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06 04 2024 Death in the New Testament · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Tuesday, June four, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is death in the New Testament. Death in the New
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  Testament. We'll get some hope out of this in just a moment, but
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  be before we do. I'd like to welcome you to your Daily Portion dot
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  com. Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book,
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  and let us know where you are in the world. At your Daily
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  Portion dot Com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and
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  fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father, Thank you for giving us hope, hope beyond the grave. Thank
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  you for giving us an opportunity in our lives today to live according to your
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  principles. Thank you for loving us so much that we don't have to worry
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  about what happens when we die. We can just know that if we die,
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  we'll rest and then one day we will be raised into everlasting life.
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  Help us to maximize our time with you today. In Jesus' name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again death in the New Testament. Okay, And
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  so I wanted to give you some encouragement based on what the lesson writer pointed
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  out here from the Book of John chapter eleven. So listen here the story.
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  Lazarus was very sick. That's a friend of we could say, a
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  friend of Jesus's right, So he was very close to Lazarus. Lazarus and
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  his two sisters Mary and Martha, and they sent a message to Jesus and
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  said, Jesus, your friend is sick. Jesus, your friend is sick.
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  And of course they expected that Jesus would drop whatever he was doing and
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  go to where Lazarus was, because they didn't want Lazarus to die, like
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  whoever wants our loved ones to die? And so they went to where Lazarus
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  was, or he went eventually to where Lazarus was. But it was days
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  later. It wasn't the first day, it wasn't the second day, it
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  wasn't the third day. It wasn't. Oh wait a minute, it was
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  after three days, after three days. And so now Lazarus has already died,
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  and he's starting his body, excuse me, is starting to decompoey.
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  And so now we enter into the conversation here from the Book of John,
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  chapter eleven, and we'll read beginning at verse eleven. These things said he,
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  And after he said, unto them, our friend Lazarus sleepeth. He's
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  speaking to his disciples. But I go that I may awake him out of
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  sleep. So he said, what, I'm going to awake him out of
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  sleep? So the Bible teaches that he was dead, but Jesus called it
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  a sleep, and he, Jesus has the power to do what wake people
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  up. Okay, Then his disciples said, well, Lord, if he
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  is sleeping, he shall do well. See, they thought that he meant
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  like like I went to bed last night, like I went to bed Monday
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  night, and now it's Tuesday. They were talking about, like, well,
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  if he was sleeping Monday night, just leave him alone, if he's
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  resting, And Jesus is like, okay, let me explain it to you.
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  How beit Jesus spake of is what death? But they thought he had
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  been speaking of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them,
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  plainly, just so you understand, brothers and brothers, Lazarus is dead.
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  Then the Bible continues. Then said Martha, unto Jesus, Lord, if
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  thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. Now she's in distress,
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  like, Jesus, you're late, Like why are you so late?
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  We sent a message that our brother Lazarus was dying and sick, and I
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  know that you love him. That's why we sent the message that said,
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  you, like Jesus, the one whom you love is sick. But it
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  says here, it says here. But I know that even now, whatsoever
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  thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee Jesus said, unto
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  her, your brother shall rise again. And then she thought she understood.
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  She was just like, yeah, I know, I know in the future,
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  in the future. But Jesus gave her something fresh. Martha said,
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  unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the
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  last day. But Jesus gave her something that I need you, brothers and
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  sisters, to hold on. To hold on to it now when you have
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  lost someone that you love, you've lost another brother or sister in the faith,
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  and you are discouraged. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection.
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  You see. He didn't say you have to wait until sometime in the
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  future to recognize my power. You understand, he said, I am the
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  resurrection and the life he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
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  yet shall he live. Let me say something to you right now, brothers
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  and sisters. Jesus wasn't saying to her that every single individual who passes away,
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  He's going to raise them immediately. But I can say to you on
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  this day in twenty twenty four that if your faith is dead, Jesus can
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  raise that faith today. Man, say that again, if your faith is
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  dead, Jesus can raise that faith today. If you yield your will to
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  him. Ah. If you are having so much discouragement in your relationships and
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  you're willing to work with God, you know God can raise your broken relationships
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  from the dead. Ah. If there are people in your church fellowship who
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  have lost their way, Jesus is able today. Jesus is able today if
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  they yield their will to him to raise them from spiritual death, today,
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  not tomorrow, not the next day. As he is standing here today spiritually
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  speaking. Because he did say, whether two or three are gathered together in
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  his name, there he is in the midst of us. The Bible says
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  that He inhabiteth the praises of his people. So if you praise the Lord,
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  if you're gathered together, even virtually, in the presence for the purposes
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  of worshiping God he promised his presence, he can raise all of these things.
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  Right now, we know that in the story of Lazarus, he actually
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  raised Lazarus from the dead. He told them to go roll away the stone.
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  They gave him reasons why they shouldn't. He said, roll you away
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  the stone, and then he called unto Lazarus by name, Lazarus, come
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  forth. And Lazarus, still bound still mummified, he came forward. And
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  then the Bible says Jesus speaking, loose him and let him go. He
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  wants to loose you today, brothers and sisters, anything, any doubts,
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  any worry, He wants to loose you from that, anything that has bound
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  binded you in terms of sin and reckless living. He wants to deliver you,
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  unbind you, loose you and let you go. If your mindset is
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  broken and dying, he wants to loose you today and let you go.
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  So by faith, I want you to look at that story in John chapter
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  eleven, and some spare time today and see how God is able to raise
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  those who are even dead, even dead. And first Thessalonian chapter four,
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  let's get back to the direct thing that we're talking about, Verses sixteen and
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  seventeen. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven. This is at the second
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  coming of Jesus Christ with a shout yes, with the voice of the archangel,
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  with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall what rise
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  first. This is the resurrection of holiness, like of eternal life. This
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  is that resurrection for people who love God. The Bible continues, Then we
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  which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them, caught up
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  when together with them. So that means that nobody who died is already up
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  in heaven unless God raised them from the dead. You understand. So your
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  sister, your mommy, your auntie, your friend, your uncle, some
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  person you've never met but you heard of that was holy. None of them
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  are in heath right now unless God raise them from the dead. That's what
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  happens. For people to get to heaven who have passed away. Jesus has
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  to raise them from the dead. And this is the resurrection at the last
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  Day. We're reading about now in particular, and it says that we which
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  are alive and remain shall be caught up together. Thank God, it's going
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  to be a reunion with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the
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  air, and we shall be ever with the Lord. In One Corinthians,
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  chapter fifteen, the Bible teaches us and the closing verses beginning at just about
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  verse fifty, that at the second coming, the same time, God's people
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  will be raised incorruptible, and we will be immortal then and only then.
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  Thank thanks for joining us listening to 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,