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04 08 2024 Christians Providentially Preserved · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Monday, April eight, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy, and
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  our caption for today is Christians providentially Preserved. I can say it another way,
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  God's people providentally preserved. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  us for the very first time. I'd ask you to please go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community pick up your Daily
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  Portion book 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 and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new morning and for this
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  time for us to do work, work for you, for us to work
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  for the kingdom, and work so that we can have a little food and
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  some money to share with other people who need us. Father, I pray
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  now that you'll give us the fullness of your holy spirit and understanding in Jesus
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  name, I pray Amen and a man again. Okay, So Christians providentally
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  preserved. And it's like, well, what are we talking about today?
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  Just say that God preserves is people. May I say it again? God
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  preserves his people? Okay? And so what we're going to do is read
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  from the Lesson study just a little bit here a few words. I underlined
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  these certain words, and I'm saying that when God says move, we need
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  to move. It doesn't matter what we're talking about. The context is irrelevant.
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  When God says to move, we need to move. If he says
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  to stand still, we need to stand still okay, and so I love
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  these particular words, right, mercy talking about God's mercy, grace that is
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  power to do God's will, that is unmerited favor. God's grace is power
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  to do his will. Providence that means God's leading, like he arranges things
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  in our lives in order for us to be able to do whatever it is
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  that He has planned for us. Okay. And then for knowledge. I
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  love these words mercy, grace, providence, and for knowledge in all things
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  in our lives. Yes, even in the context of what we're talking about
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  today in the lesson. But I am not particularly excited about this word destruction.
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  I'm not I'm not particularly enthused about the term destruction. But the difference
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  between the words that I said a moment ago and destruction in this context is
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  submission. When we submit to God's will, we don't have to worry about
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  destruction. We get to welcome his mercy, We get to embrace his grace,
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  We get to be enthused and thankful for his providence and thankful beyond measure
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  for his fore knowledge. There is nothing that happens in my life in your
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  lives that catches God off guard. Okay, Now, let me. Read
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  from the book The Great Controversy, page thirty, and it reads, the
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  promised Sign had been given to the waiting Christians. Now an opportunity was offered
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  for those who would obey the Savior's warning. Events were so overruled that neither
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  Jews nor Romans should hinder the flight of God's people, right, And so
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  that's the end of the quote. So in seventy a d. The temple
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  at Jerusalem was destroyed. It's crazy, Like, the story is really really
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  interesting, and Jesus talked about it, as recorded in the Book of Matthew,
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  chapter twenty four. But what the Bible is teaching us and history confirms
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  is that even though no stone was to be left there, when Jesus warned
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  the people, he wept over Jerusalem and said that I would have gathered you
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  together like a hen gathereth her chicks, but you rejected me. God's people
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  rejected him. The Bible and history confirms that, yeah, Jerusalem was fully
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  destroyed at that time, the temple that was in building for decades destroyed,
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  and the people couldn't figure out how in the world could that be, Like,
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  how could that be possible? And Jesus Jesus said that this is what
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  it's going to be. But I'm not going to destroy people who actually love
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  me. This is not going to happen. See God's grace, his mercy,
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  his providence, his fore knowledge are seen in clear action and view in
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  that reality. Because those who moved when God said move had no problem with
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  destruction. And so the Bible reads in the Book of Luke, chapter twenty
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  one, verses twenty and twenty one. And when ye shall see Jerusalem come
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  pass with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. And so
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  those marauding armies put down their stakes, their flags in the ground, and
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  surrounded Jerusalem. And there was a time, there was a short window when
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  God gave his people the opportunity to escape, when they would see the sign
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  of this marauding army ready to pounce, and they were surrounding Jerusalem. The
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  Bible says here in verse twenty one, then let them which are in Judea
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  flee to the mountains, and let them which are in the midst of it
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  depart out, and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto So
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  God gave them the sign. What was the sign when you see the armies
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  compassing the city. Huh that was called the Holy that place where they would
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  come and they put down their flags. When you see this happening, it
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  is now time for you to make a move. Has God given you signs
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  in your life to say, when I say move, you move? But
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  God forbid that you would have ignored the sign. So you knew that God
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  said get out of that bad relationship. Huh. You knew when God said
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  to leave that particular work situation that was destroying your health and your well being.
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  You knew when God was showing you that you had to remove your child
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  from the particular school because it was time for that child to grow in a
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  different way. But you didn't listen. For God forbid. God gave you
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  a warning that a particular city that you were living in. Huh, your
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  city was about to experience a natural disaster of mammoth proportions, and you didn't
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  move. You did not follow the inclination of the Holy Ghost. Well,
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  in this case, the obvious ridiculous end was destruction for whoever didn't listen.
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  But for one hundred percent of people who listened to the call that God had
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  given, they were delivered. I think. The Bible teaches us that God
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  preserves his people. I'm going to read. I'm going to read from the
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  Book of Psalms to encourage the thought. The Book of Psalms, chapter forty
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  six, beginning at verse one. God is our refuge and our strength,
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  a very hell, a present help in trouble. Therefore, I will not
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  fear, though the heaven or the earth excuse me be removed, or the
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  mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters therefore roar
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  and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling. Thereof Seelah,
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  there is a there is a deliberate pause for reflection. Yes, verse four,
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  there is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad. The city
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  of God, the holy place of the mountains of the Most High God,
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  is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall
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  help her. And that right early. So God is a refuge to us.
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  He is strength to us, He is our help. He will not
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  allow us to be moved. He can stand sturdy like an oak tree.
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  We can stand sturdy like someone who was founded by the living rivers of waters.
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  Because God is with us. God is with us, and in Isaiah
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  chapter forty one and verse ten, the Bible says, fear not, for
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  I am with THEE. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God.
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  I will strengthen THEE. Yay. I will help thee. Yay. I
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  will uphold THEE with the right hand of my righteousness. I said, God
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  preserves as people. Aren't you glad that all you have to do is submit
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  to God and He will preserve you through any trial. A wonderful day,
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  by 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
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  great day. Yeah.