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04 21 2024 Persecuted Yet Triumphant · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Sunday, April twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great
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  Controversy, and our caption for today is persecuted yet triumphin. Persecuted yet triumphin.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  just say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com, please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily
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  Portion book, and also please let us know where you are in the world
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  at your daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this
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  new day and for the privilege that you have entrusted to us to open up
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  your word. And I'm asking you now to please please go ahead, Please
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  go into our hearts and take out what you did not put there. Please
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  go into our lives and put in there what is missing. Please make us
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  holy today in Jesus's name, I pray Amen. Then damen again. Let
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  me ask you a question. Have you ever been persecuted? Have you ever
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  been persecuted? And I'd like for you, if you are in social media
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  or on YouTube, to go ahead and type yes or no in the chat.
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  I know those on radio can't do this. Have you ever been persecuted?
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  And let me ask you another question. Is God faithful? And I
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  just want you to go ahead and type a yes in the chat For that
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  one, just type a yes, God is faithful. If you're watching after
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  the fact, go ahead and type it in the comments section. Yes,
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  God is faithful. Of course He's faithful. And since God has been faithful
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  to his people throughout history, we know that he has good credit with us,
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  that he will be faithful to us. He will be faithful to us,
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  not because of his commitment to us only, which is incredible, but
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  because he's good. Like he is good, that is his nature, and
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  his mercies endure forever. And so God's people throughout history have been persecuted,
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  we have had challenges. In fact, Jesus said that when people revile you,
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  and they persecute you, and they do and say all manner of evil
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  against you falsely for my sake, he said, rejoice and be exceeding glad.
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  Why because your reward is great for so persecuted day the prophets which were
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  before you, and so the people of God, like I said, for
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  many many generations, all the way back to Abel. Abel. I'm talking
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  about Abel, the son of Adam and Eve. Even from that time until
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  today, God's people have lived triumphantly, even though we have been persecuted.
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  And so what I'm going to read is some of what is in the Lesson.
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  I would invite you to please go to the actual study the Lesson study
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  and also Sabbath Truth dot Calm Sabbath, truth, dot calm, and look
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  at some of what happened when the Sabbath was changed, if you want to
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  say, when someone attempted a power, a religial political power attempted to change
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  the Sabbath. And so, but I want to focus today on uh.
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  Here it says whenever God's people remain faithful to him, Satan is enraged.
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  So, if you're ever wondering why life is the way that it is for
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  you when you're going through trials and temptations, if you're being faithful to God,
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  you are praying, and you are asking Him to be in your life,
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  and you're yielding your will to him as far as you can, and
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  you're wondering, well, what is going on in my life? Well,
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  what's going on in your life? Is the same thing that was going on
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  in the three Hebrew young men's lives, right, the same thing that was
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  going on in Joseph's life and Job's life, right, the same thing that
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  went on and Hannah's life as she had hoped and prayed and wanted to have
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  a child, and she couldn't have one, but until she yielded in a
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  special way to God, and then he made her fruitful. There are things
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  that happen in our lives because the devil hates you, roaring lion, seeking
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  whom he may devour. And so God wants us to armor up, as
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  in the Book of Ephesians chapter six, with the entire armor of God,
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  so that we will be able to stand in the evil day. Okay,
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  And so whenever God's people remain faithful to him, Satan is enraged, persecution
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  often follows. The prophet Daniel described a time still future to him when the
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  medieval church would make war and persecute God's people from the Book of Daniel,
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  chapter seven and multiple verses there. The prophet John described this time period the
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  same time period as a time when God's Church was forced to flee into what
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  the Bible calls the wilderness, where she would be nourished for what we understand
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  now as a time, a times, and a dividing of time. And
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  then, of course, the Bible continues the twelve hundred and sixty days,
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  and I'm just reading this so you can go back and look at it again,
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  because we're not going to be able to really make a lot of sense
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  of this today because of the time. But the twelve hundred and sixty days
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  and the time times and half of time in Revelation chapter twelve and verse six
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  and fourteen are both referring to the same time period three and a half times
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  or years times three hundred sixty days equals twelve hundred sixty days. And I'm
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  like, okay, some of you are like, Okay, this is the
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  first time I'm hearing this. This is this is I don't understand. Like
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  I said, I want you to please please go to Sabbathtruth dot com and
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  look at the change of the Sabbath and then you can get more insights.
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  So Bible prophecy is often been written in symbols, and this is one of
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  the cases. Okay. And so as William Shay, who is a Bible
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  scholar, and I have met him. We became quite fond of one another
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  some years ago when I lived in West Virginia. He gives twenty three lines
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  of biblical evidence throughout the Old Testament for this day for a year principle in
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  symbolic Bible prophecy, as in Numbers chapter fourteen and verse thirty four and Ezekiel
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  chapter four and verse six, and again, the Bible interpreters have used it
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  throughout the centuries. Now, what I need you to do, because of
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  the time that we have again, is to go to sabbathtruth dot com look
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  at the change of the Sabbath, and then you can make more sense of
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  this. But with the time that we have left this morning, I'm asking
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  you to do you a favor, not me a favor, not God a
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  favor, not your family a favor. I need you to make a decision
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  today that, no matter what the external force is, no matter what the
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  temptation is, is that you will yield your will to God and be faithful.
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  And some of you may be thinking, well, how in the world
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  can I be faithful when my money is shorter than my month? Like how
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  can I be faithful when people are persecuting me and telling lies about me and
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  all I want to do is God's will? Like how can I be faithful
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  when there are challenges in the political system in my home country and I have
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  been a refugee and I'm feeling like where I fled too is difficult too,
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  Like how can I be faithful? Well, you can be faithful in the
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  way that God's people have always been faithful. Just yield and say God,
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  these times are bigger than me. It is more difficult than anything that I
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  can handle. But I am willing to serve you. Will you give me
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  your Holy spirit. That's what we want to focus on, like ask God
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  to give you his holy spirit and determine that, by God's grace you will
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  do as will whenever the religial political power comes to ahead in our day,
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  in the last days, I believe we live in the last days. If
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  you have already built the habit, if you've built the habit of yielding your
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  will to God on what we consider to be the small things of life,
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  that when that great, big, worldwide trial comes, you'll already be faithful.
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  You'll already be accustomed to hearing the voice of God. You will already
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  be accustomed to saying, God, no matter what happens, I'm gonna come
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  and serve you. And God will continue to keep the promise that He's made
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  to his people from Abele's time until today, that if you will yield to
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  him, he will keep you safe. And then one day, one day,
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  when Jesus comes, he will take you into the heavenly King. Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  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 great
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  day. Yeah,