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06 14 2024 Stand Firm · 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 Friday. It's preparation day, June fourteenth, twenty twenty four.
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  Hello, my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host,
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  and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  and today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series
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  the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is Stand Firm. I want you
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  to stand firm. Yes, we'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go
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  over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick
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  up the Your Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in the
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  world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this
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  day. Please teach us to stand for truth, stand firm according to your
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  word. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  So we if you were reading through the lesson study manual, the booklet
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  or quarterly then you would have gotten them some heavy stuff this week concerning history
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  and Bible prophecy, and it's like, wow, what do we do now?
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  It seems so heavy. The prognosis seems grim, right, But the
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  reality is that every single trial and tribulation that you've ever been through means that
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  God actually brought you through him because you went through them. He's like,
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  what what did you just say? Yes, everything that you've been through God
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  brought you through. And so God is going to do it again, and
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  for the big one, He's going to do it again, and that will
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  be it. That will be his final answer. No more trials, tribulations,
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  no more death, dying, crying or pain. For the former things
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  will have been passed away finally, we're looking forward to that day. But
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  in the meantime, I want you to do what Paul said when he was
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  teaching us about the whole armor of God, putting on the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  and then and then not making provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust
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  thereof He said stand. He said, stand firm. That's what he said.
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  He taught us to stand firm through the power the Holy goes God is
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  saying for you in twenty twenty four and beyond stand firm, stand firm,
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  three young men, did that? Let me talk about it in just a
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  moment. Let's read from the Book of Daniel, chapter one, in verse
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  eight, a few basic words. It says, but Daniel, that's a
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  conjunction, so it negates whatever came before. The people wanted Daniel to do
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  something that would have been defiling to his character. But Daniel purposed in his
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  heart that he would not defile himself. He purposed in his heart that he
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  would not defile himself. The details we don't need to get into today,
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  but the fact is that they wanted Daniel to defile himself and to prepare himself
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  for service to the king. And he was like Nah, I'm good on
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  that. Let me do something that is in service to the King of the
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  universe, and then it'll benefit the king on planet Earth. And thank God
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  Daniel stood. In fact, in another instance, the Bible teaches us that
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  his three friends Ah Hannanayah, Michael, and Azariah, those three friends stood
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  up for Jesus. They stood up for Jesus when King nebicud Nezar decided that
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  he was going to be a pope to the people and that he was going
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  to be the one that they venerated and somehow they were to worship and erected
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  an idol to himself in the plane of Dura. He said, at which
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  time you hear the music, and then he gives the how the music will
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  play. He said, I need you to bow bow to the image of
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  nebuicud Nezer. And the Bible says that they did not bow. Everybody else
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  who was there bowed. Thank God, Daniel wasn't there bowing. Whoever else
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  was there, they bowed, even the people who were supposed to lead the
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  people of God. Oh, I think there's an echo in here. For
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  the last three days, we scratch the surface. But there will be people
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  who claim to be God's people who will bow in the same way to the
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  same image. Principally that leads people away from God. The Bible says that
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  the people there said, wait a minute, King, you have some people
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  that you've brought close to you. These are captives from Israel, Hebrew captives,
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  let me put it that way. And they have not bowed to your
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  image. And so the Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar sent for them. He sent
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  for them and said, wait a minute, now, what is this that
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  I'm hearing. Ah, I heard that you did not bow to my image.
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  What's going on? And they said, oh, King, live forever.
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  HM. We are not careful to answer you in this matter, but
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  we know this. Our God can deliver us, because he gave them an
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  opportunity to bow, or else they would die. He said, our God
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  is able to deliver us, but if he doesn't choose to deliver us,
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  we still will not bow. We're gonna stand firm. King. The Bible
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  says that the king, when they did not bow, he caused his men
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  to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it already was. Those men actually
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  died, who did the king's bidding to heat up the furnace, and then
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  they threw those young men down into the furnace, the Bible says bound.
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  The Bible says that they went in s three and then God made himself visible
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  through the person of Christ before he was born to Mary. The Bible says
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  the king, looking into those flames, he said, wait a minute,
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  did we not throw in three? But now how do I see four loose
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  and walking in the midst of the flames? And so the Bible teaches us
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  that that fourth one who caused these young men to stand firm was Jesus Christ
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  himself. He was one like the son of God. This is what the
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  king saw even back then then he said, what I'm seeing here is the
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  fourth looking like the son of God, or a son of the Gods in
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  his way of saying it. And so I'm thankful that God has not left
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  us, even in the trials that we will experience here in the near future.
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  I don't know when it's gonna happen, but it's going to come,
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  and it's going to come suddenly. When this same kind of scenario is presented
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  to us, we must stand and not bow down, Stand firm and not
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  bow down. In fact, the Bible says in Matthew chapter four and verse
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  ten, quoting Jesus, as he was given an opportunity to bow to the
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  enemy, he said, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him
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  only shalt thou serve. When people give you an opportunity to bow to the
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  enemy by gossiping, do not bow. Stand firm on God's word. When
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  people give you an opportunity to bow to the enemy by backbiting and being envious
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  and jealous and pola tricking inside and outside of the church, when they give
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  you an opportunity to bow to that image of self reliance, I need you
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  to stand firm, everybody, and worship the Lord. And him only shalt
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  thou serve. You're tempted to bow to your intellect, bow to your religious
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  training, bow to those who employ you. I need you to stand firm
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  on God's word when you're tempted to bow by being angry toward people who disrespect
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  you. Remember remember this is the way that they treated the prophets who were
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  before you. Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great as your reward in heaven,
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  for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. So worship the
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  Lord God, and worship him only now. The Bible says in Romans chapter
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  twelve and verse two. Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed
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  by the renewing of your mind. Do not let the world squeeze you into
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  its mold, but stand firm. Conform to not the world, but be
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  transformed by God. Be transformed by God in order to endure the trial that
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  is before them. I'm reading a quote from the book Great Controversy, page
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  five hundred and ninety three. They must understand the will of God, that's
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  me, that's you, brothers and sisters, as revealed in his word.
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  They can honor him only as they have a right conception of his character,
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  his government, his purposes, and act in accordance to them. None but
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  those who have fortified the mind with the truths of the Bible will stand through
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  the last great conflict. Fortify your life and mind in a relationship with God
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  through his word. Stand firm. Have a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks
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  for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,