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03 01 2025 Rules of Engagement · 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 Sabbath, March one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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, God's Love and Justice. We're in Lesson number ten.
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  Speaker 2: Our caption for today is Rules of Engagement. Rules of Engagement.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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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, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us the opportunity to pray today. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for loving us and protecting us and giving us the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of being called by your name. Father. I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you now to give us the fullness of your holy spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Please teach us how to love and to serve you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Rules
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  Speaker 2: of Engagement. So we're going to begin today from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible book first John, First John, chapter three and verse eight,
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  Speaker 2: and then jump right in with two feet and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, he who sins is of the devil. I
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  Speaker 2: just need to pause for a moment. What does this mean.
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  Speaker 2: It means to continue in a sinful lifestyle without submitting
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  Speaker 2: our will to God. Okay, so the person who continually
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  Speaker 2: sins as a lifestyle without submitting ourselves to God is
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  Speaker 2: of the devil. Doesn't mean if God forbid we commit
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  Speaker 2: a sin, then the Bible is saying where of the devil? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that all have sinned and comes short
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  Speaker 2: of the glory of God and John resolved that in
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  Speaker 2: the chapter before when he said, my little children, these
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  Speaker 2: things write I unto you that ye sin not. And
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  Speaker 2: if any man or any person sins, you have an
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  Speaker 2: advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's not about committing a sin, which really is
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  Speaker 2: not a small or a light matter. Please don't get
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  Speaker 2: that wrong. But the Bible is saying that those who
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  Speaker 2: continually or live in a lifestyle of sin without submitting
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  Speaker 2: to God, those are of the devil. And the Bible
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  Speaker 2: continues for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For
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  Speaker 2: this purpose, the Son of God was manifest that he
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  Speaker 2: might destroy the works of the devil. And so we
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  Speaker 2: need to be answering and asking, like, what are the
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  Speaker 2: rules are? What are the rules of engagement? The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but
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  Speaker 2: against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness
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  Speaker 2: of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places. That
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  Speaker 2: basically means that the devil is our real enemy. The
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  Speaker 2: devil and his evil angels, those are our real enemies.
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  Speaker 2: And they're not of human origin, you see. And so
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  Speaker 2: since that is the case. We need the armor of God,
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  Speaker 2: We need the warfare that comes from the armaments of
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  Speaker 2: God's Arsenal. Bible says, the weapons of our warfare are
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  Speaker 2: not carnal or earthly or human. They are they are spiritual, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so let's continue. So in the Bible, in the Lesson,
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer says, behind the Gods in Air quotes
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  Speaker 2: that the nation surrounding God's people thought they were worshiping
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  Speaker 2: was actually something else. See, sometimes we worship all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things. We worship money, God forbid, we worship church positions.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we worship relationships. Sometimes we worship social media following
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  Speaker 2: follower numbers and engagement numbers and analytics and our ability
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  Speaker 2: to create content. And everybody's a content creator because now
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  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence is there and we're collectively stupid. So everybody
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  Speaker 2: thinks that they're a content creator because really the machine
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  Speaker 2: is creating it. But there are few that actually are.
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  Speaker 2: But regardless of that, like, people worship all of that.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I said a lot right there. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to slow it down, repeat it later, rewind,
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  Speaker 2: and slow it down. But the Bible is teaching us
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  Speaker 2: that there are those who are are worshiping all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of filters that make our faces look pretty online, like
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  Speaker 2: the desire to be famous, so many are worshiping. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: there's a mogul on trial right in the moment that
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  Speaker 2: because people worship that desire to be famous, he exploits
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  Speaker 2: he exploited that, or he allegedly exploited that and committed
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of crimes against people. And there are actual
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  Speaker 2: false gods too. What does the Bible say about all
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  Speaker 2: of those things that we put in place of God?
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  Speaker 2: That's really what it means to worship those, to worship
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  Speaker 2: like we put these things above God. Okay, so what
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  Speaker 2: does the Bible actually teach us? It means according to Deuteronomy,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty two and verse seventeen, they sacrificed to demons,
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  Speaker 2: not to God, to gods that they did not know,
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  Speaker 2: to new gods, new arrivals that their fathers did not fear.
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  Speaker 2: And then Paul in the New Testament said in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten and verse twenty, the things which the Gentiles
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And
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  Speaker 2: I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
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  Speaker 2: So behind the quote false gods of the nations and
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  Speaker 2: everything that I just mentioned, Like if we put anything
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  Speaker 2: above God, we put anything before God. If even I,
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  Speaker 2: God forbid put this program that supposedly in honor of God.
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  Speaker 2: But if I put it ahead of God, then I'm
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  Speaker 2: worshiping it. And of those things then are actually demons
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  Speaker 2: in disguise. Anything I put ahead of God is a
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  Speaker 2: demon in disguise, because really the devil has been searching
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  Speaker 2: for an opportunity to usurp God's authority and be worshiped
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  Speaker 2: like he wants to be worshiped. And so this means
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  Speaker 2: then that all of the texts of scripture dealing with
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  Speaker 2: idolatry and the foreign gods are cosmic conflict texts. We're
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  Speaker 2: in a war, brothers and sisters, is a war in
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  Speaker 2: our minds that started in heaven. The devil and his
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  Speaker 2: angels were kicked out of heaven, but they were kicked
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  Speaker 2: out of Heaven onto planet Earth, and for a time
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  Speaker 2: they are allowed to do certain things. God does have
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  Speaker 2: them under manners, he does have them on some level
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  Speaker 2: of control, but what he allows is ridiculous, Like these
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  Speaker 2: evil angels are ridiculous. The Devil is ridiculous. Wreaking havoc
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth, but God still has it under control,
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  Speaker 2: and so the Bible write. The lesson writer wanted us
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  Speaker 2: to go to First Kings, chapter eighteen and read from
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  Speaker 2: verses nineteen to forty. The long story short is God's
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  Speaker 2: people had lost their minds spiritually speaking. One of God's
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  Speaker 2: people married. He was a king Ahab. He married a
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  Speaker 2: woman that he shouldn't have married, who was not from
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  Speaker 2: among God's people. So that just showed his compromise. And
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  Speaker 2: during his reign bel a false god in Astroa. Both
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  Speaker 2: of them were being worshiped, and then God created a
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  Speaker 2: showdown experience on Mount Carmel with his man, his Prophetylijah
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  Speaker 2: and those eight hundred and fifty false prophets to those
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  Speaker 2: false gods. And so they're up there, and God's people
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  Speaker 2: are there, and the people who supp the false gods
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  Speaker 2: are there, and there's a showdown, and for a period
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  Speaker 2: of time God is showing that he is is God.
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  Speaker 2: But in waiting, the people who don't love God are
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  Speaker 2: allowed to suck or try to cause fire to come
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  Speaker 2: down from heaven. They're allowed to try to get their
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  Speaker 2: false gods to pay attention. But at the appropriate time.
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  Speaker 2: At the time of the evening sacrifice, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that God shows up and shows out, demonstrates that he's
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  Speaker 2: the only one, wise and true and living God worthy
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  Speaker 2: of worship. There's a showdown going on now. Who is
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  Speaker 2: the God your worshiping peace? Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,