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06 15 2024 Earth’s Closing Events · 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. Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath, Good
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  morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath, June fifteen,
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  twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris. I am
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  your host, and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  every single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Lesson study series. This is Lesson number twelve, the Great Controversy. Our
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  coption for today is Earth's Closing Events. Earth's Closing Events. We'll get into
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  that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you
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  and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  join our online community. We are more than six hundred strong now, and
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  please also let us know where you are in the world at your daily portion
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  dot com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Bather
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  and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new morning, and for the
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  privilege that you have entrusted to us to be together in this manner for so
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  many years. Thank you for giving us your word. Please help us to
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  live by those words. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  again. Earth's closing events. Now, Jesus had a conversation with his disciples
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  one time. He was telling them about an impending challenge that was about to
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  happen with the destruction of Jerusalem, etc. Et cetera. And his disciples,
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  in sort of a perplexed manner, said, but Jesus, tell us,
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  when these when shall these things be? What shall be the sign of
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  Thy coming and of the end of the world. And then Jesus began to
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  teach them not to be deceived, to connect to God and remain connected to
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  God. And here are a battery of events that will take place. But
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  don't be troubled, don't be troubled. People will be disrespectful to God through
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  you. Aha, did you get that people will be disrespectful to God through
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  you? They will persecute you. They will do all manner of evil against
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  you, and say all kinds of stuff against you falsely for God's sake.
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  But he said, rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward
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  in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. And
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  please don't give up. Don't give up, because this gospel of the Kingdom
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  shall be preached into all the world for a witness. And then and only
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  then shall the income. So you have one more main assignment to preach the
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  great news of deliverance to the captives, to those who are bound to all
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  kinds of sin and sickness, intellectual and mindset type sickness. God has the
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  key to that, and he wants everybody to be free. And so sometimes
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  believers are satisfied with simply naming events when we study these lessons, name the
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  events and then roll credits move on to the next thing. But we need
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  to really be focusing on like connecting with God. Once we know that all
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  of these things are happening. We know what the implications are. How do
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  we weather the storm and remain connected to God? And so what we're going
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  to do is begin at the beginning m HM with Matthew chapter six and verse
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  thirty three. Matthew chapter six and verse thirty three, and a quick quiz
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  question while you're going there, like who created the heavens and the earth?
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  Who in the beginning said let there be light? And there was light?
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  Who, while he lived on planet Earth, said take up your bed and
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  walk? And immediately people took up their beds and walk. Who said go
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  and sin? No more like? And the people had the power to go
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  and live victorious lives. You see where we're going, And therefore therefore,
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  as we see in Matthew chapter six, we read, but seek ye first
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  the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, And all of these things shall be
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  added unto you. All of the food and water that you need, all
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  of the material resources that you need, the health and comfort that you need
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  when you're going through trials. He will provide those things, the mundane,
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  the spiritual, the philosophical, whatever you need. All things needful will be
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  added unto you. So don't take any thought brothers and sisters, when you're
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  going through these difficult tribula, don't take any thought of what you'll eat,
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  what you'll drink, what you'll put on, where you will live. The
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  gentiles like people who don't know God. That's what we're going to call the
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  gentiles this morning, people who do not know God. They're the ones that
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  worry about these things. But God is saying that even though you know that
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  there will be all kinds of wars and rumors of wars, ah and earthquakes
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  in diverse places, even though people will turn their backs on God and deception
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  will be in its highest gear, even though the waves and seas will roar
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  and the tempests will rage. Even though all of that will happen, and
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  more people will persecute you. Religious and political powers and religial political powers will
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  all fire and aim their proverbial weapons toward you, brothers and sisters and me.
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  God said, just seek Him first, and He'll take care of everything
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  else. So maybe that's an action item for your morning. Seek God first.
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  God, would you have me do today? How can I serve you?
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  Thank you? All right, let's move on to the next one.
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  We're going to the Book of Proverbs, chapter three and verse five, and
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  the Bible reads trust. That's a big word. I have trust issues brothers
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  and sisters with humans, and I'm hoping that it doesn't leak into my relationship
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  with God. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not
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  unto thine own understanding. Of course, the Bible continues that if in all
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  our ways we acknowledge him, we bring him into into the conversation, and
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  we listen for his voice and ask him what would he have us do?
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  He will do what make our paths straight. He will direct our paths,
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  which happen to be the paths of righteousness. And so I thank God that
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  we can trust him with everything that we are, and we can turn away
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  from our own understand because things get so confusing in the last days. We
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  can't even believe our own eyes. We can't believe our own ears. If
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  we have been confused about that in the past, we need not be confused
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  now, especially considering technology. Forget about anything super spiritual, like even with
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  technology, you can't believe your eyes. You see somebody on the screen screen
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  speaking, you think it's an actor or an actress that you've been watching for
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  decades. And you figure out it's a machine that has been programmed to sound
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  and speak and gesture and whatever else like them. So we know that the
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  enemy has power. If technology can do that, then the enemy has even
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  more power, you see. And so we want to trust God in everything
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  and he'll guide us. And then we pray without ceasing. I think that's
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  self explanatory. Pray without ceasing, remain in an attitude where we are in
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  communion with God, not kneeling down every moment of every day, because then
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  we wouldn't get anything done. Right. What we're saying is that we need
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  to remain connected to God to the degree that we are having communion with Him
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  in every situation. As I am speaking to you right now and looking into
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  this camera and letting this microphone do what it does, and having all of
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  the computer stuff surrounding me, I am still remaining connected to God. While
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  you're preparing in your day for whatever it is that you're going to do before
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  hopefully you go into a corporate worship setting, you are hopefully having direct communion
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  with God. Do you see where we're going with this? And then,
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  of course we want to find strength in God's word. According to Psalm's chapter
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  one hundred and nineteen and verse twenty eight. The Bible reads, my soul
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  melteth for heaviness, strength, and thou me according to thy word. Let
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  me read it in another place from the Net version of the Bible. Color
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  from grief, Grief, sustain me by your word. If you are aggrieved,
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  if you are having some kind of challenge that seems insurmountable, the comfort
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  that you need through Christ is in his word. And finally, for today,
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  because I think we're running out of time, we'll read from first Thessalonians,
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  chapter five and verse eighteen. In everything, give thanks, where this
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  is the will of God concerning you in Christ Jesus. Yeah, in everything,
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  give thanks. Be grateful to God, even during earth's closing moments.
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  Make it a great day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el
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  David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,