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06 18 2024 Whom Do We Worship · 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 eighteen, 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 whom do we worship? Whom do we worship?
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot
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  fellowship. And let me just say one more time that I'm welcoming you into
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  a your daily Portion coaching program as well. So you'll see the button there
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  and the details. Okay, so let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  will get underway. Bothering Heaven, thank you for this opportunity that you have
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  given to us to refocus our mind and attention on you and the things that
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  matter to you. Please, Father, teach us how to love you,
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  how to serve you, how to yield our will entirely to you. In
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  Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Whom do we worship?
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  Now? I'm really excited about this subject because it's more than just an
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  idea. Now, in Romans chapter one, I want you to read,
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  beginning at verse eighteen. When you have an opportunity Romans chapter one, something
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  very interesting happens among God's people. It is somehow the people of God decided
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  that God wasn't enough. He wasn't enough. This is why narcissism exists.
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  This is why legalism inside of faith communities exists. Part of me, this
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  is why people choose to worship self, worship our money, worship, our
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  homes, our possessions. Sometimes we worship our negative thoughts, our negative mindset.
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  We make those even more powerful than God. We make our ability to
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  sin stronger than God's ability to save. Which is why some of us continue
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  in the paths of unrighteousness, because we don't actually believe that God is able
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  to deliver us from our sins and to cleanse us from all on righteousness.
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  There are people who worship our degrees. We worship where we live on the
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  planet. We worship sometimes even our spouses or some other relationship that we have.
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  Anything that we put before God, that is what we are worshiping.
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  Can I say that again? Maybe I just wasted all of these words over
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  the last two minutes. Whatever we put in place of God or above God,
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  that's what we worship. And so children of Israel decided way back then,
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  when Jesus and Moses were on the mount, and Jesus was enfolding Moses
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  in the cloud to teach him the Ten Commandments, give him the Ten Commandments
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  law, and eventually give him the blueprint to the sanctuary on Earth. Yes,
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  well, the people down below at the leadership of Aaron, we're building
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  a golden calf that they said was going to be a monument to God like
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  in a way, because they were like, we don't know where this Moses
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  is, give us something that we can worship. And it was really supposed
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  to be sort of a go between, a way for them to have something
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  in front of them so that they could feel good about worshiping God. And
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  it's like, Nah, even if you're trying to do that round the bush
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  way, you can't use that as a crutch to worship even the True and
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  Living God, blessed be his name. This is not how this works.
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  God said, I am the Lord, thy God. I am the one
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  that brought you out of the land of Egypt and bondage. I am the
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  one that empowers you to live a holy life. I'm the one that sanctifies
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  you. Have no other gods before me, full stop. And so in
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  the last days, according to the Lesson writer, the great great controversy will
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  be played out in a dramatic way over worship. Do we worship our creator
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  or do we worship the beast and its image? There is no middle ground.
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  Now we continue the First Angel of Revelation, chapter fourteen, urges men
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  and women to worship him who made the heaven and the earth, the sea,
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  and the springs of water. In further support of Heaven's appeal, the
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  third Angel reveals the dire consequences of worshiping the beast in his image. The
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  same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God that will be poured
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  out without mixture into the cup of his indignation. In contrast, and then
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  we'll read from the scriptures those who worship the Creator, and they are described
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  as keeping the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. It's very
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  simple, brothers and sisters. The Lord created us, and so he's worthy
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  of worship. And I say that again. When those people come to your
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  house two and two and try to teach you all kinds of things about Armageddon
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  and one hundred and forty four thousand, and the law of the Christ,
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  and all kinds of interesting things, and they give you a magazine or all
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  kinds of discussion, just ask a simple question, do you worship Jesus?
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  Like, is Jesus worthy of your worship? And it's like, what,
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  Yes, it's Jesus worthy of your worship. And in Revelation chapter four and
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  five. We see that there is no conflict between God, our Father,
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  and Jesus Christ where worship is concerned. Jesus, the one who comes from
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  the midst of the throne in that scene, is worthy to open the seals,
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  to lay his hands on that book that is there, and open up
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  those seals and see and look upon those things that are there. In Why
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  because He gave his life for you, and he also created you, he
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  created me. And so the Father is worshiped in chapter four. Jesus Christ
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  and the Father are worshiped in chapter five because there is no conflict in heaven
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  about worship, not anymore, not since the devil got kicked out. And
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  so we read now from Revelation chapter fourteen and verse seven. Fear God.
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  Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment
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  is come. And worship him that made heaven and earth, the sea and
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  the fountains of water. So we recognize that true worship is directed only to
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  the one, True and Living God. Why because he created us, and
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  he created everything we can see and that we cannot see. In Revelation chapter
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  thirteen and verse thirteen, the Bible reads, and he doe with great wonders,
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  so that he maketh fire to come down from heaven on the earth in
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  the sight of men. Of course, there is a historic element to this,
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  and of course we see that there are different beast powers that are driven
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  by the devil, and they are given the ability to deceive people. And
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  in this text we see that that is the reality. Do with great wonders,
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  And so God is saying, God against deception, be vigilant against deceptions,
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  anything or anybody that does not agree with God, We run far from
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  them. Jesus said in Matthew chapter twenty four that there will be false christs
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  and false prophets, whether they're religion, political powers, or religious powers or
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  political powers, or individual humans, or the devils that are masquerading as ministers
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  of righteousness, whatever it is that conflicts with God's word. God's word,
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  Jesus what he taught, the Ten Commandments, law, what they are teaching,
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  the entire body of the Canon of Scriptures. Whenever there is a conflict,
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  whether there was a miracle present, yes or no, we go far.
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  We run far from those. Why because God is clear who he is,
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  and he said, be not deceived, don't be deceived in the last
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  days, because that's the intent of the devil to trick us, just like
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  he did Eve, to run away from our relationship with God. And so
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  in the Bible here a Book of Revelation, chapter fourteen and verse twelve,
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  it says, here are the patients of the saints. I made allusion to
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  that earlier. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and have the
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  faith of Jesus. So we uphold the truth of God's word, including his
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  commandments, patiently through the last days. Some of us are impatient. When
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  will be the sign of thy coming? Like Jesus, when are you coming?
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  It seems like all things are the same since our fathers went to sleep.
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  No no, no, no no, Do not become a scoffer.
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  Brothers and sisters, know that even though even though it seems that God is
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  tarrying, hold fast, hold fast worship God in the beauty of holiness and
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  the fullness of your experience with Him until he comes. Because soon he will
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  come. You're going to be his child when he gets here. It's a
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  decision we make today. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with EL David
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  Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,