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07 13 2024 Controversies · 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 thirteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El 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 in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,
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  and our caption for today is controversies. Huh, controversies? Have you
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  ever been in a controversy before? We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  But first I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking you to please go
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  over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please pick up your Daily Portion book
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  at the appropriate time. Also, let us know where you are in the
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  world at your Daily Portion dot com. I neglected to say to join our
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  online community. I'm literally thumbing through some people who joined just a while ago,
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  and I'm looking at them and I'm going to go ahead and hit the
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  approve button. Yep, approve button there it is approve all and this is
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  one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  ahead and pray and get underwigh, Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving
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  us the opportunity to open up your word this Sabbath morning. Thank you for
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  giving us your word. And I'm asking you now to help us to see
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  the way that you see. Help us to hear and experience like you hear
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  in experience, at least within our sphere as humans. Please help us to
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  serve you with our whole hearts and Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. Controversies, let me just say that there are some people that
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  just love controversy. Some people are cantankerous and just love controversy. Some people
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  just love to start, as we would say in Jamaica and Jamaica olipa argument
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  just want to just come miserable and constantly looking for contention. But what God
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  is saying to us is, if you're going to have a controversy, have
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  that controversy with the devil. Like, if you want to have a controversy,
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  let the enmity that God put between us and the devil, let that
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  stand, like we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and
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  against powers, and against the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high
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  places. Like, if you want to have a controversy, controversy, have
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  your controversy with the devil under God. Though of course, let God deal
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  with that. But don't don't don't stir up. Don't stir up controversy among
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  people, bro Like, sister, don't stir up controversy on planet Earth with
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  people. Okay, yeah, it's a whole soapbox for me, But let
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  me go ahead and read. Let me go ahead and read from people.
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  Read based on something that you know, people were doing when Jesus was on
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  planet Earth about the Sabbath, and Jesus had to respond because these people just
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  had It's always something, there's always something, And so now in my frustration,
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  I read the Bible, Book of Mark, chapter two, beginning at
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  verse twenty seven, and the Bible reads, and he set unto them the
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  Sabbath was made for man, meaning humans, and not humans for the Sabbath.
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  So where goal is not to serve as some slave. We're not slaves
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  serving a twenty four hour period of time. We're not slaves looking for unnecessary
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  and difficult rules to somehow bend the backs of people and beat them because the
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  Sabbath somehow is an arduous, difficult time in space. No, and so
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  he said unto them, the Sabbath was made for man, and not man
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  for the Sabbath. Therefore, the son of Man is also the lord of
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  the Sabbath. Can I just say that again? Therefore the son of Man
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  is lord also of the Sabbath, is also lord of the Sabbath. So
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  why would you try to start an argument with the one who is the lord
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  of the Sabbath. It's the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Like if
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  you have Jesus Christ here on planet Earth, why would you want to start
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  an argument with him about what he created? What the Bible says that on
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  this seventh day he rested, he wrested from what he had created and made
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  and blessed and sanctified and made it holy. Like he blessed it, he
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  rested on it, and he made it holy. So how in the world
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  can you talk to the one who did that? How can you talk to
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  him and tell him how this is supposed to go? That doesn't even make
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  sense. So, like I said, there are some people who just live
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  for controversy. How can you have controversy with the creator of life, the
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  creator in this case of the Sabbath. Well, during the days coming now
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  Sunday through Friday, we are going to look through different parts of the Book
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  of Mark and learn some lessons. I want to give a few lessons that
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  may intersect with some of what we'll talk about over the next coming few days,
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  and some also some different and new ideas not necessarily related. But we're
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  in the Book of Mark in the same chapter chapter two, verse one,
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  straight through to chapter three and verse six, and I just want to give
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  five lessons that I'm picking up in those passages. Okay, in the Book
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  of Mark, chapter two, the Book of Mark, chapter two, we
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  see a man who is paralyzed and inspiration says that it was based on some
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  things that he had done to himself. And now he has four faithful friends
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  who take him into the presence of God, meaning Jesus, while he's preaching
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  in a home, and there was no way for him to get in the
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  normal way, And so those men took him up to the top of the
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  house, pulled up the tiles or whatever it is that or whatever how it
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  was, and let him down right in front of Jesus like they skipped the
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  line. And so Jesus basically says, when he sees him, he says,
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  son, thy sins are forgiven. And the haters, the ones who
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  loved controversy, the cantankerous and miserable ones that I mentioned, wicked minded men,
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  they said, well, who can forgive sins? But God only.
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  They're in the presence of Jesus, like they know who he is. Even
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  the devils know who he is. We talked about that the other day yesterday.
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  But the Bible says that Jesus had to deal with them, and he
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  said, at the end of all of this, and he is now healing
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  the man. He said, but that ye may know verse ten of Mark
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  chapter two, that the son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
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  He said to the sick of the palsy, I say, unto thee
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  arise, take up thy bed and go thy way into Thine house. And
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  so Jesus shows them that he has the power to forgive sins. And he
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  showed them in a way. He showed them in a way that they could
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  understand if they were willing. And so I thank God that he ended that
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  controversy right there. And of course, or on the Sabbath on healing on
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  the Sabbath in Mark chapter three and verse four, and it says, and
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  he said, unto them, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath
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  days? Or to do evil to save life or to kill? But they
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  held their peace. So there's this big discussion if he's supposed to heal somebody,
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  to set somebody free, like to heal somebody of a disease, to
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  have compassion on them. And they're saying it's not lawful to heal on the
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  Sabbath, and he's like, hold a hold on, hold up, pause,
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  hold on for a moment, hold on for a moment. Is it
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  lawful to moment? Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath? So
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  are you trying to say that you would watch somebody in pain. You would
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  watch somebody imperiled, someone in danger, someone who needs to needs deliverance,
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  someone who needs healing. You would watch them remain that way and say,
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  Okay, let me wait until a boy. I hope they make it.
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  I hope they make it until sun's because at sunset then I can do something.
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  Come on now, So Jesus ends that controversy right there. Let me
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  continue. I'm all in my feelings. I'm all in my feelings. Let's
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  go. Let's go to the old wine skins here new wine skins, excuse
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  me. In Mark chapter two and verse twenty two, he says, and
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  no man put a new wine in old bottles, else the new wine would
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  burst the bottles and the wine would be spilt, and the bottles would be
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  marred. But the new wine must be put into new bottles. The bottom
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  line of this is some of us are so rigid that when God pours into
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  us, it doesn't work. We need to be pliable and receptive. Thank
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  it a great day, Thanks for joining us listening to 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,