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12 12 2023 In Tyre and Sidon · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Tuesday, December twelve, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's Mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is in tire and Sidon.
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  In Tire and Sidon, We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  first I'd like to just say welcome, Welcome, Welcome to everyone joining us,
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  especially those joining us for the very first time. Please go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com and click in so you can join our online community.
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  Also, let us know where you are in the world at your Daily
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  Portion dot com. And before we pray, I just want to say a
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  great, big happy birthday to Simona, my my one and only son,
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  Josiah. He is thirteen today. Say happy birthday to him if you happen
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  to see him somewhere. And we're grateful, grateful, grateful that you are
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  here. Even though you don't listen to your Daily Portion, somebody's gonna let
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  you know that we are grateful. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this
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  day and for giving us the example of Christ, who loves and who gave
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  everything for us so we can be saved. I pray that we will do
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  as much as we can to lead others to salvation. In Jesus's name.
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  I pray Amen, and a man again entire and sidon. I'm going to
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  read before we go to two passages of Scripture. I'm going to read from
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  the book Desire of Ages, the Desira of Ages, page four hundred and
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  then just to get us started, and it reads Christ did not immediately reply
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  to the woman's request. And again we're going to read two accounts of the
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  same story if we have enough time, and it'll make sense. He received
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  this representative of a despised race as the people of God would have done.
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  In this he designed that his disciples should be impressed with the cold and heartless
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  manner in which the people of God would treat such a case, as evinced
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  by his reception of the woman, and the compassionate manner in which he would
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  have them deal with such distress, as manifested by his subsequent granting of her
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  petition. And so basically, and by the way, that's the end of
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  the quote. And so basically, this woman appears before Christ and makes a
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  request and Jesus behaves like the people of God treat people from her particular race.
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  And that was supposed to wake up something in his disciples to say,
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  wait a minute, that's not right, that's not right. And of course
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  Jesus showed that that was just an object lesson because he ultimately, he ultimately
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  heals her. Okay. And so we're going to go first now to Matthew
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  chapter fifteen, and we will read beginning at verse twenty two to make this
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  make sense. And the Bible reads and behold, a woman of Canaan and
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  came out of the same coasts and cried unto him, saying, have mercy
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  on me, o, Lord DAWs, son of David, My daughter is
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  grievously vexed with a devil. So this is one of the worst ways someone
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  can find themselves, really, and so she's vexed with the devil verse twenty
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  three. But he answered her not a word, and his disciples came and
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  besought him, saying, send her away, for she crieth after us.
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  Now hold on, the woman's daughter is being tormented by the devil, and
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  and they're saying, send her away. Wait a minute verse twenty four.
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  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
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  of the House of Israel. So this is what he's saying to this woman
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  who is in a desperate way. And by the way, the disciples are
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  already saying, like, send her away, Jesus, We're like, she's
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  crying after us. This is aning send her away verse twenty five. Then
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  came she and worshiping, saying, Lord help me. So she does not
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  change God's mind, like she doesn't change Jesus's mind. She's just now doing
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  what exercising her faith. This is what Jesus wanted anyway, And he knew
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  that she had faith, and he knew exactly what he was planning to do.
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  But the disciples needed to learn a lesson, okay, verse twenty six.
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  But he answered and said, it is not meat to take the children's
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  bread and to cast it to dogs. Wait a minute, that's so harsh.
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  Well, that's the way the people of God behave toward the east verse
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  twenty seven. And she said, truth Lord. So she humbles herself a
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  little bit early. She worships. She presses him with the request again,
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  and she's not taking no for an answer. But did I mention again?
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  Can I mention again that she's a worshiper? And she says, a truth
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  lord? Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table.
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  And Jesus answered and said, unto her, O woman, great is
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  thy faith, be it unto thee, even as thou wilt. And her
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  daughter was made whole from that very hour. So much to say, so
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  little time. Number One, Jesus is impartial. It sounded in the beginning
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  like he was just like the people around him, But now we understand that
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  it was an object lesson. It was a way for the people of God
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  to see that you are discompassionate people. You put up artificial and unnecessary borders
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  where having connection to God is concerned. So what I'm gonna do. I'm
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  gonna show how you look. I'm going to show how you sound. I'm
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  going to show who a true worshiper is. This woman persisted as a true
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  worshiper. She humbled herself. She did not take offense, she did not
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  take no for an answer, but she said, okay, this is how
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  you all treat us, but this is what I need, and I need
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  it for the sake of my daughter. She showed that she was unselfish and
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  humble, and Jesus answered her prayer. Now we're going to read the same
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  story from Mark chapter seven, the Book of Mark, chapter seven, and
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  I will read verse twenty beginning at verse twenty four Mark chapter seven, and
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  I will read beginning at verse twenty four. And from thence he arose and
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  went into the borders of Tyron Sidon, and entered into a house, and
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  would have no man know it. But he could not be hid, for
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  a certain woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him and
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  came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek, a serophonician
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  by nation, and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil from
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  out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her, let the children first
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  be filled, for it is not meat to take the children's bread and cast
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  it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, yes,
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  Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. And
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  he said unto her, for this, saying, go thy way, the
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  devil is gone out of thy daughter. Verse thirty and final. And when
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  she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and
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  her daughter laid upon the bread upon the bed. And so Jesus, I'm
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  not gonna say anything too fresh and new. We've already covered it. But
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  Jesus, now you can see from another way. Let me go here,
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  answers a need inside her. Where he went, he says, for this,
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  saying, go thy way, the devil is gone out of her.
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  He is showing that, even though she was not aware that he had already
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  answered her prayer, he now announces it. There are times that we feel
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  desperate, brothers and sisters. Some of us feel cut off from God's people.
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  Some of us feel rejected because we don't look and behave and sound like
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  or come from a certain in Air quotes pedigree, and Jesus is saying that
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  at the time that you need me most, I'm going to answer your prayers
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  in the affirmative. Just humble yourself, continue to be worshipers, and I'm
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  going to show everybody how this is done. Have compassion on people who mean
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  God. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,