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07 24 2024 Lamp and Measuring Basket · 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 Wednesday, July twenty four, twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of Mark
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  and our caption for today is lamp and measuring basket. And you're like,
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  what is that about. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  before we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,
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  pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let us know where you are
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  in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank you for
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  giving us this new day and for the privilege we have to be a light
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  in this wicked and perverse generation to be able to reflect You into this world.
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  Please, Lord, teach us how to surrender our will so we can
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  be the best representatives of You as we can. In Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and a men again. Lamp and measuring basket. Okay,
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  so I'm going to just jump right into the passage from the Bible Book of
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  Mark chapter four, and I will read beginning at verse twenty three, and
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  this will give us the baseline for our discussion today. Okay, so the
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  focus here is beginning at verse twenty one. He also said to them,
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  a lamp is not brought to be put under a basket or under a bed,
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  is it? Did you get that? That was simple, wasn't it?
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  A lamp was not brought to put under a basket or under a bed.
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  So what is the primary purpose of a lamp? Y'all? Just really
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  quickly. What is the primary purpose of a lamp or a light? Okay,
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  to give light to those who are in the house, the room,
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  wherever you happen to be. Okay, isn't it to be placed on a
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  lamp stand? For nothing is hidden except it to be revealed, and nothing
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  concealed except to be brought to light. If anyone has ears to hear,
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  let him here. So what we're going to do is share a few takeaways
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  that will help us understand. First of all, the visibility of the gospel.
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  See, God has not intended for us to receive from him and then
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  hold it and keep it to ourselves. He said, freely, ye have
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  received, freely give. And so when God opens your eyes, when God
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  gives you the light of the truth concerning Christ, when God shows you the
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  way to righteousness, he wants it to be like a lamp. He wants
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  people to see. Wait a minute, it's dark all around me, but
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  there is a light over there. Jesus said it this way. He said,
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  let your light so shine before people, before men, that when they
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  see your good works, they will glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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  So the visibility of the gospel is that we are not concealing our faith.
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  We're not concealing our connection with God. Because there are people who are
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  bound to certain habits. They don't know how to be free from different habits
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  related to sexual sin. Right, you have a habit of having too many
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  women. You may have a habit of having too many men. You may
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  have a habit of taking illicit drugs, and you're bound to that habit.
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  You may have a habit to drink from the rum bottle and you get drunk
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  on a regular basis, and it's like, God, how do I get
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  out of this situation? You have a habit God forbid of gossiping, of
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  lying, a habit of turning your mind away from God when you're going through
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  challenges and turn your mind towards something that is sinful because it makes you feel
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  better. You see. And so God is saying, everybody who has learned
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  to surrender your will to Me have now become ambassadors with bright lights, who
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  are bright lights shining in the dark place. So people can say, oh,
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  wait a minute, that brother, that sister has learned to connect with
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  God and to be delivered from these things, and that must mean that I
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  can be two okay, And so we go to verse twenty two again.
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  Let's read it again. For there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested.
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  Neither is anything kept secret that it should not, that it should come
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  abroad. Let me read it in another version. For nothing is hidden except
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  to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light. So
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  there is a revelation of truth, revelation of truth, just like we see
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  in the Book of Revelation and Daniel. The Bible says, seal up the
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  vision until the end, or until the appropriate time. And the Revelation says,
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  now that we are to speak the vision, preach the vis teach the
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  vision, open it up before the people, because the time is at hand.
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  The time for what the time for the revelation of truth. So the
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  messages is that nothing hidden will remain, so that all will be disclosed.
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  Reflects the ultimate revelation of truth, encouraging transparency. Did you get that word?
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  Transparency in our actions and honesty in our dealings. Another lesson responsibility of
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  reception. So when God opens up the truth to us, than we are
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  to what receive it. I don't mean see it, I don't mean identify
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  that it is. It is in existence. I'm saying that when God brings
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  the light of truth to us, we get to open up our arms and
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  begin to enfold within us and embrace, embrace the truth or the life that
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  God has given to us. The way we measure or give in our interactions,
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  whether it is kindness, judgment, or forgiveness, will determine will determine
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  what we receive in return. And so if you're kind to others, then
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  God will return kindness to you. If you're forgiving toward others, especially those
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  that you find it difficult to forgive, God is going to give you forgiveness.
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  And so when God gives us things, this principle teaches us the importance
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  of generosity in sharing with others and grace ah the willingness for us to allow
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  people to grow, the ability for us to see when somebody is not quite
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  there in terms of how they relate to us. But say, you know
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  what, God is going to work with them, and I'm going to work
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  with them as well. And then we go with generosity again from verse twenty
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  five. For he that hath now, let me read it this way.
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  For whosoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even
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  that he has will be taken from him. And so when God gives us
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  a gift, it's one gift, it's ten gifts, it's one hundred gifts.
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  If we use them according to what God would want us to do,
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  then he'll multiply those things. If you're kind, he'll multiply your kindness.
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  If you're able to sing for His glory and you do, then he'll multiply
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  your reach. He'll multiply the favor that you find when you're singing. He'll
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  multiply your skill and ability. Yes, but what if we withhold forgiveness,
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  then the little forgiveness that we had I just said little, I shouldn't have.
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  Forgiveness that we had will be taken from us. Huh. If he's
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  entrusted financial gain to us, it doesn't matter what the mount is and we
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  don't use it wisely, he'll take away that financial gain and we'll be stuck
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  with status quo. And so what God is saying is that when we receive
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  it and we're generous with it, it will multiply. He will multiply it.
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  And of course God is giving us a warning beginning at verses twenty four
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  and twenty five to say that there is a spiritual risk to ourselves if we
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  receive or see and experience God's word and don't share it abroad. God has
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  given us the ability to become as lights in this wicked and perverse generation.
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  Now what are we going to do with it? And we're going to maximize
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  it or reject it. You'll be the judgment. Peace. Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,