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06 24 2024 Hope in Jesus' Soon Return · 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 Monday, June twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our final week of this lesson
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  study series, the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is hope in Jesus's
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  soon return. Hope in Jesus is soon return. We'll get back into that
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  in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you,
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  and welcome everybody who's not come to your Daily Portion dot com as yet join
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  our online community. We are growing by leaps and bounds. We had to
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  re calibrate, and God is growing the community. This is where you can
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  ask all of your questions related to the Lesson study, or we can have
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  discussion. Don't come in there thinking that you're going to post a bunch of
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  stuff, because that's not the purpose for it. The system will reject posts
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  that are just generic in nature, even really good ones. It's about the
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  Lesson study questions that you have discussions related to the Lesson study, and we
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  will continue to build faith and fellowship there. Okay, that's an opportunity we
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  have because I just talk you. I talk to you this way. You're
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  listening to me on the radio, you're watching me on the internet right,
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  listen to me on podcasts, and you don't have a way to really respond
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  except for the few moments in chat. No, we come in the community
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  and that's where we get the real work done. So I'm grateful. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father in heaven, thank you
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  for this day. Thank you for loving us enough to give us hope.
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  Please help us to embrace the hope in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
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  and Amen again. Let me ask you a question, do you have hope
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  in Jesus? If you have hope in Jesus, just go ahead and type
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  of one in the chat. If you're on the internet, or if you
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  are even in a podcast, go ahead and leave a review and then type
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  a one during the review and say, I have hope in Jesus's in Jesus.
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  And now let me tighten it up a little bit based on the caption
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  for today. Do you have hope in the fact that Jesus is coming and
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  he's coming soon. He's coming for you brothers and sisters. Do you have
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  hope that way? Hopefully you do, go ahead and type of one in
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  the chat. If you have hope in Christ and hope in the reality,
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  blessed hope that Jesus is coming soon. You see a lot of times people
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  lose focus and lose hope because they don't know in whom they have their hope.
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  They've hoped and their friends who have let them down, their family members
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  have let them down. The bank that they hoped that they would get a
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  loan from in order to get the home that they need in order to live
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  comfortably has let them down, and so many other things. The governments have
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  let them down. M h. And So what God is saying to us
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  is that in the last days especially, and I know I keep saying those
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  words, but that's because we're living in the last days. During the last
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  days, God wants to give us hope, and the same hope he gave
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  his disciples. Jesus gave his disciples. As Jesus was preparing to give his
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  life for us, he knew that those people were going to unalive him.
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  The internet is so crazy. I can't even say what I really mean.
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  Un alive. You know what that means, right, because it messes up
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  your channel when you say the words as they really are these days. But
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  God is saying that as Jesus is preparing to give his life for us and
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  his disciples are fearful and discouraged, Jesus said this, let not your heart
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  be troubled. Don't let your heart be troubled. Why not ye believe in
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  God? Believe also in me. In my father's house, there are many
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  mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I
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  go to prepare a place for you. What Yes, He's going to prepare
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  a place for you. Whether you are homeless today, God forbid. But
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  if you are, and God bless you, you're listening today, this is
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  your day to receive hope. Yes, God is going to take care of
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  you somehow on planet Earth. Yes, but one day he's going to give
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  you a specific, special place that's just for you among those many mansions in
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  heaven. If it were not so, brothers and sisters, I would have
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  told you, I go and prepare a place for you. And if I
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  go to prepare a place for you, because Jesus is so efficient, he
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  does not waste energy or time. He said, since I'm going to prepare
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  a place for you, I'm going to go ahead and come back here.
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  I'm going to return. If I go and prepare a place for you,
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  I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there,
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  ye may be also. So. Yes, there will be a time of
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  trouble. Yes, it will be challenging. Yes, you will have some
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  things go on even before that time of trouble that you wish were not happening.
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  But God said that if you just hope in me, believe in me,
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  I'm going to come here and I'm going to resolve all of that once
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  and for all, and in the Book of Titus chapter two. The Book
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  of Titus chapter two bout, beginning at verse eleven, the Bible reads,
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  for the grace of God, that's his power for us to do as well.
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  The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. You're
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  a people this and sisters, you're a person, so that means you.
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  It trains us to reject godless ways. See if you're God's children, if
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  you are King's kids, and He has brought power to your life so that
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  you can have salvation, then that means you turn away from godless ways and
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  worldly desires and to live self control. Thank God, you can control yourself
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  when people say slick stuff out of their mouths to you and you don't like
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  it, and you really want to tell them something, huh. That has
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  four letters in it For the English speakers in the house, Yeah, you
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  say no, no, no, no, no no. God has given
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  me power. He has saved me. I reject the godless ways that are
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  creeping up into my mind, and I am able to be upright and have
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  godly lives in the present age, as we wait for the happy fulfillment of
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  the hope in the glorious appearing of the Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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  Did you get that of our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ? Verse
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  fourteen and final, He gave himself for us to set us free. Are
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  you sensing your liberty today? Brothers and sisters, to set us free,
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  set us free from what, set us free from what, from every kind
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  of lawlessness, and to purify for himself a people who are truly His,
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  who are eager to do good. I'm grateful, brothers and sisters, because
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  God has given us hope in this present world that we can live according to
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  God's principles. And while we wait, we can live abundant lives. He
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  is able to make us abundant in these last days. Yes, everything is
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  not toil and difficulty as we await. There are great and bright spots,
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  sunny spots in our lives that we can live according to His will and Deuteronomy
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  Chapter twenty eight, beginning at verse one straight through the verse fourteen, the
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  Bible gives us the blueprint for people who want to live prosperous lives. We
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  live according to His principles, his precepts, his laws, his judgments,
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  and we will have blessings upon blessings upon blessings that we can't even contain,
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  and we give God thanks. The wicked realize though in the last of the
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  last days, it's a contrast now a consequences of sin, while the righteous
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  have accepted the marvelous provisions of grace. According to the lesson writer, rebellion
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  against God leads to fear and guilt, condemnation, and eventually eternal loss,
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  eternal separation from God, eternal loss. Our response to his saving grace leads
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  to forgiveness. Thank God that I don't have to worry about my past.
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  Huh. Peace, Thank God that I am RESTful no matter what is happening,
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  whether I am abounding or I am in lack for a moment of time,
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  I can have peace and joy eternally at his glorious return. We look
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  forward to the day that Jesus will appear and he will resolve all of those
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  woes. And let me say, in the last moments here from Great Controversy,
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  page six fifty one, the Cross of Christ will be the science and
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  song of the Redeemed through all eternity. In Christ glorified, they will behold
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  Christ crucified. We thank God he has done everything that he needs to do
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  to save us peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,