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10 21 2023 Sharing God’s Mission · 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 Sabbath, October twenty one, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is Elle 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 is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series now with Lesson number
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  four. The the series God's Mission, My mission and our caption for today
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  is sharing God's Mission. Can I just give God thanks for just a moment?
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  I seldom look back, And You're like, Dave, what do you
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  mean by look back? Like? People say, how many of this have
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  you done? How many books have you published? How many times have you
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  done X? And I'm like, I don't keep track of that kind of
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  stuff real talk, but I look back. I took the time to look
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  back on this Your Daily Portion program. Just the Your Daily Portion program.
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  We are at like episode sixteen hundred and something. We're pushing seventeen hundred episodes.
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  That means every single day, just with Your Daily Portion, God has
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  given us the strength to come every single day to give God's word. And
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  before that on another program, thousands more episodes, thousands more days. What
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  does that mean? God is so good? Well, how good is he?
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  He's so good that if we will just dedicate ourselves, brothers and sisters.
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  You can see it here. If you will just dedicate yourself to God's
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  mission, he will strengthen you and He will give you what you need in
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  order to accomplish the mission. Where you are, whatever it is. You
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  may not be into radios, televisions, microphones and all that kind of stuff.
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  But whatever God has called you to do, I implore you to trust
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  him and he will do it for you. Come what may. Let's go
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  ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
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  you for giving us this new Sabbath and the privilege to share in your mission.
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  Help us to do just that. Share in your mission and not create
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  one for ourselves. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.
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  Sharing God's mission. Now, I was thinking about this one heavily. God
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  demonstrated his mission. I said, God demonstrated his mission. So he's given
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  us the blueprint. He demonstrated his mission by sending his son. Right.
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  So when we're sharing in God's mission, we have to think, okay,
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  well, where does Jesus come into this equation? What is my part in
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  this mission? Right? So now we can see how God moves because he
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  loved the world so much that he gave us his only begotten son. Yes,
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  the Bible teaches us him being the only begotten, he's the one of
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  a kind son like he is unusual, he is one hundred percent God,
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  he's one hundred percent human. And all of this mystery of Godliness was wound
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  up together, all of heaven in one gift in order to lead us into
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  a right relationship with him. So, if we're sharing in God's mission like
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  that is our perspective. Whatever we need to do, whatever sacrifice we need
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  to make, whatever we need to yield, that is all for the mission.
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  We'll come back to that in just a moment. Let's read now,
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  beginning in the Book of John. The Book of John, chapter thirteen.
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  Will begin reading at verse thirty four John, chapter thirteen, and I will
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  read, beginning at verse thirty four. Something very interesting here. A new
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  commandment I give to you. This is Jesus speaking that you love one another.
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  And I'm thinking, well, why did Jesus call that commandment new?
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  I'm coming back to that as I have loved you. This is something that
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  I missed before, that you also love one another. And you're like,
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  Dave, it's right there, what do you mean by you missed it before?
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  Jesus loves us? Right? Okay, yeah, you keep that thought
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  for a moment. Continuing by this, all will know that you are my
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  disciples if you have love one for another. And so at first I'm thinking,
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  well, why in the world did Jesus say this is a new commandment?
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  And many times I have rehearsed and taught and it is true indeed,
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  but I still missed something that the reason Jesus said this this is a new
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  commandment is because it's because like the people really didn't love like Jesus love like
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  the people did not. The people did not come up to the standard,
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  and so to the people it was new. And I thought, wow,
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  that's an amazing thought. Well that's true, but there is more right as
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  I I underscored this in my lesson and read as I have loved you,
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  this is a standard, this is a measure, This is a metric,
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  so to speak to let us know what kind or what brand of love this
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  is. And I wrote in my notes the world has never underscore, underscore,
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  underscore, seen this kind of love before. Why not? Because Jesus
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  wasn't the Messiah in our eyes yet the world had not seen him born of
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  a woman prophesied the word prophesiede of this. But when we actually truly saw
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  Jesus Christ born into human flesh, being one hundred percent God the Sun,
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  and then taking on humanity after four thousand years of degradation, we've never seen.
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  For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. We had
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  never seen this brand of love before. So when he says loves as I
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  have loved, see, the Bible does teach in Leviticus chapter nineteen. We
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  often go into the New Testament for this, But nineteen verse eighteen, thou
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  shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, But
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  thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. I am the Lord. So this
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  is not new intellectually, it's not new principally. But in practical terms,
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  we are seeing something we have never seen before. But let me tell you
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  what the Seven day Aventist Bible commentary says. The command was new in that
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  the demonstration had been given of love, which the disciples were now bidden to
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  emulate. By his revelation of his father's character, Jesus had opened to humans
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  or men, a new concept of God's love. This is a new revelation
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  of God's character. Brothers and sisters. The new command and joined men to
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  preserve the same relationship with one another that Jesus cultivated with them and mankind generally.
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  Where the old commandment enjoined men to love their neighbors as theirselves, the
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  new commandment urged them to love as Jesus had loved. We've never seen this
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  before until Jesus was manifest in the flesh right. The new was in fact
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  more difficult than the old but great, for this accomplishment was freely provided.
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  We had never seen God in the flesh smitten by people he was saving.
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  We never saw God in the flesh giving his life a ransom for many.
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  We had never seen where people who were supposed to love him rejected him.
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  We've never seen this brand of love God coming into human flesh to save his
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  people from our sins. And so when God says to love as I have
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  loved you, now we're taking it to a new level. But it's not
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  for us to try to do it in our own strength. From the start,
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  as the lesson writer says in these closing moments here, Abraham wanted to
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  be used by God for mission. This truth can be seen, for example,
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  in Genesis chapter eighteen, when God warned him about what was going to
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  happen to Sodom and Gomorrah. Surely, the Bible teaches us, the Lord
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  does nothing, and I'll say important, except he reveal it first, or
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  this secret unto his servants the prophets. That's from the Book of Amos,
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  chapter three and verse seven. And in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah,
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  his servant God's servant was Abraham. Was Abraham. So the Father, God,
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  our Father, sent Jesus the Son to save the world from destruction.
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  Old Abe, like Abraham, was a microcosm of that. He was a
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  symbol or a type of that, because God gave him, Abraham the opportunity
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  to intervene, intercede to keep the people from being destroyed in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  Long story we'll get into as the days come on. Every wonderful day,
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,