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04 24 2024 The Morning Star of the Reformation · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  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 Wednesday, April twenty four, 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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  and our caption for today is the morning Star of the Reformation, the Morning
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  Star of the refer We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the
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  Your Daily Portion book, and let us know where you are in the world
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  at your Daily Portion dot com. This is the way that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
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  get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for getting us to the middle of the week. Father, I'm asking
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  you now to please give us understanding and please help us to live according to
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  your biblical principles. Help us to live according to relationship with You. In
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  Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again the Morning Star of Reformation.
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  All right, let's go ahead and begin by reading in the Book of
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  Psalms. That's the Book of Psalms, chapter nineteen, and we will read
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  beginning at verse seven the Book of Psalms, chapter nineteen. And we will
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  read beginning at verse seven, and the Bible reads, the law of the
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  Lord is perfect. I need you to get that deep in your spirit.
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  Brothers and sisters, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
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  So whenever there is lawless ness, we know it's not because of God.
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  Ah. Whenever people are standing firm on the principles of God's law,
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  we know it is not legalism. HM. Unless it is that I think
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  that I can earn my way into right relationship with God. Ah. So
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  the law of the Lord is perfect. There's no problem with that converting the
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  soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
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  The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of
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  the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. Ah. The fear of the
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  Lord is clean. I like that word, enduring forever. The judgments of
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  the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than
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  gold? Yea, than much fine gold? May I just pause right here.
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  There has been so much discussion over the years, and even religious people
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  and spiritual people alike have been arguing about whether God's law is still true and
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  binding on the believer, binding on those who are living on planet Earth.
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  And I'm like, well, is the law of gravity still true? Is
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  the law of gravity still true? And that law is simply a natural law.
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  But the word of God has not failed. God has not changed those
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  ten words that he inscribed with his own finger, he emblazoned on sapphire.
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  I need you to look that one up. Sapphire tables of stone, not
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  those gray or beige granite looking colors, but sapphire tables of stone he engraved
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  in his own handwriting. If you want to say, if that's a good
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  way of saying it. Ten promises that if we will accept his power and
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  love him, he will keep these true words, eternal words, the eternal
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  transcript of his character. He will keep those through our lives. So we
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  won't have a problem having other gods before him. Ah, we won't have
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  a problem. If we are our people now we live on planet Earth.
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  That means that we have parents. Then we will have no problem honoring our
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  parents. Why, because God will do it through us. Right, we
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  will have no problem not taking God's name in vain. We won't have a
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  problem with stealing or murdering, whether it's spiritually or actually. Why, because
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  these ten words become ten promises. They are pure, they are they cause
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  us to rejoice. Right, they are enlightening to our eyes and understanding in
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  our relationships, businesses, everything that has to do with our lives, our
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  emotions, our intelligence, our mindset. All of these things are more than
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  just transformed, which would be incredible, but transformed until Jesus comes, when
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  we embrace the law of God. This is it. Here we go,
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  Here we go more to be desired, are they than gold? Yay,
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  than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey in the honeycomb. Moreover,
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  by them is thy servant warned, and in keeping of them there is great
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  reward. There are so many people on social media and on the internet otherwise
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  who are looking for that pot of gold or silver or platinum or whatever the
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  precious stone or metal happens to be in vogue in our day. People are
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  looking for notoriety. People are looking for influence, being able to monetize to
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  the hilt, to have more followers, to have more subscribers, more people
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  clicking that little button, that notification bell. And God is saying that you're
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  looking in the wrong direction if you're not looking to the Fear the Lord,
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  respecting him and putting him first. If you're not going there first and then
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  embracing His truth, including his Holy ten Commandments law. No matter what positive
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  experience you have through all of those other means, they will expire. Stap
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  here is the expiration date. And so God is welcoming us into a life
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  of reformation. That says, Okay, my life has not necessarily been in
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  agreement with God. I have not embraced all truth that is in the scriptures,
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  And now is my day, like the twenty fourth day of the twenty
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  two hundred twenty twenty twenty four in the of April, is my day in
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  order to walk with God in the brightness of his truth. Now, let's
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  go to the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and nineteen. The Book
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  of Psalms, chapter one hundred and nineteen, and I will read verse one
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  hundred and forty and then one hundred forty. Whoops, I'm telling myself the
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  wrong thing. Psalms, Chapter one hundred nineteen. And I will read verse
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  one hundred and forty, and then we'll scroll down to one hundred and sixty
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  two. Thy word is very pure. Therefore thy servant loveth it. So
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  when God speaks to us, when he manifests his truth through his words,
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  through his prophets, Yes, as he teaches us in all of the other
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  ways that He has chosen to communicate with his people, we understand that they
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  are very pure. That's why we love it. Did you get that?
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  That's why we love it, That's why we love him. Keep going,
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  Keep going Verse one hundred and sixty two. Let's get all the way down
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  to one hundred and sixty two, and the Bible reads, I rejoice at
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  thy word as one that findeth great spoil. Let me read that in another
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  version, I rejoice at your instructions like one who finds much plunder amazing.
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  And then in the Book of Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, that's the Book of
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  Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, we read in verse sixteen, as your words came
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  to me, I drank them, and they filled my heart with joy and
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  happiness, because I belong to you, Oh Lord, God of Heaven's armies.
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  So we see joy, we see purity, we see holiness, we
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  see peace, we see respect for God, we see right relationship with Him.
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  And so the people, the people who live on planet Earth at every
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  time in history, whether it be these Biblical reformers, these people who lived
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  during what we call Bible times, whether it be Wycliff or some of the
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  others, who have chosen to live in holiness against all odds, against even
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  some so called religious powers. God is saying that he's with us, that
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  he will refine our character, he will sanctify our soul, and he will
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  build upon the power that he has placed in us to the point that we
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  become a spiritual house, and one day we will begin to live with him
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  eternally. Have a wonderful day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,