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05 08 2024 The Two Witnesses Resurrected · 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 Wednesday, May eight, 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 the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is the two Witnesses resurrected. You should be hopeful
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  now because yesterday we said something that was almost until we got through the quick
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  study. But the fact is that God resurrected his two witnesses and we're looking
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  forward to talking about that in just a moment. But before we do,
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  I'd like to say welcome to everyone. Joining us, especially those joining us
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  for the very first time. Please please please go over to your Daily Portion
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  book, and let us know where you are in the world at your Daily
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  Portion dot Com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and
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  fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and the opportunity that you've entrusted
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  to us. As I say every day, to open up your word,
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  Please help us to be encouraged by the fact that death is nothing to you,
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  and that you're able because you are the Resurrection, you are the life.
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  You are able to breathe life into any situation that you choose. In
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  Jesus' name, my pray, Amen and again, and as I have said
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  the last couple of days, that we will read heavily because it is very
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  difficult, considering the format I've chosen for Your Daily Portion to cover adequately what
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  we are looking at with this particular subject matter. But let me just give
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  you a few principles that you can apply today. Number One, God is
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  not intimidated, neither is he bound by death. Can I say that just
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  in a practical sense in your life, like when God forbid our loved ones
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  pass away, just like Lazarus did, just like one of my dear friends.
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  And I will let you know that my friend and I did beg God
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  and even go into the room and ask God to please wake up our friend
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  who had passed away. He was fully dead, fully dead, had succumbed
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  to cancer. And I was in Andrew's Memorial hospital and elt down next to
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  my brother in friend's bed with my hands on his chest, begging God.
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  With my other friend on the telephone. We were begging God to wake our
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  friend up, and God chose not to that day. But we see many
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  times in history and even in our lifetimes really where God wakes up the dead.
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  He does. And Jesus said to Lazarus's sister sister that he is the
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  resurrection in the life. And even though a person one of God's people will
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  die, that person will live, and he asks it, do we believe
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  it? Through her? Do we believe it? Do you believe that God
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  is able to raise the dead? And we have seen him do it,
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  we will see it again. And even in the example now of this two
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  witness story, the two witnesses we now know are the Word of God,
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  the Old and New Testaments. When they intended to destroy the Word of God
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  and France, they intended to erect reason, what they called reason, as
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  the antithesis of God's Word. And they thought reason quote would stand, and
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  the Word of God would not stand. And they even burned Bibles in the
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  streets, like, really, you think your little earthly fire can have an
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  effect on the Word of God, which is eternal? Are you kidding me?
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  Well, sometimes humans take it upon themselves to do crazy things, and
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  so well, the Bible teaches us. History teaches us that that did not
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  work. Even though they did what they did in terms of human laws,
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  even though they did what they did in terms of physical products. The book
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  called the Bible that they were burning in the streets as a demonstration. The
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  reality is that that power where God breathed, that's where inspiration comes from.
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  That term God inspired the men of God to write the words of God.
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  God breathed into his word and it became living. It became His word on
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  planet Earth. The sixty six pleasant present, these sixty six blessed books we
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  now call the Bible. They stand and will live forever. So really,
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  if we switch off this program now, we would have covered what really matters
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  here. But let me read from the lesson. The lesson writer said,
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  at the end of the French Revolution, God's Word would figuratively come to life
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  again. I would say symbolically right, there would be a mighty revival.
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  Great fear would fall on those who saw God's Word once more become the living
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  power of God unto salvation. May I ask you a question, is God's
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  Word alive in your life? See? The devil tried to destroy the Word
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  in your bosom. He tried to destroy and take away the new covenant in
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  your heart, where God said, I will write my laws in your heart
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  and in your life, so that no one will have to teach you to
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  know the Lord, because God is going to introduce himself to you and live
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  his life within you. But there were times that it felt like the life
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  was being taken out of you, and that the Word of God was dying
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  in your bosom. Uhuh have you seen where God was able to resurrect this,
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  where he could give you new hope and new life, where he could
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  teach you to agree with him, to confess your sins and to hold on
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  to holiness, and that agreement with God would manifest in your life to where
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  you had newness of life. The Word of God stands in your life today.
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  I know that many of you can testify that God was able to show
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  his words strong in your life. And so, in the same way it
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  happened back in those days. At the end of the eighteenth century, God
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  raised up men and women who were committed to taking the Gospel to the ends
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  of the earth. People spread the message of Bible rapidly, like William Carey,
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  who traveled into India and translated the Bible into dozens of Indian dialects.
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  Propelled by the power of the Bible, missionaries were sent around the world.
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  It is not by accident that these worldwide mission endeavors arose after the French Revolution.
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  Remember during that time they thought they could kill the Bible. Well,
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  after that failed attempt, we see that the Bible became even more powerful and
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  prominent in the people's lives. God's word is a living word, and although
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  to many it seemed quote dead, it is still living in the hearts of
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  believers who would rise again to full life. As revelations prophecies predicted now let
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  me read another quote the infidel infidel volataire Voltaire. I sorry, I know
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  that, once boastingly said, I am weary of hearing people repeat that the
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  twelve men established the Ristian religion. I will prove that one man will suffice
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  to overthrow it. End of quote. Well, generations have passed since his
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  death. Millions have joined in the war upon the Bible. But it is
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  so far from being destroyed that there were one hundred in Voltaire's time that were
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  now ten thousand, yes, one hundred thousand copies of the Book of God.
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  In the words of the early Reformer concerning the Christian Church, the Bible
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  is an anvil that has worn out many hammers. Can I say that again?
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  The Bible is an anvil that has worn out many hammers. And this
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  is coming in from the book The Great Controversy, page two hundred and eighty
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  eight. Listen, it doesn't even make sense to try to wear out the
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  word of God, because God's word is quick. That means it's life giving.
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  It is sharper than any two edged sword searches out our guts, our
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  intents. It knows because the Word of God is living everything that we intend
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  and so God through Christ is showing us that the Word is living. Remember
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  Jesus said, or it is said of Jesus in John chapter one. And
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  the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the
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  Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things
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  were made by Him, and without any without him was not anything made that
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  was made. And him was life, and the life was the light of
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  men. You cannot kill the light of men. Jesus Christ, the Word
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  of God now manifest in some pages of these sixty six blessed books cannot be
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  destroyed. And I'm so thankful because I wouldn't be he 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,