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09 25 2024 Appearing to Mary and Others · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, September
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty twenty four. 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 in our final
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  Speaker 2: week in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is appearing to Mary and Others.
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  Speaker 2: Appearing to Mary and Others. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: get there. I want you to take a good look
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  Speaker 2: at it and see what God wants you to do there. Also,
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day, for the opportunity that you
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  Speaker 2: have given to us to open your word. Please, God,
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  Speaker 2: I ask you to help us to see like you
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  Speaker 2: see and not as we as humans see. Give us
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  Speaker 2: your vision in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say that God respects his creation, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to be careful how I say it. He
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  Speaker 2: loves us, and you want to say, well, how much
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  Speaker 2: does he loves us? He loves us so much that
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  Speaker 2: not only did he give his life for us through Christ,
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus gave his life so that we can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: He blew his breath. He blew the breath of life
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  Speaker 2: into humanity, and we became a living soul. Adam. He
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  Speaker 2: blew his breath into Adam's nostrils, and he became a
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  Speaker 2: living soul. He created Eve from Adam's rib, and he
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  Speaker 2: made her a living soul. Each of them had their
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  Speaker 2: relationships with God. Adam when he was with God right
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  Speaker 2: after creation, he was with God. He was with God,
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  Speaker 2: just he and Adam, He and God, He and God.
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  Speaker 2: God puts him to sleep, and then God makes Eve.
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  Speaker 2: And while Adam is sleeping, Eve has her own connection
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  Speaker 2: with God. She's with God. She's with God. And then
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  Speaker 2: he wakes up Adam, and then the two together have
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  Speaker 2: their relationship with God. They formed that threefold chord that
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  Speaker 2: is hard to be broken. God, Adam and Eve. But
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we minimize what God did in Eve and her daughters.
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  Speaker 2: We minimize that and what God is doing right here
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  Speaker 2: in this aspect of the story. I was critical of
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  Speaker 2: us humans. I was critical of God's people yesterday. Not
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  Speaker 2: in a negative way. You heard me in a positive way.
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  Speaker 2: But we needed constructive criticism to say, well, why were
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  Speaker 2: these women at the tomb there to bury or to
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  Speaker 2: embalm a dead man when Jesus promised that he would
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  Speaker 2: wake up on or take up his life on the
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  Speaker 2: first day, and so he honors these women. Though they
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  Speaker 2: do come to the tomb, their intent is to worship
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  Speaker 2: at the tomb in their own way and to honor Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: While they were hopeless and sad, they should have been
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  Speaker 2: hopeful and looking forward to seeing him wake up. But
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  Speaker 2: that's beside the point. Now, they were going there with
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  Speaker 2: a heart that's positive toward God, a heart that was
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  Speaker 2: full of worship and gratitude, a heart that expressed thankfulness
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  Speaker 2: to God. Okay, but now they get the blessed surprise
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus actually did what he said he was going
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  Speaker 2: to do. He took up his life again. And so
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  Speaker 2: God honors these women. In Mark chapter sixteen, I will
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  Speaker 2: read beginning at verse nine. Now, when Jesus was risen
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  Speaker 2: early the first day of the week, he appeared first
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  Speaker 2: to Mary Magdalene. So he appears to a woman in
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  Speaker 2: a society of male domination. He appears first to a
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  Speaker 2: woman in a society of male domination, and not to
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  Speaker 2: his disciples. And this woman had seven experiences with evil spirits,
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  Speaker 2: plus some other stuff that she went through. So she
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  Speaker 2: wasn't even like the premiere, if you want to say,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm saying this for a fact, like she wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the number one person in her class, like she wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the most likely to success. But she loved God most
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  Speaker 2: because she had been delivered most her love quotient was
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  Speaker 2: very high because she appreciated what God had done for her.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us believed that she was the one that
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  Speaker 2: was at Jesus's feet. He was at Jesus. She was
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  Speaker 2: at Jesus's feet on multiple occasions, worshiping and getting as
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  Speaker 2: much from Jesus as possible, so that she could experience
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of God through him. Yes, and so it
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  Speaker 2: says here he first appeared to marry Magdalene, out of
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  Speaker 2: whom he cast seven devils. Where were his disciples? Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Verse ten, She went and told them, And she went
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  Speaker 2: and told them that she had been with him, as
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  Speaker 2: they mourned and wept. And they, when they had heard
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  Speaker 2: that he was alive and had been seen of her,
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  Speaker 2: believed not. He appeared in another form unto two of them,
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  Speaker 2: as they walked and went into the country. They went
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  Speaker 2: and told it unto the residue. Neither believed they them. Afterward,
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  Speaker 2: he appeared unto eleven as they sat at meat, and
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  Speaker 2: upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because
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  Speaker 2: they believed, not them which had seen him. After he
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  Speaker 2: was risen, And he said unto them, go ye into
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  Speaker 2: all the world and preach the Gospel unto every creature.
