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11 01 2024 From Outcast to Outreach · 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. I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: It is Friday, November one, twenty twenty four. Hello. My
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: Word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series themes in the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of John, and our caption for today is from
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  Speaker 2: out cast to Outreach, From out cast to Outreach. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you, if
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day, for this time of preparation
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  Speaker 2: for the Sabbath, and these years and weeks and months
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  Speaker 2: of preparation for the coming that is near, the coming
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. Father, help us to maximize and capital
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  Speaker 2: lies on this time. Please transform our lives fully in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. From outcast
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  Speaker 2: to outreach. We're going to continue the discussion from yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: in particular, because I did not get into the idea
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  Speaker 2: that as this woman goes into her community and she
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  Speaker 2: welcomes the people to come and see like, is this
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  Speaker 2: the Jesus? Is this the Christ, the anointed one that
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  Speaker 2: we know are is to come, like, is this the
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  Speaker 2: one we've been waiting for? And we didn't really get
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  Speaker 2: into the testimony of these Samaritans, these people in the
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  Speaker 2: village that she came from or community. And so we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about that just a little bit more today, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin by reading straight out of the lesson,
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  Speaker 2: the quote from the Desire of Ages, page one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ninety five. I am so grateful. I'm grateful because
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  Speaker 2: I was once an outcast. Can I just say that
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  Speaker 2: I was once in outcast and many of you were too.
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  Speaker 2: I was once an outcast where in school they said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you have to apply yourself, you have to apply yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I've been in situations where for twelve years people were
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  Speaker 2: gunning for me in a particular position I was in.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, why why am I able to accomplish what
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing for all of these years? Is there
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  Speaker 2: a real problem here? Nothing to see here, folks. I've
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  Speaker 2: been an outcast. I've been an outcast because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: fit into the in crowd. When I was a young
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  Speaker 2: boy in New York City. I was an outcast because
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  Speaker 2: when I was in a certain other city. Then I
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  Speaker 2: was coming from quote a foreign place, and I looked
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  Speaker 2: too much like the place. That was a problem in
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  Speaker 2: the streets, and it took some time to win the
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  Speaker 2: hearts of the people in that space. I've been an outcast,
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  Speaker 2: and so have you. But we have been outcasts and
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  Speaker 2: hostile toward God because by virtue of our earthly birth.
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  Speaker 2: But because of our new birth, and because God so
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  Speaker 2: loved the world, he gave us his only begotten son,
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  Speaker 2: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
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  Speaker 2: everlasting life. God didn't send his son into the world
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  Speaker 2: to condemn the world. He didn't send Jesus Christ to
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  Speaker 2: the well with this woman so he could air out
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  Speaker 2: her dirty laundry and put her on some kind of
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  Speaker 2: social media platform and say, see, look how wicked she is.
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  Speaker 2: She claims to be one of the children of Jacob.
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  Speaker 2: She claims to be one of the daughters of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Israel. You see what I did there. She claims
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  Speaker 2: to be one of those, and look at her life. No,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus didn't come to condemn the world, but that the
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  Speaker 2: world through him might be saved. That is the reality.
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  Speaker 2: Far too many humans on earth, especially some of the
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  Speaker 2: male sort. I'm speaking to my species. I'm speaking to
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  Speaker 2: my biological sex. Like some men are misogynists. And because
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  Speaker 2: a woman is a woman, sometimes she's an outcast. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like what your mama was a woman like you
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  Speaker 2: came from a woman. Hm hmm. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. I need you to embrace what Jesus embraced.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus embraced the beauty and the holiness that he saw
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  Speaker 2: in this woman's future, and he transformed her life from
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  Speaker 2: a hopeless sinner to a hopeful saint. I said a lot,
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  Speaker 2: I said a lot. I digress, and so I read
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  Speaker 2: the quote. Now, as soon as she had found the Savior.
