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04 02 2024 Planet Earth Becomes Involved · 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 morning.
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  It is Tuesday, April two, 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 through the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is planet Earth becomes involved. Earth becomes involved And
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  you want to say, well, involved in what? Yes, we'll get
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  into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let
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  us know where you are in the world. This is one of the ways
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  that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  see what God has to say to us. Father, thank you for giving
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  us the opportunity to pray. And I'm asking you to please give us understanding
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  of your will and then for us to have the will to do of your
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  good pleasure. Please fill us with your Holy spirit in Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. All right, and so again the caption
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  planet Earth becomes involved. I have said to you already that sin didn't just
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  happen in Adam and Eve, right, it didn't just impact them. It
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  also impacted the earth. There are things that we see in our weather patterns.
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  There are things that we see in how things grow or don't grow,
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  how the mountains are. We see things in the waters and the seas,
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  and in animal behavior we see that well, there are predators. Now,
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  when God created the animals, there were no predators. They ate like elephants
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  eat. If you want to say, yeah, but now we have a
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  problem, and so we're going to talk about that. But see if there
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  is any grace in the situation for us to grow from. Okay, and
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  so there's problem on planet Earth. Okay. So according to the lesson writer,
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  when God created the Earth, he created it perfect. And I think
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  that there is no argument here on that, not from people who believe God.
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  The Bible says that he saw, meaning God, he saw that everything
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  that he had made indeed was good, good, very good. This is
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  what the account is in the Book of Genesis chapter one. There was no
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  stain of sin or evil anywhere. And let me just add here un planet
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  Earth. Because Lucifer had war with God. Lucifer lost, he became the
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  devil. Of course in that process he chose. By the time he was
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  warring with God, he had lost his Son of the Morning status, right,
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  and now there's war in heaven. God kicks him and his evil angels
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  out of heaven and they're here. But the human race hadn't chosen to follow
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  him, well, not yet. But the lesson writer says he gave Adam
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  and Eve the same freedom of choice he had given to Lucifer. He didn't
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  want robot on Earth anymore than he wanted robots in heaven. And so what
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  I want to be sure of is that you're not reading this, but this
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  butt like there was no stain of sin or evil anywhere on planet Earth.
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  But we don't want to see that as a contrast, like everything was good
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  but God gave free will. That's not what we want to see. But
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  we want to see, however, that now as the story is being told,
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  there is a decision for Adam and Eve to make. They have to
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  decide whether they are going to follow God fully as they have been created to
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  do, as they had done all the time up until this point, or
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  make a decision to go the other way like Lucifer and his evil angels had
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  done. Okay, And so there was this tree of the knowledge of good
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  and evil. So love, I'll call this absolute love, meaning God,
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  because the Bible says that God is love. Love gives humans the ability to
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  choose in the same way that he gave angels the abilities to choose. Okay,
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  And so now we're going to look at a contrast between what God said
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  and what the devil said, and now we will have the decision making process
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  of humankind. Here we go. In Genesis chapter two, verse fifteen,
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  the Bible reads, and the Lord God took the man and put him into
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  the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. So God gave
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  Adam responsibility. He gave him the privilege of work and labor, meaningful labor.
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  And the Bible says and the Lord God commanded him saying, of the
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  tree of the garden, of every tree, excuse me, of the garden,
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  thou mayest freely eat. I want you to hear how this works.
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  Of every tree of the garden you may eat except one. Okay ah.
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  And it says here but verse seventeen, of the Tree of the Knowledge of
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  good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day
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  that thou eatst thereof thou shalt surely die. So God gave him work,
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  He gave him meaningful labor. If you want to say, maybe that's the
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  way to say it. He gave him responsibility, and of course he gave
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  him his love. So there's no problem here, nothing to see here.
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  And he also now gave him the ability to see like in real words,
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  God is saying, I'm giving you an opportunity to continue along this beautiful pathway
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  that you have with me. You are perfect. The earth is perfect.
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  When I have given to you is perfect. Even this decision making process at
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  this point of your life is perfect, and I want you to keep it
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  that way, okay, And then the devil shows up. Long story short,
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  we see now we see that by the time let me go to Genesis
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  after three, by the time the devil shows up in the garden, something
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  goes very wrong. Beginning at verse one. Now the serpent was more subtle
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  than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he
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  said, unto the woman, yea hath God said, now we're seeing the
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  subtlety right. Watch where he tries to twist God's words. And he said,
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  did God say that ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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  Wait a minute, The Bible said you may eat from every tree of
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  the garden except one. So he twists it. Okay. And the woman
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  said, unto the serpent, we may eat from the tree or the fruit
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  of the tree of the God, or the trees of the garden. But
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  of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden.
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  God said, ye shall not eat it. That's correct. Then she adds
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  something, neither shall ye touch it lest ye die? And the serpent said,
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  unto the woman, ye shall not surely die. So God said,
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  we're walking now into these contrasts, what did God say? What did the
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  enemy say? See? God said by his action that he loves them.
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  Right. He gave them every possible thing for their comfort, every possible thing
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  for their continued growth imperfection, every possible thing to demonstrate his love and protective
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  care over them. And he gave them guidance that this enemy would come and
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  that they should make a specific decision. Even though they already innately had the
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  ability to choose right, God still gave him a bonus and told them exactly
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  what their decision should be if they were going to continue to follow him.
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  Now, now she sees, wait a minute, the devil says this,
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  or this being says this, and then the serpent says, wait a minute,
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  God doth know that ye will eat if you eat this, that when
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  you do that, your eyes will be open. Wait a minute. That's
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  not what God said, you shall be as God's Wait a minute, that's
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  not what God said. Knowing good and evil, God didn't say, this
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  is what I want for you, and then I'm gonna hide it like no,
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  Wait a minute. And then the woman said she saw the tree was
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  good for food. Now her perspective changes because she's beginning to accept the deception,
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  and that it was pleasant to the eyes. A tree that desired to
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  make one wise, sin does not make us wiser. She did eat,
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  gave her husband, and he did eat. So the minute that Eve accepted
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  the counterfeit and the deception and Adam made his choice to sin, then there
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  was a problem talk about that one planet Earth peace. Thanks for joining us
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  listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,