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  Speaker 2: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But
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  Speaker 2: he that believeth not shall be condemned. And these signs
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  Speaker 2: shall follow them that believe in My name. They shall
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  Speaker 2: cast out devils, They shall speak in new tongues. They
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  Speaker 2: shall take up serpents, and if they drink and any
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  Speaker 2: deadly thing, they shall not hurt them. And they shall
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  Speaker 2: lay hands on the sick. And they shall recover what
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  Speaker 2: a promise. And they so then even the Lord had
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  Speaker 2: spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven and
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  Speaker 2: sat at the right hand of God. And they went
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  Speaker 2: forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and
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  Speaker 2: confirming the Word with signs. So much to say, so
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  Speaker 2: little time. You see, God has a habit. What is
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  Speaker 2: the habit? He has the habit of choosing the least
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  Speaker 2: likely people to be his witnesses. Are you one of
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  Speaker 2: those least likely people? Brothers and sisters? Is it because
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  Speaker 2: of the way you speak? Maybe you don't speak as
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  Speaker 2: well as some others do. Is it the way that
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  Speaker 2: you think I said, you think that you look in
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  Speaker 2: contrast to the way others appear. I won't get into that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what it is. Is it because of the
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  Speaker 2: way you've been educated or not educated. Maybe you didn't
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  Speaker 2: choose or have the privilege to go to high school.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you, like one Ellen White, Maybe you were a
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  Speaker 2: person who who was you were not in school from
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  Speaker 2: grade school. It was grade three that was her last
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  Speaker 2: time in school. Maybe you're a person who just really
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  Speaker 2: doubts yourself sometimes. And God is saying that he is
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  Speaker 2: able to do just like he did through these women,
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  Speaker 2: including Mary Magdalene, whose story was unlikely, unlikely as being
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  Speaker 2: the chief evangelist of that moment of time. But he
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  Speaker 2: because he loves us so much that he does not
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  Speaker 2: allow any human thing to limit what he promised he
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  Speaker 2: would do. He said, I will send you out and
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  Speaker 2: I will lead people to myself. I will give you power,
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  Speaker 2: I will give you authority. I will give you the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of being a representative of God through your experience,
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  Speaker 2: your testimony. And so the role of the unlikely witness
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  Speaker 2: is key for us to remember. We must never minimize
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  Speaker 2: the work that God has called for us to do. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: validation in difficult times is another principle that I want
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  Speaker 2: to share with you. It was extremely difficult. When these
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  Speaker 2: women appeared at the tomb, they were feeling hopeless, No
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  Speaker 2: doubt they were tired. I don't see how they could
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  Speaker 2: have gotten any sleep in that state. But when they
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  Speaker 2: experienced Jesus being alive, he validated their desire to be
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  Speaker 2: with him. He validated their ministry of going to others
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  Speaker 2: and sharing. Christ has risen you see. So God has
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  Speaker 2: so much to say in these scenarios, but we have
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  Speaker 2: to have our eyes and ears open waiting for God's guidance.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, 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,