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08 14 2024 Who Is the Greatest · 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 Wednesday, August fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is who is the Greatest? Who is the Greatest.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but before
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot Com. This is a way
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and for giving us your spirit to teach us. Please
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  Speaker 2: teach us and instill in us humility in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Who is the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna go ahead and jump right into the Bible
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  Speaker 2: book of Mark Mark chapter nine, and I will read
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse thirty Mark chapter nine, beginning at verse thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully you have your bibles to follow along with me.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads. Then they went out from there and
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  Speaker 2: passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,
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  Speaker 2: for he would teaching his disciples and telling them the
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  Speaker 2: son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men.
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  Speaker 2: They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.
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  Speaker 2: But they did not understand his statement and were afraid
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  Speaker 2: to ask him. Very interesting what happens next verse thirty three.
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  Speaker 2: Then they came to Capernaum. After Jesus was inside the house,
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  Speaker 2: he asked them, what were you discussing on the way.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: When Jesus asks such a question like Adam, where are you? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: What were you discussing along the way? Or when the
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  Speaker 2: prophet asked King Saul, what meaneth the bleating of the sheep?
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  Speaker 2: This means that God already knows what he's dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: He's giving you, he's giving me an opportunity to agree
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  Speaker 2: with him, to confess what is actually happening. But let's
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  Speaker 2: just see what the men. What the men did. But
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  Speaker 2: they were silent, for on the way they had argued
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  Speaker 2: with one another about who was the greatest. They were
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  Speaker 2: silent because they were arguing about who should be the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're in the presence of the most humble being
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  Speaker 2: in the universe, the one who created everything, the things
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  Speaker 2: that you can see in the things that you cannot see, right,
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  Speaker 2: the one who commanded and it stood fast, The one
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  Speaker 2: who said, let there be light, and there was light.
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  Speaker 2: The one as he took on human flesh and walked
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. The one who could have called twelve legions
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  Speaker 2: of angels to do what anything he asked that could
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  Speaker 2: have defended him, that could have destroyed his enemies. The
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  Speaker 2: one who, when he did finally get on the cross,
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  Speaker 2: he actually allowed death to take him his divinity could
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  Speaker 2: have resisted death, but he did not allow his divinity
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  Speaker 2: to resist death, and then he did allow his humanity
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  Speaker 2: to die. Like Jesus, the most humble being in the universe,
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  Speaker 2: is right in front of you, and you are arguing,
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  Speaker 2: as his followers, who's the greatest. Something's really wrong. But
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  Speaker 2: Jesus understood their thoughts, and the Bible says Verse thirty six, No.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty five. After he sat down, he called the twelve
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  Speaker 2: and said to them, if anyone wants to be first,
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  Speaker 2: he must be last of all and the servant of all.
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  Speaker 2: He took a little child and had him stand among them,
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  Speaker 2: Taking him in his arms, he said to them, whoever
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  Speaker 2: becomes or welcomes excuse me, one of these little ones,
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  Speaker 2: these children in my name, welcomes me. And whoever welcomes
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  Speaker 2: me does not welcome me, but the one who sent me. So,
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  Speaker 2: if you're welcoming children, if you're in a humble state
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  Speaker 2: of mind to where you notice even the little children,
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  Speaker 2: you're welcoming Jesus into your life. Yes. And if you
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  Speaker 2: are welcoming Jesus into your life, you are welcoming God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father, into your life. Do you see how this goes?
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  Speaker 2: There are times that we wield power. Sometimes people God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes people wield what authority. They're authoritarians, not authority figures.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes people usurp authority. That's a long story. Lucifer attempted
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  Speaker 2: to usurp authority. But of course now we know that
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  Speaker 2: he's cast down, like there was no space found for
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  Speaker 2: him in heaven anymore, because he refused to repent. And
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  Speaker 2: these men are going down the same path that Lucifer
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  Speaker 2: went down. Who is the greatest? Who is the greatest?
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus taught them that we need to be followers
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus, welcome even the children, and in by welcoming them,
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  Speaker 2: we are welcoming Jesus and God our father. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says here in verse thirty eight, jod said, and
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  Speaker 2: John said, unto them, Teacher, we saw someone casting out
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  Speaker 2: demons in your name, and we tried to stop him
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  Speaker 2: because he was not following us. And Jesus said, don't
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  Speaker 2: stop him, because no one who does a miracle in
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  Speaker 2: my name will be soon able afterward to say anything
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  Speaker 2: bad about me. For whosoever is not against us is
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  Speaker 2: for us. Verse forty one. For I tell you the
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  Speaker 2: truth whoever gives you a cup of water to drink
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  Speaker 2: because you bear Christ's name, will never lose his reward.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there's so much there. But what I want to
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  Speaker 2: do now is go down through just about seven life
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  Speaker 2: lessons based on what we have already read. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: number one, I want you to understand the sacrifice that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus has given for us. Jesus humbled himself. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: even to the death, unto the cross, and so he
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  Speaker 2: taught disciples that he was going to humble himself to
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  Speaker 2: the degree that others could be saved. So how can
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  Speaker 2: I be looking for authority? How can I be looking
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  Speaker 2: for being up above my fellow humans when the one
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  Speaker 2: who created everything is humbling himself to the point that
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  Speaker 2: he's giving his life, choosing to become guilty on our behalf,
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  Speaker 2: the one who never sinned, Yes, the one who has
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  Speaker 2: the power to destroy this earth and start all over again.
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  Speaker 2: He is humbling himself in order to save us. How
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  Speaker 2: can we be arguing about who is the greatest? How
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  Speaker 2: could we be vying for attention? How could we in
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  Speaker 2: the church be polititricking to see who will get the
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  Speaker 2: greatest and largest paying position in the church. Oh my,
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus is showing us how to be humble through
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  Speaker 2: his sacrifice. And of course we want to redefine greatness.
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  Speaker 2: Number two. Redefine greatness. The Bible again says in verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty five of the same chapter. And he sat down
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  Speaker 2: and called the twelve and said, unto them, if any
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  Speaker 2: man desired to be first, the same shall be last
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  Speaker 2: of all, and the servant of all. So servitude is
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to God's style leadership. Can I say that again?
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  Speaker 2: Servanthood or servitude is the pathway to God style greatness
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  Speaker 2: or leadership. So we diminish ourselves, we decrease that God
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  Speaker 2: may increase, and that is the pathway to godly leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Number three Acceptance of the lowly. With children, we see
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  Speaker 2: that sometimes people say they need to be seen and
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  Speaker 2: not heard with elderly people. With some people who are
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  Speaker 2: dejected and rejected in so society, we put them last naturally,
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying, no, servant leadership. Seize these people
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  Speaker 2: and honors them. They see these people and honor them
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  Speaker 2: as if they're honoring Jesus, as if they are honoring God,
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  Speaker 2: our father. So those who receive the least of these
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  Speaker 2: his brethren, they're receiving him. Acceptance of the humble or
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  Speaker 2: the lowly. Inclusivity is another way to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: We include those that the world excludes, positioning them to
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  Speaker 2: hear the word of God and be transformed. We can't
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  Speaker 2: get through our entire list of seven. I'll put it
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  Speaker 2: into the community for those who are in it, and
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  Speaker 2: you can see what was on my mind at the time.
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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,