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04 25 2025 Anchored in the LORD · 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: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Friday, April
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is anchored in Christ, Anchored in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, We thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day and for the
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  Speaker 2: privilege that you have entrusted to us to serve you
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  Speaker 2: and to open up your word. Please anchor our faith
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  Speaker 2: in you today. In Jesus' name, I pray a man
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  Speaker 2: and a man again anchored in Christ. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: begin from the book The Great Controversy, pages forty nine
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  Speaker 2: to fifty, and I'm going to give seven principles that
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  Speaker 2: will help us mitigate against what we read about here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so it reads little by little, at first in
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  Speaker 2: stealth and silence, and then more openly. As it increased
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  Speaker 2: in strength and gained control of the minds of men,
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  Speaker 2: The mystery of iniquity carried forth its deceptive and blasphemous work.
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  Speaker 2: What almost imperceptibly, what happened The customs of Heathenism found
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  Speaker 2: their way into the Christian Church. Can we say right
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  Speaker 2: now that we see the customs of Heathenism in God's Church? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: The spirit of compromise and conformity was restrained for a
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  Speaker 2: time by the fierce persecution which the Church endured under paganism.
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  Speaker 2: But as persecution ceased and Christianity entered the courts and
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  Speaker 2: palaces of kings, she laid aside the humble simplicity of
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  Speaker 2: Christ and his apostles for the pomp and pride of
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  Speaker 2: pagan priests and rulers. And in place of the requirements
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  Speaker 2: of God m the Holy ten Commandment's law thrown away,
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  Speaker 2: other truths and scripture thrown away, she substituted human theories
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  Speaker 2: and traditions. The nominal conversion of Constantine. I just want
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  Speaker 2: you to be very careful here. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: think about the actual fruit of what we see when
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  Speaker 2: people join God's Church. Sometimes there's a lot of pomp
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  Speaker 2: and circumstance around what we want to call what I
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  Speaker 2: want to call Christianese speaking. Sometimes people use the name
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  Speaker 2: of God and misuse the name of God and make
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  Speaker 2: it seem as if people are really on God's side.
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  Speaker 2: But in the case of Constantine in the early part
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  Speaker 2: of the fourth century, that caused great rejoicing in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, cloaked with a form of righteousness just
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  Speaker 2: because a leader says that he or she is godly
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that it's the case, just in case you
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  Speaker 2: are not clear about this. And so that form of
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  Speaker 2: righteousness walked into the church. Now the work of corruption
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  Speaker 2: rapidly progressed. Paganism, while appearing to be vanquished, became the conqueror.
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  Speaker 2: Her spirit controlled the church. Her doctrines, ceremonies, and superstitions
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  Speaker 2: were incorporated into the faith and worship of professed followers
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. There was so much to say here, but
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  Speaker 2: so little time. It would take a series of Bible
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  Speaker 2: teachings to really drill this, but suffice it to say,
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  Speaker 2: we need to have seven principles to mitigate against this
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  Speaker 2: in our lives. Okay, Number one, Let's go to the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Revelation, chapter two, verses four and five
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  Speaker 2: and see what God said to his church at Ephesus.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee because
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  Speaker 2: thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence
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  Speaker 2: thou art fallen and repent. So we can take a
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  Speaker 2: page out of this experience that the church at Ephesus
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  Speaker 2: was having those churches, those seven churches in Asia minor
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  Speaker 2: including now in this case, we're talking about Ephesus, when
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  Speaker 2: we first experience the love of God in our commitment
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  Speaker 2: to him, in all that he teaches us, in his word,
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  Speaker 2: all that he gives us, in relationship with him. We're
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  Speaker 2: to hold fast to this truth, hold fast to the relationship,
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  Speaker 2: hold fast to the experience that we're having with Him,
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  Speaker 2: and don't let anything that anybody does, any government, any
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  Speaker 2: church official, any set of people, people that come with
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  Speaker 2: great new ideas and new beliefs that are not founded
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  Speaker 2: on scripture, based on our love to God, our love
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  Speaker 2: our relationship with God, we should remain there so that
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  Speaker 2: we do not fall into deception Number two. We're going
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  Speaker 2: into First John Chapter one, verses three and seven, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads and truly our fellowship is with the
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  Speaker 2: Father and with his son Jesus Christ. If we walk
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  Speaker 2: in the light as he is in the light, we
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  Speaker 2: have fellowship one with another. So we need fellowship with God,
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  Speaker 2: we need fellowship with other true believers. And if we
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  Speaker 2: are walking in the light of God's word, then we
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  Speaker 2: will continue to have fellowship with God and with his people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about true people of God. Remember the Ten Commandments,
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  Speaker 2: Law are are, Let's say, simplified into these two great commandments.
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  Speaker 2: Number one love for God. Thou shalt love the Lord
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  Speaker 2: thy God with everything that you have and everything that
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  Speaker 2: you are. And the second is like unto it, to
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  Speaker 2: love thy neighbor as thyself. The Bible says on these
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  Speaker 2: two hang all the law and the prophets. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want fellowship with God, fellowship with believers who truly
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  Speaker 2: love God, then that means that we walk in the light.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Then comes in Matthew chapter five and verse eight,
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  Speaker 2: blessed other pure in heart, for they shall see God
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  Speaker 2: one day. We will see his face. But we will
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  Speaker 2: only see his face if we are clean and pure.
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  Speaker 2: Because we repent every day, we confess our sins every day.
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  Speaker 2: We are not hiding our sins. We're not allowing creeping
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  Speaker 2: compromise in our lives. We are always being honest with
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  Speaker 2: God and saying, God, you said to go left, and
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  Speaker 2: I went right. Or Father, you said to go right,
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  Speaker 2: and I went left. You said to pause, but I
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  Speaker 2: ran forward. You said to run forward, but I pause. God,
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  Speaker 2: You told me to keep holy the things that you
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  Speaker 2: have given to us in your word. And I began
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  Speaker 2: to desecrate them, little by little, one imperceptible step against
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  Speaker 2: the other. But now I come to you and repent.
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  Speaker 2: I turn away from those sins God. So keeping that
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  Speaker 2: kind of relationship in purity is key. And David said
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  Speaker 2: it this way, create in me a clean heart, O God,
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  Speaker 2: and renew a right spirit within me. And then we
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  Speaker 2: go to the Bible Book of James, chapter four and
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  Speaker 2: verse eight. Draw nigh unto God, and he will draw
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  Speaker 2: nigh unto you. Cleanse your hands, ye, sinners, and purify
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  Speaker 2: your hearts, ye double minded. And so we see that
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  Speaker 2: His presence is something we need to practice. We need
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  Speaker 2: to practice the visible presence of God. How would we
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  Speaker 2: live if Jesus were right in front of us, in
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  Speaker 2: your office, in your bedroom, in your closet, under your bed,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you happen to go, in your devices, if you
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  Speaker 2: could see Jesus in any and all of those places,
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  Speaker 2: how would you actually live? And so we practice the
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  Speaker 2: visible presence of God by drawing nigh to Him. And
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  Speaker 2: of course we guard our affections. We're almost out of time.
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  Speaker 2: We stay spiritually intimate. The Bible says in one Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: six and verse seventeen. But he that is joined unto
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  Speaker 2: the Lord is one spirit. And then finally choose daily
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  Speaker 2: consecration from Romans, chapter twelve and verse one. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.