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02 24 2025 The Origin of the Controversy on Earth · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Monday, February
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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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 origin of the controversy on Earth.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but before
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new morning. Thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of trusting you, the privilege of having you
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  Speaker 2: to guide us in all the paths of righteousness. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to follow you in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Okay, So the great controversy that
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  Speaker 2: began in heaven moved low locations and started to wreak
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  Speaker 2: havoc on planet Earth. And of course we see in
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of Genesis this all playing out. So
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to do is go to the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of Genesis chapter one and read, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: verse thirty one. And the Bible reads something that I
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  Speaker 2: really really appreciate, and the Bible says, and God saw everything,
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  Speaker 2: how many things, everything that he had made, and behold
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  Speaker 2: it was very good. And then we see the culmination here,
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  Speaker 2: and the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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  Speaker 2: So we know now that everything that God had done
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth during that time of creation, even through
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  Speaker 2: the creation of humankind, where he breathed his breath into
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  Speaker 2: their nostrils and they became a living soul, was good,
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  Speaker 2: good and very good. But something something went wrong. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: something went wrong. But let me just say, as we
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  Speaker 2: explore what went wrong, here is what our option is
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. Believe God, Believe God, or don't.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that we all need to actually believe
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  Speaker 2: God because he is the trustworthy one. He is the
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  Speaker 2: holy and blessed one, Blessed be his name. He is
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  Speaker 2: the one who created us with intent for us to
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  Speaker 2: live eternally. And so we have the privilege of believing God.
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  Speaker 2: But of course Adam and Eve had the same privilege.
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  Speaker 2: And let's see what happened in chapter three of Genesis,
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  Speaker 2: verse one. The Bible reads, Now the serpent was more
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  Speaker 2: subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord
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  Speaker 2: God had made. Can I talk to you just for
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  Speaker 2: a moment about subtlety when it comes to evil. You see,
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  Speaker 2: there are times that people expect that the enemy is
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  Speaker 2: going to come with some really sort of open boisterous.
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  Speaker 2: Uh uh, something full of bravado, like this overt thing
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  Speaker 2: where he jumps out of somewhere as some frightening character
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  Speaker 2: and then and then offers a person the option to
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  Speaker 2: do evil. And it's like, ah, no, no, no, that's
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  Speaker 2: not that's some TV stuff. A lot of times evil
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  Speaker 2: comes cloaked and things that we enjoy. Evil comes cloaked
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  Speaker 2: in reasonable discussion, in air quotes. Sometimes evil is cloaked
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  Speaker 2: in in things that are related to our connection with God.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not God, it's it's that there is a
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  Speaker 2: there's a deliberate uh, disinformation campaign in our minds because
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  Speaker 2: the devil is planting that there. We talked about the
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  Speaker 2: tears and the wheat yesterday, uh huh. And so what
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  Speaker 2: the Bible is teaching us here is that the devil,
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  Speaker 2: when he came in the form of a serpent into
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  Speaker 2: the garden of Eden, that perfect garden of Eden, to
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  Speaker 2: speak to that perfect woman who was at the tree
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  Speaker 2: of the knowledge of good and evil, he came subtly,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads and he said, unto the woman,
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  Speaker 2: yea hath God said, ye shall not eat of the
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  Speaker 2: tree of the every every tree of the garden let
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  Speaker 2: me ask the question again. Yea hath God said that
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  Speaker 2: ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's already introducing just a little bit of an
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  Speaker 2: insinuation that takes the messaging off kilter. Now in that moment,
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  Speaker 2: she should have she should have walked away full stop,
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  Speaker 2: like rejected the conversation. This is something we need to learn,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. No need to entertain anything that is
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  Speaker 2: even subtly a contrary to God's will. But she continued,
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, and the woman said, unto the serpent, with
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  Speaker 2: her superintelligence, you know, with her perfect character, right, with
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  Speaker 2: no history, with no grandparents who have sinned, with her
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  Speaker 2: perfect everything, she now begins to reason with the fallen
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  Speaker 2: angel in the form of a serpent. And she said,
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  Speaker 2: unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: the trees of the garden, But of the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
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  Speaker 2: God hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither
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  Speaker 2: shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And then the
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  Speaker 2: serpent does something else. He just moves and switches around.
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  Speaker 2: One word. See, God said ye shall surely die, thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt surely die, and the serpent said verse four, unto
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  Speaker 2: the woman, ye shall not surely die. Okay, So granted,
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  Speaker 2: the woman is now having a discussion with a beautiful serpent,
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  Speaker 2: and the serpent to speaking, and the serpent is appearing
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  Speaker 2: to make an argument that you know, she could reasonably
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  Speaker 2: argue her way through, because of course she's perfect right.
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  Speaker 2: And then he and she doesn't move away from the tree,
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't disengage. And now he is saying something completely
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  Speaker 2: contrary to what God had said, And she's still there.
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  Speaker 2: Now she is being deceived. What a tangled web we weave.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible continues verse five. For God doth know that
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  Speaker 2: in the day that you eat thereof then your eyes
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  Speaker 2: shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing
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  Speaker 2: good and evil. And the woman, when she saw that
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  Speaker 2: the tree was good for food, let me just ask
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  Speaker 2: you a question right here, right here, type and type
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  Speaker 2: your answer in the chat to say yes or no?
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  Speaker 2: Question he said. The Bible says that when she saw
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  Speaker 2: that the tree was good for food? Was the tree
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  Speaker 2: good for food? Was the tree good for food? And
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  Speaker 2: your answer will determine how close you would be to
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  Speaker 2: God in the same situation, Yes or no? Was the
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  Speaker 2: tree good for food? I'll come back to that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment. And a tree to be desired to
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  Speaker 2: make one wise? So when she saw that it was
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  Speaker 2: good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and the tree
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  Speaker 2: was desired to make one wise, was it desired to
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  Speaker 2: make one wise? Yes or no? Yes or no? Do
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  Speaker 2: you become wiser when you do evil? Wiser when you
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  Speaker 2: do what God said not to do? And she took
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  Speaker 2: thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband,
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  Speaker 2: and he did eat. And both of their eyes were opened,
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  Speaker 2: and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed
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  Speaker 2: fig leaves together. They knew that they were naked. And
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  Speaker 2: so now they're trying to cover themselves. They are covering.
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  Speaker 2: We cover ourselves when we are exposed, rather than exposing
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  Speaker 2: our self in the presence of God, with vulnerability and saying, God,
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  Speaker 2: will you purify what is exposed here? God? And it says,
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  Speaker 2: and they of course made themselves aprons. Let me come
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  Speaker 2: back to that first question. Was it good for food?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not? No is the answer. It was not good
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  Speaker 2: for food. But you want to say, but Dave, it
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  Speaker 2: was it was not poisonous. Well, God said, don't eat it? No, no,
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast is not interrupted. God said don't eat it. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: if God says to go left and we go right,
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  Speaker 2: then going right is not good. No matter what. I'm
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  Speaker 2: thankful that we know that God can keep us. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about it some more tomorrow. 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: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,