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08 01 2024 A Different Kind of Messiah · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, August one,
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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 through the Book of Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is a different kind of Messiah, a different
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  Speaker 2: kind of Messiah. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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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 and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new morning and getting us just
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  Speaker 2: one more step closer to the coming and one more
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  Speaker 2: step closer to this Sabbath. I pray now that you
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  Speaker 2: will give us a clear view of who you are
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  Speaker 2: and who Jesus is as Messiah. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: live according to your holy principles. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. A different kind of Messiah now,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say, based on what we will
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  Speaker 2: read in just a moment, that Jesus is the kind
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  Speaker 2: of Messiah that has compassion. He's compassionate, He's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of Messiah that is is caring. He's the one that
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  Speaker 2: provides for us. He's the one that gives us guidance.
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  Speaker 2: He said that he would guide us on the paths
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness. And I'm thankful because not all messiahs and
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  Speaker 2: their quotes have these qualities. MAT just say for a
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  Speaker 2: moment for the people who are just saying, but why
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  Speaker 2: are you talking about there are no other messiahs. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not what Jesus said. He said in Matthew twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: It's recorded in Matthew twenty four that he said that
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  Speaker 2: there will be false Christs and false prophets, so there
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  Speaker 2: will be false messiahs, and those messiahs are not Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: He's compassionate, he's holy, he is caring, He provides for us,
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  Speaker 2: he gives us guidance. But in the context of his day,
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus lived on planet Earth, he was not the
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  Speaker 2: one the kind of messiah for revolt, He was not
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  Speaker 2: the kind of messiah for incursions. He was not the
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  Speaker 2: kind of messiah that would try to overthrow any government. No,
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  Speaker 2: he was compassionate and caring and holy, and he was
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  Speaker 2: our provider and he gave holy guidance. But the people
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  Speaker 2: were so beside themselves when they experienced Messiah, because because
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  Speaker 2: they could not imagine that someone could be like this,
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  Speaker 2: they were beside themselves with amazement. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in Mark chapter six, beginning at verse thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus when he came out, saw much people and
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  Speaker 2: was moved with compassion toward them because they were as sheep,
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  Speaker 2: not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them
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  Speaker 2: many things. And so Jesus didn't try to capitalize on
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  Speaker 2: these people's vulnerability. He did not try to capitalize on
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  Speaker 2: their aimlessness. What happens with the false messiahs, these false christs,
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  Speaker 2: these individuals who are opportunistic. They prey upon people who
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  Speaker 2: seem not to have a right focus or an aim,
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  Speaker 2: and then they make money of them, They make sport
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  Speaker 2: of them. They do all kinds of unmentionable evils toward them,
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  Speaker 2: and use their power and influence to do evil in
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  Speaker 2: the world. But Jesus, he had compassion on them because
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  Speaker 2: he could see their aimlessness verse thirty five. And when
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  Speaker 2: the day was now far spent, his disciples came to
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  Speaker 2: him and said, this is a desert place, and now
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  Speaker 2: the time has far past. Send them away, that they
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  Speaker 2: may go into the country round about, go into the
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  Speaker 2: villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.
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  Speaker 2: And that sounds actually sounds pretty good. Like the disciples
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  Speaker 2: had compassion, like they cared for the people. But Jesus
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  Speaker 2: did something special here, He said something special. Verse thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: He answered and said, unto them, give ye them to eat.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to send them away. He sang to
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  Speaker 2: his disciples, you don't have to send them away. All
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  Speaker 2: that you need you currently have. Whatever you need, you
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  Speaker 2: currently have. What they don't have, anything to eat. What
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  Speaker 2: they need you have, you give them to eat. And
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  Speaker 2: they say, unto him, shall we go and buy two
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  Speaker 2: hundred penny worth of bread and give them all to eat?
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  Speaker 2: And he said, unto them, how many loaves have ye?
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  Speaker 2: Go and see? And when they knew, they say, five
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  Speaker 2: and two fishes. And he commanded them to make them
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  Speaker 2: all sit down in companies upon the green grass. You see,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus had an organized way of providing for his children.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just continue to read verse forty. And they sat
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  Speaker 2: down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. And when
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  Speaker 2: he had taken the five loaves and the two fish,
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  Speaker 2: he looked up to heaven and blessed and break the
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  Speaker 2: loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before them,
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  Speaker 2: and the two fishes divided. He among them all, how
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  Speaker 2: many people did he give these five loaves and fish?
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  Speaker 2: And I want you to be careful here. Let's keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep going. And they all did eat and were filled,
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  Speaker 2: and they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and
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  Speaker 2: of fish. And they that did eat of the loaves
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  Speaker 2: were about five thousand and most of you forget it
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  Speaker 2: says men. It doesn't say five thousand people. Unfortunately, the
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  Speaker 2: women were not counted. Unfortunately, the children were not counted.
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  Speaker 2: So if there were five thousand men and then you
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  Speaker 2: add women, I don't know if all of the men
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  Speaker 2: were connected to women, but just let's just say a
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  Speaker 2: portion of them were. Three thousand of them also had women,
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  Speaker 2: so that would be three thousand plus five thousand, that
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  Speaker 2: would be eight thousand. And let's just say that they
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  Speaker 2: had children. Let's say they had four children, so that's
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  Speaker 2: eight thousand times four. Now you see where we're going
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  Speaker 2: with this. So it was already miraculous when it was
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  Speaker 2: just five thousand men, But now we're talking about tens
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  Speaker 2: of thousands of people, real live humans who were able
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  Speaker 2: to eat because Jesus performed a miracle. Why because he's compassionate,
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  Speaker 2: he's caring, he makes provision, he gives guidance. He's not
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  Speaker 2: going to overthrow any human governments. Not this way, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible continues and straightway. He constrained his disciples
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  Speaker 2: to get in the ship and to go on the
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  Speaker 2: other side. Before onto bethsaida while he sent them away.
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  Speaker 2: He sent away the people, And when he had sent
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  Speaker 2: them away, he departed into a mountain to pray. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine Jesus, the all powerful One blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: is now condescending and living in human form, and he's
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  Speaker 2: showing us that even he, as he lived on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: needed to rely on his father. He couldn't do all
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  Speaker 2: of this work in his own strength as a human.
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  Speaker 2: He needed to be filled with the power of God,
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  Speaker 2: so that when he went out and served, he would
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  Speaker 2: be serving from a fullness and overflow from what he
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  Speaker 2: experienced and received from his father. There is a lesson
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  Speaker 2: here for us. We can only serve as we are
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  Speaker 2: filled by the power of God. The Bible continues. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible continues. And when even was come, the ship was
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of the sea, and he alone on
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  Speaker 2: the land, and he said, unto them toiling and rowing.
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  Speaker 2: He saw them toiling and rowing, and the wind was
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  Speaker 2: contrary unto them. And about the fourth watch of the
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  Speaker 2: night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and
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  Speaker 2: would have passed by them. But when he saw them.
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  Speaker 2: When they saw him walking on the sea, they supposed
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  Speaker 2: that it had been the spirit and cried out, or
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  Speaker 2: all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he talked
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  Speaker 2: with them and said, be of good cheer. It is
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  Speaker 2: I be not afraid. And he went up into them
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  Speaker 2: unto the ship, and the wind ceased. And they were sore,
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  Speaker 2: amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered, for they considered
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  Speaker 2: not the miracle of loaves, or their heart was hardened.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say right here, ha, when they received
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  Speaker 2: Jesus into the ship they arrived at the other side.
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  Speaker 2: Why because he's a different kind of Messiah, compassionate, caring,
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  Speaker 2: giving guidance and provision.
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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,