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07 31 2024 Rejection and Reception · 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, July
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson Studies series through the Book of Mark, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Rejection and Reception. Rejection and Reception.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. It seems that I was rushing the
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  Speaker 2: month along yesterday and said it was the last day
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  Speaker 2: of the month, but really this is the last day
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  Speaker 2: of the month. And yeah, it's hard sometimes remembering what
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  Speaker 2: day is which when you do what I do. So
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Anyway, we are here and God has been
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  Speaker 2: faithful to us. I'm asking you to please go over
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and let us
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  Speaker 2: know where you are in the world. At your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day and for the
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  Speaker 2: privilege that we have to open up your word again.
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  Speaker 2: Please give us the fullness of your holy spirit. Teach
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  Speaker 2: us to receive you into our lives and never reject you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: because of time, I pulled the curtain down fairly abruptly
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  Speaker 2: and really almost not deliberately, but almost minimized the healing
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  Speaker 2: and deliverance of Gyrus's daughter. So let me just say
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  Speaker 2: very simply that when Jesus, even though it seemed that
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  Speaker 2: the woman was interrupting him, and it seemed especially as
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  Speaker 2: Jyrus and the team they're going toward his home and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to hopefully heal her, and then she dies.
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  Speaker 2: His daughter dies. Jesus didn't even act like something was wrong,
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  Speaker 2: except when people were in the way. When people who
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  Speaker 2: did not have faith were in the way, he put
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  Speaker 2: them out of the way. He put them out of
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  Speaker 2: the way, and he called the young woman by name
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  Speaker 2: and said, I say unto you arise. And so she
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  Speaker 2: go from this desperate situation where it's dire and she's sick,
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  Speaker 2: she's near death, and she does die. And Jesus doesn't
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  Speaker 2: change his demeanor at all because he's the resurrection in
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  Speaker 2: the life. When we are in dire circumstances. I need
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  Speaker 2: to say this here. You are in dire circumstances. You
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  Speaker 2: are panicking, you are frantic. Jesus doesn't have to change
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  Speaker 2: his demeanor. Why not, because he's the resurrection and he's
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  Speaker 2: the life. So no matter what is going on in
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  Speaker 2: our lives, he is able to handle it. His timing
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  Speaker 2: and our timing are not the same. And with that
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  Speaker 2: in mind, I want you to take your Bibles and
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  Speaker 2: go with me to Mark chapter six and we'll read
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one. God's timing and our timing are
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  Speaker 2: not the same. And so the Bible continues, and he
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  Speaker 2: went out from thence and came into his own country.
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  Speaker 2: He's leaving that scene. He's into his own country, and
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  Speaker 2: his disciples are following him. And when the Sabbath day
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  Speaker 2: was come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and
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  Speaker 2: many hearing him were astonishing, from whence hath this man
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  Speaker 2: these things? And what wisdom is this which is given
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  Speaker 2: unto him? That even such mighty works were wrought by
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  Speaker 2: his hands. So they realize that when he speaks, he's
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  Speaker 2: not speaking in that weakness of even the religious leaders
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  Speaker 2: of the day. And when he speaks the word of God,
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  Speaker 2: he also begins to work the works of God. The
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  Speaker 2: word of God is in his mind, between his eyes,
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  Speaker 2: the frontlets of his eyes, like Deuteronomy six says, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Exodus chapter thirteen talks about God's power
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  Speaker 2: in our foreheads and in our hands, and also in
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  Speaker 2: our hands. Yes, his works agree with what's in his head.
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  Speaker 2: His head is connected to God, his mindset, his holiness
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  Speaker 2: is fully connected with God, and his actions agree in
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  Speaker 2: the head. In the hand, they agree very good. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible says verse three, Is this not the
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  Speaker 2: carpenter the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph,
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  Speaker 2: and of Judah and Simon, And are not his sisters
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  Speaker 2: here with us? Like we know everybody. His pedigree is
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  Speaker 2: not aligning with the kind of power that he has.
