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06 12 2024 Identifying the Beast Part 2 · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host author speaker
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  Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is
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  Wednesday, June twelve, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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  David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where
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  we give you God's Word every single day and today is no exception. We
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  are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy. Our caption for today
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  is Identifying the Beast Part two, Identifying the Beast Part two. Before we
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  get into that, I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,
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  pick up your Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in
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  the world. Also, if you choose, please please join the coaching program
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  at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get
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  underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and
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  for thank for giving us the opportunity to continue the conversation. Father, and
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  I pray that you will give us understanding, give us the fullness of your
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  Holy Spirit, give us the fortitude in these days to serve you with everything
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  that we have and everything that we are in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. I just want to begin. I want to begin
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  like I did yesterday and I'll do it again for a couple of days.
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  Well, to say that, in order to get a full grasp of you're
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  going to have to study outside of these couple of moments that we have here.
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  So we will encourage you, we will give you some things to think
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  about, but this is something that you really need to sit down and pray
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  over and study deeply. Okay, So please go to Amazing Facts website,
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  the Amazing Facts website and look up the subject the Mark of the Beast.
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  There are studies, sermons, and all kinds of other resources that can help
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  you where that is concerned. Okay, So I'm going to show you how
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  to remain connected to God even while the beast is marking his people. Did
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  you hear me? I'm going to show you, just briefly today, how
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  to remain connected to God while the beast in air quotes is marking his people.
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  You see. I want you to remember the lyrics of one song.
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  And I know some people are gonna be unhappy that I use these lyrics,
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  but I want you to get up, stand up, don't give up the
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  fight. Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights, your
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  rights to do what to worship God and the beauty of holiness according to your
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  conscience. Yes, stand up, stand up for your rights to serve God
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  according to your conscience because you believe and the word of God. You see,
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  I want you to stand up and fight for your rights to only worship
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  God and to live like there is only one mediator between God and man.
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  That is the man Jesus Christ, not a person that is in the box
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  of an uncut confessional booth, not to some church or some body of deacons
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  or elders or bishops or cardinals or anything else. Right, we stand up
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  for our right to worship God according to what he has said. We stand
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  up for our rights because God gave them to us through his holy ten Commandments.
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  Law to continue with the Sabbath being holy in our hearts, in our
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  minds as an appointment, a special divine appointment where we encounter God in a
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  way that even when we worship God on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Thursday, Friday, even during those times while we are worshiping God,
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  because we worship God every day if we're one of his children, we walk
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  with God, we talk with God, we live with Him always on our
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  minds, as if we are in His visible presence. But there is a
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  sanctity to the holy seventh day Sabbath. I think that was redundant. There
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  is a sanctity to the Sabbath, and we can't remove that. So stand
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  up for your right to live according to this principle. Okay. And so
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  according to the Lesson writer, quoting from the Great Controversy Book, page five
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  hundred and ninety two, those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as
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  enemies of law and order, as breaking down the moral restraints of society.
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  I wish I had the time, but I gave you a resource already causing
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  anarchy and corruption and calling down judgments of God upon the earth. They will
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  be accused of disaffection toward the government. Ministers who deny the obligation of the
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  divine law will present from the pulpit the duty of yielding obedience to the civil
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  authorities as ordained of God in legislative halls and courts of justice. Commandment keepers
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  we're talking about God's commandments will be misrepresented and condemned. Again, Go to
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  Amazing Facts if you miss the beginning of this, to Amazing Facts and study
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  as you search for the mark of the Beast as a topic there in their
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  search box. Okay. And so now I'm going to give you how to
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  remain connected to God during the crazy crises that are coming upon the earth.
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  Okay. And so the first thing is to continue to commune with God.
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  Commune with God through his works. The Bible reads as Jesus was praying in
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  John chapter seventeen and verse seventeen, Sanctify them by Thy truth. Your word
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  is truth. So we need to dedicate some time every single day when we
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  wake up just studying God's word. But We're not just studying as if we
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  are in school. We are committing God's word to our minds and hearts so
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  that He can transform us and we can live according to his principles. It's
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  not only about the things that we keep talking about for these last few days.
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  It's how we treat our spouses if we're married. It's how we connect
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  with God when we are in a worship setting. Are we criticizing the preacher
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  and the singers and everything else that happens inside of that environment, or are
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  we connecting ourselves to God so that we can have the best experience with Him
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  and be transformed? Yes, how do we relate to our children? How
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  do we relate to people on the road that are not godly? What do
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  we think about when people at work seem not to be going in the right
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  place direction? Do we think about all kinds of evil and firing back on
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  them? Or are we looking for a way that we can be of service
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  to them when they God forbid, should lose a loved one or somehow they
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  are in some other kind of trial or difficulty and we can be of service
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  or encouragement. Representing God in real life settings, you understand when the rum
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  bottle is still calling your name. It's a way out from an air quote,
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  it's a way out from your difficulties. Are you going to connect to
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  God? Are you going to connect to the enemy by inebriation? And so
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  we study to connect with God, sanctify them that has set us aside for
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  a holy use by thy truth, Jesus said, Thy word is truth.
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  We already spoke about prayer yesterday, and we want to be faithful in worship,
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  the Bible reads in John chapter four and verse twenty three. But the
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  hour is coming and is now here when true worship are You're a true worshiper
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  of the Living God. Huh, blessed be his name, will worship the
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  Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such people to
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  worship him. So we engage every day in a connection so close to God
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  that we are doing it in spirit and in truth. Okay. And so
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  the Bible also reads in Hebrews chapter ten, verses twenty four and twenty five.
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  And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good
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  works, not neglecting to meet together or assemble ourselves together, as the habit
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  of some. But encouraging one another. And all the more as you see
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  the day drawing near. God wants us to remain connected to Him, and
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  part of being connected to Him is to connect with other people. This is
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  why you're on this online platform. This is why you go to services where
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  people are worshiping God, God and the beauty of holiness. This is why
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  we continue to encourage ourselves with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in these last
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  days, because He said to continue to come together. Ah, press together,
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  Press together, Press together, because there is a crisis coming and God
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  wants us to be unified as we go through until the end. And of
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  course, and of course we know that God's people overcame the devil anciently by
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  the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony. They
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  love not their lives, even to the point of death. So we have
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  a testimony in twenty twenty four that God has been very good and we need
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  to live according to the principles that give us that testimony and give our lives
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  for God. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day, Yeah,