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06 27 2024 Two Eternities · 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's already Thursday. It's June. It's the twenty seventh day of
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  twenty twenty four, and I'm thankful. Hello. My name is El David
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  Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where we
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  give you God's word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  are continuing the with one of two of the last days for this series of
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  studies, the Great Controversy, and our option for today is two Eternities,
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  Two Eternities. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your
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  space. We have plenty good room and we can have lively discussion beyond me
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  just talking to you for these few minutes. Okay, so join us at
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  your daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  will get underwig bothering Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new day and
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  for the privilege that you have entrusted to us. Please teach us to experience
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  and accept the blessing of the eternity that matters most in Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. All right? So let me just ask
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  you a question. Which eternity are you choosing? Which eternity are you choosing?
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  Now, there are some very technical minded people. I'm very technical minded,
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  more than most I will admit, who are like, Okay, where's
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  the preacher going, because it's like, you know, be careful, be
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  careful, preacher. All right, So here's eternity number one. It's eternity
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  with God. That's number one. Eternity with God. Are you choosing eternity
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  with God? That means that you are choosing to accept and to love love?
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  Are you choosing today? Like I said in the Bible, choose you
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  this day whom ye will serve? But as for me in my house and
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  my house, we will serve the Lord? Or how long halts ye between
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  two opinions? If God be God, then serve him. That's eternity number
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  one. But if the devil, bayol asherih every other thing that stands up
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  against Christ, if it's that, then yeah, go ahead and choose that.
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  But reality is just like our brother would have said. Our late brother
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  would have said, as for me and my house, we gonna serve the
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  Lord. As our late brother would have said, Elijah, who is now
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  living through eternity beginning way back when he chose to serve the Lord. Okay,
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  and then there's the other eternity that is eternal separation from God. Are
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  you saying, preacher, that there are people who will go on and on
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  and on in eternity that don't love God. No, I'm not saying that
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  the eternal punishment for those who choose to hate love, to reject God ultimately
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  and not turn back and say God, I apologize, Please, will you
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  forgive me? I choose to serve you. Now, those individuals will have
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  chosen the eternal consequence, which is separation from God, and they will not
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  live again. Throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity, those individuals will never live
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  again. Okay. Now that we've made that clear, let's go ahead and
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  begin or continue our discussion by reading from the Great Controversy Book, pages six
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  hundred sixty six and six hundred sixty eight, where it reads and I quote
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  the whole wicked world. Now we have a context, a qualifier. The
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  whole wicked world stand arraigned at the bar of God. Remember, Remember we
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  said yesterday that God's people will have received the promise that we will be seated
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  on thrones, and during the thousand years in heaven, we will be looking
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  over the record, the faithful record of God, concerning those who chose not
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  to make it in. Yes, so these are the people we're talking about.
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  The whole wicked world stand arraigned at the bar of God on the charge
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  of high treason against the government of heaven. They have none to plead their
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  cause. Remember, Jesus is the only mediator between God and humanity. Yes,
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  and during the time that he was doing this, there were people who
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  said, no, I don't want to be represented by you. They wanted
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  to be pro say, litigants, y'all, look that up. They wanted
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  to be in law. They wanted to represent themselves. They wanted to have
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  their own righteousness, which is as filthy rags. They wanted that instead of
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  Jesus. And so now that's what they have. They have no one to
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  plead their cause. They are without excuse, and the sentence of eternal death,
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  that is the eternity, the sentence of eternal death, is pronounced against
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  them. This is a sad day, brothers and sisters. If you are
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  choosing that, if you choose the eternal death penalty, there is no reason
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  for you to do that. And I can hear Jesus crying over his city,
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  Jerusalem, his people, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Thou that kill ust the
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  prophets. How oft would I have gathered you together as a hen gathereth her
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  chicks, and you would not. Now your house is left unto you desolate.
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  Then I hear in another place, and I think the Bible writer is
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  Ezekiel, and Jesus says, he says, I have no pleasure. I
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  take no pleasure in the death of the person that dies. Therefore, turn
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  yourselves and live. Why would you die when God is extending life to all
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  of us? Why would you choose to separate yourselves from God? When Jesus
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  came down to planet Earth for thirty three and a half years, clothing his
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  divinity in humanity so that he could have us together, so he could have
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  a relationship with us and we with him, Why would you choose separation from
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  God when He's done everything so that we can be together forever with no more
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  pain, no more sickness, no more grief, no more sin, no
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  more war. Can you imagine no more conflicts, only holiness and peace throughout
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  the ceaseless ages of eternity, where there is nothing that we would aspire to
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  do that we cannot attain. Oh, my God, like, why would
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  people choose that route? And I have to ask myself every single day,
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  which way you're gonna go? Dave, which way are you going to go?
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  And as for me and my house brothers and sisters, we are going
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  to serve the Lord. And so a few things I would like to share
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  with you as we come to a swift close. We just have a couple
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  of more minutes. From Second Corinthians, chapter five and verse ten, the
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  Bible reads, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.
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  Well, that's a blessing because those who are in Christ are saved. Those
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  who are in Christ are clothed in His righteousness. And therefore we have no
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  fear, because perfect love casts out fear. Okay, that everyone may receive
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  the things done in his body according to that which he hath done, whether
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  it be good or bad. And so we're accountable for our actions. And
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  guess what our action today can be to repent, Like we can repent and
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  choose to serve God, all of us will be accountable. And so in
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  Romans chapter fourteen and verse eleven the Bible reads, For it is written,
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  as I live, set the Lord, every need shall bow, every tongue
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  shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
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  Can I just say it here like this? Why don't we go ahead and
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  begin practicing now? Why don't we go ahead and serve God. Why don't
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  we go ahead and bow the knee to God? Now? Why don't we
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  let him be the king of our lives today? So that when this happens,
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  when every knee will bow and every tongue confesses, it will be in
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  good practice. We will love that reality, and it won't be now compelled
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  as we await our eternal death penalty fate. Okay, And so God has
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  given us mercy, He has given us holiness. He has given us every
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  blessed gift in order to save us. Why don't we just choose the eternity
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  with God option? It's the only one that makes sense. Make it a
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  great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,