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06 03 2024 Death in the Old Testament · 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 keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Monday, June three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series, the Great Controversy.
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  We're still in Lesson number ten. Our caption for today is Death in
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  the Old Testament. Death in the Old Testament. We'll talk that in just
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  a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,
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  join our coaching program. Also, let us know where you are in
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  the world. And this is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray
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  and then we will get underway bathering in heaven. Thank you for this new
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  day and for the privilege we have to get off into our work week.
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  Please, Father, help us to see the blessing and the messages that you
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  intend for us here and not just think that it's a clinical sort of classroom
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  exercise. Please help us to see the resurrection and the life in Jesus name.
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  I pray, Amen and a men again. So I'm going to share,
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  like the key for today in my mind is that there is hope in
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  the truth about death if we believe God for it. And it sounds backwards
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  because you're like death, Yeah, there is hope. Let me fix the
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  microphone. There is hope in the truth about death if we believe God for
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  it. You see, sometimes we make up reasons as human beings. I'm
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  saying, we make up reasons to have hope, and then when that hope
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  is disappointed based on the thing that we made up, and then we blame
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  it on God, you see. And so what I want you to do
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  is think from God's perspective, and you're like, well, how can I
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  think from God's perspective? Well, the first thing we do through the power
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  of the Holy Ghost is to go into God's word. Okay, and so
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  let's go ahead and begin. Let's begin in the Book of Psalms, chapter
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  six and verse five. The Book of Psalms, chapter six, and then
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  we will read verse five, and the Bible reads for in death there is
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  no remembrance of the I'm going to read it in another version, in a
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  moment in the grave, who shall give thee thanks? Okay, let me
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  read it again, for no one remembers you in the realm of death.
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  In shield that's a Hebrew term for this particular concept relating to the grave who
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  gives you thanks. And so this passage can reassure us that death is a
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  peaceful state of rest like there is nobody who is writhing in pain, no
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  one who is restless, No one can be disturbed, no need as they
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  do in hotels, no need to put up but do not disturb sign right,
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  because everybody who dies is resting, free from troubles. It invites us
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  to live meaningfully today. That's what I wanted to get to Let's live meaningfully
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  today. Ask God to teach you how to remember Him today when you wake
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  up every morning, God, help me to remember what great things You've done
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  for me until now. Whenever I am tempted to worry, Help me to
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  remember that every single trial, every single tribulation, every difficulty that I've ever
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  had until now, You've been there for me, even when I did not
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  recognize it. You see, help me to remember that I can give thanks
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  today, you understand. So my focus, brothers and sisters, is not
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  death. My focus is while I am living. I can give thanks.
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  While I am living. I can remember the greatness of God. While I
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  am living, I can lead others into the same kind of relationship. And
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  so I want you to live meaningfully today. I want you to cherish your
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  moments and give thanks and remember God in everything that you do. Bible says,
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  if we remember God, then we will win, okay. And so
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  in the Book of Psalm chapter one hundred fift and verse seventeen, the dead
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  praise not the Lord. So, thinking from the way that I've been reasoning
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  until now, I think you know where I'm going. But let me pause
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  for a moment. The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go
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  down into silence. So yeah, there was a well, I don't want
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  to go into that video that was circulating, but there is a concept now
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  that we can think about, like when is it appropriate to to praise God
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  loudly? When is it appropriate to to cry out to God? Like when
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  is it appropriate for us to be silence? Well, all silent, but
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  all of that goes away when a person dies. Right, So now now
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  knowing that one day we will go down in silence. Likely not everybody will
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  die before Jesus comes, but billions of people have already died, and billions
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  more will die before Jesus comes back. And every single one of them,
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  bar none, one hundred percent of those individuals are completely silent unless God raised
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  them from the dead like he did Lazarus, you understand. And so in
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  the meantime, since the dead, don't praise the Lord, Since everybody who
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  dies will go on down into silence, now is the time to praise him,
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  praise him for his mighty acts, like praise him according to his excellent
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  greatness everything that has breath. It is our privilege to do what praise the
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  Lord? Okay, And so we reflect on this verse. We find comfort
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  in knowing that death is a temporary state. It's temporary where earthly toils shall
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  cease. This understanding fortifies our hope in the resurrection. And guess what happens
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  when we're raised by God at the appropriate time. If we have lived a
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  lifestyle of submission to God and praise, you know what's gonna happen. We're
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  gonna be able to praise Him forever and ever and ever. We will enjoy
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  the company of India Viduals, who also lived the life of praise and worship
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  forever and ever. And it will never stop, and we will not keep
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  silent from that point forward when Jesus comes and raises his people. Okay,
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  and now we go to First Kings, Chapter two and verse ten. The
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  Bible reads, so David slept with his fathers as King David, he slept
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  with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. Now I remember
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  in the New Testament the apostles were saying that David's grave remains until this day.
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  They were just basically saying that like he's resting, and the place where
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  he is resting still remains. All of those many many years later, and
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  so we know now that the phrase of slept with his fathers suggests a peaceful
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  rest, even if you put individuals who were family members side by side by
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  side, or on top of one another, depending on how the grave site
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  is, and then the remains go down and decompose in whatever. But when
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  Jesus comes, he's going to raise everybody that is his child, and David
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  among those, David and Josiah and others of the family, those will likely
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  be raised incorruptible. The Bible says that we're affirming that death is not an
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  end, but a pause. It offers us the hope of reawakening to everlasting
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  life, to immortality, Brothers and sisters, just as one awakes from sleep,
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  refreshed and renewed. I get up at three a m. Every single
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  morning, every day of the week, and I rested through the night.
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  You get up at whatever times you get up, and you rest it through
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  the night, and then when you wake up, you're aware of everything that
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  is happening, because why you're no longer resting. We look forward to the
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  day when Jesus will raise those who love him. He will raise those who
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  have yielded their will to him. He will raise those who are looking forward
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  to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in the book The Great
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  Controversy, it says those visitants those Sometimes people have visitors and they're wondering if
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  it's really their dead loved ones. But we know now that it's the enemy.
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  Impersonating people will appear to our tender sympathies and will maybe we'll also work
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  miracles to sustain their pretensions. We must be prepared to withstand them with the
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  Bible truth that the dead don't know anything. All of the dead are just
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  resting until the appropriate resurrection. Thank you a great day, peace, Thanks
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  for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,