Son of Man,
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  he's the one that gave you what the Sabbath is. So why don't you
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  just listen to like listen to Jesus, Like what the sabbath means is in
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  Jesus's bosom, like he he's teaching you the spirituality of the law. He
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  is also verse twenty eight. Therefore, the Son of Man is lord also
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  of the Sabbath. Let's go to Mark chapter three, verses one through six.
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  And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man with
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  a withered hand, and they watched him whether he would heal him. On
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  the Sabbath day. Wait a minute, what whether he would heal him on
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  the Sabbath day? When should a person be healed? Like, when should
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  they be healed? They should be healed when they need healing. Can I
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  just say that again? Like this is the big question, It's the big
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  pink elephant in the room. When should a person be healed whenever they need
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  healing? Is it in the middle of the night and they need healing and
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  God is present to heal and he heals him in the middle of the night.
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  Is it early morning or in the middle of me saying what I'm saying
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  right here at eight minutes after the hour? Like, is it time to
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  heal people Jesus if somebody needs healing? Yeah? Yeah. Is it Sabbath?
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  Yes? Is it the beginning of Sabbath at the moment that you are
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  opening the Sabbath? Yes? Yes, is the answer. Because God is
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  a compassionate God. And they watched to see if he would do it,
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  and they wanted to accuse him verse three, And He said, unto the
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  man which had a withered hand, come on stand forth. While they want
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  to argue, while they want to have controversy, while they want to make
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  up all kind of foolish discussion. Jesus says, stand forth, Come on,
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  come on, stand forth. And he said, unto them, is
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  it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days? Or to do evil?
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  To save or to kill? That they held their peace. You know why
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  they held their peace because they had nothing to say. There was no excuse
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  for them. They were willing to have an argument about whether to heal a
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  person, whether to give life to a person, to restore and deliver a
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  person, than to actually deliver. They wanted to hold a meeting about the
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  work of God, rather than to do the work of God. I wish
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  I had the time, And the Bible says verse five. And when he
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  had looked around about them with anger, you want you wonder why I'm passionate
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  here. I have a lot of stories brothers and sisters. He looked round
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  about them with anger, but being grieved for the hardness of their hearts.
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  And he said, unto the man, stretch forth thy hand. And he
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  stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
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  And the Pharisees went forth, looks like they didn't they didn't get anything out
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  of this. They went forth and straightway, took counsel with the Herodians against
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  him. How they might destroy him? What Jesus was there to heal and
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  they're trying to kill Jesus. What in the world. Make it a great
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  day. Thanks for joining us listening to 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,