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05 31 2024 Don't Believe the Preacher · 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 Friday, preparation day, May thirty one, twenty twenty four.
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  Hello, my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host,
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  and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  and today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series
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  The Great Controversy our caption for today, and I want you to get this
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  and get this good. Don't trust the preacher, don't try the preacher.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, But first i'd like to say
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  welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  I'd like you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com,
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  This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  thank you for giving us this new day and for the time to prepare to
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  connect with you in a special way on tomorrow. If we are honored for
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  you to spare our lives. Father, I pray that you will open up
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  your word to our minds today in Jesus name, I pray Amen and Damen
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  again. So I have a baby brother. He's not my real brother,
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  but it feels like he is. Right. He's my brother in the faith.
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  And his name is Norman, and Norman I call him Jonathan because I'm
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  David. So you know the David Jonathan connection. You see how that goes?
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  Uh. And one thing that Norman says, like he's a preacher and
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  teacher as well, he says, don't trust the preacher. Don't trust the
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  preacher like he says it while he's preaching. He says it while he's teaching
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  the Bible. And I ascribe to the to the same sentiment because there are
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  too many of us. And I'm not saying that Norman does it. I'm
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  not saying that I do it. But so there are so many of us
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  who are lying when we're preaching, or we're severely misguided. And I'm not
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  saying it for you to have the kind of distrust that means suspicion. That's
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  not what I'm saying, because I preach all the time, you see.
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  But what I'm saying is that our trust should be in God. Our trust
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  should be in the Holy Spirit teaching us what things are true from the scriptures.
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  In fact, the Bible writer actually spoke about it. He said that
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  there were some Bahreans who, when they heard the teachings of the apostles,
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  they would go back into the Bible, the scriptures that they had access to,
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  and they would determine whether the things that the apostles the preachers were teaching
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  them were true or no. So I'm saying, don't trust the preacher.
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  Trust us enough to go and examine the scriptures for yourself under the power of
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  the Holy Ghost, but do not take our word for it. Go back
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  to the Word of God and see if what we're saying is actually true.
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  You understand now, don't trust the preacher. And so in the last days
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  we understand. And not only in the last days, but especially in the
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  last days. The Bible teaches us that there will be false Christs and false
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  prophets. There will be angels, evil angels masquerading as angels of light,
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  and also so as ministers of righteousness. Right. And so what we want
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  to do is nullify that by surrendering our will to God, by yielding to
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  the point that when he speaks and we read the Bible, we will see
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  and hear what he has said, and not what people say he said.
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  And so in the Lesson we read that in the absence of the Bible,
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  testimony and their favor, many with unwearying persistence urged forgetting how the same reasoning
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  had employed against Christ and his apostles. Here it is, why do not
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  our great men, those are preachers and teachers. Huh, how come our
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  great men understand this? Don't understand the Sabbath question? But few believe as
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  you do. It cannot be that you are right and that all of the
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  men of learning in the world are wrong. That's an exaggeration. By the
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  way, there are people who actually believe the Bible know that what he said
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  is true concerning the holiness and sanctity of the Sabbath right and to refute.
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  To refute such arguments, it was needful only to cite the teachings of the
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  scriptures. This is why I said that earlier. Don't believe the preacher.
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  All we have to do is cite the scriptures. All we need to do
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  is see what God has said and the history of the Lord's dealings with his
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  people in all ages. One more, Christians of the past generations observed the
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  Sunday, supposing that in so doing they were keeping the Bible Sabbath. And
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  so we understand that there are people who love God. There are people who
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  love God all over the world who, for whatever reasons, did not understand
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  or ascribe to the truth concerning the Holy seventh day Sabbath. And so what
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  God is saying to us is that if we study and believe the scriptures,
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  if we listen for God's voice, then everything that he has to say all
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  truths. According to John chapter sixteen, verse thirteen, when the spirit of
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  truth is come, he will guide us into all truth about him. He
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  will guide us into all truth about ourselves and where there are gaps. Now
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  we have the impetus to yield our will to God, Yes, that He
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  will also teach us to observe all things whatsoever He commanded. Whatsoever Jesus commanded
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  us, and Jesus promised that lo, I will be with you always,
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  even to the end of the earth. Have you ever been in a position
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  where God revealed some things about your own character and you were like, oh,
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  my Lord, how did I miss that? I definitely have been in
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  that situation. I've been in it often. In fact, as I am
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  speaking to you now, I just got finished talking to God about a time,
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  a two year period of time of my life when I may have missed
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  some of the things that God was teaching me to refort find my character.
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  While I was going through I thought I was getting it. I was asking
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  him to show me and to teach me. But I realized today that I
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  was missing some things, and I asked God for forgiveness for missing those things.
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  He was teaching me some things about me and how I was to relate
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  to the world. I was to relate when I am under fire and in
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  tribulation in my own mind and based on some external forces, right, And
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  I said, God, please forgive me. Will you show me how to
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  live according to your principles? And that is all we're talking about today,
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  Brothers and sisters. If it's about the Seventh Day Sabbath, or if it's
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  about something else in our lives, we can trust God. We don't trust
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  preachers. We trust God to teach us. And when He shows us these
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  things, we can't act like we did not hear them. When He gives
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  us access to the truth concerning his word, we cannot act like he has
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  not given them. And so in Acts chapter seventeen and verse thirty, the
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  Bible reads and the times of this ignorance. Of course there was a specific
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  context. But you can apply this to your life right now. God winked,
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  but now commendeth all. Let me use a different translation. Let me
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  say it again from the net translation. Therefore, although God has overlooked such
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  times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent. Was that
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  clear? Yes, So embrace the understanding that God's patience accommodates human ignorance.
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  There are times that we don't understand things, or we're slowly learning things,
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  And this is why even in the Old Testament system of sacrifices, God had
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  this continual sacrifice, this burning that happened around the clock from evening to morning,
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  morning to evening, so that in the event that somebody in the camp
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  had committed sin, they would not die immediately. Like there is grace while
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  we are learning, grace, while we're coming to the knowledge of the truth,
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  Grace while we are positioning our minds to finally repent. When David the
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  King had done what he did to Bethsheba, what he had done to Uriah,
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  and brought other people into his sinful activity for a year, he was
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  on the run basically and not repenting. So God gave him grace while he
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  was drawing him. And so God is giving us grace. But once we
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  are clear and this is accessible to us, God is saying we are now
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  responsible. Don't believe the preacher. Let me just say again, the seventh
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  day Sabbath is holy, whether you think so or not. And I'm thankful
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  that God has given us the light concerning his work. Peace. Thanks for
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  joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,