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02 28 2025 Sin is the Devil's Fault · 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: 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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: February twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is sin is the Devil's Fault. At
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  Speaker 2: Sin is the Devil's Fault. 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: pray and then get underway. I know you're interested, you're curious. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for this day of preparation.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the Sabbath that is drawing near. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I just pray now that you will give us the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of your holy spirit, that you will teach us
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  Speaker 2: how to trust you, trust you and you alone. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: sin is the devil's fault. Don't cooperate with him. I said,
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  Speaker 2: sin is the devil's fault, but don't cooperate with him. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I know. When I was a young guy in the
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  Speaker 2: seventies and eighties, there were people who committed all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of crimes. They committed all kinds of crimes, and then
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  Speaker 2: they would say, the devil made me do it. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't make you do it. You had to cooperate.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way that he could make you do anything.
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  Speaker 2: And so when I say it's the devil's fault. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying that your part, if God forbid, my part,
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  Speaker 2: If God forbid, we choose to sin is his fault. No,
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  Speaker 2: the presence of sin is his fault. So inflation, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we cooperate when that happens, But inflation is his fault.
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  Speaker 2: Human trafficking, that's his fault. Global warming, high gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: broken homes, your headaches, traffic jams, and any and other
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  Speaker 2: any other inconvenience or trial or problem is the devil's fault.
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  Speaker 2: But the question is am I cooperating with him? And
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  Speaker 2: I would just say God forbid so so nothing. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you where I'm going to read this from.
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  Speaker 2: This is from the book The Great Controversy, and it
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  Speaker 2: reads nothing is more plainly taught in scripture than that
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  Speaker 2: God is in no wise responsible for the entrance of sin.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get that part? God did not bring sin
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  Speaker 2: to you. He didn't bring sin to you. Let me
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  Speaker 2: let me continue. Let me continue to read that there
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  Speaker 2: was no arbitrary withdrawal of God's grace, no deficiency in
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  Speaker 2: the divine government that gave occasion for the uprising of rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: Sin is an intruder. Remember we read I think it
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  Speaker 2: was just under a week ago when we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about the wheat and the tears, and Jesus taught that
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  Speaker 2: an enemy has has planted these tears, these weeds, these
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  Speaker 2: things that are encroaching upon the good crops in the land. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's an intruder for whose presence no reason
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  Speaker 2: can be given. It is mysterious. I told you this
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days ago. Unaccountable. To excuse it is
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  Speaker 2: to defend it. Have you ever heard somebody say, I
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  Speaker 2: understand why person X fill in the blank particular crime
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  Speaker 2: because he or she needed to take care of his
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  Speaker 2: or her family. And it's like, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 2: To excuse it is to defend it. He had he
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  Speaker 2: Satan been imediately blotted from existence, they the inhabitants of
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  Speaker 2: heaven and of the other worlds, would have served God
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  Speaker 2: from fear rather than from love. And you're like the
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  Speaker 2: other worlds, Yeah, the other worlds. And I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: about Mars. Yeah, I'm not talking about Mars. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time, Okay, maybe another time. The inflow
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  Speaker 2: tu wents of the deceiver would not have been fully destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: nor would the spirit of rebellion have been utterly eradicated.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there are times that things have to run
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  Speaker 2: their course. They have to run their course, and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: but why would God let these things run their course
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  Speaker 2: so that humans could see how bad this can get?
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  Speaker 2: So that God can demonstrate how powerful he is to
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  Speaker 2: overcome sin in your life if you choose to yield
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  Speaker 2: your will to him. You see, God, God does more
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  Speaker 2: than just restore, which restoration is amazing, but he does
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  Speaker 2: more than just restore, because even if he restores us
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth, at some point we're going to die.
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  Speaker 2: At some point before we die, we're going to experience
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  Speaker 2: those things that I cited earlier. We're going to experience
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  Speaker 2: human trafficking. We're going to experience abusive relationships, and global warming,
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  Speaker 2: the effects of global warming. We're gonna experience inflation more
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  Speaker 2: month than money. We're going to experience the crazy news
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  Speaker 2: cycle with bad news after bad news after bad news.
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  Speaker 2: In just twenty two minutes, we hear all of the
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  Speaker 2: bad news of the world. You see. And so what
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  Speaker 2: God does is beyond restoration. He gives us new hearts,
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  Speaker 2: he gives us a new spirit, he gives us a
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  Speaker 2: new destination at the end of our lives on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: which is to live with God at the appropriate time
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus comes back, We're going to live with God
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  Speaker 2: forever in heaven. We'll live for a thousand years, and
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  Speaker 2: then God is going to give us a new earth
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  Speaker 2: wherein dwelleth righteousness. Yeah, Matthew chapter five says that the
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  Speaker 2: meek shall inherit the earth. You see Revelation chapters twenty
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  Speaker 2: through twenty two teach us that God is going to
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  Speaker 2: recreate this place, and then He's going to wipe away
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  Speaker 2: all tears from our eyes. He's going to remove with
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  Speaker 2: remove death forever. No more death, no more crying, no
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  Speaker 2: more pain. For the former things the Bible writer said
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  Speaker 2: will be passed away. So what are we going to
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  Speaker 2: do now? I'm going to get into that just in
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  Speaker 2: a moment. In a moment, evil will must be permitted
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  Speaker 2: to come to maturity for the good of the entire universe.
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  Speaker 2: Through ceaseless ages. Satan must more fully develop his principles.
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  Speaker 2: That is, charges against the Divine government might be seen
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  Speaker 2: in their true light by all created beings, that the
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  Speaker 2: justice and mercy of God and the immutability of His
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  Speaker 2: law might forever be placed beyond all question. Now we
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  Speaker 2: can see very clearly the contrast between God and his enemy.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm going into our Companion Guide. We're going into
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  Speaker 2: We're going to apply this one at work. Okay, we
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  Speaker 2: have four applications for people who don't are not familiar
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  Speaker 2: with our guide, and we're going to look at the
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  Speaker 2: professional application using the acronym win WIN. What is important
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  Speaker 2: now in your work environment, it is crucial to maintain
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  Speaker 2: integrity and resist the urge to participate in gossip. So
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  Speaker 2: it's the devil's fault, but we don't have to participate
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  Speaker 2: in it or division, which are often inspired by negative influences.
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have said often it's always inspired that way. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: number not number two, but the letter I internalize. The
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  Speaker 2: insight reflect on your professional interactions. We all have them.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed any situations where negativity or unfair judgment
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  Speaker 2: seem to dominate? Think of those meetings, those board meetings,
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  Speaker 2: those committee meetings, etc. Can you interact or counteract part
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  Speaker 2: of me these influences with a christ Like attitude and finally,
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  Speaker 2: en next best move? And what is the next best move?
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  Speaker 2: Be a source of positivity and encouragement in your workplace.
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  Speaker 2: When you encounter negativity, speak truth and love into the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for wisdom to handle difficult circumstances in a way
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  Speaker 2: that reflects God's character. That's for the win, everybody, that
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  Speaker 2: is for the win. We know that the sin problem
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  Speaker 2: is God's is not God's fault. It is the devil's fault,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't have to cooperate him with him. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day, Feasts.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,