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07 18 2024 Sandwich Story, Part 2 · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Thursday, July eighteen, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my Namezelle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,
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  and our caption for today is Sandwich Story Part two. Now you know
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  what Sandwich story means. You can go back to yesterday if you have not
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  been here before and see what the lesson writer meant by that. But we're
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  in part two now, and before we begin, I'd like to say welcome
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  to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  I'm asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  pick up the Your Daily Portion book. Let us know where you are in
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  the world at your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father
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  and Heaven, thank you for giving us this day and for the opportunity to
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  open up your word. I'm asking you to please fill us with your holy
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  spirit, teach us how to serve and to love you. I ask you
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  to please give us the fullness of power to do your will. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray, Amen and Amn again. Okay, So a lot
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  is going on here in the scriptures, and I want to introduce now from
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  the Bible Book of Mark three a couple of verses. We'll go back to
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  verses twenty and twenty one and see what God, what God has has to
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  say to us. Okay, and we're back here again. We read it
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  yesterday. But let's take another peek. And the Bible says, and the
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  multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
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  And when his friends heard of it, they went out and lay hold
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  on him, or they said he is beside himself. Okay, And so
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  the lesson writer says, a charge of mental instability is quite serious. This
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  is what they're saying about Jesus by the way he's beside himself. What typically
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  this arises from experiences where a person is at a threat to do, a
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  threat to his or her own safety. Jesus's family felt this way about him
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  because he was so busy that he did not take time to stop, even
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  to eat. But they're saying he's unstable. They set out to take charge
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  of him. That there were the outer story of the sandwich. This is
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  where the story breaks off, interrupted by the inner story about the scribes charging
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  Jesus with being like with the devil. A strange parallel exists between the outer
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  stories and the inner stories of this sandwich. Jesus's own family seems to have
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  a view of him parallel to that of the scribes. The family says he's
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  mad or crazy. The scribes say that he's in league with the devil.
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  You see where this is a problem. So in the middle of this story
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  we're seeing like the common denominator is that two sets of people think that Jesus
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  is off track, one with the devil one with his mental health. What
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  in the world? Okay, So let's go down to I'm just blown away
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  by this. Let's go down to verse thirty one, and the Bible says,
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  and there came then his brethren and his mother and standing without sent unto
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  him, calling him. So we're talking about the people with his the mother
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  of his birth, and those brothers that would have been attached to his stepfather
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  Joseph. Okay, And so they're calling unto him and the fat I shouldn't
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  say stepfather, Maybe that's not the right way to say it. But Mary's
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  husband. It's not really a stepfather. You know how the miracle of his
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  birth happened, right, So it's hard for me to figure out how to
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  say Joseph. Right, but Joseph's son. So now those are his brothers,
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  Okay, got it. And so they're outside they're calling for him Verse
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  thirty two. And the multitudes sat about him, and they said, unto
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  him, behold thy mother, and thy brethren without they seek for thee.
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  So who are we talking about. We're talking about his mommy, Mary,
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  and then the the brothers who are the sons of Joseph. Okay, they're
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  calling for thee and he answered them saying, who is my brother? Who's
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  my mother? Who are my brothers? Who is my mother? And he
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  looked around about them which sat about him, and said, behold my mother
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  and my brethren. So he's in the middle of doing what God wants him
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  to do and his actual mother and his brothers are calling unto him. And
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  Jesus turns that into a teaching moment. Do you see all of these people
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  or these people around? Do you see all of these people? These people,
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  if they do my will, are my family. And I say that
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  again, these people, if they do my will, these people are my
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  family. Who's soever ever shall do the will of God? The same is
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  my brother and my sister and my mother. Some of you may have had
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  difficulty vibing or connecting with family, the family that you were born into.
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  I know that I did. I had a challenge because I didn't quite know
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  how to. I didn't understand it, like it was disjointed. There were
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  things going on in my household that threw my whole understanding of family off.
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  I heard the word, but I couldn't understand it because I was like,
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  well, I don't really think that this is what God meant by family.
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  I don't really think this is what even even humans mean by family. It
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  was not the right model, right, This is how I saw it,
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  no disrespect. And so what Jesus is saying is that, yeah, we
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  have a new model of family here. The new model of family is everybody
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  who has been adopted into the Family of God through Christ. Those are your
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  family worldwide. There are some brothers and sisters you're listening right now. English
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  is your second language, or you don't speak English at all. Maybe you're
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  reading captions in your own language or dialect on this social media platform or on
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  YouTube. You are learning to speak or hear in English, but you don't
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  even speak like I have brothers and sisters in different parts of the world that
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  don't even speak the same language that I do. I have mothers and aunties
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  and uncles, grandparents. I have children around the world whose language I don't
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  speak, people I've never met. And I hear the song I'm so glad
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  I'm a part of the family of God. And what God is trying to
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  tell us is that what brings us together is are yielding to God through the
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  Holy Spirit. What brings us together is confessing and forsaking our sins. What
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  brings us together is literally living like God is our father and that Jesus is
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  our savior. This is what makes us family, brothers and sisters. This
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  is what makes us family. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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  I hope you're getting this. Jesus said to Nicodemus in John chapter three.
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  I believe he was speaking to Nicodemus right, Yes, he said, marvel
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  not. When I say unto you that you must be born again. That
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  which is born of flesh is flesh. So your mommy and daddy, how
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  that happened. That's that's a fleshly reality. That is a biological process.
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  They came together, and now you're here. That which is born of flesh
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  is flesh. But I'm showing you away into the new family. I'm showing
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  you away into the family of God. That which is born of spirit now
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  is spirit. So marvel not when I say unto you that you must be
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  born again. Everybody who's born again our family. And so I'm thankful that
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  God gave us in this discussion the key to our loneliness, the key to
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  our isolation. In twenty twenty four, no person who is a part of
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  the Family of God needs to be isolated. No person who's a part of
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  the Family of God should feel loneliness because you have brothers and sisters all over
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  the world beginning at where you are that He wants to plug you into into
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  the community and the family of God. I'm so glad I'm a part of
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  the Family of God. Yeah. We have our challenges sometime, but we
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  are God's family nonetheless. Make it a great day, peace, Thanks for
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  joining us, listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,