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  Speaker 2: How quickly, as soon as she had found the Savior,
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  Speaker 2: the woman, the Samaritan woman, brought others to him. You see,
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  Speaker 2: some of us are wasting time begging and try and
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  Speaker 2: trying and prodding people, causing people to feel guilty or
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  Speaker 2: attempting to in the church or religious community, and trying
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  Speaker 2: to get them to do some evangelistic movements. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just like brother, like, if they're not moving, it's because
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  Speaker 2: they're not having an encounter with Jesus. So stop it,
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  Speaker 2: Stop the foolishness. Use the time to create a revival
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  Speaker 2: in the space. Use the time to get to know
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  Speaker 2: the people in that community of believers, so that when
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  Speaker 2: we are mobilizing people, we're mobilizing them according to their calling,
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  Speaker 2: mobilizing them according to the blueprint, the wiring of their
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  Speaker 2: behavior styles. And you don't have to beg in pride.
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  Speaker 2: Then you just position people in front of Jesus, in
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  Speaker 2: part through the power of the holy ghosts and encounter
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  Speaker 2: with Jesus. She proved herself continuing the quote, I just
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  Speaker 2: said a lot the people who can hear, let yourselves hear.
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  Speaker 2: Don't resist it. Ah. She proved herself a more effective
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  Speaker 2: missionary than his own disciples. What what? The disciples saw
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  Speaker 2: nothing in Samaria to indicate that it was an encouraging field.
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  Speaker 2: Their thoughts were fixed upon a great work to be
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  Speaker 2: done in the future. Have you been in board meetings
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  Speaker 2: like those? Have you been in directors meetings? Have you
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  Speaker 2: been in executive committee meetings like those? Have you been
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  Speaker 2: in evangelism committees and planning committees like those? Where people
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  Speaker 2: are looking for the future and there is a ripe
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  Speaker 2: field of harvest right in front of our eyes and
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  Speaker 2: let me continue the quote. They did not see that
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  Speaker 2: right around them was a harvest to be gathered. But
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  Speaker 2: through the woman, I need you to type that the woman.
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  Speaker 2: How through the woman whom they despised, A whole city
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  Speaker 2: full were brought to hear the Savior a woman. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really trying to restrain myself here. Stop disrespecting women, and
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  Speaker 2: embrace the testimony that the woman can have on an
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  Speaker 2: entire city, an entire community, an entire world of people
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  Speaker 2: can hear from the woman. The church is called the Woman,
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  Speaker 2: the Bride of Christ. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: A whole city full were brought to hear the Savior.
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  Speaker 2: She carried the light at once to her countrymen. This
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  Speaker 2: woman represents the working of a practical faith in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Every true disciple is born into the Kingdom of God
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  Speaker 2: as a missionary. He who drinks of the living water
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  Speaker 2: becomes a fountain of life. The receiver becomes a giver
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  Speaker 2: the grace of Christ, and the soul is like the
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  Speaker 2: spring in the desert, welling up to refresh all and
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  Speaker 2: making those who are ready to perish eager to drink
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  Speaker 2: the water of life. That is the end of the quote.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine that in this encounter Jesus represents himself.
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  Speaker 2: He presents himself as as the water of life that
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  Speaker 2: people could drink freely, and he would put in her
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  Speaker 2: a well of water. So what does that mean? He's
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  Speaker 2: saying that people will come to you, dear sister. People
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  Speaker 2: will come to you, dear brother, to drink of the
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  Speaker 2: water of life freely. Who Jesus is will be welling
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  Speaker 2: up in your life to the degree that people will
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  Speaker 2: come into your presence so they can have an encounter
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  Speaker 2: with God. Can I say it again? People will come
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  Speaker 2: into your presence so that they can have an encounter
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  Speaker 2: with Almighty God, blessed be his name. So the question is, really,
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  Speaker 2: are you willing to become a well of water for
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  Speaker 2: people to drink from Jesus? I really hope you are
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  Speaker 2: from outcast to outreach who you're supposed to reach today.
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  Speaker 1: Peace, Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,