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09 06 2024 Preparation · 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, September sixth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Mark and this is
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  Speaker 2: lesson number ten. Concluding Lesson number ten. Our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is preparation. Preparation. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. We'll get into our
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  Speaker 2: prayer now, Father, thank you for this day, for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this time of preparation, preparation day and the time
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  Speaker 2: to prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ. Father, Please
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  Speaker 2: give us your Holy Spirit and teach us what it
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  Speaker 2: really means to be ready, ready for when Jesus does come,
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  Speaker 2: and how we are looking forward to the day. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray Amen and damen again. Preparation. How
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  Speaker 2: do you prepare for something that's important to you? When
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  Speaker 2: I say when I say preparation for something that is
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  Speaker 2: important to you, I need you to really put it
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  Speaker 2: in that context, because, frankly, there are few people who
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  Speaker 2: are preparing for the coming of Jesus Christ as if
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  Speaker 2: it is important. I'm talking about like preparing for a
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  Speaker 2: baby to come into your home, preparing for a surgery
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  Speaker 2: that you have to go into, preparing for graduation, preparing
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  Speaker 2: for defending your dissertation. If you are in a PhD program,
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  Speaker 2: you see preparing for vacation on a cruise ship like
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  Speaker 2: that's my favorite type of vacation. Like, what would I
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  Speaker 2: do financially to prepare for that? What do I do
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  Speaker 2: in terms of my household, my home, physical home location?
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  Speaker 2: If I'm going to be away for a period of time,
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  Speaker 2: how do I prepare my stuff, my luggage, our family?
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  Speaker 2: You see what I mean? Preparing to purchase a home?
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  Speaker 2: How do we prepare to purchase a home? And so forth?
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  Speaker 2: I think you get the point. And so the things
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  Speaker 2: that we consider to be important we prepare a certain way. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: do you believe that the coming of Jesus Christ is important?
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  Speaker 2: And it seems like a silly question, but now that
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  Speaker 2: we think about it, like if I do believe this,
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  Speaker 2: how do I actually live and prepare? Then it begins
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  Speaker 2: to make sense. Okay, and so let me begin by
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  Speaker 2: reading right out of the book Desire of Ages, page
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  Speaker 2: six hundred and thirty four, and it reads, because we
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  Speaker 2: know not the exact time of this of his coming,
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  Speaker 2: we are commanded to watch. Okay, so we're starting to
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  Speaker 2: get some strategies. Blessed are the servants whom the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: when he cometh, shall find watching. That's coming from Luke,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twelve, verse thirty seven. Those who watch for the
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  Speaker 2: Lord's coming are not waiting in idle expectancy. Right, so
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  Speaker 2: we're on alert when we're not idle. Okay, we're getting
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  Speaker 2: so where the expectation of Christ's coming is to make
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  Speaker 2: men fear the Lord, or make humans to respect the
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  Speaker 2: Lord and fear his judgments upon transgression, Oh, it is
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  Speaker 2: to awaken them to the great sin of rejecting his
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  Speaker 2: offers of mercy. So now we're starting to see that
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  Speaker 2: we should be accepting and grateful for and acting upon
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's acts of mercy as we prepare. Okay, those who
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  Speaker 2: are watching for the Lord are purifying their souls by
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  Speaker 2: obedience to the truth. Okay. With vigilant watching, they contribute,
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  Speaker 2: I mean combine, earnest working. Because they know that the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is at the door, their zeal is quickened to
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  Speaker 2: cooperate with the divine intelligences to work for the salvation
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  Speaker 2: of souls. So we are helpful to people who also
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  Speaker 2: need to be saved. You have a brother, you have
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  Speaker 2: a sister, you have a cousin, you have another relative.
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  Speaker 2: People with whom you exercise, people with whom you work,
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  Speaker 2: People that you regularly encounter in the market or in
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  Speaker 2: the taxi or in other transportation. Public transport or in
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  Speaker 2: social media. People that you know and have experiences with.
