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12 05 2025 A Call for True Missionaries · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, December five,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is a call for true missionaries. A call
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  Speaker 2: for true missionaries. Go ahead and type of one in
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  Speaker 2: the chat. If you were confused when you opened up
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  Speaker 2: your Adult Study Guide and then you saw was Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: well yeah, sometimes that happens, but we know that it's
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  Speaker 2: actually Friday. It's actually Friday. Before we get into that
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for the privilege of coming together on
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  Speaker 2: this day of preparation. Please prepare our hearts for the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray a man and a man again. So in
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  Speaker 2: a coaching community, I often say that without mission clarity,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot have missionaries missionaries. So I'm coaching with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of business people and others who run teams, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times people are scattered. I don't mean
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  Speaker 2: necessarily in our group, but I'm saying when you're leading
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  Speaker 2: teams that are scattered, it's often because the mission is
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  Speaker 2: not clear. It's not the only reason, but the mission
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  Speaker 2: is not clear, or sometimes it shifts, and so with
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  Speaker 2: the clarity of mission. Then you have people who are
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  Speaker 2: willing to march in lockstep toward whatever goals are set
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  Speaker 2: based on that mission. Okay. And so when Christ gave
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  Speaker 2: the Great Commission, that was clarity, and he said he
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  Speaker 2: would be with us alway, even to the end of
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  Speaker 2: the earth. And so even in the Old Testament, even
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, God gave us a glimpse of
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  Speaker 2: him doing something very similar. Now, let me go back
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  Speaker 2: a little bit to Hebrews chapter ten and verse one
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  Speaker 2: and make this all make sense. Hebrews chapter ten and
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  Speaker 2: verse one says, for the law having a shadow of
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  Speaker 2: good things to come, what are the good things to come?
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  Speaker 2: That's a question you need to be asking and answering,
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  Speaker 2: and not of the very image of the things. Can
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  Speaker 2: never with those things, or with those sacrifices which they
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  Speaker 2: offered year by year, continually make the comers there run
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  Speaker 2: too perfect. Let me read it in a clearer language.
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  Speaker 2: For the law possesses a shadow. We've talked about that
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  Speaker 2: probably three or four days during the week. For the
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  Speaker 2: law possesses a shadow of good things to come, but
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  Speaker 2: not the reality itself. And so what God was giving
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  Speaker 2: us was what I call a kindergarten view, a kindergarten
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  Speaker 2: view of the plan of salvation, a kindergarten view of Oh,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, this is what God is doing in
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  Speaker 2: order to save me from my sins and then to
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  Speaker 2: put me into ministry so that others can be saved. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so those sacrifices were showing us the reality of the Messiah,
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  Speaker 2: the reality of what God is going to do in
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  Speaker 2: order to save us from our sins, and then by extension,
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  Speaker 2: use us to reach other people so they can be
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  Speaker 2: saved by Christ. The Bible continues, and it is therefore
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  Speaker 2: completely unable by the same sacrifices offered continual. So the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you got to continue to offer sacrifices over
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  Speaker 2: and over again. You know, if you read in Leviticus
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  Speaker 2: chapters one through through seven, then you see the system
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  Speaker 2: in a very clear and distinct way of teaching sacrifices
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  Speaker 2: for what purpose, and the details of it are really
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  Speaker 2: really clear there, and it's like over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over, and none of them have the power
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  Speaker 2: to deliver us from sin. So they were as shadow
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  Speaker 2: leading us in the direction of Christ, who is the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate power to save us from our sins. And the
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  Speaker 2: text continues to perfect those who come to worship. So
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  Speaker 2: God wants to perfect us, and it requires Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: and all that he has done and is continuing to
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  Speaker 2: do as he is in his cleansing ministry, cleansing work
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  Speaker 2: right now preparing to come get us. Yes, and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm thankful that he gave us the shadows, he gave
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  Speaker 2: us the symbols. But those sins should always leave an
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  Speaker 2: appetite in us to say, but God, there has to
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  Speaker 2: be more. But God, there has to be more these sacrifices,
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  Speaker 2: there has to be more. The materials that the sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: was made of, that there has to be more. The
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  Speaker 2: priests and the high priests, there has to be more.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, indeed, and in fact there is. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Greek word for shadow skia, it means outline
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  Speaker 2: or fate image. The ancient ceremonies pointed to Christ. Yet
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  Speaker 2: many clung to the symbols, even though we just read
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  Speaker 2: that there were inherent flaws in the symbols because you
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  Speaker 2: had to, because they couldn't actually save us. They clung
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  Speaker 2: to those. When Jesus himself appeared, there were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people who did that to embrace Jesus. Fully, we
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  Speaker 2: must let go of those traditions, let go of those
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  Speaker 2: things that were symbols. Now how God is showing us
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  Speaker 2: in the person and work of Jesus Christ the reality,
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  Speaker 2: the genuine article. So let go of those things are
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  Speaker 2: that are no longer useful, and those things do obscure
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  Speaker 2: His truth and power. So today we need to be
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  Speaker 2: asking God to reveal any traditions or habits or mindsets
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  Speaker 2: that distract us from having a relationship, a living relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Jesus the reality of every promise. Let me go
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  Speaker 2: to lesson number two. It comes in from Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: six and verse eight. This is after Isaiah has been
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  Speaker 2: cleansed and he has experienced God in the fullest sense
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  Speaker 2: that he could on planet Earth. And the question goes
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  Speaker 2: out here it is also I heard a voice of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord saying, whom shall I send? Remember mission clarity, missionaries,
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  Speaker 2: whom shall I send? Here comes the mission? Who will
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  Speaker 2: go for us?
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  Speaker 1: Then?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, here am I send me? Here? Am
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  Speaker 2: I send me? And so the Hebrew word for send
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  Speaker 2: in this case is shallockh, meaning to dispatch with purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Remember mission clarity, who shall we send for us to
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  Speaker 2: do what? And then God gives the actual message. If
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  Speaker 2: you continue reading through Isaiah's story, Uh huh, So he
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  Speaker 2: is being dispatched. He's the missionary. Isaiah is the missionary
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  Speaker 2: and people like him as are the missionaries. Why because
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  Speaker 2: there is mission clarity. So he's being dispatched with a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the word literally means. So God still seeks
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  Speaker 2: volunteers who will carry his message of love and obedience
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  Speaker 2: to the world. Are you being transformed by God's love?
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  Speaker 2: Are you being transformed by His message to the world you?
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  Speaker 2: And if the answer is yes, if you are being
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  Speaker 2: transformed by the renewing of your mind, if you are
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  Speaker 2: grateful for what great things God is doing in your life,
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  Speaker 2: in your very key various key areas of life, then
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  Speaker 2: you too become dispatched with purpose. You are a missionary
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  Speaker 2: like Joshua and Caleb. True missionaries trust God's power more
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  Speaker 2: than they fear the obstacles. So here is the action step.
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  Speaker 2: Commit to sharing your faith. Commit to sharing your faith
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  Speaker 2: consistently through conversation, prayer, and or service. Respond to God's
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  Speaker 2: call with your own. Here I am send me, make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day. See you tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening, Friends, always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,