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07 06 2024 A Day in the Ministry of Jesus · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Sabbath, July sixth, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is Elle 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. This is lesson number two in our Lesson study
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  series in the Book of Mark, and our caption for today is a day
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  in the Ministry of Jesus. I cannot to get into this, but before
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  I do, I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community and
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  let us know where you are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot
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  com this is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and jump in here. Father, thank you for this
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  Sabbath morning and for the privilege you've given us to peer into the life and
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  ministry and work of Jesus Christ. I'm asking you today to please fill us
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  with your holy spirit. Teach us how to love and respect you, teach
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  us how to model the ministry that Jesus lived in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen, and a man again a day in the ministry of Jesus.
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  All right, So what would you have done if God gave you an opportunity
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  to ride along with him? And I know in some cultures or in some
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  languages, you're like, what does that mean? If Jesus gave you an
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  opportunity to be mentored by him? So that if let's just say his day
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  began at three am, and you could have been with him physically I'm talking
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  about in person, to do and experience everything that he did and experience until
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  let's just say his work day ended at nine pm. I'm saying I'm making
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  it up at nine pm. So from three am to nine pm, you
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  are riding along with Jesus and you were able to see and experience everything.
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  What would you do? What would have what would it have been like in
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  a day with Jesus. Now, maybe it didn't go all the way till
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  nine pm, I don't know. Maybe it did start at three am,
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  a great while before day, and maybe it ended at five pm or six
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  pm. But if he said, all right, you are with me until
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  my day ends, and I'm ready to go to bed, what that experience
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  have been like? What would you have seen, what would you have heard?
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  What would you have done if you could have shadowed him and experienced all
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  of that? This is a very interesting discussion. Well, we'll talk about
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  it just a little bit in a moment, but first let me read what
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  the lesson writer says for today. First, coming from the Bible Book of
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  Mark, chapter one and verse seventeen, the Bible reads, then Jesus said
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  to them, follow me, and I will make you fishures of men.
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  And so this is seen as the time that Jesus was beginning his call to
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  his disciples. Jesus is already baptized. Now he's in the public ministry.
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  Now he is really pulling people into that experience. Now that I just described.
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  They're riding along with him like they are with him. He is mentoring
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  them and they will see, learn, experience everything that happens in the life
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  in a day with Jesus, a day in the life with Jesus, until,
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  of course, Jesus moves off the sea three and a half years later.
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  So they are getting the good stuff right. And he's calling them by
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  name, calling them from their vocations or their jobs, calling them from whatever
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  it is that they were doing, and from the people that they were fully
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  attached to. And he says, follow me, and I'm going to give
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  you a job. I'm going to give you a job. That job is
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  fishing for men. Of course, he's speaking to fishermen at the time that
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  knew how to catch fish for whatever the purpose. And he was saying,
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  now, I'm going to show you how to do that for people. I'm
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  going to show you how to bring people into this net, this net of
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  connection with God, this net of salvation through Christ. I'm gonna show you
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  how to bring them into this net to the point that it is so heavy
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  a catch so many people that it'll even break the nets. And you're going
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  to bring them in by my grace into the Kingdom of God. Okay,
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  and so that's the call, the lesson writer says, each gospel introduces the
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  beginning of Jesus's ministry in a particular way. Matthew presents Jesus as calling disciples
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  and then preaching the Sermon on the Bount. Luke tells the story of Jesus's
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  inaugural sermon on the Sabbath in a synagogue in Nazareth. John recounts the calling
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  of some of the early disciples and the wedding at Cana where Jesus performs his
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  first quote sign his first miracle. The Gospel of Mark recounts the calling of
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  four disciples and describes a sabbath in Copernium that follow this sabbath with Jesus,
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  the one that Mark is referencing at the beginning of Mark gives a reader a
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  sense of who Jesus is. It gives us a sense of who Jesus is,
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  and will drill that as we move through the week. In the entire
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  section of this week's lesson, there are a few of his words recorded.
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  A brief call to discipleship, a command to a demon, a plan to
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  visit other locations, and the healing of a leper, with instructions to show
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  himself before a priest to be clean. The emphasis on this action, particularly
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  healing people. The gospel writer likes to use the word immediately. I like
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  that word too, immediately to illustrate the fast action movement of Jesus's ministry.
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  Immediately, and so we will drill that, by God's grace if the Lord
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  spaars life over the next several days. So what I want you to do
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  is just kind of think along with me. Think along with me. And
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  if I had the opportunity to be mentored by Jesus and shadow him, I
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  wrote this in my notes during his ministry, as illustrated from the Bible Book
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  of Mark, what would I learn? Here are a few of the lessons
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  that I would learn as we prepare for what we'll talk about this week.
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  Number one from the Book of Mark, chapter one and verse thirty five.
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  And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went
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  out and departed into a solitary place, and there he prayed, pardon me.
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  And so the first thing that I would learn based on that text is
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  that prayer and solitude is critical to being connected to God and the outcome besides
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  just saying I'm connected with God. I'm connected with God, is that now,
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  as we see in the life of Jesus, we are able to go
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  out and to be of service to people. There are times that people rush
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  out into what we call ministry, We rush out into our jobs, we
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  rush out into our particular things that we do to assess people without first connecting
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  with God. And so Jesus prioritized prayer and connection with his Father so that
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  when the multitudes came, when the different trials came, and all the other
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  challenges came, he was fully charged, ready to face the day in the
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  way that would have made God our father proud of him. So that's our
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  lesson. It's the importance of nurturing a deep and private prayer life. Before
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  we get into all of these other things in ministry. We have to be
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  connected to God ourselves. And then an outgrowth from that comes. In the
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  Book of March, chapter one and verse forty one, and the Bible reads
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  and Jesus was moved with compassion. He put forth his hand and touched him
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  somebody who needed to be delivered, someone who needed to be set free.
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  He touched him and said unto him, I will be thou clean. The
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  man said, if thou will, thou canst make me clean? And Jesus
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  said, because he's filled with compassion, he has that full connection with his
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  Father. Now he's like, yes, my will is for you to be
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  clean. So he simply touched him with the power that God had had the
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  power that he had, he touched him, and he made the man clean.
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  So remain connected to God. Get to him in the morning, and
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  then when you go out into ministry, you will have the power that you
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  need and compassion to be in ministry. Then verse thirty eight, quickly,
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  the Bible says, and he said, unto them, let us go into
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  the next towns, that I may preach there also. For therefore came I
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  fourth. There is an urgency that we receive if we're with Jesus. There
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  is an urgency to go from place to place in the different parts of the
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  world to spread the great news that we don't have to remain like these hopeless
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  sinners. We can be hopeful saints by His grace. Let's continue this Dost.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, peace 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 EL David Harris. Make it
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  a great day, yeah,