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08 06 2024 Crumbs for the Dogs · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, August sixth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 through the Book of Mark and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Crumbs for the Dogs. Crumbs for the Dogs.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: in the world. At your Daily portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and for
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  Speaker 2: giving us a message of hope. No matter in what
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  Speaker 2: state we are, what status socioeconomically, spiritually we are, we
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  Speaker 2: know that you love us and that you have created
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  Speaker 2: a pathway for us to live with you eternally. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to get on that pathway. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Crumbs for the dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, there is some harsh talking here in my
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  Speaker 2: mind based on the culture that I grew up in.
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  Speaker 2: Some harsh speaking here, But I want to give some
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  Speaker 2: context before before we really get into this discussion. From
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  Speaker 2: Mark chapter seven. Okay, and so in the Book of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty six, let me see
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  Speaker 2: if I can read. Yeah, let me go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: read that Isaiah chapter fifty six, and I will read
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one. We'll get a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: context Isaiah chapter fifty six, beginning at verse one, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, thus, set the Lord, keep ye judgment
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  Speaker 2: and do justice, for my salvation is near to come.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say, justice in the Bible is righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, it continues here, and my righteousness
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  Speaker 2: to be revealed. Blessed is he that doe this, and
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  Speaker 2: the son of Man that layeth hold on it, to
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  Speaker 2: keep the sabbath from polluting it, and keeping his hand
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  Speaker 2: from doing any evil. So now we know the pathway
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  Speaker 2: to success is not doing evil. It is keeping that
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  Speaker 2: which God has called holy in this case speaking of
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath. And blessed is the one who is ready
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  Speaker 2: to receive this salvation, this righteousness that is near, and
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  Speaker 2: to keep judgment and righteousness. Okay, So this is something
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  Speaker 2: that is going to give us a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: context for today. He's saying, no matter who we are, man, woman, boy,
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  Speaker 2: or girl, no matter what culture we're in, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what socioeconomic class we're in, the rest of it applies.
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  Speaker 2: All of it applies to us. But listen to the transition.
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  Speaker 2: Now verse three, neither let the son of the stranger.
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  Speaker 2: So these are people who are not considered to be
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  Speaker 2: of the stock of Israel. Let me call it that
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  Speaker 2: that hath joined himself to the Lord speak saying, so
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  Speaker 2: what is the qualifier those who are considered to be strangers.
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  Speaker 2: I will also say gentiles, I will also say dogs
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  Speaker 2: in air quotes. Don't let those people feel that way anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Don't consider yourself anymore that way when you do what
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  Speaker 2: join yourself to the Lord. So don't let the son
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  Speaker 2: of the stranger that hath joined himself to the Lord
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  Speaker 2: speak saying the Lord hath utterly separated me from his people.
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  Speaker 2: Neither let the eunuch that person would have been ceremonially unclean,
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  Speaker 2: a man who has been castrated, so that the people
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  Speaker 2: in the harem supposedly were supposed to be safe while
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  Speaker 2: the king kept a harem. I'm oversimplifying, But neither let
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  Speaker 2: the eunuchs say I am a dry tree. For thus
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  Speaker 2: set the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: and choose the things that please me, and take hold
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  Speaker 2: of my covenant. So every category of people that would
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  Speaker 2: have been considered to be in that culture and spiritual time,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals who would have been considered unclean would have
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  Speaker 2: considered to be separated. Those people who would have been
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  Speaker 2: considered like in social science terms, what do we call it?
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  Speaker 2: In social science? We called them undesirables. Yeah, all of
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  Speaker 2: those individuals when they take hold of my covenant. Even
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  Speaker 2: to them will I give in my house and in
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  Speaker 2: my walls. He's welcoming them into his house, a place
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  Speaker 2: and a name that is better than of sons and
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  Speaker 2: of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that
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  Speaker 2: shall not be cut off. And so Jesus is welcoming
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  Speaker 2: just like in Isaiah chapter fifty six. He's welcoming this
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  Speaker 2: woman into a relationship with him, but he's testing her.