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  Speaker 2: These individuals need Christ. Well, what part will you play
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  Speaker 2: in helping them to experience Christ so they can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: Let me keep going, Let me keep going. These are
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  Speaker 2: the faithful and wise servants who give to the Lord's
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  Speaker 2: household their portion of meat in due season. They are
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  Speaker 2: declaring the truth that is now specially applicable in the
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  Speaker 2: last days. We do have truths that will help us
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  Speaker 2: get through the last days. Some things that people, including
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  Speaker 2: some of God's people, are ignoring, like when God says
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  Speaker 2: to remember the Sabbath day. Some people have forgotten when
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  Speaker 2: God says that the judgment is come and that the
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  Speaker 2: times are serious. But some people have pushed off certain
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  Speaker 2: aspects of the judgment as into the future, when some
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  Speaker 2: aspects of the judgment are happening today. There's a three
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  Speaker 2: phase aspect of judgment in the Bible as God teaches it,
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  Speaker 2: and we are firmly, firmly coming to a swift close
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  Speaker 2: in that first phase of judgment. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. They are declaring the truth that is specially applicable,
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  Speaker 2: as Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Moses each declared the truth
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  Speaker 2: for his time. So will Christ's servants now give the
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  Speaker 2: special warning for their generation. So, knowing the times in
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  Speaker 2: which we live, and recognizing that we are God's or
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  Speaker 2: we are to act as God's hands and feet in
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  Speaker 2: our generation, our voices need to match the message that
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  Speaker 2: God is giving. That we know that this is a
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  Speaker 2: part of the preparation assisting others to become acquainted with
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully become friends of God, so that they too
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  Speaker 2: can join the band of people, band of believers who
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  Speaker 2: are preparing for the coming of Jesus Christ. And so
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  Speaker 2: we will look at a few steps. I did mention
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  Speaker 2: some as we were reading here in text. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: that's the end of the quote. I will read now
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  Speaker 2: from First John chapter three, How are you preparing, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters? Go ahead and type it in the chat
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  Speaker 2: First John chapter three, verses two and three. The Bible says, beloved,
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  Speaker 2: now are we the children of God. And it does
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  Speaker 2: not yet appear what we shall be. But we know
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  Speaker 2: when he shall appear, we shall be like him, or
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  Speaker 2: we shall see him as he is. And every man,
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  Speaker 2: every person that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself,
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  Speaker 2: even as he is pure. So we know now that
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  Speaker 2: righteousness or living according to God's principles and purity preparatory
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  Speaker 2: preparatory for the coming. If we have sins on our sin,
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  Speaker 2: record things that we have done throughout the day that
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  Speaker 2: we know that God is not pleased with, then we
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  Speaker 2: go to Him and honestly talk to him about it
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, will you give me godly sorrow for sin?
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  Speaker 2: Will give me the power to turn my back on
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  Speaker 2: those sins? Will you teach me how to do your will?
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  Speaker 2: And then on top of that we are honest with
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  Speaker 2: him and tell the truth, agree with him, tell the
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  Speaker 2: truth about how we have gone astray in those particular things,
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  Speaker 2: and be specific. Okay, so live in righteousness and of
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  Speaker 2: course purity. Also we have, as we've already read, and
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  Speaker 2: I won't read the passage, but you can read it
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  Speaker 2: also in Matthew chapter twenty four, verse forty two, that
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  Speaker 2: we need to be watchful. We need to be watchful,
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  Speaker 2: stay vigilant and watchful. And now we move on to
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  Speaker 2: Luke chapter twenty one, verse thirty six. I'll read it
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  Speaker 2: again in a different way. Watch ye therefore, and pray always.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have another element, pray always that ye may
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  Speaker 2: be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall
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  Speaker 2: come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
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  Speaker 2: So we maintain a strong prayer life. We connect with
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  Speaker 2: God knowing that we are on the very edge of
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  Speaker 2: time and we're anticipating God's arrival. We're looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day. But God is teaching us that we can
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  Speaker 2: have this relationship of prayer as we prepare for the
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  Speaker 2: coming of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
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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,