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12 06 2023 Introducing a New God · 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 Wednesday, December six, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's Mission,
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  My Mission, our caption for today is introducing a new God. Introducing
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  a new God. We'll get into that in just the moment, but first
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  I'd like to ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  This is a way that we can continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  Thank you for giving us this new day and for the privilege we have to
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  open up your word again. Please help us to hear from you, experience
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  you in the fullness, and learn to love you. In Jesus' name,
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  I pray Amen and Amen again. Sometimes people like me who teach the Bible
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  like every day or on like some frequent basis, we get concerned, like
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  is the message coming through clearly? Our people actually connect to God. It's
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  easy to talk about him. It's easy to read from the Bible and then
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  say something that sounds fancy, but really and truly, like, what does
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  it take for someone to be connected with God, transformed by God, and
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  then live according to the principles of this saying true and living God, blessed
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  be His name? And so yeah, I struggle with this, but it
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  occurs to me based on this lesson. Today's lesson, it's that God wants
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  us to know Him. And I just say that again, God wants you,
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  brothers and sisters to know Him. When you are sad and feeling lonely.
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  He wants you to know him when you are struggling with the voices of
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  your past, where Daddy or mommy used to say things that really hurt you,
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  or God forbid they neglected to say things that would help you and encourage
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  you. Huh. God wants you to know him even when you're in those
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  strange, difficult situations when you have made mistakes, you have sinned purposely,
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  and then you say, well, how did I get back here? And
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  you're starting to feel sorrow for sin and you want to do right. God
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  wants you to know him. He wants us to seek and find him.
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  The paralytic in Mark chapter two that was carried into the place where Jesus was
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  by four faithful men. Yes, he was found by them. The woman
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  with the issue of blood, He was found by her. The men in
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  I think it's Matthew chapter nine, who are blind. And they said,
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  Jesus, son of David, have mercy on us. And he said,
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  what will you have me to do? And they said that we would receive
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  our site. He wanted them to find him. He wanted them to find
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  him. That means that he positioned himself to be found in this moment,
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  this moment about four minutes now, four minutes into our discussion here, God
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  wants you to find him wherever you happen to be in the world, in
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  whatever situation you're in, if it's a victorious or a defeated situation, if
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  you feel positive or you are feeling deflated, God wants you to know him.
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  And this is the good thing because in Paul's day, he was introducing
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  that God, the one that was not angry somewhere in outer space, looking
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  down for someone to destroy, someone needing to give him food and gifts in
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  order to appease him. They needed to meet the true and living God who
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  created them and wanted to save them. And so from verses twenty four through
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  twenty seven of Acts chapter seventeen, we read God that made the world and
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  all things they're in. So Paul is already making a distinction between who they
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  had, all all those gods, the pantheon of gods, if you want
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  to say lowercase g right. He was distinguishing now between the one who creates,
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  the one who is all intelligent, all powerful, blessed be his name,
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  the one who can be found if we seek after him. He's making
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  a distinction between this God and the false gods. That really are an impediment.
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  They are not an asset. They are a liability because you gotta feed
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  those, you gotta appease those, You gotta, you know, make up
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  arguments to make it make sense for those. And So God that made the
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  world and all things therein, seeing that he is the Lord of heaven and
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  earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands, Oh, like like this
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  one, the areopagus marines hill. No, not like this. Neither is
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  worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything. So all of those
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  gifts that you're giving to those false gods, all of those things you're doing,
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  flagellating, hot dancing, beating yourself, all kinds of rights and passages
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  in order to appease those false gods. God don't need all of that.
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  He doesn't need that, He says, He's neither worshiped with men's hands,
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  as though he needed anything. Seeing he giveth to all life and breath and
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  all things. He's the one that gives. He's the one that pours into
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  In fact, the Bible says that if he were hungry and I think it's
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  Psalm chapter fifty, the Book of Psalms, chapter fifty. If I were
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  hungry, I would not tell you, Huh, the earth is mine.
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  I own the cattle on a thousand hills. Yes, the earth and everything
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  in it is mine, Even you are mine, the Bible says, And
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  then the Bible continues, Uh. And verse twenty six. Hath made of
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  one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of
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  the earth. And hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their
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  habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if happily they might find or
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  feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every
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  one of us. Let me just end right there. So listen when I'm
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  going back to the story of Nebuchadnezzar, when he had the dream and wanted
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  the interpretation, and then he said, tell me the dream and interpret And
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  the men said, the ones who were really trying to pull a wool over
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  his eyes, the false prophets and sorcerers and all of that, they were
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  like. But King, nobody has ever asked such a thing. And by
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  the way, the answer belongeth unto the gods, and the gods don't dwell
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  among people. Oh, but I think that the Bible teaches us hmm,
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  that Jesus his name would be called Immanuel. That being interpreted is God with
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  us. I think that Moses received the command from God that said, have
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  them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. I think that
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  the Bible gives us the example in nebuchad Nezer's same story that when those three
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  young men decided that they would only worship God and not worship him, when
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  he threw them down into that seven times hotter fiery furnace, they walked around
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  loose and freely. And then the one that those soothsayers and whatever else were
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  saying could not connect with us, he was down in there with them.
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  Jesus was walking down in the space where humans are in order to change those
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  same humans, to transform and deliver those humans. This is the God that
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  Paul was introducing, the one God who loves you, the one who cares
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  about when your child skins his or her knee having fallen off their bike,
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  like the one who remembers when you used to be addicted to crack cocaine,
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  the one who remembers when you were in prison, and then when he spoke
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  to you, you decided to give your life to him. The one who
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  in this moment is answering a prayer that you've been praying for years, and
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  you're wondering, how can you see and know me? All the way down
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  here with all of the billions of people on planet Earth. God is the
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  one who has given his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should
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  not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't send his son into the world
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  to condemn the world, but that the world, through him might be saved.
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  It's this God that Paul was introducing. In that case. He gave
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  those people the opportunity to look and choose and live eternally. Are you introducing
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  people to that God? Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,