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  Speaker 2: He's testing her. And so now we go to the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Mark chapter seven. Hopefully you will have
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  Speaker 2: gotten the message that Jesus is welcoming every class and
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  Speaker 2: category of people whom the people around them would have
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  Speaker 2: been considered to be unacceptable, undesirable, unclean, unholy. Once we
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  Speaker 2: keep covenant with God and we accept salvation and righteousness
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  Speaker 2: and judgment and justice, it's one big acceptance, then we
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  Speaker 2: are considered to be what no longer broken, no longer separated.
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  Speaker 2: Don't even call yourself that, because He is giving you
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  Speaker 2: a warm welcome. In fact, he continues by saying that
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  Speaker 2: the God's House is a house of prayer for all people,
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  Speaker 2: So relationship with God is open to all people. And
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  Speaker 2: then the Bible reads here in verse twenty four, mark
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  Speaker 2: chapter seven. And from thence he arose and went to
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  Speaker 2: the borders of tyren Sidon and entered into a house uh,
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  Speaker 2: and would have no man know it, but he would
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  Speaker 2: not be hid. A certain woman, she would have been
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  Speaker 2: one of those that would have been said separated, unclean, undesirable.
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  Speaker 2: She would have been considered by the people that way. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: who's a certain woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit?
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  Speaker 2: Heard of him speak and came and fell at his feet.
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  Speaker 2: She's showing humility. She's showing that she's ready to keep covenant.
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  Speaker 2: She's showing that she is coming to be in a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with God. She fell at his feet. And the
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  Speaker 2: woman was a Greek, a seraphiation by nation. She besought
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  Speaker 2: him that he would cast forth the devil out of
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  Speaker 2: her daughter. But Jesus said unto her, testing her faith
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  Speaker 2: by the way Ah, Jesus said, unto her. Let the
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  Speaker 2: children first be filled, for it is not meat for
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  Speaker 2: the children's bread to be cast unto the dogs. Now
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  Speaker 2: he's showing that line of demarcation, that separation that the
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  Speaker 2: people would have embraced. Unfortunately, the people would have embraced.
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  Speaker 2: But he's now about to do something. He's about to
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  Speaker 2: pull down what Paul would have called the middle wall
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  Speaker 2: of partition, right in front of her face. And he
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  Speaker 2: said God. And then she answered and said unto him, yes, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: Yet the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus answered in a way the only way
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  Speaker 2: he could have answered. He tests her faith. She demonstrates
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  Speaker 2: her faith. Her faith lays hold on God's power. And
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said and did the only thing that he could
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  Speaker 2: have done in response to this kind of faith. He said,
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  Speaker 2: unto her, for this, saying, go thy way, the devil
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  Speaker 2: is gone out of your daughter. When she was come
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  Speaker 2: to her house, she found the devil gone out, and
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  Speaker 2: the daughter was laid upon the bed. So Jesus kept
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  Speaker 2: his promise. He said, don't let anybody who feels like
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  Speaker 2: you're separated from me. As long as you are willing
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  Speaker 2: now now, and you actually are keeping covenant with me,
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  Speaker 2: as long as you are walking across that bridge that
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  Speaker 2: I have built between God and humanity, as long as
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  Speaker 2: you are accepting of judgment and justice and righteousness, do
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  Speaker 2: not consider yourself to be separated from me. Don't consider
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  Speaker 2: yourself to be undesirable. There are some people listening to
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  Speaker 2: me or watching me right now that feel undesirable, unaccepted,
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  Speaker 2: even in the house of God, and God is saying no, no,
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  Speaker 2: You are accepted in Christ Jesus. All you need to
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  Speaker 2: do is yield your will to me because God's house
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  Speaker 2: is a house of prayer for all people, including you.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. 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,