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10 20 2023 The Great Commission · 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 Friday, October twenty twenty twenty three. Hello, my name
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  is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's Mission My mission,
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  and we're going to use for a caption for today, the Great Commission.
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  We'll go back to that and just a moment, but first I'd like
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  to say, welcome to preparation Day. Hopefully you are preparing your hearts and
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  minds for the Sabbath time and not just your bathrooms, your clothing, and
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  your vehicles. No, we want God to be able to find a place
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  that he is welcomed in our hearts. So as we prepare for the Sabbath,
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  we should be preparing our hearts more than anything else. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and just go ahead and jump right in here, Father and
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  Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of coming into your presence today.
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  Please give us the mindset of mission, and help us not to use
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  it like as a moniker, like as some idiom, some term that we
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  use, like a campaign slogan. Help us to live the great commission.
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  In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man again. I want
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  to go back to Matthew chapter twenty eight, and we're going to read this
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  over and over and over again over the next several weeks. So if you're
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  about the mission, it'll be welcome, a welcome read, because what what
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  did they say? Repetition deepens impression deepens the impression. And so we're going
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  to read it again and it reads, go ye therefore and teach all nations.
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  Some of you have the gift of teaching. I'm talking about spiritual gift,
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  not just a skill. A spiritual gift is for the glorification of God
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  and the edifying of God's people. God's Church glorify God by reaching out into
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  all the world in order to bring people into a right relationship with Him,
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  right to manifest his love in the earth, manifest his character fully in the
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  earth. Right, and of course, to edify the people of God.
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  Okay, so some of you have the gift of teaching, and so it
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  says, go, ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in
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  the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
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  Let's just pause right there. We're going to stick with that verse. So
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  what we need to do is to understand. We can talk about it all
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  the time, but to understand or comprehend and then uphold the great commission.
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  What is God saying. He's saying, go not sit still. He's saying,
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  go not wait for someone to come to you. He's saying, go
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  and make sure you do what Jesus did. Go and do what Jesus did.
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  Remember the Bible says that Jesus came, the son of Man, came
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  to seek and to save that which was lost. So he went like he
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  went from heaven to planet Earth voluntarily. Yes, and then he gave himself
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  for the mission that God's Father had given to him. Of course, they
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  had agreed to all of that in Oh who knows when they started this,
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  but it says from before the foundation of the world. And so when we
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  are going therefore, we're going in the power of God. We're going in
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  the demonstration of the example Jesus gave to us. What Jesus did we do.
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  Bible says that he came aside a great while before day, and then
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  he prayed, And we have guidance to say that he did that so that
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  he could be fully connected to the Father, so that when he did go
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  to the masses, he was powered up like he was armored up, ready
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  to give. Sometimes we run out ahead of God. We pour we poor,
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  we poor, we pour out, we pour out, we pour out,
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  We attempt, we try, we struggle, and then we are depleted
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  and wonder why we're not effective. We didn't follow Jesus' footsteps. So Jesus
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  charged up ready to go with God our father. Of course, we've read
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  that the Holy Spirit was in him in Luke chapter four and Matthew chapter four,
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  and then again he says that we are to go to all nations,
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  wherever you are. I think recently, I think yesterday we did brighten the
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  corner where you are. Wherever you are, that's where God is calling you
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  to. Now, if He gives you additional guidance to say, go from
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  this place into the outhermost parts of the world, then you will board a
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  plane. You will bord a helicopter, you will board a vessel somehow and
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  move from place to place to share His word. You will switch on your
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  cameras and your microphones to do the same if God is calling you to do
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  that. But not only that, He wants to bring them into a relationship
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  with him, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the
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  Holy Ghost see baptism Jesus demonstrated was to fulfill all righteousness like he was baptized,
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  to show what it's like for a person to yield our willfully to God.
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  I think it was in Romans chapter three that the Bible said that when
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  we are are baptized, we are baptized into Christ, and we are we're
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  dying to self, going down into the water and going beneath the surface.
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  We are baptized by immersion, and then when we come up it's unto newness
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  of life. It is like the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And so we
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  are dead to sin and alive to holiness, dead to sinful ways, and
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  alive to agreement with God, like dead to broken relationship with God, and
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  alive now resurrected, unto everlasting life. And so we want to do that
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  for as many people as possible. So we comprehended uphold the Great commission.
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  And so our action step is to understand the significance of God's great commission and
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  then actively seek to hold it. Jesus, uphold it, Jesus, what
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  would you have me to do? What would you have me to do?
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  Making disciples of all nations and spreading the treasures of eternal life to the world.
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  Our next action step is coming out of the Book of Luke chapter fourteen,
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  and the Bible reads and the Lord said, unto the servant, go
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  out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in that my
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  house may be filled. Now I've already intimated this, but we're saying now,
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  don't wait for people to come. Remember, Jesus came to seek and
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  to save that which was lost. Don't wait for people to come instead proactively
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  go to them, extending the invitation of mercy to them. Yes, salvation,
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  reaching out to everyone. It doesn't matter from what nation, what kindred,
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  what tibe, what tongue, what people. It doesn't matter from what
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  so called caste. It doesn't matter from what so called socioeconomic strata. I'm
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  ashamed that we have those, but we do. It doesn't matter from where
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  people come. It doesn't matter what their family model looked like. It doesn't
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  matter what failings they have experienced because of poor choices or maybe genetic impediments.
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  Like Daddy was a liar, and I struggle with lying, Like Mommy had
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  this other challenge and I struggle with that. Right, mommy was an alcoholic,
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  and now I struggle with a desire to indulge in alcoholism. You see.
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  And so God is saying, bring all of that to me, and
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  don't wait for people with these challenges to come to you, go to them
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  in my mission. And of course we have said so much about about breaking
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  down prejudices and barriers and so forth, so I won't drill that one today.
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  But when we did not mention, pray for the guidance to reach those
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  who have not been reached for God. In James chapter one and verse five,
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  it says, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of
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  God that give it to all all men liberally and upbrade it. Not that
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  means he's not holding anything back, and it shall be given to us when
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  we are asking for wisdom. It's not something that just happens in our minds.
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  Can I just say this for a moment. In the Book of Proverbs,
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  chapter eight, if you read the entire chapter, you'll start to hear
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  some things very interesting. And then if you go to First Corinthians chapter one,
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  verses thirty and thirty one, you will identify that wisdom is Jesus Christ
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  himself. Jesus is our wisdom. And so if you lack wisdom and you
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  ask of God, he will give you a way to apply knowledge. Yes,
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  but more than that, he will give you Jesus Christ himself to fulfill
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  the great commission. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,
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  make it a great day. Yeah,