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02 27 2025 The Nature of the Cosmic Conflict · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, February
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the nature of the cosmic conflict. The
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  Speaker 2: nature of the cosmic conflict. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you today for waking us up this
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  Speaker 2: morning and giving us so many things for which to
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  Speaker 2: be grateful. There are many things vying for our attention today,
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  Speaker 2: but help us to focus on you. Help us to
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  Speaker 2: focus on connection with You and being transformed by You.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. The
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  Speaker 2: nature of the cosmic conflict. Okay, so we have really
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  Speaker 2: drilled this concept pretty well, but we're going to bring
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  Speaker 2: this aspect of it to a close here. With the
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  Speaker 2: nature of the conflict. We've talked about the conflict in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: the conflict on planet Earth in our minds right, the
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  Speaker 2: conflict that the devil really is pressing because he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to be left out, like it's too late for him,
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  Speaker 2: and since he cannot be saved, since he burned his
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to reconnect with God. As the saying goes, misery
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  Speaker 2: loves company and so he's dogging the heels of humans.
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  Speaker 2: But God said that Jesus Christ would crush, he would
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  Speaker 2: crush the head of the serpent, meaning the devil, and
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  Speaker 2: indeed Jesus has. So the question for me to answer
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  Speaker 2: for myself, and you need to answer for yourselves, is
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  Speaker 2: are you going to allow God to crush the devil's
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  Speaker 2: head in your life? You're like Dave, that sounds melodramatic. Well,
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  Speaker 2: really and truly, when we are tempted, it's the devil
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  Speaker 2: nipping at our heels again. He's trying to get us
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  Speaker 2: to join his team, to be on his side, and
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  Speaker 2: to do the kinds of things that he did that
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  Speaker 2: got him kicked out of heaven, you see. And so
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  Speaker 2: the reality is this is an ongoing, daily, throughout the day,
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  Speaker 2: every day decision, all right. And so we read now
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  Speaker 2: beginning in the book The Great Controversy, page four hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ninety eight, and it reads in his dealing with sin,
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  Speaker 2: God could employ only righteousness and truth. Do you realize
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  Speaker 2: that this is an uneven playing field? We can look
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  Speaker 2: at this in a number of ways, but let me
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  Speaker 2: just say it like this. The devil uses temptation, he
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  Speaker 2: uses sleight, of hand. He uses all kinds of deception,
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  Speaker 2: He uses all kinds of things that are unscrupulous. But
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  Speaker 2: God has limited himself to righteousness and truth and by extension,
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  Speaker 2: of course, his character, which is love. Let me continue
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  Speaker 2: to read, Satan could use what God could. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Satan could use what God could not, flattery and deceit.
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  Speaker 2: There are people right now who have no identity. And
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  Speaker 2: when someone or something comes along with a nice filter
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  Speaker 2: that makes them makes the human look prettier, or sound
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  Speaker 2: more intelligent, or feel more superior than we really are,
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  Speaker 2: then that starts to become like, wait a minute, I
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  Speaker 2: need to be paying attention to that. Are you saying
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  Speaker 2: you can make me look good if I put this
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  Speaker 2: on my face? Are you saying I can look better
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  Speaker 2: if I use this machine to create content for me
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  Speaker 2: that I would otherwise not be capable of doing. Like
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  Speaker 2: are you saying that this can make me be better?
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course the devil sells the snake oil
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  Speaker 2: and says yep, And then now we have a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of people with imposter syndrome. Even spiritually speaking, I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time, But see, the devil uses flattery
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  Speaker 2: and deceit. He had sought to falsify the word of God.
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  Speaker 2: He was the original counterfeiter and had misrepresented his plan
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  Speaker 2: of government before the angels, claiming that God was not just.
