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03 09 2025 Christ the Victor · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, it is Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: March nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Christ the Victor, Christ the Victim? Is
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  Speaker 2: he the victor in your life? And really it's up
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  Speaker 2: to you, It's up to me to answer that question.
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  Speaker 2: And if we allow him to be, then in our lives,
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  Speaker 2: he will, in fact and indeed be. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I like to
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  Speaker 2: dot com and join and subscribe there. And this is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: day and for the opportunity that you have given us
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  Speaker 2: to see your victory in our lives. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. You know there are
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  Speaker 2: times that humans just can't see, we can't see how
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  Speaker 2: God is being so good to us, how he is
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  Speaker 2: faithful in our lives. And so I'm very grateful that
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  Speaker 2: God has given us the privilege of seeing him as
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  Speaker 2: the victor in our lives. Yes, the devil is a deceiver.
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  Speaker 2: Yes he is a slanderer and the accuser of the brethren.
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  Speaker 2: Yes he is a liar, and he was such from
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. Yes, he has been trying to usurp God's
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  Speaker 2: authority to take for himself the worship for which only
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is worthy or God our Father is worthy. Like
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  Speaker 2: he is all of that. But really, is is that
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  Speaker 2: what we need to focus on? Do we need to
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  Speaker 2: focus on how evil evil is?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: The devil is the devil, like, he's devilish, He's doing
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  Speaker 2: his job, And so our focus should be to connect
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  Speaker 2: with God. Why because Christ is the victor. Yes, the
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  Speaker 2: faith that he gives us, the one that is the
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  Speaker 2: author and finisher of our faith, has told us before
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  Speaker 2: it has happened, what exactly will happen and what the
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  Speaker 2: end will be like God wins in the end analysis
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  Speaker 2: And as I've asked the question multiple times over the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks, is God winning in my life?
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  Speaker 2: Is he winning in your life? Christ is the victor.
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  Speaker 2: Although the lesson writer says there is an enemy at work,
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  Speaker 2: whom Christ himself refers to usurper ruler of this world,
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  Speaker 2: the true king of the universe is Christ. Jesus wins
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  Speaker 2: victory for us, and in him we can have victory
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  Speaker 2: even in the midst of hardship and suffering. Indeed, the
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  Speaker 2: work of Christ counters and overcomes the enemy at every turn. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so I am going to whoops, I am going
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  Speaker 2: to read read a couple of passages to you so
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  Speaker 2: that it will help all of us get closer to God.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, let's go to Romans chapter three, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty five. Romans Chapter three, beginning at verse twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that you will do things like this
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  Speaker 2: in your spare time. Okay. So the first thing I
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  Speaker 2: want us to do, I said us, I need this
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  Speaker 2: for me is trust in Christ's righteousness. Trust in Christ's righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads God publicly, what did he do publicly
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  Speaker 2: displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible
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  Speaker 2: through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness because God,
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  Speaker 2: in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.
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  Speaker 2: This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time,
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  Speaker 2: so that he would be just and the justifier of
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  Speaker 2: the one who lives because of Jesus's faithfulness. Okay, and
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  Speaker 2: let me read it again. This was also to demonstrate
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  Speaker 2: his righteousness in the present time, whenever that was written
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  Speaker 2: in that time, in our present time, so that he
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  Speaker 2: could be just, that is, he could be righteous and
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  Speaker 2: at the same time justify me. He could make it
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  Speaker 2: just as if you, dear brother, you, dear sister, had
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  Speaker 2: never sinned those mistakes that you have made over the
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  Speaker 2: course of years. And maybe humans have records of those things,
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  Speaker 2: and they remember and throw in your face sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: things that you did against them, and they have not
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  Speaker 2: yet forgiven you right. They have not healed from whatever,
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  Speaker 2: or you have not maybe even healed from what you've
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  Speaker 2: done to yourselves. You see, But what Jesus has done
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  Speaker 2: by becoming the mercy seat, becoming the one who is
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  Speaker 2: who was covering hovering over the law. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time to go back into the sanctuary. But
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  Speaker 2: the mercy seat was right above where the law was housed,
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  Speaker 2: in the ark of the Covenant. So God, as we
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  Speaker 2: would see it, is on his throne, seated on the
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  Speaker 2: mercy seat. And below the mercy seat is the law
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  Speaker 2: of God. And so if you are going to change
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  Speaker 2: the law of God, you have to move God out
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  Speaker 2: of the way. That's not going to happen, right, take
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  Speaker 2: him up off his throne. That's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And if you are going to assault God's people, then
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  Speaker 2: you would have to remove God, take up his mercy,
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  Speaker 2: get right back to the law, take out the law
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  Speaker 2: like a sword, and then go against the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: be like the accuser of the brethren. But you cannot
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  Speaker 2: move God. Ah, you cannot remove his mercy. You cannot
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  Speaker 2: misuse his law to the degree of condemning his people.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus, being that perfect mercy seat now is
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  Speaker 2: showing how even though the law cannot be changed, and
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  Speaker 2: it is only wholly just and good, and we have
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  Speaker 2: transgressed the law, which means we should die. Being the
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  Speaker 2: mercy seat says I'll take the punishment because of God's mard.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus takes the punishment that we deserve so that we
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  Speaker 2: can receive the life that he deserves. Now, I also
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  Speaker 2: want you to remember while you're letting that settle in, like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, He's giving me life eternal and I
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  Speaker 2: don't deserve it. That's right. Just yield your will to him,
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  Speaker 2: confess your sins, live your life according to the principles
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  Speaker 2: of His word and his Holy ten Commandment's law in
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  Speaker 2: his strength. Yes, but you know what, while we are
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  Speaker 2: living in that reality, the devil will still nip at
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  Speaker 2: our heels. He will still be there at every turn.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going anywhere until he's ultimately destroyed. But I
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  Speaker 2: want you to remember one thing. The devil's time is limited.
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  Speaker 2: He's unborrowed time. The Bible reads in Revelation, chapter twelve
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  Speaker 2: and verse twelve. Therefore, rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
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  Speaker 2: dwell in them, wee unto the inhabitors of the earth
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  Speaker 2: and of the sea. The devil is coming down unto you,
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  Speaker 2: having great wrath. And people usually stick right there and
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  Speaker 2: gets and get and get, and let our minds get poisoned,
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  Speaker 2: and we wonder, like, oh, my goodness, what in the
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  Speaker 2: world are we gonna do? Well? He says here, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says here, because he knoweth that he hath but
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  Speaker 2: a short time he's filled with this anger, but he
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  Speaker 2: knows that he has a short time. This is why
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  Speaker 2: he redoubles his efforts and lives and behaves the way
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  Speaker 2: he does against the people of God. That is why,
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  Speaker 2: because God is going to destroy our enemy and ultimately
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  Speaker 2: God is going to destroy death. Why because, like Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the victor. What did you think? Peace?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,