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10 30 2026 Ellen G. White on Revelation and Inspiration · 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: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, the
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  Speaker 2: 30th day of October in 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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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, The Gift of Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Ellen White on Revelation and Inspiration. The
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  Speaker 2: lesson writers have been having an expose or a focus
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  Speaker 2: on Sister Ellen's ministry from back in the day. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll continue that for this Friday. Before we do, before
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. God,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day of preparation. Please prepare
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  Speaker 2: our hearts right now for connecting with you during the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath hours, the day of holiness that you have set
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  Speaker 2: apart for us because we're set apart for you. I pray, God,
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  Speaker 2: that you will give us wisdom today and see some
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  Speaker 2: of the example of Sister Ellen and her legacy of
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  Speaker 2: connecting with the scriptures and making them primary. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray. Amen and amen again. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: a couple of quarters ago, we started to go down
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  Speaker 2: through some of the people in Scripture now that they
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  Speaker 2: have passed away. Most of them passed away millennia ago. Elijah,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is living in heaven. Enoch is living in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: But we We used to talk about some of them
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  Speaker 2: and what they did as examples for us in 2020,
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  Speaker 2: whatever year it was when we did that. But now
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  Speaker 2: for me in 2026. Now, Ellen, who has been resting
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  Speaker 2: since 1915, she's dead. She carried the same quality of
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  Speaker 2: inspiration as biblical prophets did. Just like Nathan, just like Huldah,
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  Speaker 2: who never wrote a word in scriptures as far as
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  Speaker 2: we know, right? Just like Elijah and John the Baptist
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  Speaker 2: and others, right? And so what God is saying is
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  Speaker 2: that the people who had that same spirit lift up
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. We lift up the scriptures. We don't diminish
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. We don't try to guide people away from
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures to some new experience in air quotes. that
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  Speaker 2: somehow supersedes the scriptures. No, this is what she did.
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  Speaker 2: She uplifted the scriptures like Nathan did as the authoritative
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  Speaker 2: and infallible revelation of God. This is important. She understood
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  Speaker 2: inspiration as a union of the divine and human where
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  Speaker 2: God imbues the messenger with his thoughts. You feel me?
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say it this way, but there are
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  Speaker 2: some people that you will encounter on the road today
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  Speaker 2: that are imbued with the devil's thoughts. You'll know it
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  Speaker 2: based on their fruits and their actions, the things that
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  Speaker 2: they'll say to you that are so unholy and vile,
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that they will do to you
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  Speaker 2: and to others around you, the ways that they will
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  Speaker 2: ignore the people that need them most. You understand? This
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  Speaker 2: is something that you can see on the other side,
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  Speaker 2: so we obviously are supposed to see it on the
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  Speaker 2: God side of this equation. to where our lives reflect
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  Speaker 2: the God who is within us. His thoughts in our
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  Speaker 2: lives are to be manifest in a way that people
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  Speaker 2: can actually see. And the messenger conveys them in human words.
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  Speaker 2: God felt he filled the thoughts of the prophets, and
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  Speaker 2: then the prophets used their language to some of their experiences, etc.,
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  Speaker 2: and then they spoke the Word of God. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so, our first lesson is coming in from Psalms,
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  Speaker 2: the book of Psalms, chapter 119 and verse 160, Psalm 119,
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  Speaker 2: verse 160, where the Bible reads, Thy word is true
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  Speaker 2: from the beginning. and every one of thy righteous judgments
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  Speaker 2: endureth forever. Your instructions are totally reliable, the Bible writer says,
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  Speaker 2: and all your just regulations endure. Excuse me, I had
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  Speaker 2: to sneeze for those on the radio. Y'all saw me
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  Speaker 2: on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, and so we're looking at the reliability of
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  Speaker 2: the Scriptures, and the Bible writer knew that that was
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  Speaker 2: the case, and under inspiration, the Bible writer communicated that
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  Speaker 2: reality to us. And so God's Word is true. It
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  Speaker 2: has been from the beginning and endures forever. Like Ellen,
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  Speaker 2: we do well to hold up the Scripture as the
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  Speaker 2: reliable and authoritative revelation of God. It is a non-negotiable.
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  Speaker 2: If you say that you're a believer— If you say
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  Speaker 2: that you love and follow God, then that is a non-negotiable.
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  Speaker 2: The word of God as the revelation of his will,
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to salvation, the manifestation of his character, the
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  Speaker 2: pathway through Christ. If we see the scriptures without that lens...
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  Speaker 2: then the Scriptures are of no value to us. So
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  Speaker 2: give the Bible the highest place in your life today,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, please and thanks, measuring every other voice
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  Speaker 2: and counsel against it. Measuring every other voice and counsel
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  Speaker 2: against it. Now, the Bible reads here in the Bible
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  Speaker 2: book of Psalms, Psalms chapter 12 and verse 6, Psalms
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  Speaker 2: chapter 12 and verse 6, this is what the Bible
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  Speaker 2: writers saw about the words of God. The words of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord are pure words. As silver... tried in a
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  Speaker 2: furnace of earth, purified seven times. Let me read it
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  Speaker 2: from the New English translation. The Lord's words are absolutely reliable.
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  Speaker 2: There are no other words, brothers and sisters, that are
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  Speaker 2: absolutely reliable. What I say is not absolutely reliable. And
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  Speaker 2: even though I come in here every day and intend
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  Speaker 2: to teach the word of God somehow or remind us
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  Speaker 2: together about the beauty of God through his word, My
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  Speaker 2: words are not reliable. I make mistakes. Sometimes I say
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  Speaker 2: it's 2000, some wrong year. Sometimes I say the wrong day.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I say something that if I use better words
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  Speaker 2: that would have been clearer from the scriptures, but I
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  Speaker 2: chose the wrong words. So my words are not absolutely reliable,
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  Speaker 2: but God's are. They are as untainted as silver purified
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  Speaker 2: in a furnace on the ground floor. where it is
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  Speaker 2: thoroughly refined. That means to be purified and tested by fire.
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  Speaker 2: So the words of the Lord are pure and refined,
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  Speaker 2: thoroughly reliable for us. Understanding how God inspires his messengers
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  Speaker 2: helps us to read their counsel prudently and avoid extremes.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to get that point. There are people
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  Speaker 2: who were quoting prophets in 2026 saying, who are quoting
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  Speaker 2: prophets and trying to put in the mouths of the
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  Speaker 2: prophets of old or the prophets of not so old.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And trying to make them
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  Speaker 2: say some stuff, and it's almost like a bludgeoning tool.
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  Speaker 2: going into the scriptures, going into inspired writings and cherry
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  Speaker 2: picking some things that support our soapboxes and bludgeon people
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  Speaker 2: with them. And God is like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I've given you this counsel to use it prudently to
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  Speaker 2: avoid extremes and to be transformed, to be transformed in
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  Speaker 2: your actual life. And so I want you to read
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  Speaker 2: a portion of inspired. I almost said expired. See what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Unreliable. A portion of inspired counsel today with
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  Speaker 2: a balanced, humble heart, letting its pure truth through the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost to guide you. Peace.
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