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  Speaker 2: God was not just in laying laws and rules upon
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  Speaker 2: the inhabitants of heaven, that in requiring submission to the
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  Speaker 2: obedience and obedience from his creatures, he was speaking merely
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  Speaker 2: in the exaltation of himself. Therefore, it must be demonstrated
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  Speaker 2: before the inhabitants of heaven, as well as all of
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  Speaker 2: the worlds, that God's government is just, his law is perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Satan had made it appeer that he himself was seeking
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  Speaker 2: to promote the good of the universe. The true character
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  Speaker 2: of the usurper, meaning the devil, His real object must
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  Speaker 2: be understood by all. He must have time to manifest
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  Speaker 2: himself by his wicked works. And so that's the end
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  Speaker 2: of the quote. And so sometimes people wonder why is
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  Speaker 2: this allowed to continue? Why didn't God just exterminate this problem? Well, again,
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  Speaker 2: the devil's using sleight of hand. The devil has effectively
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  Speaker 2: convinced generations of humans that, you know, his way is
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  Speaker 2: the right way. He may not have identified himself as
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  Speaker 2: the enemy, but and that's the whole point. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: all sleight of hands, it's of smoke and mirrors. It's
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  Speaker 2: not what it appears, you see. And so God is
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  Speaker 2: giving him time to kill, steal, into destroy, He's giving
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  Speaker 2: him time to really show what he really is, the
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  Speaker 2: enemy that is. And once that has been sufficiently accomplished,
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  Speaker 2: then God will do and complete, i should say, the
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  Speaker 2: restoration that he promised. Okay, And so by the time
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  Speaker 2: human beings will have repented and recovered from all of
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  Speaker 2: the trauma, all of the abuse, all of the things
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  Speaker 2: that we have done to ourselves because the enemy has
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  Speaker 2: deceived us into doing it, by the time we are
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  Speaker 2: healed from all of that and sealed to be righteous
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  Speaker 2: and holy forever, we're not going to be interested and
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  Speaker 2: messing around with sin ever again. Like by show of hands,
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  Speaker 2: how many want to be diseased? By show of hands,
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  Speaker 2: how many of you want to have terrible relationships and
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  Speaker 2: have weird things happen with your money even when you're rich.
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  Speaker 2: Like how many of you, by show of hands, want
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  Speaker 2: to continue to feel guilt and shame? How many of
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  Speaker 2: you want to continue along the pathway that humans have
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  Speaker 2: gone since Adam? And of course I'm not raising my hand.
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  Speaker 2: So once God does his full restoration, we I will
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  Speaker 2: be insulated against that mess. And so we read from Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I said mess. If you're wondering, did he just say mess? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that mess. We don't want that anymore. And the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of John chapter eight, we read beginning at verse
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  Speaker 2: fourty five, and the Bible reads, you people are from
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  Speaker 2: your father the devil. These were the enemies of God
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  Speaker 2: who were cloaked in priestly garments. You people are from
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  Speaker 2: your father, the devil, and you want to do what
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  Speaker 2: your father desires. He is a murderer from a beginning
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  Speaker 2: and does not uphold the truth because there is no
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  Speaker 2: truth in him. Whatever he lies, he's doing this according
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  Speaker 2: to his own nature because he is a liar and
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  Speaker 2: the father of life. Because I am telling you the truth,
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  Speaker 2: you do not believe me. And so we need to
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  Speaker 2: be answering and asking and answering the question like are
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  Speaker 2: we believers in God? Do we believe God? Do we
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  Speaker 2: believe the report of God? Or do we believe the enemy?
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  Speaker 2: Do we believe what God has said or the enemy?
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  Speaker 2: The word of God or the word of our own
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  Speaker 2: thought processes, the word of what they teach us in entertainment,
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  Speaker 2: tell lie vision. I got that shout to shout to
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  Speaker 2: Jamal Jamal King, tell lie vision, telling lies on the vision. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm thankful that God has given us a full
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  Speaker 2: view of what this really is about and that we
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  Speaker 2: can surrender our will to God and win in this
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  Speaker 2: conflict under God Peace.
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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,