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04 16 2024 Safeguarded by the Word · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Tuesday, April sixteen, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy,
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  and our caption for today is safeguarded by the word. Safeguarded by the
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  word. We'll get into that in jil a moment, but first I'd like
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  to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion
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  book, and let us know where you are in the world. At your
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  Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build faith
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  and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  the privilege that we have to open your word again. And I pray that
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  we will relish your word like we will hold your words so dear and true
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  to our hearts, that we will not sin against you. In Jesus name,
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  I pray, Amen and Amen again, well safeguarded by the word of
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  God. Now Jesus, Jesus, when he was just about done with his
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  mission on earth as a human, I wanted to be very specific and careful
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  as I as I share this. But as he was doing so, he
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  prayed what we should really be calling the Lord's prayer like that was that was
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  his prayer, like his prayer. I know, I'm really messing around with
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  your mind right there, But this is what Jesus prayed. He prayed to
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  the Lord, and one of the parts of his discussion had to do with
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  you, brothers and sisters. We call it the mediatorial or high priestly prayer
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  of Jesus, and it begins, well, this part of it begins here
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  in verse fifteen of the Book of John, chapter seventy seventeen. I pray
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  that thou shouldst take them. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out
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  of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from evil. They are not
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  of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctified them
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  through thy truth. This is one of my favorite passages. Right here.
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  Thy word is truth, lon Let me read it again. Let me read
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  it again from the New English translation. I am not asking you to take
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  them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil
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  one. See. This is Jesus speaking to his father as he knows he's
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  about to give his life, and it's going to be devastating and painful,
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  the separation that Jesus is about to feel and experience, the separation from God,
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  our fathers, as he takes on the guilt that is ours because he
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  never sinned, not even one time. But he took on the sin and
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  the shame and the guilt of all human beings on his back. And he
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  was preparing for that time, but he needed to talk to his father first.
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  This is one of the times that he spoke to his father's one of
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  the many, many, many times that he spoke to his father. And
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  I find it very intriguing, and not just intriguing. I'm endeared to God
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  because Jesus found it in him to talk to God about us. He understood
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  now through his human experience, what difficulty we face with temptations and trials,
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  with the false teachings of people who are supposed to be leading us. Jesus
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  spoke about it in John chapter ten, and we also referenced it yesterday when
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  the apostle was preparing the church for his own departure and say, hey,
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  listen, there were going to be people coming in from among you. Really
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  that are our wolves in sheep's clothing, And Jesus, knowing this, is
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  saying, but Father, I don't I'm not I'm not going to do I'm
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  going to I'm not going to pray like some people will pray in the last
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  days. If you all will permit me here, how will some people feel?
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  Like? The only way that God can preserve us is if he removes
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  us from trials. When you're in your deepest trials and tribulations, when you're
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  in your craziest, most difficult temptations, Remember Jesus prayed not that we would
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  be removed. Think about those young hebrew men Hannah and Ayah, Michel Azariah.
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  As they were thrown into the fiery furnace. God could have delivered them
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  so they didn't go there. As Daniel was thrown into the lions, then
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  God could have delivered him so he wouldn't have to go into the lion's den
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  at all. But in those two cases and many more that we could look
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  at in the Bible, God didn't deliver people. Some people from the trial,
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  from the temptation, from the heat, he delivered them through. And
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  he delivered them through because He was with them. And so Jesus is saying,
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  please, I'm not asking you to remove them from the world, but
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  I am asking you to keep them safe from the devil. They do not
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  belong to this world, just as I do not belong with the world.
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  I hear that people are identifying themselves as all kinds of stuff, all kinds
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  of staf plants and animals and all kinds of stuff. I identify myself as
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  a who knows what right? And I'm thinking, but how come Jesus was
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  so kind to identify himself as a human Yes, he was so kind to
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  identify himself as a human who was not of this world. And therefore these
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  humans filled with the same spirit Jesus speaking now that I am filled with huh,
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  covered by the same power that you Father are covering me, and having
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  the protection and guidance of angels that you have entrusted to these people. They
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  don't have to be removed from the world. You can protect them. And
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  I am not of this world, and I was protected. That means that
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  they can live like I lived. They can be victorious like I was victorious.
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  Huh. They can overcome and every way that I overcame, as I
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  battled the devil, every moment of my time, against the lust of the
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  flesh, against the lust of the and against the pride of life. Jesus
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  lived perfectly victoriously, so that you when you were reborn, when you were
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  reborn like me, when I and I am reborn by the spirit, that
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  we can be victorious in the same way. Let me keep reading, and
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  then it says verse seventeen, set them apart in the truth, set them
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  apart. The truth is special everybody. The truth is is God's words to
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  us. His word is truth. We read that in just a moment,
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  right, his ten commandments are truth. Yes, and Jesus himself is the
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  truth. We read about that the other day. But it says set them
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  apart. In the truth, your word is truth verse eighteen. This time,
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  just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into
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  the world, and I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they
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  two may be truly set apart. And so God has given us his word,
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  the infallible revelation of his will, so that we can live by those
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  words. And the Bible says that it is inspired by God. The scriptures,
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  the entire Scripture is inspired by God. It is breathed by God.
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  It is profitable for doctrine. And I don't want you to be afraid of
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  that term. That is Bible teaching, simply Bible teaching. I know that
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  even the Fellowship of Believers that I'm attached to make it seem like doctrine is
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  a certain set of teachings in the Bible, twenty eight of them. No,
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  no, no, no, no. Doctrine is the Bible teaching,
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  full stop. So it is profitable for Bible teaching, for reproof, for
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  correction, for instruction in righteousness, so that people of God may be perfect.
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  Huh. Just like Jesus truly furnished to all good works, so we
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  are able to do good works. We are able to be holy, We
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  are able to be perfect. For God, our Father, is perfect,
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  for Jesus is perfect. I wish I had the time to deal with what
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  that actually means. What the truth is that God has given his word,
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  He has breathed it into our lives and written it on our fleshy heart tables.
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  If we are willing to receive it so that we can live like Jesus
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  live. You understand that is the safeguard. So embrace the word of God,
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  Jesus Christ. H Embrace the word of God, the Ten Commandments law,
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  embrace the word of God, the entire compositive scriptures, and you will
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  be safe. Wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el
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  David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.