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04 05 2024 Satan Must GO · 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, April five, 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 through the Great
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  Controversy, and our caption for today and I want you to hear it with
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  an exclamation point, Satan must go. Satan, he has to go,
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  He has to go. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  first i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up your
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  Daily Portion book and also let us know where you are in the world at
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  your daily portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underwayh
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  Father in Heaven, thank you for this day of preparation. Please kick the
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  devil out of our lives. Help us to cooperate with you. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray, Amen and a man again. So I'm going to
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  ask. I hope it's a rhetorical question, but really and truly it may
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  be something that you have to consider. So this is between you and God.
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  You be the judge with God's help. Do you welcome Satan into your
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  life? And it's like, wait a minute, why would you begin in
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  there? Well, there are things that we do to either welcome God or
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  the enemy in our lives. Right, we can't live in a relationship with
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  God by default because we have good intentions. We hope to pray more,
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  we hope to connect with God more. We hope to yield our will to
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  God more, and say, Okay, Lord, whatever you say for my
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  day that I'll do it. I intend to, I want to, I
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  wish to, I hope to. No So The question is, again,
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  do you welcome the devil into your life through gossip or not yielding your will
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  to God? God forbid? Do you welcome the enemy into your life through
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  the music and other entertainment that you see and enjoy and do it on purpose
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  on the YouTube channels, in your podcast listening, in the conversations that you
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  have and may even enjoy and welcome like a comedy that you find really funny,
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  when it's stuff that makes God unhappy with. Okay, you see where
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  I'm going Like, So do I welcome? That's the question. Do I
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  welcome the devil into my life? Or do I ask God to banish him
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  from my life? My personal life, my spiritual life, right my financial
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  life, my relationship life. The people that I choose to surround myself with
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  often determine, often determine the true answer to this question. And when I
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  say surround myself with, I'm not saying that when we are assisting people who
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  don't know God, that the answer is going the wrong direction. What I'm
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  saying is that there are people that we hang out with and enjoy, whose
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  company we enjoy, and we do activities and have conversations and make plans that
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  are contrary to God's will, and in that case God forbid though people are
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  welcoming the enemy into their lives. And so with that we have to exclaim.
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  Let's proclaim and confess today on this fifth day of April twenty twenty four,
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  that we want the devil to go like he has to go. The
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  same Jesus who banished the devil from heaven must banish him from our lives.
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  Now, let me read. Let me read now from the book The Great
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  Controversy, page five hundred, pages five hundred and five hundred and one.
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  In the banishment of Satan from heaven, God declared his justice and maintained the
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  honor of his throne. Is God declaring the justice his justice in your life?
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  And you're like, well, what is justice like? Is it pump
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  your fist? We need justice, we need justice? Or is it righteousness?
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  As the Bible teaches, right, we know that it's not just standing
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  up with placards and signs saying we want justice. It is the righteousness of
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  God that we want in our lives. We need to have holy thoughts,
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  we need to have holy intentions, we need to help those who are oppressed.
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  Yes, we have to help those women who are widows. We help
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  those who don't have any parents, they are orphans. And we seek that
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  justice, that holiness on earth in the way that God sees it in heaven.
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  Okay, and so let me continue the quote. But when man had
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  sinned through yielding to the deceptions of this apostate spirit we're talking about the enemy,
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  the devil, God gave an evidence of his love by yielding up his
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  only begotten son to die for the fallen race. So now we see that
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  the truth is that God loves us. He loves us because otherwise he would
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  have seen our injustice, our unholiness, our unrighteousness, the times that we
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  have welcomed the enemy into our lives. Yes, and he could have said,
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  well, that was their decision and then walked on by. He could
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  have just walked on by and said, well, that's the choice they made,
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  so well you make a bed, go lie in it. Uh ha.
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  The chickens have come home to roost. Like he could have said that.
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  He could have said, you sowned, you've sown those seeds, and
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  so you're going to reap that harvest. But instead of that, he said,
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  I need to give them a chance. And before there was a beginning
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  from eternity past. The Bible teaches us that in the eternal mind of God
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  was this plan of salvation. Knowing that at whatever time he was choosing to
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  create humans and the earth, he knew the decisions that Adam and Eve would
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  make. Adam in particular, Adam in particular because as by one man,
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  the Bible says, sin entered into the world and death by sin. So
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  we're talking about how, the how, the how Adam chose to go the
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  pathway of welcome the enemy into his life. Eve was deceived and chose the
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  pathway to welcome the enemy into her life. And because of this we now
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  we now inherit the tendency to do the same. It is a proclivity,
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  if you want to look that word up. It is a It's almost like
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  a predisposition. We are pre exposed genetically, and I'm talking about every human
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  being. I'm talking that crazy stuff that people talk about with evolutionary theory and
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  the survival of the fittest and the superior, the superior mindset of a certain
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  set of people that live on planet Earth to the exclusion of others. I'm
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  not talking about that. I'm saying, every single human being, if you
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  were born, if you were born of a woman, then that means that
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  you two brothers and sisters have a predisposition to sin, predisposition to welcome the
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  devil into your life. And so God loved the world so much that he
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  wants to eradicate that. This is why Jesus told Nicodemus, you have to
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  be born again. He wants to give all of us new DNA. He
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  wants to give all of us the ability to not only resist the devil,
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  but to embrace God. He wants to give us the ability to do His
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  will in all things, just like Jesus did when Jesus lived on planet Earth.
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  Let me continue to read. The mighty argument of the Cross demonstrates to
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  the whole universe that the course of sin which Lucifer had chosen was in no
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  wise chargeable upon the government of God. So we cannot blame God for the
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  devil's deeds. Can I just say that when things are destroyed, your homes
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  are destroyed, or some hailstorm happens, and they put that into insurance,
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  whether to cover it or not to uncover it, or to cover it or
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  not to cover it, and in the United States of America and other parts
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  of the world. They call it an act of God. All of this
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  destruction they call it an act of God. And I'm like, why don't
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  call it an act of the devil. Why is it always an act of
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  God? Every evil thing that happens on planet Earth, people blame God for
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  it. I don't want to get on my soapbox. Let me continue reading
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  now. In page five hundred and three, with a few moments, we
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  have left the Cross of Calvary. While it declares the law immutable, it
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  proclaims to the universe that the wages of sin is death. In the Savior's
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  expiring cry, it is finished. The death knell of Satan was wrung m
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  so the devil had to go. The devil had to go. God wants
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  the devil to go out of our lives. Yeah, embrace God. Let
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  the devil go in peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,