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04 09 2025 Dealing With Death-v2 · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, with some of us
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  Speaker 1: too much, because yesterday's food is not enough to supply
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  Speaker 1: energy for today's needs. Why then, do some of us
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  Speaker 1: expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God
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  Speaker 1: to keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we
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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 Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is dealing with Death. Dealing
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  Speaker 2: with Death. We'll get into that in just moment, but
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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 under way. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this day and the privilege of being
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  Speaker 2: called by your name. Thank you for giving us the
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  Speaker 2: antidote against death. Help us to live for you in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Dealing with death,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to type a one in the chat
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  Speaker 2: if you are tired of death. I don't hate a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, but death is one of the things
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  Speaker 2: I actually hate. I do not hate a lot of things,
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  Speaker 2: but death is one of the things that I hate.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many people that I love who passed away.
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  Speaker 2: I lost my mother in twenty twenty to an accident
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  Speaker 2: against a tractor trailer. I won't say anything more because
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  Speaker 2: it's so graphic. I hate death. And let me just
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  Speaker 2: tell you a story before we get into the Bible text. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So I have a friend who I was praying for
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  Speaker 2: and my brother. My friend Norman was also with me.
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  Speaker 2: Many times we would pray for my brother and friend
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  Speaker 2: Norman didn't even know him. But I just thank God
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  Speaker 2: for brothers who are are faithful to the call when
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  Speaker 2: we have these kinds of challenges. And so my friend
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  Speaker 2: was suffering with cancer, and long story short, he succumbed.
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  Speaker 2: He succumbed. I was in the hospital with him and
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  Speaker 2: his family members when he actually breathed his life last breath.
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  Speaker 2: My friend okay. And I had decided ahead of the
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  Speaker 2: time that I would not accept no for an answer.
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  Speaker 2: I would not accept death just because my friend died,
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  Speaker 2: like I anticipated that he might die. And I said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to accept that as the answer. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to God. And so when
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  Speaker 2: my friend did breathe his last breath, they did pronounce him.
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  Speaker 2: They did put the sheet over him up to just
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  Speaker 2: about below his chin. I called my friend Norman on
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  Speaker 2: the phone, a video call. I said, Norman, my brother
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  Speaker 2: has died. My friend has died. Remember what we said.
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  Speaker 2: So I knelt down beside the bed of my dead friend,
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  Speaker 2: my deceased friend's body, and I reached out my right
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  Speaker 2: hand and in my left hand I have the cell
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  Speaker 2: phone and it's a video call. So so Norman is
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  Speaker 2: with me. In my right hand is on splayed my fingers,
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  Speaker 2: splayed my hand on the chest of my brother who
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  Speaker 2: just my friend who just died. And I began to pray.
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  Speaker 2: Norman is there with me. We're praying, and I was
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  Speaker 2: anticipating a pulse in his chest. I was anticipating movement
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  Speaker 2: in my right hand. I have the phone in my left.
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  Speaker 2: I'm praying, Norman is praying, and I am anticipating movement
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  Speaker 2: in my friend's chest. And well, that did not happen.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't happen. I didn't pray for hours. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: cry and moan and pray for hours and ask God
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  Speaker 2: why or why not? Because I believe God hears us
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  Speaker 2: when we pray. And I asked, God, would you please
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  Speaker 2: wake up my brother today, would you wake up my
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  Speaker 2: friend today, Please restore him like you've restored so many
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  Speaker 2: people in the past. And well, my hand did not move,
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  Speaker 2: my friend's chest did not rise, he did not wake up.
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  Speaker 2: Was it my faith? Absolutely not. My faith in God
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  Speaker 2: was strong, I promise you, my brother Norman's faith strong
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  Speaker 2: in the Lord. But God said no. So it was
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  Speaker 2: in that moment that I accepted God's answer for the
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  Speaker 2: second time. See I'm tired of death. But God knows
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  Speaker 2: best while we struggle with death, because he has the plan,
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  Speaker 2: the action plan. He is going to destroy death. And
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  Speaker 2: when we look in the Bible Book of Genesis, chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: we see that God gave his people in verses fifteen
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  Speaker 2: through seventeen, he gave his people a way to avoid
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  Speaker 2: this thing, like for it never to enter into the
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  Speaker 2: earthly realm. And the Lord God took the man and
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  Speaker 2: put him into the garden of Eden to dress it
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  Speaker 2: and to keep it. And the Lord commanded the man, saying,
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  Speaker 2: of the tree of the garden, of every tree of
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  Speaker 2: the garden, thou mayst freely eat of the tree of
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  Speaker 2: the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
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  Speaker 2: of it, Or in the day that thou eatest thereof
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  Speaker 2: thou shalt surely die. Let me just say that Adam
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  Speaker 2: did eat of the tree. I know Eve did too.
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  Speaker 2: But God made Adam responsible for the human race. And
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  Speaker 2: when Adam sinned, when Adam ate from that tree, death
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  Speaker 2: devolved upon human beings. You see, death is not natural.
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  Speaker 2: Death is a consequence of sin. Death is not God's plan,
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  Speaker 2: And death came from disobedience. And then we see it
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  Speaker 2: playing out in the life of or the family of Adam.
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve, in their children. The Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: in Genesis chapter four, verses eight through fifteen, that Cain,
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  Speaker 2: one of Adam and Eve's sons, killed or murdered Abel,
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  Speaker 2: another one of their sons, and the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: when God checked Cain, he said, your brother's blood is
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  Speaker 2: crying unto me from the earth. You have killed. You
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  Speaker 2: have murdered your brother. You have murdered your brother. And
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  Speaker 2: so we see the first occurrence of death on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about death of a human being on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth at the hands of the Adam and Eve, the
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  Speaker 2: first people God ever created, at their children's hands or
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  Speaker 2: child's hands. Yeah, and so death is violent. God is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Sin progresses. We go from eating from the fruit that
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  Speaker 2: God said don't eat, and then we have murder. And
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  Speaker 2: then of course life is sacred. Life is sacred. Number three,
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  Speaker 2: there is a problem with death. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: in First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, verse seventeen, and if Christ
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  Speaker 2: be not raised, your faith is vain. You are yet
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  Speaker 2: in your sins. If in this life only we have
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  Speaker 2: hope in Christ, we are above all men most miserable.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible writer is saying, as there is
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  Speaker 2: an argument among people who say that they love God
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  Speaker 2: about whether there is or is not a resurrection, the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line is that when Jesus died, he died in
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  Speaker 2: our place so that we could be saved. But if
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  Speaker 2: Jesus remained dead, then my brother, my friend, whom I
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  Speaker 2: beg God to wake up that day that Sunday at
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  Speaker 2: Andrew's Memorial Hospital here in Jamaica, land we love, months ago,
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  Speaker 2: he will stay dead and never wake up again. He
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  Speaker 2: won't experience immortality, he won't experience the new body that
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  Speaker 2: God promised to those who love him. But if Christ
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  Speaker 2: be raised, which he is a Christ, the Lord has
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  Speaker 2: risen today, hallelujah. This is what the songwriter penned, and
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  Speaker 2: it's true. Since that is the case. My mother, she
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  Speaker 2: had faith in God. She will be raised incorruptible. My
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  Speaker 2: friend had faith in God. He will be raised incorruptible.
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  Speaker 2: We in this day and age can have victory over
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  Speaker 2: every beast setting sin, because Christ indeed took up his
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  Speaker 2: life as he said that he would, and so he
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  Speaker 2: gives us victory over sin. He gives us victory over death,
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  Speaker 2: and one day, one day we will experience and turn.
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