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05 12 2024 The Promise of His Return · 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 Sunday, May twelve, 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 and this is where we give you God's word every single day,
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  and today is no exception. We are continuing in our study series the
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  Great Controversy, and our option for today is the Promise of His Return,
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  the promise of His Return. I will get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say and say welcome, Welcome to you,
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  and ask you, if you've not done so already, to go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please click the join button to join our online
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  community. Pick up the your Daily Portion book and let us know where you
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  are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way
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  that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Now let me just say about
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  that online community that if you are not asking any questions or having discussions surrounding
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  these studies, then inside of the community will be kind of quiet because I'm
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  speaking to you every day, giving you the baseline so we can have the
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  discussion. Okay, So go again join the online community, and if you're
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  already there, just please go ahead and begin the conversation and we will have
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  it together. I promise you. All right, let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underwagh, Father and Heaven. Thank you for
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  this privilege of opening your word again. Thank you for this new work week
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  and for the opportunity we have to look forward to the day of the coming
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  of Jesus Christ. Please help us to live like we are expecting you.
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  In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. So there is
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  a Bible passage that the Bible writer says that to those who look for him,
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  he will appear a second time without sin unto salvation. The question for
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  me is like am I looking for him? Am I looking forward to the
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  day that Jesus will return? That's the question that with which we all need
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  to contend, but me in particular, Like because I'm personalizing it, Are
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  you personalizing it? Are you asking yourself and asking God? Like? Am
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  I living in such a way that it seems that I am waiting your appearing?
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  Like? How am I investing? Am I investing only on things on
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  planet Earth? Or am I investing in the Kingdom? Am I investing in
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  the so of people, the fruit of an experience with God on planet Earth?
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  In investing in people so that they will be fruit that is born in
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  heaven? Am I investing my time in things that are tending upward? Or
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  am I in my wasting my time and things that tend to the earth only
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  you see. So the promise of Jesus's return is something that people have looked
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  forward to for millennia because they didn't really understand fully what God meant. But
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  we are sitting on the time when Jesus will come very very very soon.
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  And I'm looking forward to the day because I'm tired of the earth as it
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  is, as beautiful as some places are, I am tired of the earth
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  as it is so. The Protestant Reformers and the pilgrims who left from Holland
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  for the New World longed for the coming of Jesus. For them, the
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  second coming of Christ was a joyous event that they eagerly anticipated. John Wycliffe
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  looked forward to the coming of Christ as the hope of the church. Calvin
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  spoke for all the Reformers when he talked about the glorious return of Christ as
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  all events most auspicious for faithful men and women of God. The second coming
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  of Christ was something to be embraced, not to be feared. Can I
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  just say that again? And I need you to perk up now. I
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  want you to hear what I'm saying. The second coming of Jesus Christ is
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  something to look forward to, not something to be feared. And I know
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  that there are some people who are like me, who have microphones in bright
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  light to preach, and they preach everything burning down, blowing up, everything
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  going so poorly, so badly and scary and frightening, and hoping somehow that
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  that message that they teach in that voice will somehow inspire you to a higher
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  relationship with God. And I'm like Wow, how do we begin to get
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  hyper focused on all of the terrible things that would happen in order to hopefully
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  get people to follow God? Like that doesn't even make sense. Fear is
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  never a good motivating factor in this regard. And so we're going to the
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  promise, one of the greatest promises that we have ever seen in the Book
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  of John, the Bible Book of John, chapter fourteen, and I will
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  read beginning at verse one, and Jesus speaking to his disciples, said,
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  let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God. Believe also in
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  me. In my father's house are many mansions. Have you ever felt like
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  you didn't fit in? Have ever felt like there's not enough room in those
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  positive situations? Ah, those experiences that you wish you could have, Have
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  ever felt like you could not fit in? Well, he says, in
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  my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would
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  have told you I go to prepare a place for you. And if I
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  go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you
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  unto myself that where I am there ye may be also. And so this
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  is called the blessed hope. Like we are believing and hoping that Jesus will
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  come in our day. Yes, and Jesus was making a promise to his
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  disciples that if you believe in me when I do come, you don't have
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  to fear. If you believe in Me when I do come, you're going
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  to welcome all kinds of people with you to enjoy an experience of eternal life
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  with me when I do come again. If you love me, then you
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  will not be bound to this planet, and then you will not be destroyed.
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  You have nothing to fear. Why because you believe in God, you
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  believe also in Me. There's plenty of good room in the kingdom. Yeah.
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  I think I'll pause right there and go to another passage of scripture because
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  so much could be said here. But I don't want to miss this next
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  point. So it's coming in from the Book of First Thessalonians. The Book
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  of First Thessalonians, chapter thirteen, I mean chapter four. There is no
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  thirteen beginning at verse thirteen. First Thessalonians chapter four beginning at verse thirteen,
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  and the Bible reads, but I would not have you to be ignorant,
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  brethren concerning them which are asleep. See, some people are resting in the
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  grave right now. They're dead. That ye sorrow not even as others which
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  have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
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  even so them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.
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  I just say that again, For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
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  again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with
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  him? Okay, keep going, keep going, keep going. For this
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  we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we which are
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  alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent or precede
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  them which are asleep. Let me just say that when Jesus comes, he's
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  going to wake up. He's going to wake up the sleeping saints, and
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  those sleeping saints will will be caught up together and will read it in just
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  a moment, together with those who are alive. When Jesus returns that are
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  his children, and together they will go into the heavenly kingdom. So the
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  Bible says here in verse sixteen, the Lord himself who will do this,
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  the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of
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  an archangel, and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall
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  rise first, That's what I just said. And then we which are alive
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  and remain shall I'll be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet
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  the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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  And this is where I wanted to get to. Wherefore, comfort one
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  another with these words. Do you find comfort in the word of God?
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  Like do you find comfort in the promise of the coming of our Lord and
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  Savior, Jesus Christ. Do you find comfort or are you fearful? If
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  you're fearful, I need you to go back to the same passage John fourteen
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  feet Thessalonians chapter four, and know that if you're one of his children,
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  He's going to return for you, this time without sin unto salvation. Keep
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  the faith peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
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  of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make
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  it a great day. Yeah,