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04 26 2024 Our Progress - God’s Perfection · 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 Friday, April twenty six, 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 this preparation day morning in our lesson
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  study series, the Great Controversy, under the caption our Progress, God's Perfection,
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  Our progress, God's Perfection. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  So many to say, let's go ahead and pray and then we'll get
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  underwagh. Father, thank you for this day of preparation. Help us to
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  prepare our hearts and to live in the light of your perfection. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray Amen and a men again. Yes, So there are
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  certain people with my behavior style aham, who are looking for perfection all the
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  time, always looking for perfection, like because we like things tidy, well
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  organized and nice, right, and sometimes to be frank in our religious or
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  i should say spiritual lives, our connection with God lives, things get a
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  little messy and I'm not trying to minimize it as if it's not a big
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  deal, like when we make mistakes and if God forbid we sin. It's
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  not that God is saying, oh, no big deal. I know that
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  you're only human in air quotes. But it does mean that we should not
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  arrest our own progress because we are not seeing God's perfection in our own eyes,
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  in our own lives. Can I say it just another way, do
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  not fall off the bike of spiritual connection with God and growth? And then
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  and then decide, well, it doesn't make sense to continue along the path
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  because I keep messing up. No, no, no. When we are
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  in the light of God's word, we are in the light of His salvation.
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  We live according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If God forbid we
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  should fall, let me say it this way. I'm going to read it,
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  write out of the scriptures in first first John, chapter two the Bible.
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  The Bible says, my little children, these things write I unto you
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  that she sin not right. And if anyone sins, you have an advocate
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  of the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous, who has become the propitiation
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  for our sins. So he stands in our place, brother and sisters.
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  So God has empowered us so that we can live from the moment of our
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  new birth experience until we die or Jesus comes. We can live like Jesus
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  lived from his natural birth ah until his death. We can live holy lives.
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  We can. But if along the pathway we make a mistake, we
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  do a sin, we can go to God and confess those sins, agree
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  with him about what happened, and then in the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  be restored, be restored and empowered to do God's will, our progress,
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  God's perfection. And so let me just read from the book The Great
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  Controversy, page one hundred three, and then we'll go into the scriptures.
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  God permitted great light to shine upon the minds of those chosen men. We're
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  talking about some of these reformers that we made allusion to this week, but
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  they did not receive all the light that was to be given to the world
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  through these his servants. God was leading the people out of the darkness of
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  Romanism, but there were many and great obstacles for them to meet, and
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  he led them on step by step as they could bear it. They were
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  not prepared to receive all the light at once. Sometimes you wonder, well,
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  why is it that God, God didn't shut down the kings having on
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  so many wives, Why is it that you know the reformers that we revere
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  in a lot of ways. I respect the reformers, the Husses of this
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  life, right, I respect I respect the Martin Luthers of this life.
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  And then of course the walden Scenes and so many others. And you're like,
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  well, well, they still had misunderstandings, they still didn't keep.
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  You could say the Sabbath, they could they still didn't believe, and you
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  could pick some other truths that they didn't yet under stand or believe. And
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  what God is saying is that our understanding and our connection with God is progressive.
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  If we are continuing along the pathway that leads to life, then God's
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  perfection stands in our stead. May I say it again, this is not
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  an intellectual journey. This is not an intellectual journey. There are things that
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  we don't either understand yet or know as yet, and God is not holding
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  that against us as long as we stay on the path of progress. On
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  the path of progress, I wish I had the time to deal with people
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  in the scriptures like Rayhab who had a former life of whoredom. And she
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  told, uh, well, Alie really like, she was like, yeah,
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  they're not here. I don't know what y'all talk about. They're not
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  here. And she hid them. If you want to say, I'm saying
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  that tongue in cheek, right, she hid the people of God and she
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  was rewarded. She was rewarded for doing so. And you're like, but
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  that doesn't seem right. Well, who says it's not right? When God
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  is the one who understands our progress. God is the one who understands what
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  our real standing with him is, how far he has led us, and
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  how far he is still going to lead us our progress. God's perfection.
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  Okay, let me continue, Let me continue. Therefore, he revealed it
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  to the leaders, little by little as it could be received by the people
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  from century to century. Other faithful workers were to follow, to lead the
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  people on still further in the path of reform. You see. So God
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  did not give the every person in the Reformation every little detail. And I
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  don't mean little in terms of magnitude, but little in terms of how many
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  of them there are. There's so many, so many in this huge,
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  grand scheme of things. He didn't give them every single detail at the right,
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  at the exact moment that they received certain other elements of light. He
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  has been leading his people, step by step by step into a complete and
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  right relationship with God. I think that is a wonderful thing that will lead
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  us now to a few a few points that can be of help to us.
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  Number one, embrace progressive revelation. Progress progressive revelation. Here in the
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  Book of Proverbs, chapter four and verse eighteen, the Bible reads, but
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  the path of the just is as the shining light. Okay, okay,
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  wise man, what does that mean? That shineth more and more unto the
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  perfect day? So God is leading us step by step more light, a
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  little bit more light, more light until the perfect day. Of course,
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  we should prioritize spiritual wealth over material wealth. In fact, the Bible says
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  that we're not to lay up our treasures on earth, but accumulate for ourselves
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  treasures in heaven. That has to do with priority, has nothing to do
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  with how much or how little we have on planet Earth. In fact,
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  God wants us to be the lender and not the borrower, the head and
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  not the tail. Right, but He wants us not to prioritize our earthly
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  things, but rather prioritize the treasures that we build in heaven. Yes.
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  Well, there's so much else we could say, but again, our progress,
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  God's perfection. Trust him along the journey. Peace. Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with el David Harris, Make it a great day. Yeah,