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06 28 2024 Eternal Perfection at Last · 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 Friday. It's the day of preparation. We are thankful,
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  it's the month of June. It's the twenty eighth day in twenty twenty
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  four. And yeah, my name is Elle David Harris. I am your
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  host, and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing the final day
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  in this quarter's lesson the Great Controverseye. And yeah, before we begin with
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  prayer, I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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  the very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join
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  our growing online community. God gave us a second chance. To grow this
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  thing. And yeah, we're there every day. You're able to give your
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  takeaways, your questions regarding the lesson study right there your daily portion dot com.
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  Look for the join button, and that's a one way. That's one
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  way that we can continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for
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  giving us this new day and for the privilege that you have entrusted to us
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  to open your word. And I'm asking you, Father, please give us
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  the fullness of your holy spirit, teach us how to serve and to love
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  you with everything that we are, and finally, finally make our decision today
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  to serve you for the rest of eternity. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again listen. I have said to you that I am
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  a very particular and logical, systematic kind of guy. Mm hmmm. Whereas
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  I do have feelings, I also have an intellectual mind that just some things
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  just need to make sense to me. And eternity with God makes a lot
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  of sense to me. And I'm sharing that with you because eternity away from
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  God, meaning eternal death penalty is not sensible to me. It's not the
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  sensible option. Why would I choose pain and sickness throughout my lifetime and then
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  have to suffer the reality that I've separated myself from God and then be destroyed
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  in the end. Like that doesn't make no sense to me. And I
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  know I can speak English and I understand the rules of grammar that don't make
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  no sense to me full stop. Like that don't make no sense to me.
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  Ah, But eternal perfection at last, that makes sense to me.
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  And so I'm going to read heavily as we bring this quarter to a close.
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  I'm going to read heavily from the lesson from the book The Great Controversy,
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  pages six hundred, seventy seven and seventy eight, and see what or
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  really from six seventy five through six seventy eight, and see what God has
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  to say to us. Okay, And so I begin the quote there,
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  the wide spreading planes swell into the hills of beauty. Oh wait, this
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  is a positive message, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits.
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  Are you seeing this in your mind? Brothers and sisters, on those peaceful
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  planes, when's the last time you had peace? On those peaceful plains,
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  beside those living streams, God's people. Are you one of God's people?
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  Brothers and sisters, are you one of God's people? Are you choosing today
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  to be one of God's people forever? Okay? So God's people, So
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  long pilgrims and wanderers shall find a home. Where is that home? Brothers
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  and sisters, I need you to type it in the tap? Where is
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  that home? I know some of you are typing Heaven. Well, okay,
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  I don't have a problem if you're speaking of it is as a principle,
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  But bottom line is wherever God is. Wherever God is, because we'll
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  go to heaven and live there for a thousand years. But after the thousand
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  years are finished, God is going to recreate the earth and he will fulfill
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  his promise as in Matthew chapter five where he said that the meek will inherit
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  the earth. So wherever God is, the tabernacle of God is with men.
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  He shall be with his people, and they shall and He shall be
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  their God. Right. So wherever God is, that's where your home will
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  be. There. Immortal minds will contemplate with never failing delight, the wonders
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  of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love. Have you ever tried to
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  conceptualize eternity. I did it, and I had an anxiety attack when I
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  was young, little like little, I was trying to figure out what eternity
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  passed meant like never having a beginning Jesus, never having a beginning God,
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  our Father, the Holy Ghost, never having a beginning like eternity in the
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  past made my heart like go out of whack, like it was I was.
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  I couldn't figure it out, like it was messing with my logic.
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  But here the Bible says that without that that impediment to your brain, LD
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  Like, that impediment will go away and you'll be able to have ongoing enjoyment
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  and delight while considering the creative power of God. The things that you wanted
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  to know about the Great Barrier reef, the things that you wanted to know
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  about Orion's nebula and the speed of light and whether neutrinos are faster than light
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  or vice versa, was like physics or farce? Or is physics reality?
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  Like? You will be able to contemplate that. But Dave LD, you
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  will not be able to stop there. You will also be able to contemplate
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  with never failing delight, the mysteries of redeeming love. Why would you go
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  through so much to save just one guy me? Why would you go through
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  so much to save all of these people who are listening and watching. I'm
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  talking about you all on television, radio, on the Internet, on podcasts,
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  and on those little devices that are out there satellite radio. You all
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  are listening. How is it that God has so much love that he would
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  go into the farthest reaches of the world and throughout the expanse of the universe
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  with his power in order to just save you? Why would he do that?
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  And then you get to contemplate it, and your mind will open up
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  more and more every single day, and you'll never ever Finally, you will
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  never be confused, you will never get tired. You will always be able
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  to praise God because he chose to do this. Isn't that wonderful? Let
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  me continue reading. There will be no cruel, deceiving foe to tempt to
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  forget fullness of God. So the devil is not going to come in there
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  talking because he's dead forever and ever and ever, and this problem ain't gonna
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  happen no more. Every faculty, that is your ability to think, will
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  be developed, every capacity increased. You thought the artificial intelligence that we had
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  right before Jesus came was good and it was swift, And I admit it's
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  swift. I still have competitions with it. I feel like the machine can't
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  be smarter than me, but it is definitely faster than me. Oh my
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  goodness. Ah, we're humans. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. God
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  created us with this expansive mind. And I will not allow artificial intelligence to
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  outperform my intellect because God gave me this intellect. But I promise you that
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  thing is fast. It can churn and collect and put together data so quickly.
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  Ah. But finally, finally, our faculties will be fully developed and
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  every capacity increased. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust
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  the energies. May I just say this, I mentioned artificial intelligence. Do
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  you realize that as I'm speaking to you today, they can't use solar energy
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  to power the machine artificial intelligence. They can't use solar power because it's not
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  sufficient, and they can't continue to use the normal power grid anymore because it's
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  not sufficient. They have to create nuclear power plants in order to power the
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  machine called whatever you want to say, artificial intelligence. Well, the Bible
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  is saying here, I mean, the inspiration is saying here that are the
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  mind that God gave us based on his divine mind. Cannot be exhausted,
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  will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. You'll never see a little
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  thing on the screen that says come back again. A lot of people are
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  hitting our servers right now. You'll never see hit the regenerate button because this
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  system is overloaded. No, No, the grandest enterprises may be carried forward,
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  the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized, and still there will
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  arise new heights to surmount, no new wonders to admire, new truths to
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  comprehend. Fresh objects will call forth the powers of the mind, soul,
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  and body. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,