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07 23 2024 THE REASON for the Parables · 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 Tuesday, July twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle 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 through the Book
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  of Mark, and our caption for today is the Reason for the Parables,
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  The reason for the Parables. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go
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  over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick
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  up the Your Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in the
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  world. At your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we
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  continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  we will get underway. Father, thank you for this morning, for the
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  opportunity to listen and do according to your word. Father, Please give us
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  your holy spirit. Help us not to make this just an intellectual or academic
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  exercise, but help us to live live according to your word. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray, Amen and amen again. The reason for the parables?
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  Okay, and so why would Jesus invest his precious time to deliver parables?
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  Yeah, type it in a chat, like, why would Jesus in
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  his precious time to deliver these parables? Because really and truly, Jesus only
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  had a little bit of time on planet Earth. We're not talking about Jesus
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  as the one who is in heaven, the one who is in his pre
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  incarnate state, meaning before he took on a body and delivering words in scrolls
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  or on parchment. Like, it's not that he has three and a half
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  years of public ministry and he has to make it matter. Why would he
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  invest his precious time to deliver parables? Well, let's just continue thinking about
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  this from the book of Mark, chapter four, verse ten. The Bible
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  reads, when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him
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  about the parables. Verse eleven. He said to them, the secret of
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  the Kingdom of God has been given to you. So God is saying,
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  Jesus is saying in this case that I've given you the secrets. All of
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  the mysteries that are for humans are for our learning. Remember that for your
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  learning. Remember that passage. So the secrets of God that are for our
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  learning, he gives those to us, the secrets to the kingdom of the
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  kingdom, He's given those to them. But to those outside, everything is
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  in parables. I tap danced around this the other day, and I know
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  some people were a little bit confused. But now we're gonna sit right here.
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  And so sometimes we make it that these parables, which are incredible,
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  and even in the book Christ's object Lessons, they all have several of the
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  parables put together from E. G. White's writings, and this is appropriate.
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  But sometimes we make it seem as if the intent was for God to
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  speak the parables to people who are fully receptive to God's will, sort of
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  like the perfect ground, the good ground hearers, and it was like a
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  spiritual lesson study, and it is a spiritual lesson study. But hear what
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  Jesus is saying. He said, I'm gonna give this stuff to you directly.
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  But those who are not my people, those who are not receptive at
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  this point, those on the outside, everything is imparable, so that although
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  they look, they may not see. Although they hear, they may hear
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  but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven. And so
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  Jesus is saying very simply that if you have ears to hear, then you
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  will hear. Well, how do we get ears to hear? Jesus as
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  the one who now we are submitted to, gives us full understanding, and
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  they are no longer parables. The symbols go away. They give way to
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  the truth that God intended to teach. In fact, I wasn't planning on
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  doing this, but I want to go to the Bible Book of Revelation because
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  I think we can make even more sense out of it if we go to
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  the Bible Book of Revelation. It reads here, beginning at verse one,
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  the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him. So we see
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  that God gave revelation through Christ to show unto whom his servants things which must
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  shortly come to pass. Let me just say this to you. If you
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  feel like the prophecies of Revelation the prophecies of Daniel are impossible to understand or
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  too difficult, why does it have to be so difficult, then what you
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  brothers and sisters need to do is check your servanthood. If the parables are
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  difficult to understand, or you're one what in the world is this? And
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  you're saying, God, I need you to speak to me plainly, but
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  you're not getting him hearing him plainly, then that means you or I we
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  have to check our servanthood, because it says that He is showing it to
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  his servants which things must shortly come to pass, and signify it by his
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  Angel unto his servant John, who bear record of the word of God and
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  of the testimony of Jesus Christ, of all the things he saw. Now
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  there are three blessings here. I want you to get these blessings. Blessed
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  is he that readeth, and they that hear of this prophecy, and keep
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  the things which are written therein, for the time is at hand. So
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  Jesus in this revelation is saying that you're blessed when you read, you're blessed
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  when you hear, blessed when you keep the words that are written in this
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  book speaking of revelation, because the time is at hand. So in the
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  Book of Daniel we see in chapter twelve and verse four he says that the
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  vision was to be sealed up. The vision was to be sealed up.
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  But here the revelation is opening. That's why it's called revelation, like to
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  reveal, like that's he's opening it up to our understanding. Who's understanding,
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  servants of the Living God, Blessed be his name. Oh, and then
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  there are blessings. And so what God is telling us is the way in
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  the way to receive understanding in clarity and not in parables, is if we
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  become his servants. Let me read it back from the Book of Mark,
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  because I think we need a re education, a reprogramming here, because so
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  many people have missed this point. When he was alone those around him with
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  the twelve acts about the parables, what are you to talking about? Jesus?
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  He said to them, the secret of the Kingdom of God has been
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  given to you, but to those outside, everything is in parables or proverbs
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  parables to them. The secret given to you. Blessed is the one that
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  hears. Blessed is the one that does right. Blessed are the ones that
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  read. Because the time is at hand. God wants us to hear him,
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  not just in parables. He wants us to have repentant spirits that turn
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  away from sin, that open up and perk up when He speaks, so
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  that we can be like those who are the good soil hearers. That the
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  word doesn't just come into our hearts and then something cause it to go right
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  back out, but that the word takes lodgment, as we say here in
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  Jamaica Land we love, it takes lodgment in our hearts and then the fruit
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  comes from it. So the parables h really aren't what we thought they were.
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  Maybe somebody mistrained us. So God is teaching us that we can hear
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  from him plainly, okay. And so God wants to reveal the truth to
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  those who open, who are open to receive it. That's one of the
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  reasons to fulfill prophecy. That's another one of the reasons to challenge listeners to
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  think and reflect and to repent. That's another reason to protect spiritual truths from
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  being seen as unimportant. Only those who are willing to yield our will to
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  God will understand these things in the fullness. Why because those secrets of the
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  kingdom are only revealed to God's servants. The others, it'll be parallelus.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  has been your daily portion with el David Harris, Make it a great day. Yeah,