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12 13 2023 “Send Her Away!” · 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 Wednesday, December thirteenth, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  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. God's Mission,
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  My Mission, our caption for today I'm reading ahead is send her Away,
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  Send her a We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your
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  Daily Portion dot Com, join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion
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  book, and also let us know in the little form where you are in
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  the world at your Daily Portion dot com. That's how we build faith and
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  fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
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  in Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege to come into your presence
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  and for not sending us away. Please, Father, teach us how to
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  be empathetic, knowing that we are sinners saved by grace, and others around
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  us also need to be saved, no matter from where they come. In
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  Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Can I just say
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  that you religious people are just too much sometimes and oh, okay, it's
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  like you're pointing a finger at me, Dave, Well, I should say
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  we religious people are to much at times. Yeah, some of us have
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  mistaken the privilege of being a part of the family of God as a way
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  to become elitists. Like somehow we have taken the privilege we have to be
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  in the presence of God to not be transformed by his presence, not to
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  be transformed by who He is, and then begin to emulate and model who
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  Jesus was when he lived on planet Earth, and then somehow saying yes and
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  we just kind of hang out in the presence and feel like now we're special
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  and the other people, I'm so sorry for you. Yeah, you should
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  probably do what I did in that way you can get into this club.
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  And God is saying, no, I did not create you to become a
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  part of a country club. I did not create you to be in the
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  so called first class of this plane that is on its way to Heaven.
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  I did not create you to to get so called black car service and have
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  your feet propped up in the back of the vehicle while somebody is sweating for
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  you in order to get you to the Kingdom. And then yeah, sorry
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  for the poor peasants who are out there having to catch the bus or walk
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  or worse. No, that is not what God intended when he shared the
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  truth with us. And you're like, with Dave, that's obvious. Yeah
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  really, Okay, Well, let's go to the Book of Acts, chapter
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  ten and see how obvious this was for the man of God, who,
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  by the way, was the chief preacher at the special day of Pentecost that
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  is forever etched in spiritual history. Peter. Let's see if Peter understood that
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  that was so obvious, Dave. Okay, And so, beginning at verse
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  nine, the Bible reads in Acts chapter ten. On themorrow, as they
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  went on their journey and drew nigh into the city, Peter went up upon
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  the housetop to pray. So he's there praying. He's not there playing around.
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  He has already been converted. He has received the Holy Spirit to an
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  extreme and positive degree. And he led that first century church on that first
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  day of Pentecost. And uh, let's see what happened. Peter went up.
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  He went up to pray about the sixth hour, that's probably I'm guessing
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  about noon. And he became very hungry. Yeh, that makes sense.
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  It's lunchtime, and would have eaten. But while they made ready, he
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  fell into a trance. So God is about to tell you something, Peter.
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  Okay, verse eleven. And he saw and saw heaven opened, and
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  a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit
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  at four corners and let down to the earth. Okay, So maybe he's
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  singing that song that we used to sing, like I'm gonna sit at the
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  welcome table right one of these days. I'm gonna eat and drink with Jesus
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  one of these days. And he's clapping his hands and that sheet has come
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  down on with the four corners, and finally it's time to eat. It's
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  time to eat Verse twelve. We're in all manner of four footed beasts of
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  the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and files of the air. Wait
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  a minute, Wait a minute, now, ray mint, like you're talking
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  about like crabcakes and shrimp and what way mint? Now, something's wrong,
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  something's wrong. Then ring the bell like this is not what I ordered Verse
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  thirteen. And there came a voice unto him, Rise, Peter, kill
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  and eat. But Peter said, no, not so Lord, for I
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  have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. Okay, so far,
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  so good. Like some of you are like, well, what's the problem,
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  Dave, Like we eat that stuff all the time. Yeah, well
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  no, he's right. He's like, no, I don't eat that kind
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  of stuff because you said. And he's going back into his mind in the
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  book of Leviticus, the Book of Deuteronomy, where God was very clear about
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  what is unclean and what is clean? Okay Verse fifteen, And the voice
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  said, unto him a second time, what God hath cleansed? That?
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  Call not thou common? Now let me ask you a question, has God
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  cleansed all manner of four footed beasts and creatures pepperoni for your pizza, as
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  he well, the answer is obviously no. We'll come back to that.
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  This was done three times, and the vessel was again received up into heaven.
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  Okay, now Peter must have been confused, like, hold on,
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  now I know it was the voice of God. I am here praying.
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  God has made himself very clear in the scrolls, in the scriptures what is
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  to be eaten and what is absolutely not to be eaten. And this is
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  not subjective, this is not depending on who you are. God has been
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  very clear. So what could this have meant? Well, God, I
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  didn't leave him in the dark, like, let's go down to verse twenty
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  eight, and he said, unto them, ye know how that it is
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  an unlawful thing for a man that is one of God's people to keep company
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  or to come unto one of another nation. But God hath showed me that
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  I should not call any person common or unclean. So this was not about
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  eating. It was that God was showing him something through his belly, right
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  like Adam and Eve should have learned something at the Tree of the knowledge of
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  good and evil through the possibility of eating what God said, don't eat.
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  They should have passed the test, like Jesus absolutely manifest a lesson when he
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  was in the wilderness being tempted of the devil, when the devil said,
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  if thou be the son of God, then make this stone to become bred,
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  like Jesus manifest that you can trust God and over your belly. And
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  so God was using food again as an example, like an object lesson,
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  a case study. If you will to teach Peter something valuable, what is
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  it or invaluable that people no matter if you call them gentiles, you call
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  them Greeks, you call them a dry tree, eu nuts, you call
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  them separated from God. That if anybody will keep covenant with me, then
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  those individuals, just like who would be called God's people, those individuals will
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  have a name, according to Isaiah chapter fifty six, verses one through seven,
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  a name that is greater, that is better than of sons and of
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  daughters. It's a name that will remain forever. So this was about people.
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  Let me read it again, And he said, unto them, ye
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  know that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is one of God's
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  people to keep company or to come unto one of another nation. But God
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  has showed me that I should not call any man or person common or unclean
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  verse thirty four. And Peter opened his mouth and said, of a truth,
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  I perceive that God is no respector of persons. But in every nation,
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  he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is accepted with God. Listen.
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  God wants us to get this point and get it clear. Clear, clear
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  clear. Jesus Christ came and gave his life so that all people from everywhere
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  in the world can be saved. We just need to make the choice.
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  Stop being elitists like welcome people into the phone. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,