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04 01 2024 Lucifer Deceives: Christ Prevails · 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 Monday, April one, 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 where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our new new new Lesson study series
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  called The Great Controversy, The Great Controversy, and our caption for today is
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  Lucifer deceives prevails, Lucifer deceives and Christ prevails. We'll get into that in
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  just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
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  you for giving us this new day and for the privilege that we have to
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  open your word. I say it every day because it is a privilege.
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  Thank you, Father for giving us the key to victory. Please teach us
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  how to accept it. You in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. Lucifer deceives, Christ prevails. Now I just need to give
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  you a tiny little pet peeve of mine. I don't know if it matters
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  or not, but I think because I'm so technical, I can't overcome it.
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  The enemy of our souls used to be Lucifer. That was the name
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  that God gave him. Because he was the son of the Morning. God
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  created him to be this morning star. He reflected the image of God.
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  But after he chose for the last time his rebellious ways, he was called
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  the deceiver. He was called Satan, the accuser of the brethren, right,
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  the murderer from the time of the beginning, Like, that's the way
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  he was, right, this is what the Bible references him to be.
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  And so I can't call him Lucifer anymore. I'm just saying I just can't
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  do it. So now you'll understand if I correct. If I'm doing these
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  auto corrects often, it's because he's no longer the son of the Morning.
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  So let me just call it what I see in scriptures. Right, he
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  was Lucifer, but not anymore. He's Satan. So Satan deceives and Christ
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  prevails. Now I'm going to repeat this in different ways now to get deeper
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  into our core. So, the devil hates, Jesus loves. The devil
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  is self centered. Jesus is holy, grace and joy centered. And so
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  yesterday we read a quote and I am ashamed. I still didn't go back
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  and get where the reference was. But we showed that rebellion or the sin
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  that arose in the heart of Lucifer. Now he's becoming Satan has no excuse.
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  He has no excuse. He had no excuse, especially in his case
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  because he was closest to God and he's still rebelled. You see, there's
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  nothing that God can reveal about himself to Satan today. There's nothing he can
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  reveal to him about himself, about God to Satan today that would cause him
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  to reform. There's nothing for him to learn, there's nothing for him to
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  experience. He has seen the best that God has to offer, and he
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  still chose to rebel. This is why this is such a serious situation.
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  Now, do not play around with the devil, because he's not playing around
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  with you. That's what I want to say. And this is coming from
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  the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve and verse four. Okay, this is
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  speaking in symbolic language, but at the same time we can see exactly what
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  it's referencing. And his tale drew the third part of the stars of Heaven.
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  So basicly, this is saying that one third of the angels, one
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  third of the angels that God created to reflect his own character, that God
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  made holy, just like he made lucifer. A third of those in those
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  individuals, those supernatural beings who excel in strength, who were in the presence
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  of God, they decided they didn't want God anymore. They made a decision
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  that they did not want God anymore. They did not want love, they
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  did not want joy, they did not want peace, they did not want
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  law and order, they did not want who God is. And so they
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  went with the enemy. They got kicked out of heaven, right, so
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  third part of them out of heaven and did cast them to the earth.
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  That's where God sent them. And the dragons stood before the woman, that's
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  God's people, the church, which was ready to be delivered for to devour
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  her child as soon as it was born. So this is not about that
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  necessarily today the details about the last part of the passage. But now we
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  know that the enemy got kicked out and a third of the angels that God
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  created got kicked out to thirty three percent. I need that to settle in
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  of the angels of God got kicked out of heaven with the devil. And
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  so in the lesson we read when war broke out in heaven, the angels
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  had to decide who would they follow. Jesus or Lucifer. What was the
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  nature of this war in heaven? Was it a physical war or was it
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  a war of ideas or both? We don't know the details, but the
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  conflict was physical enough that Satan and his angels were eventually cast out. Now
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  I don't say cast out in my normal everyday activity. So he got kicked
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  out, like he was evicted. He got his eviction notice, and the
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  sheriff or whoever else serves in the place that you are right, went to
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  where he was and kicked him out. Yeah, and a place was not
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  found for them in heaven any longer. According to verses eight and nine of
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  the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve, the war obviously includes some kind of
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  physical element. Now let me just ask you, we don't have to go
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  into the details of that again, because we understand that the devil that disobeyed
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  God. We know that those evil angels, now they're evil angels, they
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  also disobeyed God, and they refused to turn toward God. They refused to
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  agree with God and repent. They chose that passage, that path. The
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  question again, now that we know all of this, and we understand somewhat
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  our wily foe. What is the reality in your life, brothers and sisters.
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  When I switch on the television. If I switch on the television,
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  I'm speaking for all of us, not necessarily me or you, all of
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  us right when I switch on the TV, when I open up my cell
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  phone, when I am having conversations, and the war is still raging in
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  the universe, in our minds in particular, not just on the Earth as
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  a physical planet where the plants and shrubberies are. I'm talking about in our
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  lives, in our decision making process, what we will choose in terms of
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  how we develop yes or no? When I'm making these decisions in my mind,
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  what is the mind set? What is the outcome of these decisions?
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  Am I choosing God's side? Or am I choosing the enemy side? You
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  see where I'm going with this. So this war in Heaven it broke out.
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  We see what happened there. God kicked out the devil. Now what
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  do we do now? The Book of Genesis chapter two, the Book of
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  Genesis chapter two, we see where that war it did actually come down to
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  planet Earth Verses fifteen through seventeen. And the Bible says that at the Tree
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  of the knowledge of good and evil. That war was at its hottest,
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  and God said he gave instructions about what the people were to do or not
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  do at that tree. When the devil came to that spot and he began
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  to share his deceptive thoughts with Eve, then the narrative changed in Eve's mind,
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  and she was deceived, and she chose to sin. And when she
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  chose to sin, she went to Adam he chose to sin. And now
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  we have this mess down here. What is your decision today? Will you
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  choose to live with God or to warn? 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,