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04 14 2024 Compromise- Satan’s Subtle Strategy · 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 fourteen, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is Compromise Satan's Subtle Strategy. Compromise Satan's Subtle Strategy.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  our lives today. God in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a men.
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  Again, when you have an opportunity, I want you to look up
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  the book Creeping Compromise. You can look it up on the Internet, Creeping
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  Compromise, and I think that that will be of assistance to you as you
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  consider what we're going to talk about today, because really and truly, as
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  the lesson writer would have put it, compromise Satan's subtle strategy that lets you
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  know how insidious compromise is. Sometimes people make tiny, tiny steps of compromise
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  here and there, and next thing we know we are completely separated from God.
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  God wakes you up in the morning and you know that it is your
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  privilege to speak to him right, have some time and prayer, listen for
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  his voice and his guidance for the day. But somehow you find something else
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  to do something very important. There's a leaky pipe, there is some small
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  thing that you need to do oops before you go to work. And then
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  oh, wait a minute, maybe I need to do some a little bit
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  of my work before I go to work, or think of a lot of
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  things fill in the blank. And as you compromise God forbid on your time
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  with God, then your connection with God begins to wane. You see where
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  this is going. I don't even have to go into these giant things that
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  people would automatically say, oh yeah, this is something that is against God.
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  But these little compromises, even with our dedication to time with him,
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  He has an appointment with us every Sabbath, the seventh day Sabbath, and
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  we are instructed that we should guard well the edges of the Sabbath. And
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  so on Friday evening, maybe you feel like you need to iron that last
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  little thing two minutes before sunset, like what, Or you have to clean
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  the toilet just before sunset, and it's like no, really, if the
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  listen, if it's not done already, then I'm sorry. Just keep it
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  pushing, because why, God is ready for his appointment and he wants our
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  mindsets already on him. So give it some give it an hour, give
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  it an hour prior to sunset, that you will not do anything that is
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  not worship worthy, that is not connection with God worthy, and that sixty
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  minutes right before before Sabbath comes, and so on and so forth. But
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  let me just say, in the Book of Genesis, during the creation story,
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  we see God created everything. It was good, good, very good.
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  And then at some point, we don't know how long it took.
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  At some point the Bible begins to show a new story. And the Bible
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  says that the the serpent was the most subtle beast of the field which the
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  Lord God had made, and so the subtlety of this serpent, whom we
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  now know is the dragon and the devil, right, the devil and Satan.
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  He comes into a tree, the only place that he was allowed to
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  encounter Adam and Eve. He goes to this tree. Eve is there,
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  and he begins to insinuate doubt when he says, yea hath God said,
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  and she's like, okay, she's listening, that thou shalt not eat from
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  every tree of the garden. God had already given his guidance. He said
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  that there is everything in this garden is for you, perfect environment, everything
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  is for you. But this one tree, thou shalt not eat of it.
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  In the day that thou eatest thereof ye shall surely die. And so
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  he said, ye shall. The devil said, ye shall not surely die.
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  Change one word he said in the beginning, yea have God said that
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  you should not eat from every tree? Wait a minute, no, God
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  said, you may have every tree except one. But the devil made it
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  seem as if because he's subtle, he changed it just a little bit in
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  his discussion. And now doubt is in the air. Right not believe in
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  God's word is in the air. And of course, through subtlety, he
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  deceives Eve and then she eats of the fruit that God forbade. And the
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  rest, my friends, is history. And so the subtle, subtlety of
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  the devil is what happens to people who choose not to listen to every word
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  of God. Okay. And so in the Book of John, chapter fourteen
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  and verse six, the Bible reads Jesus replied, I am the Way,
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  the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through
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  me. And so the Father we're referencing here is God, our father.
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  When Jesus said, when you pray, pray ye our Father, which are
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  in heaven. And so we're talking about God, our Father, okay.
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  And then in the Book of John, chapter eight, verse forty four,
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  the Bible talks about how there are some people who are supposed to be leaders
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  of the people of God. These people are supposed to be leaders in the
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  fellowship, the faith fellowship of God, and those individuals, the Bible says,
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  we're already living a compromised life even though they were supposed to be servant
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  leaders of the people of God. And the Bible says that you are of
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  your father. The devil, he was a liar from the beginning, and
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  all he does is speak lies. He's speaking of his own like this lying
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  spirit is his. And you all have accepted that that is the life that
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  you have chosen to live. And so we have a contrast between God,
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  our father, and the Father the devil, the Father of lies. And
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  now a line of demarcation, brothers and sisters. Whom will we believe?
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  Huh, the Father of Heaven, who's throne is heaven and the earth is
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  his footstool, who loved us so much that he gave his only begotun son
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  so that we can live forever hm. Or the father of lies that insinuates
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  doubts, who always tells stories differently than what God would have us to believe
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  in order to deceive us, and so forth and then lead us along the
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  path of destruction. Whom will you serve? Right? And so the lesson
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  writer says what Jesus says is true because he's the author of truth. Truth
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  proceeds from the heart of all wise, all loving, and the all knowing
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  God. He is the foundation of reality and of the truth. In contrast,
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  Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He is prepared to
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  use lies, deceit disinformation and distortion of the truth to lead God's people astray,
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  and not just God's people, everybody, really and truly, he deceived
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  Eve by distorting the truth, creating doubt, and then blatantly denying what God
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  had said. And so really, the devil is all about subtlety, and
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  it doesn't mind if we creep into compromise. But God gives us the truth
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  so we can live and be honored by the truth. Thanks for joining us
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  listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,