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06 16 2025 Worshiping the Image · 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 Monday, June sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is worshiping the image.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, worshiping the image. When you see yourself in the mirror,
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  Speaker 2: do you worship that image? Oh? Don't do that. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion life application guide and
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway bother
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. Thank you for giving us the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: being called by your name, and thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us giving us the blueprint, the blueprint to connection with you.
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  Speaker 2: I pray now that you will teach us to serve
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  Speaker 2: you with everything we have today, everything that we are
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I
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  Speaker 2: just want to begin with Jesus is the only one
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  Speaker 2: worthy of worship. And of course when I say that,
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking about God like all of the family, in
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  Speaker 2: that case, God the Father, God the Son, God, the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. But God has shown us that there is
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  Speaker 2: no name under heaven given among men whereby we must
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  Speaker 2: be saved, and that's by the name of Jesus, right.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we have an opportunity to worship, we
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  Speaker 2: should be thinking, is this God or something else? Is
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  Speaker 2: it something we've contrived, Is it the way that we
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  Speaker 2: use our time that we worship, Is it some other paradigm?
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  Speaker 2: That people say all roads lead to the Creator, which
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  Speaker 2: that is, it could never be true because God has
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  Speaker 2: given us the pathway. God has given us the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of experiencing him, and when we experience him, we can
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  Speaker 2: see very clearly that he is worthy of worship. And
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  Speaker 2: so in Daniel chapter three we see that nebuchad Nezar
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  Speaker 2: didn't bel leave, that he didn't agree with that. He
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  Speaker 2: worshiped himself and he wanted others to worship him, and
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  Speaker 2: so he erected a golden altar to himself, really an
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  Speaker 2: image of gold. And in Daniel chapter three and verse one,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that nebiculd Nezar the king, made an
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  Speaker 2: image of gold. It was a pride within him that
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  Speaker 2: challenged God's authority. And the same way that Lucifer challenged
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  Speaker 2: the authority of God when he lived in heaven and
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  Speaker 2: had lost his connection, he erected a paradigm. And so
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  Speaker 2: the lesson here is that nebiculd Nezar he erected or
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  Speaker 2: exalted human power over divine truth. That's what he did
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  Speaker 2: when God had given him the reality that he was
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  Speaker 2: the head of gold. As we talked about the other day,
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  Speaker 2: he said, no, I'm the entire image. Whatever you say
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  Speaker 2: about what's coming next, I reject that. And so the
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  Speaker 2: action for me, though for you, is not just to
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  Speaker 2: look back at the story and say, look at what
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  Speaker 2: Nebuchadnezzar had done. Don't look into just the new cycle
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  Speaker 2: today and say look at what these particular leaders around
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  Speaker 2: the world may be doing wrong, but at myself, like
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  Speaker 2: I need to be looking at myself and be cautious
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  Speaker 2: of any mindset. And maybe cautious is not even strong
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  Speaker 2: enough word personal or national that exalts me or anything
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  Speaker 2: else above what God said. And then in Daniel chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: verses four and five, it says you to you, it
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  Speaker 2: is commanded ye fall down and worship the golden image.
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  Speaker 2: Human power demands conformity, Human authoritarian power demands and commands conformity. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the world will always pressure God's people to conform. But
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  Speaker 2: what God says is that we have the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: choosing loyalty to hit Adam and Eve didn't do that
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  Speaker 2: when they chose to eat the fruit that God forbade,
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  Speaker 2: and I can go down through history and see most
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  Speaker 2: of God's people during the scene that we're actually considering
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  Speaker 2: today chose the wrong direction. Those individuals chose to be
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  Speaker 2: loyal to, if not loyal fearful of Nebuchadnezzar, and they bowed.
