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11 11 2023 Mission to My Neighbor · 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 Sabbath, November eleven, twenty twenty three. 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. God's Mission,
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  My mission, and our caption for today is mission to my neighbor,
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  and I just want to underscore or my neighbor. We'll get into that in
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  just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome and happy Sabbath to
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  everyone joining us and ask you, if you've not gone over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com, to please go ahead and do so right now to your
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  Daily Portion dot com. And please also put in that little box where you
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  are in the world so we can continue to grow in faith in fellowship.
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  And when you have an opportunity, please pick up the your Daily Portion book
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  again at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us
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  this new day and for the privilege we have to pray. Please open up
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  our understanding, teach us who our neighbor is and how best to serve our
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  neighbor. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amn again. I
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  suppose I preempted myself while I was praying because I knew where I was going,
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  but I didn't intend to talk about it right there. But yeah,
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  the big question is who is my neighbor? First, let's begin with Luke,
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  chapter ten and verse twenty seven. We'll circle back to that passage in
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  a moment, and the Bible reads he answered, love the Lord your God,
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  with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all
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  your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
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  And reality is when you hear something like this, Jesus was speaking.
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  We'll give some context. In a moment, you have to ask the obvious
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  question like who is my neighbor? And then some other questions regarding love and
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  so forth, who is my neighbor? And so the person that he was
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  speaking to we will see now as we pick up the story in verse twenty
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  five of Luke, chapter ten, and behold a certain lawyer. So he's
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  speaking. Jesus is speaking to a certain lawyer and tempted him, saying,
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  Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And if I'm not
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  mistaken, tomorrow we will deal with eternal life. And Jesus said, unto
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  him, what is written in the law, How readest thou? And he
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  said, thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart,
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  and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all
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  thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said, unto him,
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  thou hast Us answered, right, this do, and thou shalt live
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  like I said, We're gonna deal with that in the coming days. But
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  he asked a question, it says here in verse twenty nine. And it
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  seems that the man was disingenuous, like he was not being really honest as
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  he was asking the question. But this is what he said. But he
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  willing to justify himself, said, unto Jesus, who is my neighbor?
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  Yeah, he's ready to give Jesus a resume, right, but he starts
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  with this, who is my neighbor? And Jesus answering said, a certain
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  man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him
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  of his raiment and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead. And
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  by chance there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw
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  him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a levite,
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  when he was at that place, came and looked on him and passed by
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  on the other side. So these are people that were supposed to be people
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  of God. They were supposed to be holy. Like in air quotes,
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  these are individuals who decided based on their customs and understanding or misapplication of the
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  sanctuary and the law of Moses. They decided that this person who was wounded
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  was unclean, and therefore as an interruption, he would have been an interruption
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  to whatever they were doing. They decided to walk and leave him right where
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  he was boy, I wish I had the time, and verse thirty three.
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  The Bible continues, but a certain Samaritan see this individual, was seen
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  as also unclean like this person was seen as someone who was not of the
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  household of God by the people there. As he journeyed, he came where
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  he was and saw him. He had compassion on him, and went to
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  him and bound up his wounds, wait a minute, pouring in oil and
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  wine, and set him on his beast, meaning the man the Samaritan had
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  an animal, likely a donkey, And he set him on his beast,
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  and brought him to an inn and took care of him verse thirty five.
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  And on the morrow, when he departed, he took two pence and gave
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  to the host, and said to him take care of him. And whatsoever
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  thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay the And so
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  Jesus is showing in this situation that the one who was supposedly not clean,
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  like the one who was not a priest, was not a levite, one
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  who was not considered to be a part of the household of faith. Yes,
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  that individual actually showed holiness, showed deference, showed compassion, for the
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  man, and thus fulfilling the second and great commandment, which is to love
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  your neighbor as yourself. And that one was like unto the first, which
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  is to love God with everything we are. And so by serving his neighbor,
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  by serving the individual who was in need, he was showing love for
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  God and also love for humanity. How could you see somebody in that state
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  and just walk on by? Let me continue. And of course he by
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  the way, left payment, so that whatever that man or who was wounded
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  needed, that he would have been taken care of. Hmm. Verse thirty
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  six. Which now of these three thinkest thou was the neighbor of him that
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  fell among thieves. Remember, he was wounded, he was beaten, He
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  was in a terrible state, verse thirty seven. And he said, he
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  that showed mercy on him, then said Jesus unto him, go and do
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  like wise. He wanted to justify himself. That man wanted to justify himself.
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  He wanted to show that he was all of that in a bag of
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  chips, if you want to say. And Jesus exposed his reality, which
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  was, yeah, that he needed some more work. We all need more
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  work. But this man had to learn the lesson that even though there was
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  a man who was supposed to be a levite, there was a man who
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  was supposed to be a priests. Those individuals committed one of the worst sins
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  ever, which is in humanity toward humanity. And I know people say all
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  sin is the same, right sin, a sin, as we say here
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  in Jamaica. But the reality is that there are exactly levels to this.
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  There's no question like there are levels to this. There are some sins that
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  are of greater magnitude. This is why Jesus said, unto whom much is
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  given, much is to be required. So not every sin is of equal
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  magnitude. Murder is not the same. If you murder someone is not the
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  same as if you gossip, even though spiritually it's the same. In terms
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  of the impact and the outcome, the loss of life is of greater magnitude
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  because of what is left behind. I wish I had the time, but
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  the bottom line is that when we don't show mercy to someone, we are
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  indeed murdering them. What what if nobody took care of that man who fell
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  among thieves? You see? And so what God is saying to us is
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  if we have a mission to our neighbor. First of all, we need
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  to know who our neighbor is. Then, of course, with the love
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  for God and love for humanity, principles of the law, the Ten Commandments
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  law, when we go out on a mission to our neighbor, Now we
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  know we go on a mission with the one with the spirit of the one
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  who gave us this mission, which is Jesus Christ. Jesus identified with the
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  Samaritan and showed mercy where the priest the Levite didn't. Have a wonderful day.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great
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  day. Yeah,