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04 15 2024 Savage Wolves · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Monday, April fifteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the concept of
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  the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is Savage Wolves. Savage Wolves.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com. Please join our online community and pick up your Daily Portion book.
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  Let us know where you are in the world. And this is one
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  of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. As I say
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  every day for those who are here. That is how we do this.
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  We're spreading the gospel together. We are enriched together, we experience God's word
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  and then share it with other people because Jesus is coming back once this gospel
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  is spread into all the world for a witness. He said, then and
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  only then shall the end come. So let's do our part. Okay,
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and
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  Heaven. Thank you for this new day, this work week that you've entrusted
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  to us. Now I'm asking you to please give us your spirit, help
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  us to be on the lookout for truth at all times and certainly never be
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  deceived by savage wolf. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  again. Yes, you have heard many times that there are sheep in wolve's
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  clothing. Okay, I said it backwards. You have heard many times that
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  there are wolves in sheep's clothing. That makes more sense, doesn't it.
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  See The thing about it is we learned the other day that the enemy,
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  the devil, is subtle, many times, at least in the way that
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  he came to Eve in the garden of Eden. The Bible says that the
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  serpent was the most subtle beast that the of the field that the Lord God
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  had made, and what he did was use not the sort of aha in
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  your face, overt sorts of tactics in order to get Eve to go in
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  the wrong or at least entice Eve to go in the wrong direction. I
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  didn't want to say get because she did have a choice, just like we
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  do a We have a decision to make every time the enemy comes with his
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  temptations, and so in the same vein in these days in which we live,
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  and the apostles talked about it a lot in the last days, we
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  understand that there are savages among the people of God, pillaging and going into
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  the churches of God. With the way that they insinuate doubt. They behave
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  as if they are sheep. Some even behave as if they are shepherds.
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  In fact, I wanted to write a book many years ago, and I
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  may do it. I may do it. That's on that very topic.
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  I was about to tell you the title, but I think I'll just hold
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  that for you. But the Bible is teaching us that we can, we
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  will we must connect with God in a way that when the wolves do come,
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  when the tears are growing among the great good plants of God's garden,
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  we will be able to see them, we will be able to expose them,
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  and we will be able to walk in the office direction of them.
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  But let's go ahead and begin in the Book of Acts, because this is
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  just discussion if we don't open the Word the Book of Acts, chapter twenty
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  and I am reading beginning at verse twenty seven, the Bible reads, for
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  I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.
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  Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has
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  made you over seers to shepherd the Church of God that He obtained by the
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  blood of his own son. And so this is why we need to be
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  protective. Brothers and sisters, those of you who have been entrusted the care
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  of people has been entrusted to you and to me. Yes, because Jesus
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  gave his life for them. Jesus gave his life for all of us.
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  But when we have new people in the fellowship of believers, when we are
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  building relationships with people who need to be closer to God and we are doing
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  our best to assist in that regard. We have to be jealous over them,
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  like Jesus is jealous over them. Why because this is not just the
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  country club, like where you just put up a sign, you say,
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  hey, if you meet these criteria, you pay this amount of money,
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  then you can come on into this club. And it doesn't really matter anything
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  else except that you keep paying and you keep the status that is required for
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  the country club. You hear what I'm saying, I'm saying it quickly because
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  that's frivolous. But in the community of faith, Jesus gave everything in order
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  to save us, and for those who have been making these decisions to serve
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  Him and they come into the family of God, we need to be on
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  the lookout so that they can be safe Verse twenty nine. I know that
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  after I am gone, fierce wolves, fierce wolves will come in among you,
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  not sparing the flock from among your own group, men will arise.
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  Jesus spoke about that in John chapter ten, teaching perversions of the truth.
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  So now we know that part of what makes a wolf a wolf in this
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  fellowship is when they start to teach perversions of what God said it's like the
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  enemy, the devil. He switched up what God said, and then as
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  a result of that, Eve was deceived and she went down the path toward
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  destruction. Thank God that Jesus didn't just let her go. But the bottom
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  line here is that there are people who come in and they pervert the truth
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  to draw according to the scriptures, the disciples away after them verse thirty one.
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  Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years, I
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  did not stop warning each of you with tears. See, God warned Adam
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  and Eve about what was going to happen at the tree, and he warned
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  them that everything that they had access to in the garden, it was just
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  one thing that He had restricted for them. It was a protective measure.
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  It was also a test of faith, a test of commitment to God,
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  and they both failed. But the Bible is teaching us here that even the
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  apostle is saying, I have warned you about these kinds of people verse thirty
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  two. And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his
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  grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance.
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  Among those who are sanctified or set aside for a holy youth. So
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  be on the lookout. I'm not saying be paranoid, brothers and sisters.
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  God said that we are to be fruit inspectors. We should see the fruit
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  of people who are among us, and by them, by those fruits,
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  we will know whether they are of God and whether they are not. And
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  if they're not, if they are on the pathway wanting to learn and to
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  surrender their will to God, that's a different thing. But the people who
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  come in looking like sheep and they are spreading lies, that sounds so close
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  to the truth. We need to be very clear about what that is.
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  And so the lesson writer points out that these wolves would bring in heresies and
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  false doctrines and practices that go against God's word, and compromise. Compromise that's
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  a big one. Where you knew that there was a certain kind of relationship
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  that you would have with your spouse and your spouse only, But maybe you're
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  staying too long on a telephone with somebody who's not your spouse, and you
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  find yourself endeared to that person, and now you're emotionally attached, and next
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  thing, you're in fornication mode full stop. And now you're like, Okay,
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  how did I get here? Will? It was a creeping compromise.
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  Certain things that we watch on the television or on our devices that lead us
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  away way from God. Compromises, gossip, huh unforgiveness, and we justify
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  ourselves sometimes and think, well, it's because this person did this to me,
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  That's why I fill in the blank negative. No. God has given
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  us the ministry of reconciliation, you see. And so in the Last Days
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  it says here in the Book of Second Thessalonians, chapter two, beginning at
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  verse seven, that God is going to allow people who choose to turn their
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  backs on Him without repenting to go along that pathway. We don't need to
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  be those people. God has given us the truth. The wolves are exposed.
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  Let's go with God. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el
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  David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,