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04 11 2025 Anchored · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, dear morning. It is Friday, April eleven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is just one word anchored. Anchored. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to go
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for giving us
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  Speaker 2: this time of preparation. Please anchor our faith in you.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to do that. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Anchored, anchored. I'm going to begin
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  Speaker 2: by reading from the book the Acts of the Apostles,
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  Speaker 2: page five hundred and eighty, and we'll get right under way.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where where Ellen White states that one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons the Book of Revelation was written, just
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons was to anchor God's people in
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  Speaker 2: its historic message for all time. Okay, to anchor God's
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  Speaker 2: people in its historic message for all time. You know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people lose focus. Jesus actually said that the Church
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  Speaker 2: of Ephesus had lost her first love. So we need
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  Speaker 2: to be anchored, anchored in the Lord. Okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: the quote is some of the younger workers at that
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  Speaker 2: time talking about people who were actually working as employees
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  Speaker 2: of the organization of God's People. Yes, had become very weary.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me of off repeated truths. See some of you
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  Speaker 2: get tired. This is applicable to all people who say
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  Speaker 2: that we are God's people. Even the Bible says, don't
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  Speaker 2: become weary in well doing. Or if you are a
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  Speaker 2: person who believes the truth for these days, for this day,
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  Speaker 2: you may be getting weary of teaching the truth. You
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  Speaker 2: may be getting weary of teaching that Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 2: the one who gave his life for us, that he
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  Speaker 2: is the one mediator between God and man. He's the man,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. You may be tired of saying that, but
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  Speaker 2: don't be weary and well doing, brothers and sisters. May
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  Speaker 2: be you may be tired of teaching the truth that
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  Speaker 2: God has given us in the sanctuary a picture and
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  Speaker 2: image of salvation right all the way through to God
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  Speaker 2: expunging the record of his people, if we are covered
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  Speaker 2: by Him. You may be tired of talking about the
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary above. You may be tired of that. You may
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  Speaker 2: be tired of teaching that the seventh day is the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath of the Lord thy God, and in it thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt not do any work thou nor thy son, nor
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  Speaker 2: thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle,
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  Speaker 2: nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. You may
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  Speaker 2: be tired of saying that the Sabbath is a sign Ah,
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  Speaker 2: that he is the one who sanctifies his people. You
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  Speaker 2: may be tired. You may be tired of saying Jesus
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  Speaker 2: literally is coming soon. You may be a scoffer now.
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  Speaker 2: You may be saying things like, well, the things that
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  Speaker 2: we see going on on earth, we've been seeing it
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  Speaker 2: since the fathers fell asleep. You may be tired. But
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  Speaker 2: what we're reading here is that some of the younger
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  Speaker 2: or immature I'm adding immature people of God may be
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  Speaker 2: weary of these truths. You may be tired that we
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  Speaker 2: have the entire armor of God that we can go
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  Speaker 2: with every single day seven implements of war. May be
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  Speaker 2: you may be tired because you've been buffeted and beaten
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  Speaker 2: up in your day, and the trials and tribune relations
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  Speaker 2: and temptations have overwhelmed you. You may be tired, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: But it does say here, in their desire for something
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  Speaker 2: novel and startling, they attempt to introduce new phases of
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  Speaker 2: Bible doctrine. Can I just say that's the end of
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  Speaker 2: the quote. By the way, don't do that, like, don't
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  Speaker 2: do that. I just want to be very clear. Don't
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  Speaker 2: make up stuff. Because you're tired of saying the same
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  Speaker 2: thing over and over again. Are you tired of saying
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  Speaker 2: to your spouse, I love you? You want a new spouse,
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  Speaker 2: You want somebody else to come into your marriage, God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: because you're tired of looking at the one woman that
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  Speaker 2: you married, gentlemen, the one man that you married. Sisters, like,
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  Speaker 2: are you tired of saying I love you to your
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  Speaker 2: own children? So you go and involve yourself in other
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  Speaker 2: people's house and disturb that and take away their children.
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  Speaker 2: You see how ridiculous this is? Ah boy, I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time, But let me just say here.
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  Speaker 2: We need to be anchored in the truth, anchored in
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  Speaker 2: God's word before I get too far afield. And so
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  Speaker 2: we want to look at this foundation, the word foundation
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  Speaker 2: in Isaiah chapter fourty and verse eight. We're just looking
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  Speaker 2: at the concept that we can see clearly in Bible
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  Speaker 2: prophecy is a symbolic Bible prophecy Daniel and revelation, in
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  Speaker 2: particular the grass withrith and the flower fadeth. But the word,
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  Speaker 2: somebody type in the chat, the word, the word of
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  Speaker 2: our work God shall stand how long forever? Okay? And
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  Speaker 2: so the truth is the truth is that the truth
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  Speaker 2: doesn't change. I said. The truth is that the truth
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  Speaker 2: doesn't change. And his message, God's message through his word
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  Speaker 2: is consistent. Don't become weary because of His word. Faith
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  Speaker 2: is anchored in Christ, and those who have that faith
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  Speaker 2: will be saved. And of course history matters. What God
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  Speaker 2: has said in the past matters. We have no fear
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  Speaker 2: for the future, except we forget history. What God has done,
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  Speaker 2: how He has brought us in the past. And God
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  Speaker 2: wants us to internalize his truth. And in Psalm the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and nineteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse eleven, the Bible reads, Thy Word, have I hid
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  Speaker 2: in my heart that I might not sin against thee.
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  Speaker 2: So God wants us to internalize his truth, not just
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  Speaker 2: observe it, not just hear it, not just see it,
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  Speaker 2: not just identify that it does exist, but to hide
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  Speaker 2: it in our hearts to embrace it fully internalize his truth.
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  Speaker 2: Deep Bible study is needed. I know that my brother
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  Speaker 2: quest is there with his pen and tablet, his pad.
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  Speaker 2: He's there writing, He is there outlining and underlining and
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  Speaker 2: learning from God's word, maybe even at this moment. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what we need to do personally. We apply it
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  Speaker 2: with the Holy Spirit's guidance, and then we of course
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  Speaker 2: continue to grow in our understanding. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that some steps that we should take in that
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  Speaker 2: regard comes right from two Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Study to show thyself approved unto God. A workman, a
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  Speaker 2: work person that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing
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  Speaker 2: the word of truth. And that means that we need
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  Speaker 2: to study God's word regularly. Yeah, there are times that
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  Speaker 2: we have to study, not just read, but study. Reading
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  Speaker 2: is fundamental. Yes, we do read. Hearing and reading God's
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  Speaker 2: word is key, but we also need to study and
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  Speaker 2: then share the truths that we are learning. I said
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  Speaker 2: our learning, it's a continual reality. We are not necessarily experts,
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  Speaker 2: but we continue, we continue to learn and then share
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  Speaker 2: at the same time the principles that we are learning.
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  Speaker 2: We don't just intellectualize this thing and put it in
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  Speaker 2: our minds and be able to spout it like pardon
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  Speaker 2: me I'm doing now, but actually live it, like when
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  Speaker 2: you see me when I'm angry? Am I living it?
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  Speaker 2: When you see me when I'm tired or hungry? Am
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  Speaker 2: I living it when I'm frustrated? When things don't make sense?
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  Speaker 2: Am I still living his word? And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: build others, build others. There are so many more things
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  Speaker 2: that I could say, But don't become weary because of
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  Speaker 2: God's truths, Anchor. Your faith in God be transformed by
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  Speaker 2: his word, and the revelation will be given to you.
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  Speaker 2: I said, the revelation will be given to you. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,