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04 26 2025 The Nations- Part 2 · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, April
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty five. 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is The Nation's Part two, The
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  Speaker 2: Nation's Part two. Get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot Com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege that we have to open up your word
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  Speaker 2: and to study from the scriptures. I pray that you
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  Speaker 2: will help us to see where we are in this
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  Speaker 2: earth's history. It won't be long now until Jesus comes,
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  Speaker 2: the one for whom we have waited. Father, Please make
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  Speaker 2: us holy, help us to surrender our will in every
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  Speaker 2: particular in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen, and a man
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  Speaker 2: again the Nation's Part two. Let me begin by reading
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  Speaker 2: from the Bible Book of Psalms, the Bible Book of Psalms,
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  Speaker 2: chapter forty six, and I will read verse ten. I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably read it again in just a little while. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads. Be still and know that I am God. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible is showing us very clearly here that people
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  Speaker 2: have a tendency to be too fast, rushing along by
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  Speaker 2: every day and forgetting that God is who exactly he
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  Speaker 2: said he is. He's the creator of all humankind, the
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  Speaker 2: creator of the universe. He's the one who redeems us
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  Speaker 2: by his blood, and if we yield our will to him,
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  Speaker 2: we will be just like him. One day we'll see
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  Speaker 2: him as he is. But but but sometimes blasphemously people
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  Speaker 2: run by blasphemously. Sometimes people are forgetting that God is
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  Speaker 2: the one who laid the foundations of the earth, because
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  Speaker 2: these humans are deciding to try to change everything, challenge everything,
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  Speaker 2: challenge God's word, challenge his holy institutions, challenge the principles
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  Speaker 2: that God has taught us. And he wants us to
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  Speaker 2: take our time be still, because I think it was
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  Speaker 2: as in the days of Noah. Ah people were eating
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  Speaker 2: and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day
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  Speaker 2: that Noah entered into the ark and the floods came
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  Speaker 2: and took them all away. And so the Bible is
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  Speaker 2: teaching us that we need to pause and then not
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  Speaker 2: just having assent to the truth, but begin to worship
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  Speaker 2: God as if intimately we are with him, understanding that
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  Speaker 2: he indeed is the God who created all things. Blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name. There's no God like him, there is
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  Speaker 2: no other God worthy of worship. And the Bible continues,
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  Speaker 2: I will be exalted. Is He exalted in your life?
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking myself the same question as God exalted in
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  Speaker 2: my life. Even in this moment, just about four minutes
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  Speaker 2: into our broadcast, I'm asking myself honestly before God, are
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  Speaker 2: you exalted God in my life? And if not, why not?
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  Speaker 2: And then when we discover the why not? Then what next?
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible continues, I will be exalted in the earth.
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  Speaker 2: God will be exalted. And so the lesson writer identifies
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of problems, a lot of problems. People say
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  Speaker 2: all kind of creepy, crazy, goofy stuff about God and
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  Speaker 2: make up all kinds of arguments. People make it seem
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  Speaker 2: as if God intended for us to do evil so
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  Speaker 2: that he could surprise the planet, shock the world with
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  Speaker 2: his new plan of salvation. But that is not the case.
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  Speaker 2: God never intended for us to sin. He knew that
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  Speaker 2: we would. But we can't blame God for knowing everything.
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  Speaker 2: He knew that we would turn away from him, and
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  Speaker 2: he always had the plan so that he could fix
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  Speaker 2: this if we will yield our will to him. But
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  Speaker 2: we don't blame God. We don't make it seem as
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  Speaker 2: if God desired this, because it was always intended for
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  Speaker 2: us to be one with God with no hitches. But
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  Speaker 2: Adam failed, Eve she failed, and now we have this
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  Speaker 2: big mess. But I'm thankful that where sin abounds, grace
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  Speaker 2: did much more abound. And the lesson writer says, this
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  Speaker 2: week we will the coming week, meaning tomorrow. Beginning tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: we will continue looking at the problem caused or the
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  Speaker 2: problems caused by the fall and the desire for human
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  Speaker 2: government as opposed to God's governance. These truths are powerfully
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  Speaker 2: revealed in the Book of Daniel, which shows that God
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  Speaker 2: was right when he warned his people about what would
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  Speaker 2: happen when they turned away from Him and chose earthly
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  Speaker 2: monarchs instead. This is exactly what they got, earthly monarchs instead.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to hear that word instead in the
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  Speaker 2: place of God. It's not that now that we have
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  Speaker 2: governments that God is recommending that we go against. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's not the point. The point is that where governments
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  Speaker 2: are in alignment with God's will, then we're good to go,
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  Speaker 2: because really we're following God's mandates. But if and when
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  Speaker 2: governments are guiding us against the truth of God, against
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  Speaker 2: what God has taught us, then we can see in history.
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  Speaker 2: We can see in the time of Daniel, Michel Hannanaiah
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  Speaker 2: and Azariah. What happens if people turn their backs on
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  Speaker 2: God in preference or deference to earthly rulers, and so
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  Speaker 2: that is the word instead there, this is exactly what
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  Speaker 2: they got, earthly monarchs instead, and sinners lording it over sinners.
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  Speaker 2: Never again combination. Okay, So we choose God one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent of the time, and anything else or anyone else
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  Speaker 2: that aligns with God's will, we choose that too. It
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  Speaker 2: is until or unless those go against God. Now, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer says, we're going to identify problems, and
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  Speaker 2: I think God's people it's no disrespect, no shade intended.
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  Speaker 2: But God's people have a habit of being able to
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  Speaker 2: identify problems. It's like, of course you're supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do that, Dave, I understand. But we need
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  Speaker 2: some solutions too, Okay, So don't get stuck in the
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  Speaker 2: identification of problems loop, that rut that happens sometimes on
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath mornings. Right in a few a couple of hours,
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  Speaker 2: there are gonna be some people with microphones standing up
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  Speaker 2: in churches all around the world, ready to identify problems.
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  Speaker 2: But I ask you to challenge all of us teachers
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  Speaker 2: from the scriptures to provide solutions that God has given us. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm going to just three this morning because
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  Speaker 2: we don't have a lot of time. Number one comes
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  Speaker 2: from the Bible Book of Proverbs, chapter three and verse five,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, trust in the Lord with all
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  Speaker 2: thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's pause right there. So the action step based on
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  Speaker 2: this is to daily surrender to God's rule. Daily, I said,
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  Speaker 2: I should say, momentarily submit to God's rule. Submit decisions
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  Speaker 2: to his word. Every decision that you're trying to make,
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  Speaker 2: submit it to God's rule. Trust in his timing, and
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  Speaker 2: follow his leadership. Okay, that is solution number one. Number
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  Speaker 2: two comes from the Bible Book of Psalms. I told
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  Speaker 2: you i'd read it again, Verse ten of chapter forty six.
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  Speaker 2: Be still and know that I am God. Be still
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  Speaker 2: and know that I am God. And this means to
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  Speaker 2: practice the visible presence of God. I think an inspiration.
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  Speaker 2: We have been enjoined to do just that. Rest in
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  Speaker 2: His control. You like control us a heavy word. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: If God is in control, I think we're good to go.
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  Speaker 2: Wait on his timing and trust in his plans. Finally, finally,
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  Speaker 2: from Matthew chapter six and verse thirty three. But seek
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  Speaker 2: ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
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  Speaker 2: all things needed, all things needful will be added unto us.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we're prioritizing eternal values. We're building kingdom principles.
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  Speaker 2: We're living heavenly citizenship and maintaining eternal focus above and
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  Speaker 2: against ours. 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,