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08 16 2024 Humility Before Honor · 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: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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, August sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of Mark. We are finishing
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  Speaker 2: up lesson number seven of thirteen under the caption Humility
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  Speaker 2: before honor, Humility before our honor. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and say happy Preparation day to everyone
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  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to please go over to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: up the Your Daily Portion book. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven. Thank you for this new day. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the time that You've entrusted to us to prepare,
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  Speaker 2: prepare for the special time that we have with you
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  Speaker 2: on the Sabbath. Thank you God for showing us humility
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  Speaker 2: in the life of Christ, John the Baptist, and so
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  Speaker 2: many others. Rather, please help us to follow the blueprint
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  Speaker 2: and live in humble submission to you In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Humility before honor. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be in our discussion today by reading from
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  Speaker 2: the book titled The Desire of Ages, page four hundred
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  Speaker 2: and thirty six. Four hundred thirty six from the book
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  Speaker 2: The Desire of Ages, and it reads thusly, before honor
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  Speaker 2: is humility to fill a high place before men or humans.
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  Speaker 2: Heaven chooses the worker who, like John the Baptist, takes
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  Speaker 2: a lowly place before God. That means that we humble
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in the presence of God. The most childlike disciple
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  Speaker 2: is the most efficient in labor for God. Oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is changing the mindset of a lot of people at
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  Speaker 2: this moment. He said that we have to humble ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: we become childlike, and those individuals who choose that pathway
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  Speaker 2: are the best leaders. Let me continue, Let me continue.
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  Speaker 2: The heavenly intelligences can cooperate with him who is seeking
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  Speaker 2: not to exalt self but to save souls. That's the
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  Speaker 2: end of the quote. Let me read that last part again.
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  Speaker 2: The heavenly intelligences. That's God, the Father, Son, God, the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. That is the holy angels that he said
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  Speaker 2: excel in strength that see His face daily, that have
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  Speaker 2: been assigned to us. All of these heavenly angels, God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father, Jesus Christ, God the Son, and God the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit are all working together for our good. You
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  Speaker 2: weren't expecting that all things work together for the good
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  Speaker 2: of those and for the called according to His purpose.
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  Speaker 2: So all of this is cooperating with those who are
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  Speaker 2: seeking not to exalt self but to save souls. Thank
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  Speaker 2: God for the blueprint. If we just simply follow this,
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  Speaker 2: we cannot fail, We cannot lose. Seek First, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: His kingdom and his righteousness, and all things needful will
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  Speaker 2: be added unto us. Let me read another quote from
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  Speaker 2: page four hundred and forty of the same book. By
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  Speaker 2: all that has given us advantage over another, be it
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  Speaker 2: education or refinement, nobility of character, Christian training, religious experience,
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  Speaker 2: we are in debt to those less favored, and so
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  Speaker 2: far as lies in our power, we are to minister
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  Speaker 2: unto them. If we are strong, we are to stay
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  Speaker 2: up the hands of the week angels of glory that
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  Speaker 2: do always behold the face of the Father in Heaven
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  Speaker 2: joy in ministering to his little ones. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: the angels who did not sin, these angels who are powerful,
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  Speaker 2: and one angel coming down to planet Earth, and as
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  Speaker 2: he steps on planet Earth the earthquakes, the k of
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  Speaker 2: angel that put evil angels to flight. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: holy angels of God who in just one little flip
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  Speaker 2: of a finger, could destroy us if it were permitted.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying those individuals, those holy angels, are using all
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  Speaker 2: of their power to minister to us. They're not saying,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an angel? Is this the job that I have?
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  Speaker 2: Can't I be involved in creating another planet God? No,
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  Speaker 2: they are happy to minister unto us, so that we
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  Speaker 2: who are created just a little lower than the angels
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  Speaker 2: whom God crowned with glory and honor, will one day
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  Speaker 2: see God's face. Thank God that we have an example,
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  Speaker 2: even of holy angels trembling souls, continuing the quote, who
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  Speaker 2: have many objectionable traits of character. See, we're not like those.
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  Speaker 2: Holy angels are their special charge. Angels are ever present
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  Speaker 2: where they are most needed, with those who have the
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  Speaker 2: hardest battle with self to fight and whose surroundings are
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  Speaker 2: the most discouraging. So when you see that your life
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  Speaker 2: is in shambles, when you see the community that you're
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  Speaker 2: in breeds, gunmen and prostitutes, like when you see that
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  Speaker 2: drug dealers and other kinds of people who do crime
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  Speaker 2: are the best that come out of our communities, then
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  Speaker 2: you know that the angels are even closer to you.
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  Speaker 2: When you recognize that your mother or your father abused
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  Speaker 2: you and then left you for dad and then didn't
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  Speaker 2: even care about you, the angels are closest to you
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  Speaker 2: when you see that you have have multiple amputations, or
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  Speaker 2: because of some crime that you created, you commit it.
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  Speaker 2: You are in a wheelchair because of what you had
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  Speaker 2: done and you got caught in a crossfire while you
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  Speaker 2: were committing a crime. Angels of God are closer to
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  Speaker 2: you if your bank account is low and in the negative,
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  Speaker 2: or you don't have bank account any at all, there
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  Speaker 2: is no running water in your whole community, God is
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  Speaker 2: closest to you. Sometimes, humans who feel like we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of education, who feel like we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of influence and power, sometimes we feel like God
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  Speaker 2: is most with us. But we are reading now under
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  Speaker 2: inspiration that those who need God the most, who are
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  Speaker 2: battling self the most, the ones who are proudest but
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  Speaker 2: want to be humble and are having a difficult time
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  Speaker 2: being humble. If we surrender our will, if that is
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  Speaker 2: our mindset, and we're surrendering our will, we're having the strongest,
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  Speaker 2: craziest battle against sin. Then God is with us through
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  Speaker 2: the angels the most, because He loves us. He loves us.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read that again. Angels are ever present where they
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  Speaker 2: are most needed, with those who have the hardest battle
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  Speaker 2: with self to fight and whose surroundings are most discouraging.
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  Speaker 2: And in this ministry, Christ's true followers will cooperate. Oh
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, all of that that I just said,
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  Speaker 2: Then that means we should be doing the same thing
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  Speaker 2: that He has shown us through the ministry of angels.
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  Speaker 2: We should be with the poor, the laying, the main,
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  Speaker 2: the halt. We should be with the people who have
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  Speaker 2: the most objectionable traits of character. Jesus's enemies said, but
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  Speaker 2: he edith with sinners. Yeah, he did, because sinners need him.
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  Speaker 2: He did not come to call the just. He came
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  Speaker 2: to call sinners to repentance. He came to call the
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  Speaker 2: people who have the most difficulty to repentance. And now
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  Speaker 2: we know that our ministry is that same ministry. As
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  Speaker 2: we receive power from God, we humble ourselves. We humble ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: and then He will honor us in the way he
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  Speaker 2: sees fit. The Bible says here in the Book of Proverbs,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen and verse thirty three, the fear of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility. So
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  Speaker 2: we respect God, and then we receive his instruction, the
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  Speaker 2: wisdom that comes from God, the wisdom that God is.
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  Speaker 2: And then we receive honor, but not before we humble
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  Speaker 2: ourselves before God. And I'm thankful. I'm thankful that God
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  Speaker 2: has shown us so many examples of people who yielded
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  Speaker 2: their will to God and receive this actual result that
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  Speaker 2: we can't say we don't know. We can say, God,
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  Speaker 2: my belief is weak. Please help my unbelief teach me
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  Speaker 2: to be humbled in your presence. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,