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06 02 2025 Noah’s Evangelism · 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: June two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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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 study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Noah's Evangelism. Noah's Evangelism. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your daily portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new day and forgetting us into the
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  Speaker 2: work week even further. Please Father, give us understanding, help
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  Speaker 2: us to serve you with everything we have and everything
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  Speaker 2: we are. Help us to see ourselves as evangelists in
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  Speaker 2: this day in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: Pardon me Noah's evangelism. Okay, so if you were living
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  Speaker 2: no you're living in these last days. Let me switch
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  Speaker 2: it up. You're living in these last days? What message
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  Speaker 2: has God given you? I was about to take you
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  Speaker 2: back to Noah's day, but you're living in this day,
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  Speaker 2: like twenty twenty five, in the middle of the year.
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  Speaker 2: What message has God given you? That's the first question.
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  Speaker 2: And then how determined are you to share it? How
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  Speaker 2: determined When things get difficult, when people ridicule you, when
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  Speaker 2: people question you, when sometimes you have some doubts, not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily about the message, but about well am I to
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  Speaker 2: do it this way? Things are starting to feel a
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  Speaker 2: little fill in the blank. Whatever it is that causes
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  Speaker 2: your mind to start to think deeply, how determined are
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  Speaker 2: you to share it? And then how willing are you
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  Speaker 2: to remain focused? Because we're thins thinking about the time
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  Speaker 2: that Noah was living in He preached for one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty years one message oh nine. And so now
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, here in the day of Noah, and
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  Speaker 2: I want you to determine, like, is Noah's day and
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  Speaker 2: my day? Very are they similar? And the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: in Genesis, chapter six and verse five, and God saw
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  Speaker 2: that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
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  Speaker 2: and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
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  Speaker 2: was only evil. Continually, if you turn on the news,
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  Speaker 2: if you turn on your social media, if you turn
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  Speaker 2: on video services like well, I won't say like, because
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  Speaker 2: then people will get all bent out of shape. But
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  Speaker 2: there are streaming services that you can watch videos. Do
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  Speaker 2: you believe based on what you see? You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to contextualize it, You don't have to editorialize, You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to make an explanation, but simply see and observe
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  Speaker 2: and listen. Are our hearts humans in these last days?
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  Speaker 2: Not yours? But in these last days are people's hearts
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  Speaker 2: and imaginations of our hearts always only evil continually. And
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  Speaker 2: of course the answer is yes. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says here in verse eleven of Genesis chapter six, the
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  Speaker 2: earth also was corrupt before God? Do I need to
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  Speaker 2: ask the same question? And the earth was filled with violence?
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  Speaker 2: Do I need to ask the same question? Now? In
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twenty four, verses thirty seven through thirty nine,
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  Speaker 2: we see something telling, and the Bible reads, but as
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  Speaker 2: the days of as the days of Noah were, so
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  Speaker 2: shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
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  Speaker 2: For as in the days of Noah, before days that
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  Speaker 2: were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying
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  Speaker 2: and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered into
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  Speaker 2: the ark, and they knew not until the flood came
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  Speaker 2: and took them all away. So shall also the coming
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  Speaker 2: of the Son of Man be. The pastor who baptized
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  Speaker 2: me in nineteen ninety six, Pastor Henry M. Wright in Alexandria, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: used to say it was business as usual. So sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you get focused on the eating and drinking and say
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  Speaker 2: that it was in temperance, the marrying and giving in
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  Speaker 2: marriage saying that people have a flippant attitude toward the
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  Speaker 2: holiness of marriage. And perhaps that's true. But Pastor Wright
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  Speaker 2: used to say it was business as usual and that
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  Speaker 2: was the problem. While there was a looming warning, there
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  Speaker 2: were impending crises, and people's arts were turning away from
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  Speaker 2: God to extreme proportion, in extreme proportions, he said that
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  Speaker 2: it was business as usual. And I tend to agree,
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  Speaker 2: all of these years later, business as usual, as though
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  Speaker 2: nothing is happening. In fact, there are scoffers in the
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  Speaker 2: last days that say exactly that, Like, listen, y'all been
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  Speaker 2: talking about Jesus coming for a long time, but it
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  Speaker 2: looks like everything's the way that it's always been. Huh,
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  Speaker 2: It's always been like this. And the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: we are to count God's long suffering or his patients
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  Speaker 2: as salvation. It is salvafic in nature. God is giving
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  Speaker 2: us an opportunity to get closer to Him, which is
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  Speaker 2: why He is not yet here and so widespread wickedness
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  Speaker 2: and corruption. Genesis speaks of evil thoughts and violence in
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  Speaker 2: our world today is likewise filled with moral decay. Plea
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  Speaker 2: is preoccupation with pleasure and normalcy. Life went on as usual, eating, drinking,
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  Speaker 2: marrying until the judgment came. Today, many live distracted and
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  Speaker 2: unprepared sudden and unexpected judgment. It shouldn't be unexpected, because
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  Speaker 2: God has given us signs, He's given us warnings. But
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  Speaker 2: better than that, he has given us the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: be in safety with him, to be in connection with him,
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  Speaker 2: to be in right relationship with him, to love him
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  Speaker 2: and keep his commandments, and keep his commandments. So let's
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  Speaker 2: see how many lessons we can draw here in the
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  Speaker 2: little bit of time that we have remaining. Number One,
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  Speaker 2: faithfulness is not measured by numbers. The Bible says here
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  Speaker 2: in Hebrews, chapter eleven and verse seven. By faith, Noah
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  Speaker 2: warned of God prepared the arc. He preparedared the ark. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how many people went in, it says here for the
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  Speaker 2: deliverance of his family. That wasn't the whole purpose. But
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  Speaker 2: his family were the only ones, and they only narrowly
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  Speaker 2: the ones that were saved in the ark. Now, let
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  Speaker 2: me just be clear, those were not the only people
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  Speaker 2: that were holy in that day. I mean, there were
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  Speaker 2: some people who died before the flood came that were
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  Speaker 2: God's people. So let me not say that there were
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  Speaker 2: only eight people who were holy in that day. Same thing,
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  Speaker 2: in the last days, there was a small number. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the Bible gives a symbolic number to a small number
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  Speaker 2: who were living in the last days. It's a symbolic situation,
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  Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean that those are the only ones
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  Speaker 2: that are holy. It just means that that number, in
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  Speaker 2: contrast to those who could have been saved, is small, minuscule.
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  Speaker 2: So many people turned away. Now the world will mock
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  Speaker 2: the truth before the floodgates. I already gave allusion to
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  Speaker 2: this in two Peter, chapter three and verse five. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, they willingly are ignorant. Really, it's not the world,
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  Speaker 2: it's people of God too are It's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: of God that the world perished being overflowed with water.
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  Speaker 2: So what we need to do is speak the truth
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  Speaker 2: gently but boldly, knowing. Knowing mockery is a sign of
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  Speaker 2: the times, not a sign to stop. Mockery is a
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  Speaker 2: sign of the times, not a sign to stop. What
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  Speaker 2: is the message God gave you? How determined are you
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  Speaker 2: to share it? How long are you willing to remain focused? Peace?
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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,