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02 22 2025 The Cosmic Conflict · 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: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Sabbath. It's
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  Speaker 2: February twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El 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, God's Love and Justice. We're
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  Speaker 2: coming in with lesson number nine under the caption the
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  Speaker 2: Cosmic Conflent, the Cosmic Conflict. Before we get into that
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  Speaker 2: this Sabbath morning, i'd like to say welcome to you
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  Speaker 2: and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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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, we do thank
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  Speaker 2: you for winning the conflict. I thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the fullness of your spirit for these days. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to receive him in Jesus name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. The cosmic conflict. Now that sounds ominous,
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  Speaker 2: and I think indeed it is this time. I think
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  Speaker 2: it is like sometimes we say things for effect, but no,
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  Speaker 2: this is real. The conflict is real, and I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: that God has already shown us the end of the story.
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  Speaker 2: He's also shown us what he did in heaven. When
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  Speaker 2: the conflicts started with Lucifer, Lucifer decided that he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be he wanted to replace God. Lucifer decided that
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to place replace God, and God had to
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  Speaker 2: deal with that situation as it really was, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: Lucifer and his cohorts, they they decided that they did
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  Speaker 2: not want to repent, and the Bible says there was
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  Speaker 2: war in heaven, and of course Mikael and his angels
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  Speaker 2: fought against the dragon and his angels, and of course
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  Speaker 2: the dragon loses his evil angels and him. They go
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  Speaker 2: and get kicked out of heaven. But they live. They
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  Speaker 2: they they I'm not going to say live. But what
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  Speaker 2: they what they do is they antagonize the humans on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. Now that's what they're doing. That's their job,
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  Speaker 2: antagonize human beings. And they attempt to get us separated
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  Speaker 2: from God, our father. And so I'm thankful that God
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  Speaker 2: gave us the end of the story, like he showed
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  Speaker 2: us that the devil loses one hundred percent of the
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  Speaker 2: time when it's a war or a conflict with God.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is today I'm talking about this Sabbath morning,
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  Speaker 2: will you allow God to win this cosmic conflict in
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  Speaker 2: your life? What I'm saying is, when you have to
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  Speaker 2: make a decision in your personal life, spiritual life, your relationships,
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  Speaker 2: your professional and financial life, Like when you have to
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  Speaker 2: make decisions in all of these key areas, are you
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  Speaker 2: going to listen to God or are you going to
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  Speaker 2: listen to the enemy. Are you going to believe God
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  Speaker 2: or are you going to believe the voice of the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: That is the question with which we must contend every
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  Speaker 2: single day, including on Sabbath. Like Sabbath is not a
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  Speaker 2: utopia somewhere in on planet Earth where we are insulated
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  Speaker 2: against the temptations of the enemy. But we do know
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  Speaker 2: that since we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, and
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  Speaker 2: we do indeed wrestle against principalities and powers, and the
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  Speaker 2: rulers of the darkness of this age, and spiritual wickedness
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  Speaker 2: and high places, we know that when we put on
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  Speaker 2: God's entire armor, than we will be able to stand yes.
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  Speaker 2: And so we read now from Genesis, chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse fifteen, the response of God after the humans in
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  Speaker 2: the garden of Eden decided to do what the devil
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  Speaker 2: said instead of what God said. And so we read
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  Speaker 2: now in that passage, and I will put enmity. That
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  Speaker 2: means hostility, that's one of the ways that you can
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  Speaker 2: define it. And I will put hostility between you and
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  Speaker 2: the woman. So he is God. God is speaking to
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  Speaker 2: the devil, the serpent through the serpent. But he's speaking
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  Speaker 2: to the devil, okay. And I will put hostility between
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  Speaker 2: you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed.
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  Speaker 2: He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
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  Speaker 2: And so God is telling the devil right then and
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  Speaker 2: there that the seed which is Christ is going to
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  Speaker 2: crush you. The seed is going to crush you. The
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  Speaker 2: seed which is Christ is going to win. You will
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  Speaker 2: lose in this cosmic conflict. Even though you will constantly
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  Speaker 2: be nipping at the heels of God's people, You will
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  Speaker 2: constantly be nipping at the heel of Even Jesus when
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  Speaker 2: he lived on planet Earth, he was always on his heels,
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  Speaker 2: tempting him, attempting to get Jesus off of his spiritual square,
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  Speaker 2: his proverbial square, trying to get Jesus off task which
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  Speaker 2: he came for, one thing, to seek and to save
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  Speaker 2: that which was lost. And so I'm thankful that God
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  Speaker 2: is so kind. I'm thankful that God is so kind
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  Speaker 2: that he has given us the blueprint and also shown
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  Speaker 2: us the outcome. Okay, and so I'm going to read
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  Speaker 2: now from the Bible Book of Matthew, the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Matthew, chapter thirteen. Let's read from Matthew chapter thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse twenty four. Oops. Matthew chapter thirteen. It'd
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  Speaker 2: be great if I would listen to myself and then
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  Speaker 2: begin at verse twenty four, and the Bible says in
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  Speaker 2: another parable, put he forth unto them, saying, this is
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  Speaker 2: Jesus speaking. The kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a
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  Speaker 2: man which sowed good seed in his field while men slept.
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  Speaker 2: His enemy came in so tears among the wheat, and
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  Speaker 2: went his way. But when the blade was sprung up
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  Speaker 2: and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tears. Also, of course,
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  Speaker 2: we know the tears are not good. And the servants
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  Speaker 2: of the household are came and said unto him, Sir,
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  Speaker 2: didst thou not sow seed in thy field? From whence
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  Speaker 2: then cometh the tears? And he said, unto them, an
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  Speaker 2: enemy hath done this. See the devil is still planting
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  Speaker 2: evil things among God's people. He is still planting evil
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  Speaker 2: things on planet Earth. Okay, the Bible continues. The servants said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, wilt thou then that we go and gather
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  Speaker 2: them up? And he said, nay, lest while ye gather
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  Speaker 2: up the tears, ye root up also the wheat with them.
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  Speaker 2: Let both grow together until the harvest. And in the
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  Speaker 2: time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, gather
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  Speaker 2: ye together first the tears, buying them in bundles to
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  Speaker 2: burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn. You see,
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  Speaker 2: the devil is continually planting and sowing discord. He's planting
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  Speaker 2: and sowing strife. You see that at your workplace. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: God forbids you see it in your home. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 2: plants it just in your mind. And this war is
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  Speaker 2: going on, and he is trying to get you to
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  Speaker 2: doubt God. He is he is planting tears of bad mindset,
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  Speaker 2: like he's planting tears of people who deliberately stir up
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  Speaker 2: controversy while they are in and among God's people, And
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, I'm gonna let them grow up. You
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  Speaker 2: will have challenges. You will wonder why are these people
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  Speaker 2: even here? Why are these thoughts creeping in among me?
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  Speaker 2: Among us Ah. But at the appropriate time, as God
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  Speaker 2: knows what his plan and his will is, he is
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  Speaker 2: going to rip out the tears, burn them, and then
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  Speaker 2: only what will be left is what God had planted. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. Are you on God's
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  Speaker 2: side or not? Are you the fruit of the harvest
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  Speaker 2: that God is going to take to heaven and then
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  Speaker 2: plant in the earth made new one day? Or are
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  Speaker 2: you a tear. It's something with which we must contend,
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  Speaker 2: and God is so good to us that we can
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  Speaker 2: choose never, never to be a tear, but always be
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  Speaker 2: His wheat in order to win the conflict in our lives. 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: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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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,