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06 29 2024 The Beginning of the Gospel · 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 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 Sabbath, June twenty nine, twenty twenty four. 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 beginning our new Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Mark, and our caption for today is the beginning of the Gospel,
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  the beginning of the Gospel. Now, let me just tell you if you've
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  never been here before, first of all, let me welcome you. But
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  for those who have been with me for years and years, every time we
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  start a new twelve week study, I get a little bit confused about which
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  study we're doing, and I got it right this morning. But when I
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  mess up and say that we're talking about the great controversy again, just give
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  me a little grace. Right. It takes me about a week to get
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  it right. But we are in the Bible, Book of Mark, and
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  our caption for today, the Sabbath morning is the beginning of the Gospel,
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  the beginning of the Gospel. Before I begin with prayer, I'd like to
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  welcome you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com join
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  our online community. This is where you can ask your questions and share your
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  comments regarding the Lesson study. Not just everything in the Bible, but the
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  Lesson study, and it's one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Bather and Heaven, thank you for this new Sabbath morning that you have
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  given us. Thank You for allowing us to come into this truth of the
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  Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's the power of God unto salvation to those of
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  us who believe. I pray God that we will actually believe and live like
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  we do in Jesus name. I pray Amen and amen again the beginning of
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  the Gospel. Ah, I can't wait. We're gonna have a good time
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  for the next twelve weeks. If the Lord spaars life. Let's go ahead
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  and begin with the memory text. I don't call it that like I should,
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  so you can remember to remember it, right, the memory text.
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  Memorize it. That's what the intent is. And it comes from the Bible
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  Book of Mark, chapter one and verses fourteen and fifteen from the New King
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  James version of the Bible. The Bible reads, now, after John was
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  put in prison, this is John the Baptist. Jesus came to Galilee preaching
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  the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and saying, the time is fulfilled.
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  And immediately you should be asking yourself, okay, i't I'm reading this the
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  time is fulfilled? Well, what time is fulfilled? And the Kingdom of
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  God is at hand? Repent, that is, accept godly sorrow for sin
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  in your own life, and accept God's power to make an about turn or
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  a rite about turn or about face and turn away from sin. So godly
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  sorrow for sin and a turning away from it. Repent and believe in the
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  Gospel. That is, believe in God's power to save you, to save
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  me through Jesus's ministry. He lived a perfect life on planet Earth before us.
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  Yes, under the power of the Holy Spirit, he submitted his will
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  fully to God. Yes, he was victorious over every temptation that the devil
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  could throw at him, lust of the flesh, lust of the pride of
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  life. He succeeded in this human form. And then he gave his life
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  in place of us, so that we don't have to die. We don't
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  have to die, brothers and sisters. Last quarter we talked about two eternities.
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  We talked about the eternal death penalty for those who hate love, those
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  who decided that they did not want to serve God. They did not want
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  to be in eternity with God in the bliss of holy relationship and limit less
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  understanding. They didn't want that. Well, the Bible is telling us here
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  that Jesus Christ gave his life so that we could be covered in his righteousness,
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  turn away from sin, and then we could live throughout the ceaseless ages
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  of eternity, repent and believe in the Gospel. Well, what is the
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  time that is fulfilled? I am so glad you asked the time is prophetic,
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  prophetically, Yes, there were the prophets foretold when Messiah would show up.
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  In Daniel, the Book of Daniel, the Bible teaches that there was
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  a time when when Messiah the Prince would appear. And it's like, no,
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  is that is that? Is that? It is that his birth?
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  No, I'm stuttering today, I'm stammering, is that his birth? No,
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  when he appears, when the Messiah appears, Messiah anointed one, When
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  he appears as the anointed one. That is when Jesus Christ was baptized in
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  the Jordan River, and you hear the voice of God, our Father,
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  saying, this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased,
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  just like the prophecies foretold. And the Holy Spirit comes in bodily formed like
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  as a dove, and lights upon Jesus Christ while he, Jesus is in
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  the Jordan River, coming up out of the water, having been fully immersed
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  and baptized, coming up out of the water symbolizing victory, symbolizing coming up
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  out of death, being able to live for God. When that happens,
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  that time is fulfilled. Now we know, and knowing is just half the
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  battle. I got that out of something. The people my age would understand
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  where I got that from. And so now we know that the time is
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  fulfilled, and we are about to begin to see the work of God in
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  the Gospel, in the Gospel to save us all that he went through in
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  order to bring us into a right relationship with him, I thank God.
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  And so the writer here, John Mark, now we know his full name.
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  That's not to be confused with John the one who took care of Jesus's
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  mother after Jesus was on the cross, right, Not him, Not John
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  the Baptist. This is John Mark, a sometime traveling companion of Paul and
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  Barnabas. So there was a big blow up about John Mark when he was
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  fearful at a certain time, and Paul was like, you know what,
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  brouh Like, we can't work together right now because I'm running full steam ahead
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  and you're kind of iffing and button so I can't. I can't work with
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  you right now. And then of course something happens, and eventually Paul says,
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  John Mark is all together profitable, like he is okay with me.
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  It's just that during that time John Mark and Paul couldn't work together, right
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  And so this same John Mark, a sometime traveling companion of Paul and Barnabas
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  and later an associate of Peter. This is who we're talking about now.
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  This is the one who's writing here. The first step in this week will
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  be to learn about Mark as reported in scripture, to see his early failure
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  and eventual recovery. Remember, this dude is a Bible writer. He's writing
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  in the scriptures. That means he is saved. That means we will meet
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  him in eternity. Yes, but he failed, he failed at some points
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  of his life. Just ask you a simple question, have you ever failed?
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  Have you ever failed at anything in life? Now, let me ask
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  you another question, have you ever failed at anything big? Spiritually? Where
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  you drop the ball spiritually? And there were incredible implications like Abraham who dropped
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  the ball. He listened to Sarah. He then made Hagar his other wife.
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  They had a child. And now you have this conflict in the house,
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  You have this conflict between the suns. And in twenty twenty four,
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  on the twenty ninth day, this Sabbath morning, there are people right now
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  who are warring because of Abraham's failure. Have you ever failed and anything big
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  spiritually. The Bible says that we can recover from that. And I just
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  want to ask while you're contemplating that, I'm thankful that God has given us
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  this insight. I want to know, like how overcoming failure is illustrated in
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  the Book of Mark any places. But now I want you to just do
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  some discovery. I want you to go through the Gospel Book of Marks and
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  see how people were able to overcome failure so many places, different places.
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  I planned to share some Peter denied Christ three times he overcame failure m hm.
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  In Mark chapter five, the Bible says that that somebody overcame a lack
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  or a weakness of faith, Yes, and so forth. I want you
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  to go through and see where people overcame failure in the Gospel Book of Mark,
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  and keep a note of it. We'll come back to it. Make
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  it a great Sabbath, beeast. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with E.
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  L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,