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05 02 2024 Obedience- The Fruit of Faith · 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 Thursday, May two, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle 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 Lesson study series the Great Controversy,
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  and our caption for today is obedience the Fruit of faith. Obedience the
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  Fruit. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  to say welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, and ask you to please
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  in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. We are continuing to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to open your
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  word today. Please teach us to do your will in Jesus name. I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. Let me begin with a part of a
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  quote from yesterday's lesson that I didn't get to, but it's critical and actually
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  pivotal for what we'll talk about today. And it comes from the book The
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  Desire of Ages, page twenty five, and it reads, Christ was treated
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  as we deserve? Did you get that Christs was treated as we deserve that
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  we might be treated as he deserves. He was condemned for our sins in
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  which he had no share. See, he didn't have anything to do with
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  our sinning, that we might be justified or or seen just as if we
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  had never sinned, that we might be justified by His righteousness, which we
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  had no share. Mm hm, I'm pausing on purpose. He suffered the
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  death that was ours that we might receive the life which was his. What
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  a most what a powerful way for us to begin today's lesson study about obedience
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  the fruit of faith. And so Jesus already did the heavy lifting. He
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  has already done the hard work. And so when we begin to be obedient
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  to God by faith, right then that means we're doing it in His strength.
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  I'm deliberately pausing everybody, because I think sometimes we run through these things
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  and it's just like, okay, and then the next lesson and then the
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  next discussion in the next text. No, no, no, no,
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  no. The reason we are able to do what God wants us to do,
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  which is holiness, to be righteous one hundred percent of the time.
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  I didn't say that yesterday, Like what one hundred percent of the time.
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  Yes, we are able because Jesus was. He did that already, and
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  so if we yield our will to God, then we can be holy just
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  like Jesus was. And you're like, but David, we weren't born that
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  way. I know that that was that was our first birth. But after
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  we are reborn, we can live like Jesus lived. Yeah, yeah,
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  I know it's going to take some time to settle in. It's going to
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  take some time to settle in. Well, there was a new wind blowing
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  through the Christian Church in the days of Martin Luther ten thousands of people,
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  And I'm reading this from the Lesson where tens of thousands of people were taught
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  to look away from their sinful cells and look to Jesus instead. No doubt,
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  these people, looking to themselves and what they were like themselves, saw
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  only things to discourage them. That's what popped into some of your minds when
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  I said that we are to be holy one hundred percent of the time.
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  You're like, wait a minute, wait a minute, and you started looking
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  to you, look to Jesus. Let me continue, Let me continue.
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  What believer today doesn't have the same experience. That's why we need to look
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  instead to Jesus. See, this is what resolves pride in my mind.
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  Sometimes we manufacture rules, some of us, so that we can accomplish them,
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  tick them off the list, and then feel like we've done something right.
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  Ah, we can feel good about ourselves because it's like whoa, But
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  one hundred percent holiness one hundred percent of the time, that is impossible.
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  Well, with man, with humans, that is impossible. But with God,
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  all things are possible. The Bible says that Enoch walked with God.
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  The Bible says that job was holy he was holy, He was holy,
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  he was perfect. There was none on the earth like him. And then
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  he went through his trial, and then God doubled down on what he said
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  about him because he had learned to confess his sins. He had learned to
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  turn away from his sins. Do you think that God takes unholy people into
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  the Kingdom? Look at Elijah. We saw some of the things that he
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  did that were wrong, yes, but we also saw that he was able
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  to overcome those by the power of God. And now Elijah lives in heaven.
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  I don't know what he does on a day to day basis, where
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  he goes to visit Hah in some place that we don't have access to because
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  we're unholy. But I promise you Elijah, Enoch and others that we don't
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  know of are all ready in the Kingdom because they are holy, So we
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  can be holy. All right. So let's go into the scriptures and see
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  what the Lord has to say the Book of Romans, chapter eight. There's
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  just too much for us to cover, but let's cover the fundamentals Romans chapter
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  eight, beginning at verse one. There is therefore no condemnation for those who
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  are in Christ Jesus. So if you want to resolve your unholiness problem,
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  if you want to resolve the consequence of sin problem, then be in Christ
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  Jesus. So God makes that first step in our lives within for us.
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  If we will surrender our will to God and be in Christ, make a
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  decision to follow Christ. Right, submit our will to Christ. There's no
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  condemnation. So now we can start with a clean slate for the law of
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  the life giving holy Spirit. In Christ Jesus has set you free from the
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  law of sin and death. In Romans chapter seven, there were two laws.
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  Two laws. One is the law of sin and death and one that
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  is, of course, the spirit of life, which is in Christ Jesus.
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  So when we're in Christ, he delivers us from the law of sin
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  and death, that is that thing that is inside people, humans, every
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  human that drives us to do wrong because of our human and earthly dna.
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  God has delivered us through Christ from that law. Who has nothing to do.
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  Well, anyway, I'm not going to get in with it to what
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  it doesn't have to do with verse three. For God achieved what the law
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  could not do because it was weakened through the flesh by sending his own son
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  in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, he condemned sin in
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  the flesh. So let me just say this, as Paul said another place,
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  that sin no more has dominion over you, brothers and sisters, because
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  Jesus conquered sin while while living in human flesh. So now the covenant of
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  God, God's side of it as God, and now the human side of
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  it has been kept through Christ, which means now He can give to us
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  as a free gift what we need in order to not only be saved as
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  some kind of judicial act, but that we can actually live like Jesus wants
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  us to live. We can live like God wants us to live. We
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  can live like Jesus lived because of what Jesus did Verse four, so that
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  the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us who walk not according
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  to the flesh, but according to the spirit. This is good. It's
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  not just good, it's great. And you want to say, well,
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  why is it so great. It's so great because some of you have been
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  bound to the liquor bottle. You've loved rum and become drunken, and you
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  wonder, how can I be victorious you have been. You have been addicted
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  to sexual sin and wonder how can you be victorious. You've been addicted to
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  violence and things that are not leading you toward God. You love entertainment,
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  or have loved entertainment that leads away from God, and you're like, well,
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  how can I be delivered? Give God your faith, Lay hold upon
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  this great and precious promise that God can deliver you by faith, and then
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  by faith, simply do what he says. Faith lays hold on the power
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  of God, and then we can be obedient. Peace. Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,