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04 30 2024 Enlightened by the Spirit · 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 Tuesday, April thirty, 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 Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is Enlightened by the Spirit, enlightened by let me
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  add the Holy Spirit. Yeah, 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
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  go over to your Daily Portion dot com, please join our online community,
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  pick up your Daily Portion book, and also let us know where you are
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  in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let me just say,
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  welcome to everybody who's watching on YouTube, multiple YouTube channel channels, multiple Facebook
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  channels, hundreds of radio stations, on Twitter and other platforms, television and
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  devices. Sometimes I feel like I want to call out those devices, but
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  then it would make your devices go crazy, so I won't say their names,
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  right, But I'm grateful because that just means that God is more interested
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  in saving people than people are interested in being lost. Can I just say
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  that again? God is more interested in saving you than humans are in being
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  lost. And really we're just one great decision and multiple other decison away from
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  being in right relationship with God. So today may be your day. If
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  you've not already decided to follow God. Go ahead. Today is today?
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  Why wait? Like, what are we waiting for? Let's go ahead and
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  pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for
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  today. You've only given us this moment. Please help us to maximize it.
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  Please teach us to love you and be enlightened by your Holy Spirit.
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  In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again now let me ask
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  you a question. You don't necessarily need to confess this one, but are
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  you Are you afraid of the dark? Is there anybody here that's afraid of
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  the dark. Now, I'm a grown man. I'm a grown man.
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  I'm at least a half a century old. Doesn't that sound ominous, right,
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  I'm not afraid of the dark. That's silly, right. Well,
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  But then again, like I remember moving out into the country. That I
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  mean the rural area, a rural area in West Virginia, many many years
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  ago before we moved to another country, right, And yeah, being a
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  city boy, I'd never experienced true darkness, even at night time, there's
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  always something on. And then yeah, I went outside when I lived in
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  West Virginia and I realized, WHOA, Like, it can actually get dark
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  and there's no street light, there's nothing out there. If the sun or
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  excuse me, if the moon is not shining that night, or the stars
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  are not bright, It's like, whoa, this is crazy, this is
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  really dark. I'm not afraid of guns and gunmen. I'm not afraid of
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  the things that happen in urban society. But when the wind breeze moved a
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  little bit and the trees started flowing. I had to ask myself, like,
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  are you a man or a mouse? Like? Why are you worrying
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  about stuff you can't see? But I say all of that in jest.
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  It's true. But I say that in jest because sometimes we are stumbling in
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  darkness, sincerely, unnecessarily. When the Holy Spirit is available to guide us
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  into all truth and to lead us into the path of righteousness to Jesus,
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  the light of the world, sometimes we stumble in darkness anyway, you see.
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  And so let's go ahead and begin with the Bible Book of John,
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  chapter fourteen and verse twenty six, where it reads but the comforter, or
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  we could say, advocate, which is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will
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  send in my name? Of course Jesus is speaking. He shall teach you
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  all things. So I'm saying to you, brothers and sisters, we don't
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  need to stumble around in the darkness. We don't have to be afraid of
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  our own shadow. We don't have to be wondering whoa what is that over
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  there shaken in the trees. No, when life is weird and we are
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  humans, all we need to do is yield our will to God and let
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  the Holy Spirit guide us into all things and bring, according to the scriptures,
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  all things to your remembrance what I have said to you. And so
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  Jesus assures us that the Holy Spirit serves as our teacher. He's the one
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  that guides us if we want to say, into the truths that Jesus would
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  have taught while he was on planet Earth, and of course everything that the
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  Holy Spirit inspired those Holy Men of God to put in the scriptures. Okay,
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  and so we move now to John chapter sixteen. And you've heard me
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  quote this one many many times, but let me read it again. Howbeit,
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  when he the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you
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  into all truth, all truth about what Dave Well, I am so glad
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  you asked the Holy Spirit guides us into the truth about God and the truth
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  about us. I don't want to get into a big theological discussion, but
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  the theologians heard exactly what I was saying because of the way that this text
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  is actually written in the original language. The truth about me is that I'm
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  miserable, poor, blind, naked, don't even know it. I'm carnal,
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  sold under sin. I came forth from my mother's wombs, speaking lies
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  right. I am born in sin, shapen in iniquity. That is my
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  natural self. Like hiding in the bushes, I'm naked. I hid myself
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  because I was afraid, like Adam. That's my natural reality, my first
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  birth reality. Well, what is the truth about about God? The truth
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  is that God is holy, just and good at all times. Yes,
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  he's the Lord, the Lord God. He is holy and righteous and merciful.
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  But he would also in no wise clear the guilty, you see.
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  So God loves us even though we are horrible on our own. And that
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  truth is transformative. God knows everything about you, and yet he still loves
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  you. He guide you in the truth about that reality so that he can
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  lead us, lead you into a right relationship with Him, so that I
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  cannot have to be his miserable, poor, blind, naked and not even
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  know it. Where I can be not any longer a miserable sinner, but
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  a holy saint. You see. So God wants to transform us, and
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  he sends the spirit. And guess what. The Spirit doesn't speak of himself,
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  But whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will
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  show you things to come. So the Holy Spirit of truth actively guides everybody
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  who yields our will to him, every believer into the truth of God's Word,
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  the truth of how to live a godly life in these last days,
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  the truth about how to help other people get into a right connection with God.
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  Now. In the Bible Book of Two Peter, chapter one and verse
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  twenty one, we read that the prophecy came not in old time by the
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  will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by
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  the Holy Gold. There are people who try to interpret the Word by themselves,
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  instead of recognizing the fact that God breathed, he inspired, He breathed,
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  He inspired his word in the people that He gave to write the Word
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  of God as we know it today. He inspired them. And therefore that
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  same power, that same enliving breath, or in living breath, like that
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  breath, that power that comes from God, just as God breathed into Adam's
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  nostrils and he became a living soul, that kind of power animates our lives
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  today. Yes, the same one who breathed the scriptures can breathe into our
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  lives so that we begin to live the scriptures. And so and every breath
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  that you take, I want you to remember that the Holy Spirit is the
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  one who was guiding you, yes, And that the Bible was authored by
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  through the Holy Spirit, and he used holy men, that he made holy
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  Yes. But these are the words of God. And when we know this,
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  then we don't misinterpret that, we don't make up our own way of
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  communicating that. We ask God, what would you have us to say?
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  How would you help us? How would you have us to help other individuals
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  to live in the paths of your word? And then having done this,
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  we know that God is with us. And so many of those reformers we
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  talked about why Cliff, we talked about the Walden scenes. John Knox is
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  the one that we're mentioning today and others. Those individuals knew that the Holy
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  Spirit was the one to give them enlightenment, and so we must live in
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  that spirit today, enlightened by the truth of God's Word. 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,