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  Speaker 2: He did not go to the school of the prophets.
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  Speaker 2: He was not trained by the rabbis. He does not
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  Speaker 2: come from the stock that's supposed to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be this kind of powerful. And the Bible says, even
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  Speaker 2: though that family line is what they say it is
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  Speaker 2: verse four. But Jesus said, unto them, a prophet is
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  Speaker 2: not without honor, but in his own country and among
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  Speaker 2: his own people, and in his own house. So he
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  Speaker 2: sees right through them. They were more like skeptics than
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  Speaker 2: they were surprised and amazed they were skeptics. And then
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, and he could there do no mighty
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  Speaker 2: work save that he laid his hands on a few
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  Speaker 2: sick folk and healed them, and he marveled because of
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  Speaker 2: their unbelief. And he went around the village's teaching, and
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  Speaker 2: he called unto him the twelve and began to send
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  Speaker 2: forth them two by two, and gave them power over
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  Speaker 2: unclean spirits, and commanded them that they should take nothing
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  Speaker 2: for their journey, save a staff, no script, no bread,
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  Speaker 2: no money in their purse, but be shod with the sandals,
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  Speaker 2: put and not put on two coats. And he said
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  Speaker 2: unto them, in the place, soever ye enter into an house,
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  Speaker 2: there abide until ye depart from that place. And whosoever
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  Speaker 2: shall not receive you nor hear you when you part,
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  Speaker 2: thence take off or shake off the dust under your
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  Speaker 2: feet for a testimony against them. Verily, I say unto you,
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  Speaker 2: it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in
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  Speaker 2: the day of judgment than for that city. And they
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  Speaker 2: went out and preached that men should repent, and they
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  Speaker 2: cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that
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  Speaker 2: were sick, and healed them. He's in his hometown, Jesus is.
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  Speaker 2: And because people decided that he did not fit the
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  Speaker 2: description of a man who was supposed to be powerful
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  Speaker 2: enough to deliver people from sin, because he didn't fit
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  Speaker 2: the description of someone who's supposed to understand the Bible. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: even in our own churches, can I just come right here?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes even in our own churches, people reject truth because
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  Speaker 2: the messenger doesn't fit the bill that in people's brain,
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  Speaker 2: he or she was not preaching from the version of
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  Speaker 2: the Bible. We think we like he or she did
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  Speaker 2: not go to a particular university and get a PhD.
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  Speaker 2: Or a Master of Divinity or a Doctor of Ministry degree,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore we sometimes reject them. They did not come
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  Speaker 2: from the conference, they did not come from the union.
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  Speaker 2: That they did not come from the division. This is
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  Speaker 2: for Seventh day Adventists to understand what these words mean.
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  Speaker 2: They did not come from the General Conference of Seventh
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  Speaker 2: day Adventists, so we didn't treat them as honored people
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  Speaker 2: in the pulpit, as they were actually delivering the mighty
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  Speaker 2: works of God and manifesting through the power of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit that God was with them. And so Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is saying that there are times that we have to
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  Speaker 2: shake the dust off our feet when people don't see
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  Speaker 2: and experience the power of the Holy Ghost and they
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  Speaker 2: reject that, they reject his power. There comes a point
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  Speaker 2: when we have to move on and go to the
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  Speaker 2: next town, the next village, the next situation where people
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  Speaker 2: are receptive to His will. Now, the Bible continues that
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  Speaker 2: you know, people are hearing about what Jesus is doing,
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  Speaker 2: and they're wondering, like, is this John reincarnated? Like what
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  Speaker 2: in the world is going on? We killed him because
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  Speaker 2: he was holy, We killed him because he was against
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  Speaker 2: us Ah, but it looked like it looked like that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus and John were so close that they couldn't tell
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  Speaker 2: the difference. The bottom line is that when the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit is moving, we get to receive him by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,