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11 05 2023 To Share the Good News · 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 Sunday, November five, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is
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  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 to share the good news.
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  To share the good news. Do you have good news to share? HM,
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  that's a real question. Do you have good or great news to share?
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot
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  com, join our online community and Share, Share, share where you are
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  in the world. There's a little form there on the page. And also
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  pick up the Your Daily Portion book. It's a way for us to continue
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  to build faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead
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  and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  for giving us the new opportunity today to open up your word. And I'm
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  asking you please to teach us to share share great news about what you are
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  doing in our lives today. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. Share, Share, Share, share the great news. Isn't
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  it wonderful that God is not asking us to do anything that we cannot do.
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  God does not set us up for failure. He enables us when he
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  bids us. When he bids us, he enables us. You see.
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  So God is saying to share what great things He is doing in our lives
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  today every opportunity that he provides. You see, He's not asking us to
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  do something that's impossible, something we have to make up, something we have
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  to study. He's saying, what am I doing in your life? How
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  am I transforming you? And when you share how He is transforming you then
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  you will be able to do what you will be able to share how God
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  can transform others. If he can change your life, if he can make
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  you holy when you were unholy, if he can give you confidence when you
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  used to lack confidence. Yes, he can do it for someone else.
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  So we're going to begin now in the Book of Luke, chapter twenty.
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  I'm going to read twelve verses. If the time permits, let's see how
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  we can do it. I'm gonna pace myself and see what God has to
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  say here. We're reading now verse one. Now, upon the first day
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  of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulcher,
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  bringing spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. Why
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  were these women going to a tomb on the day that Jesus said he would
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  rise from the tomb. So there is a faith problem in the camp of
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  the people of God. These women are looking for Jesus where he said he
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  would absolutely not be prophetically and then even while he was with them. Keep
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  going verse two, and they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher.
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  That's what they were supposed to find. And they entered in and found not
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  the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why not? Because he was risen.
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  He said, I laid down my life that I may take it again.
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  And this is the commandment that I have of my Father. Keep going
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  verse four, And came to pass as they were perplexed. Why were they
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  perplexed? About? Thereabout? Behold? Two men stood by them in shining
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  garments. And as they were afraid and bowed down their faces to the earth,
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  they said, unto the men, they said, unto them, Excuse
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  me? Why seek ye the living among the dead? Can I just ask
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  you? Why do you continue? Brothers and sisters, if this is your
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  case, why do you continue looking for God in dead places? Why do
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  you keep looking for God in what you abstain from? Why do you keep
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  looking from to God in your pain? Like? Why do you keep looking
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  for God in those areas where you fail? When God is saying, look
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  to me and live. He's saying that when you were down, called to
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  him as the great comforter. Huh. When you are successful, even thank
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  him for all of this. Says that he has provided in your life.
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  When you have suffered loss, look to Him as the one who restores.
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  Look to Him among the living. Don't look to him as always in the
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  pain situations. Look to him as the ultimate solution. I wish I had
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  the time. Let me keep going, And the Bible continues, he is
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  not here, but has risen. Remember how he spake unto you when he
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  was yet in Galilee. Look to Jesus by the way, brothers and sisters
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  in his promises. Look to him in your perplexity and wondering why he hasn't
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  done X y or Z. Look to him where he said he would do.
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  Write in the scriptures. There are thousands of prop part of me,
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  thousands of promises. Look for him there. The Bible continues, saying,
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  the son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be
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  crucified. And the third day, here comes the promise the Lord he will
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  rise again. And they remembered his words, Oh yes, yes, remember
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  his words, and returned from the sepulcher and told those things unto the eleven
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  and to the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary
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  the mother of James, and the other women that were with them, which
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  told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle
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  tales. And they believed them not? Then a rose Peter, why did
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  they not believe? And then a rose Peter and ran to the sepulcher,
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  and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed,
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  wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. Why is he
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  wondering so many questions today? Why is he wondering? Why is he wondering?
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  How God did exactly what he said he would do. Okay, so
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  let's look at our our action steps for today. First, come to the
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  tomb. That means, in this case, seek God personally and ultimately,
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  they were looking for Jesus even though they were looking for him to still be
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  in the tomb resting, but they did come to the tomb. That's a
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  good start, right. Dedicate a time to personally seek and understand. Now
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  we're looking for the significance of Jesus's resurrection in your life. So we can
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  go back to the tomb in the scriptures and say, Okay, God,
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  I'm searching for you here, but your risen. You're not dead but alive.
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  How can that transform your life? So dedicate time to personally seeking understanding
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  of the resurrection in your life. Can I just start you off here?
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  Can you just permit me to start you off here? Yeah? So the
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  Bible says that when we die to sin in Romans chapter three and other places
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  Romans chapter six, when we die to sin, we can be alive to
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  Christ. Galatians chapter tie two also says the same thing. When we die
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  to sin, we are raised together with Christ. And Paul said to be
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  seated with Christ Jesus in heavenly places. So if you want to live,
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  you have to allow some things in your life to die. Yeah, okay,
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  let me go to another one number two. Remember his words that means
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  to meditate on God's promises. I started you there, Remember in verse eight
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  of chapter twenty four of Luke. And they remembered his words. Regularly recall
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  and meditate upon the promises of God. Remind him God, you said,
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  you said that you have never you have said through inspiration. David said,
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  I've been young and I've been old. Never have I seen the righteous forsaken,
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  nor see begging bread. You said that you are the resurrection and the
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  life, and those who believe in you. Though he were dead, yet
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  shall he live? Lord? My faith is dead. But you said that
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  I can live that. He said, believest thou this, And so this
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  is what we do. We recall and meditate upon the promises of God,
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  and then let them guide your faith and actions, and of course the ultimate
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  Here share what you have witnessed, proclaim the gospel, the great news of
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  Jesus Christ being able to deliver wicked and dying sinners and make us holy and
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  fully living saints. And they returned from the sepulcher and told these things.
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  We return from the sepulcher and tell what great things the Lord is doing for
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  us. Have a wonderful day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,