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08 29 2025 Coping with a Fallen World · 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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: August twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Coping with a Fallen World.
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  Speaker 2: Coping with a fallen World. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. Please
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, I thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us this day, giving us this
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  Speaker 2: bread that you have entrusted to us. Help us to
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  Speaker 2: eat from your word and then share with as many
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  Speaker 2: people as possible, especially during these last days. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and a man again coping with a
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  Speaker 2: fallen world. And so the lesson writer takes us to
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  Speaker 2: the book The Great Controversy, page six hundred and thirty three,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads, the precious Savior will send help just
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  Speaker 2: when you need it. Okay, when we need it. But
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  Speaker 2: I said when you need it, Yes, remember the song
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  Speaker 2: just when I need him most, just when I need
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  Speaker 2: a most. Jesus is near to comfort and cheer just
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  Speaker 2: when I need him most. I remember when Josiah, our son,
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  Speaker 2: who is almost fifteen years of age now, was much younger.
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  Speaker 2: He had some challenges with temptation. There were some things
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  Speaker 2: that were tempting him and had to keep going back
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  Speaker 2: to him and back to him because he would yield
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  Speaker 2: to these particular temptations. And I said, this is what
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  Speaker 2: I need you to do. I need you to remember
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  Speaker 2: that I'm here with you, your daddy, I'm here with you.
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  Speaker 2: You're not alone. I need need you to remember I'm
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  Speaker 2: here with you. Right now, you're getting caught on the
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  Speaker 2: backside of this situation because you didn't come to me
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  Speaker 2: for the assistance that you needed, because you're a young boy. See,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have anybody to help me to get through
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  Speaker 2: those valleys of temptation. I'm just telling you the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Like I didn't have anybody who either understood how to
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  Speaker 2: get through or how to help me as a young
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  Speaker 2: boy when I was a young boy. And so I said, okay, so,
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  Speaker 2: and I walked him through some things, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: when we're in the house together, because we're together, I
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  Speaker 2: just need you to call for help, call for help.
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  Speaker 2: And so I want you to just call my name
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  Speaker 2: and say help, Daddy help. When you're being tempted, I
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  Speaker 2: want you to say Daddy help. It doesn't matter where
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  Speaker 2: I am in the house, it doesn't matter where you are.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to say, Daddy Help. And I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get to him at that young age that when
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  Speaker 2: you are being tempted, you're not alone, and that I
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  Speaker 2: would be a representation of who God is to all
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  Speaker 2: of us. And I explained all of that to him,
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  Speaker 2: that I can come to him right before he's about
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  Speaker 2: to do that thing and stop him in his tracks
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  Speaker 2: because he has made the decision to say, Daddy help.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody type that in the chat Father Help, and the
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  Speaker 2: quote continues, the way to heaven is consecrated by his footprints,
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  Speaker 2: Who the Savior, who will help us when we need it.
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  Speaker 2: Every thorn that wounds our feet has wounded his. Every
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  Speaker 2: cross that we are called to bear, he has borne
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  Speaker 2: before us. The Lord permits conflicts to prepare the soul
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  Speaker 2: for peace. The time of trouble is a fearful ordeal
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  Speaker 2: for God's people. But it is the time of It
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  Speaker 2: is the time for every true believer to look up
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  Speaker 2: and by faith, he may see the bow of promise
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  Speaker 2: encircling him. Daddy, that's not in it. End of quote,
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  Speaker 2: Daddy help. When we're living in the last days, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, and the Bible reads in one Peter, chapter
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  Speaker 2: five and verse eight, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary,
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  Speaker 2: the devil as a roaring lion, as as it's a metaphor,
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  Speaker 2: as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say this, Jesus is not a metaphor.
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  Speaker 2: He's not as a lion. He is, in fact, and indeed,
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  Speaker 2: the genuine article, the mighty lion of the tribe of Judah.
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  Speaker 2: So the devil, as a roaring lion, is seeking whom
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  Speaker 2: he may devour. And Jesus is standing up when you
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  Speaker 2: call for his help. He's there. When you're not calling
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  Speaker 2: for his help, he's there, but he's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do all that he would desire to
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  Speaker 2: do for you. And Missus White said that it is
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  Speaker 2: the will of God to grant an answer to the
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  Speaker 2: prayer of faith that which He would not bestow. Did
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  Speaker 2: we not thus ask you? See the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: as they were being removed from that bondage to their
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  Speaker 2: old lifestyles, their old mindset, their idolatrous ways. While they
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  Speaker 2: were in Egypt, those individuals were learning how to see
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  Speaker 2: that God had done so much for them in the past,
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  Speaker 2: and that they could rely on Him to continue to
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  Speaker 2: deliver them, to call out on his call out to
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  Speaker 2: his name and know that he would direct them. So
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  Speaker 2: we live in a war zone and the enemy is active.
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  Speaker 2: Pain is not all because of a personal sin, but
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  Speaker 2: because of the broken world in which we live. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not always because you're guilty of something. It is
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  Speaker 2: because this world is not our home as it is
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  Speaker 2: one day when Jesus returns, he's going to take us
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  Speaker 2: to heaven. And if you're running ahead of me, I
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  Speaker 2: need you to slow down. Don't run ahead, come with me.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to be next to me. Now walk
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  Speaker 2: with me. Heaven is not our home, but it will
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  Speaker 2: be a one thousand year vacation. I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day that God is going to give us a
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  Speaker 2: one thousand year vacation. And after the thousand years are finished,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that the meek will in fact inherit
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  Speaker 2: the new Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. So the action for
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  Speaker 2: me and for you is to identify one area of
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  Speaker 2: your life where you feel the enemy's pressure, pray intentionally
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  Speaker 2: over it every day this week, Lord help, this is
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about. And now we go to Hebrews
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse fifteen. For we have not an
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  Speaker 2: high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of
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  Speaker 2: our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as
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  Speaker 2: we are, and yet without sin. You see, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: teaches us that there's the lust of the flesh, the
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  Speaker 2: lust of the eyes, the pride of life. Those are
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  Speaker 2: the deeds of the flesh. Yes, in fact, Jesus overcame them.
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  Speaker 2: If you look into the story of Matthew chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness, and then in
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  Speaker 2: Luke chapter four, you'll see in Luke chapter four's account
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  Speaker 2: the actual sequence lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes,
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  Speaker 2: pride of life. Those were the temptations in order, according
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  Speaker 2: to the account of Luke. Now, the Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus overcame all of those, not just in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 2: but all of those through those thirty three and one
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  Speaker 2: half years of him living on planet Earth. Because no pain,
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  Speaker 2: no sorrow, no burden we carry is foreign to him.
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  Speaker 2: Every thorn that pierces us pierced him first in a
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  Speaker 2: moment of struggle, Pause and speak aloud, Jesus, you've been here.
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  Speaker 2: Walk with me, please, God, please, right now. Conflict lesson
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  Speaker 2: number three. Conflict is not the end, God uses it
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  Speaker 2: to prepare us for peace. I'm looking forward to the
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  Speaker 2: day that God gives us ultimate peace, where there will
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  Speaker 2: be no more sin, no more temptation. 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,