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  Speaker 2: But Hannah Andanaiah, Azararah Micheal did not bow. I think
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  Speaker 2: Daniel was not around, But if he had been there,
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't have bowed, you see. And so in Daniel
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse six we see whoso far if
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  Speaker 2: not down and worship, shall the same hour be cast
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of a burning, fiery furnace. The lesson
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  Speaker 2: for me is that it wasn't only about loyalty the
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  Speaker 2: king to the king, but it was about worship. The
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  Speaker 2: loyalty to the king was in a side. It was
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  Speaker 2: about worship. When I do things that are contra tray
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  Speaker 2: to God's will, then I'm worshiping something or someone other
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  Speaker 2: than Him. And so for me, I need to test
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  Speaker 2: everything by the first Commandment? Who are what do I
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  Speaker 2: bow to? The first Commandment? Have no other gods before me?
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  Speaker 2: That's what God said, And I need to test everything
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  Speaker 2: I think and do by that standard. Now, before we
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  Speaker 2: go too far afield, I want to make some last
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  Speaker 2: day parallels. Some last day parallels. Let's go back. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go back to chapter three and verse five, ye fall
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  Speaker 2: down and worship the image that Nebuchadnezzer Hath set up.
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  Speaker 2: In Revelation chapter thirteen, verse fifteen, it says, and cause
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  Speaker 2: that as many as would not worship the image of
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  Speaker 2: the beast should be killed. We have seen that religio
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  Speaker 2: political powers erect a false Sabbath in the last days,
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  Speaker 2: to the degree exalted, to the degree trying to replace
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  Speaker 2: the Seventh Day Sabbath with a different paradigm, to the
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  Speaker 2: degree that if people choose not to exalt that false Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: they should be killed. It says it right there in
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. I wish I had the time to go
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  Speaker 2: through Daniel in Revelation, but I don't, So I want
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  Speaker 2: you to take your browser to Sabbathtruth dot com or
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  Speaker 2: dot org so that you can see the entire history
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  Speaker 2: and story of this controversy. But what we need to
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  Speaker 2: think about then, whether it is ancient Babylon or in
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  Speaker 2: the last days, forced worship of a false system will
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  Speaker 2: be the defining issue resolve now. We need to resolve
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  Speaker 2: within ourselves now to only worship God. It's very simple,
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  Speaker 2: until it's not. Uh oh, yeah, we let's run along.
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  Speaker 2: Verse six. Again, whoso falleth not down and worship it,
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  Speaker 2: worship show, I'll be cast into the midst of the burning,
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  Speaker 2: fiery furnace. And it says the same thing in thirteen Revelation,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen and verse fifteen. And for me, the application
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  Speaker 2: is the choice is life or loyalty? Life or loyalty.
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  Speaker 2: God's people will face death, but they will never face
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  Speaker 2: it alone. Just like the three Hebrew boys and Anaya
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  Speaker 2: Michel as a riot. They did not face what they
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  Speaker 2: were about to experience alone. Okay. And again in verse
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  Speaker 2: twelve of Daniel chapter three, we see these men. They
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  Speaker 2: were reported by people who were supposed to be on
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  Speaker 2: the same team. I wish I had the time these
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  Speaker 2: men shall they serve not Thy gods, nor worship the
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  Speaker 2: Golden image. So they're being reported on. Look at what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. These are the people you have chosen, These
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  Speaker 2: are the ones in your cabinet. These are the ones
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  Speaker 2: that are closest to you. And look at them. They
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  Speaker 2: don't worship as you have commanded o King. Revelation fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse twelve. The Bible says, here are they that
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  Speaker 2: keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And so my application is the faithful will always stand out.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure to blend in will be enormous. Hold the line,
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  Speaker 2: hold the line, do not conform in Jesus' name, do
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  Speaker 2: not conform, and let's just go with one more. God
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  Speaker 2: delivers his faithful and Daniel chapter three and verse twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Revelation chapter fifteen and verse two. We see that God
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  Speaker 2: does not keep us always from the fire, but ultimately
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  Speaker 2: he saves us in the end. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,