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08 30 2024 Living to Give · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, August thirty,
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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 living to Give, Living to Give. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say, well, welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning again, Good morning. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for all of the people that you have brought
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  Speaker 2: on these platforms all around the world. I'm asking you
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  Speaker 2: please to transform all of our minds, transform their minds,
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  Speaker 2: and people who are contemplating continuing in sin or to
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  Speaker 2: serve you, help them to choose to serve you. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to serve you with everything that we have. Live
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  Speaker 2: to give according to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Living to give, living to give.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to enjoy a really really invigorating and
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  Speaker 2: and really telling fascinating discussion, I want you to look
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  Speaker 2: up symbiosis or symbiosis s Y M B I O
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  Speaker 2: S I S I think that's how it's spelt, or
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  Speaker 2: look up or look up the Amazon. The Amazon. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about Amazon dot Com. I'm talking about I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about the place on planet Earth called the Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: And see how all of what happens inside of the Amazon,
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  Speaker 2: that ecosystem in nature, how each of the creatures, each
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  Speaker 2: of the things in plant life how things related to
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  Speaker 2: water systems and everything else is symbiotic, meaning they have
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  Speaker 2: relationships where they are living to give. Every part of
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  Speaker 2: the system is giving to every or other parts of
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  Speaker 2: the system. And I like it because it shows us
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  Speaker 2: that God intended for us not to be solitary, not
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  Speaker 2: to be by ourselves, not to just have life pass by,
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  Speaker 2: not to be selfish. Oh, I think I'm getting somewhere now.
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  Speaker 2: God intends for us to live and give like God does. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me begin by reading I think it's starting to
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  Speaker 2: settle in from the book titled The Desire of Ages.
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  Speaker 2: The Desire of Ages, I will read from page five
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty four directly out of the lesson, and
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  Speaker 2: it reads Christ's act in cursing the tree, which his
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  Speaker 2: own power had created, stands as a warning. And I
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  Speaker 2: know that there are times that we believers don't like warning.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't like how that feels. We feel like
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  Speaker 2: that somebody is spying on us and looking for a
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  Speaker 2: way to condemn us. That is not true. There are
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  Speaker 2: times that we are on the precipice, on the edge
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  Speaker 2: of something very destructive in our lives, and God has
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  Speaker 2: to sound an alarm. He has to sound an alarm
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  Speaker 2: and say danger, like you are on the wrong track.
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  Speaker 2: And if you continue along that pathway and don't turn
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  Speaker 2: around or repent, then you are going to self destruct.
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  Speaker 2: You will destroy yourself. So God is giving us a
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  Speaker 2: warning in this discussion about what happened when he cursed
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  Speaker 2: the fig tree. This is a warning to all churches
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  Speaker 2: and to all believers. Not one can live the law
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  Speaker 2: of God without ministering to others. That's why I gave
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  Speaker 2: you that whole discussion about living in order to give
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  Speaker 2: Let me read that again. No one, not one of us,
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  Speaker 2: can live the law of God without ministering to others.
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  Speaker 2: Remember yesterday we said that the second and great commandment
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  Speaker 2: is like unto the greatest commandment of all, it's miraculous,
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  Speaker 2: and it's to love our neighbors as ourselves miraculously and
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  Speaker 2: the fact that God has to empower us to love
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  Speaker 2: Him with everything we have and everything we are. And
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  Speaker 2: that is the first and great commandments, or the greatest commandment.
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  Speaker 2: And then the second, which is like unto it is
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  Speaker 2: to love others as we love ourselves. Well well, to
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  Speaker 2: love others as we love ourselves is to minister to
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  Speaker 2: them it's to minister to them. It is to give
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  Speaker 2: what we can give for the benefit of their well being.
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  Speaker 2: I said, what we can give, we don't worry about
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  Speaker 2: what we cannot give. If we're in a symbiotic relationship. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to look about the Amazon them on when
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  Speaker 2: you have an opportunity and see like there are creatures
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  Speaker 2: that serve other creatures in certain way. So God, according
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  Speaker 2: to your gifts, can have you to serve people, not
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  Speaker 2: with who you're not, but with who you are. And
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  Speaker 2: then let me continue the reading. But there are many
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  Speaker 2: who do not live out Christ's merciful, unselfish life. Some
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  Speaker 2: who think themselves excellent Christians do not understand what constitutes
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  Speaker 2: service for God. They plan and study to please themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They act only in reference to self. Time is of
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  Speaker 2: value to them only as they can gather for themselves
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  Speaker 2: in all the affairs of life. This is their object,
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  Speaker 2: not for others, but for themselves. Do they minister? Oh
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, wait a minute, you just said not
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  Speaker 2: for them, not for others, but for themselves. They do minister? Well,
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  Speaker 2: is that ministry really?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes people feed the homeless in order to make themselves
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  Speaker 2: either look big or feel good. Sometimes people do it
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  Speaker 2: only so that they can receive some benefit. I said,
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  Speaker 2: only only to receive or derive some benefit from a
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  Speaker 2: government entity. If I give this so much of my
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  Speaker 2: material resources, then this will be the outcome. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying that we should not benefit from those things
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  Speaker 2: that the tax code does provide. But what I am
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  Speaker 2: saying is that there are some people who only do
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  Speaker 2: it in order to receive that benefit. That is their
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  Speaker 2: only purpose. Remove that benefit, and they would not be
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  Speaker 2: of service in that way. And so there are people
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  Speaker 2: who speak and preach and teach the Word like I
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  Speaker 2: do every single day of my life, every single day
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  Speaker 2: for many years. I've been teaching this Word of God
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. And some people who do what
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing right now do it so that we can
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  Speaker 2: fill in the blank something that has to do with
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  Speaker 2: ourselves feel a certain way, be seen by others a
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  Speaker 2: certain way. Sometimes even God forbid, people are preaching and teaching,
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  Speaker 2: quote the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to gain
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  Speaker 2: brownie points or somehow recommend ourselves to God, as if
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  Speaker 2: God now has to give us some kind of a reward.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible is teaching us and this writing here
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  Speaker 2: in the book Desire of Ages is teaching us that
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  Speaker 2: we need to be transformed by God. We need to
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  Speaker 2: be converted by God, so that when we are serving
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  Speaker 2: or ministering, we are only serving and ministering because we
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  Speaker 2: want to be a blessing to people under God. We
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  Speaker 2: want them to be transformed, and so we are just
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  Speaker 2: doing whatever it is that we can do so that
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  Speaker 2: they can be benefited. God created, continuing the quote, them
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  Speaker 2: to live in a world where unselfish service must be performed.
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  Speaker 2: He designed them to help their fellowmen and every in
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  Speaker 2: every possible way. But self is so large that they
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  Speaker 2: cannot see anything else. They are not in touch with humanity.
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  Speaker 2: Those who thus live for self are like the fig tree,
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  Speaker 2: which made every pretension, but it was fruitless. They observed
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  Speaker 2: the forms of worship, but without repentance or faith in profession.
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  Speaker 2: They honor the law of God, but obedience is lacking.
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  Speaker 2: They say, but do not, They say, but do not?
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus is giving us the opportunity today to
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  Speaker 2: observe how he lived and then live in order to
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  Speaker 2: give under the strength of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,