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11 27 2023 Naaman · 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 Monday, November twenty seven, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily 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 for today is Namen. We're going to talk about
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  Namen today. I hope you are doing well. Please go over to your
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  your Daily Portion dot com. 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 day
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  and for the privilege we have to encounter you today. Please fill us with
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  your Holy spirit. Help us to learn the lessons from Namen, from the
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  profit from the Little Girl, everything we need to learn in order to serve
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  you better today. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a men again.
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  Namen Namen. All right, well, interesting story, interesting story.
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  Let me set my Bible just right over here. I'm going to play in
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  a moment from my favorite audio book. I just want you to know that
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  this is my favorite one. There are many out there. This one is
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  from Faith Comes by Hearing. I'm going to play Two Kings, Chapter five
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  and several verses from there. But first from the lesson study. Christ died
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  for all, regardless of our background, our wealth, our ethnicity, or
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  status. God cease Leslie draws and all humanity to himself, including those individuals
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  classed among the powerful non believers of the world. And this is straight from
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  the book The Acts of the Apostles, page four hundred and sixteen. Sometimes
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  people make it seem as if just because someone has means or are powerful or
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  influential, there's some kind of negative stigma somehow God is not into them.
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  But what we understand from inspiration and the Bible is that God loves people,
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  just like the songwriter said, more than anything like God loves people. This
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  is why He sent his only begotten son to save us from our sins.
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  And so we're going to begin again from Second Kings Chapter five, beginning at
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  verse one. Faith comes by hearing audio Bible will help us along here Second
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  King's Chapter five. Now Naeman, captain of the host of the King of
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  Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable because by him
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  the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. He was also a mighty man in
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  valor. But he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by
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  companies and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel, a little
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  maid. And she waited on Naeman's wife, and she said, unto her
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  mistress, with God, my Lord, where with the prophet that is in
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  Samaria where he would recover him of his leprosy. Can we just pause right
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  here. So the Bible writer says very clearly that there's this powerful man name
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  named Namin Okay. So we see what his socio economic class or status is.
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  We see based on what his position is that it's also related to not
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  politics, I guess they wouldn't have used it in that term, but to
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  the crown, right to the kingdom. And so this is a good setup.
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  And then it says, but he had leprosy. This is one of
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  the most contagious diseases that people least want. It like that is the one
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  you don't want. It's not a cold, it's not a flu. This
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  is something you literally do not want. You are unclean and very contagious,
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  and it is a messy, skin deteriorating disease, among other things. So
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  he's very powerful, very influential, but he has this problem. He's a
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  leper. And if I had the time, I would identify in scripture where
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  leprosy was often was often used as a symbol of sin, So I am
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  a sinner. It would be like me having leprosy, right, I am
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  the spirit I am a spiritual leper. I am, I am contagious.
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  I am by myself unclean. I am relegated to a colony of unclean people
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  who are destined to separation from God until or unless there is a message to
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  me. And as we have heard already in verse four, uh well,
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  verse three, there is a little girl, a young girl, who says,
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  I know what the antidote is. She has a message and a mission,
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  even though we don't know what her name is. To the man with
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  leprosy. Let's keep going. And one went in and told his lord,
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  saying, that said the maid that is of the land of Israel. And
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  the King of Syria said, t go, and I will send a letter
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  unto the King of Israel. And he departed and took with him ten talents
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  of silver and six thousand pieces of gold and ten changes of raiment. And
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  he brought the letter to the King of Israel, saying, now, and
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  this letter is come unto thee. Behold, I have therewith sent naeman my
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  servant to thee, that thou mayst recover him of his leprosy. And it
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  came to pass when the King of Israel had read the letter, that he
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  rent his clothes and said, am I God to kill and to make alive,
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  that this Manda send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy.
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  Wherefore consider I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
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  And it was so when Elisha, the man of God, had heard
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  that the King of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the
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  king, saying, wherefore hast thou rent them? I close? Let him
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  come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in
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  Israel. So Naeman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood
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  at the door of the house of Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger under
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  him, saying, go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh
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  shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean. But Naeman was wroth
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  and went away, and said, behold, I thought he will surely come
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  out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God,
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  and strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. Are not
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  Abnah and farpar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? May
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  I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away
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  in a rage, and his servants came nearer and spake n to him,
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  and said, my father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great
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  thing, what'st thou not have done it? How much rather than when he
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  says, to the wash and be clean? Then went he down and dipped
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  himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the Man of God,
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  and his flesh came again like under the flesh of a little child,
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  and he was clean. Okay, let me just pause right here. We
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  can read at another time straight through, or you should do on your spare
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  time straight through to verse nineteen. So here is the moral of the story,
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  at least, not the moralists story. So many lessons here. But
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  first of all, no matter what our socio economic class, one thing,
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  God loves us, whether we have little or we have much, God loves
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  us. We are candidates for the kingdom. Why because God loves us.
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  Also. God has positioned this man to see very clearly that even though he
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  has money, even though his boss sends all kinds of treats and trinkets and
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  rewards and all kinds of stuff, that is not adequate to purchase the man's
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  health. I understand what the customs of the day were. But in our
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  understanding now we must know that no matter what we bring as a gift or
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  a sacrifice, it is only by the grace of God that He will deliver
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  us from our sins. And the Bible does show very clearly here that the
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  young woman, that the prophet and others were obedient to the command of God,
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  right the leading of God, so that Namen could be healed. But
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  guess what God did not say to Namin You must dip one time or two
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  times, but seven times in particular, so when God brings a message of
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  healing, we follow it completely, and then we will be delivered from our
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  sin. 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,