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03 31 2024 War in Heaven · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Sunday, March thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Actually we're not in the book and you see, I told you this first
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  week when we make a transition always throws me off. The concept where we're
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  looking at is the great Controversy. That is our theme for the next thirteen
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  weeks. The Great Controversy, and our caption for today is war in Heaven,
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  War in Heaven. And let me just say I put a question mark
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  a question mark after the caption because I'm like a war in heaven? Well,
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  how did that happen? Yeah, we'll get into that in just a
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  moment. But first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  those joining us for the very first time. I just want 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 the Your Daily Portion book, and let us know where you are
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  in the world again at your Daily Portion dot com. This is the way
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  to continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us
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  this new day and for the privilege that we have to open your word again.
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  I'm asking you now to please let us be subject to you, teach
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  us submission, so that when the war is raging between you and our enemy,
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  that you will win in our minds, our lives. In Jesus' name,
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  I pray, Amen and a man again, War in Heaven, and
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  again. My first question has often been really, well, how and I
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  know that some of you are thinking the same thing, So let's just go
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  ahead and resolve that. And I have a quote here and I'm ashamed that
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  I forgot to put the reference. But just please hear the quote. Regardless,
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  the beginning of evil within this perfect angel. We're talking about when he
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  was Lucifer. Now he's becoming Satan. The beginning of evil within this perfect
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  angel Satan will remain a mystery. Now I need you to get that,
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  because we're going to see why this is important. There was no reason for
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  it, no reason for it. If there ever were a reason, we
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  could excuse sin. Evil began first with a small step. Lord, teach
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  us some things here God. It started in Lucifer's heart. He felt jealous
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  of Jesus. Lucifer also made the wrong use of his God given freedom.
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  This can be an entire coaching series about how to remain connected to God.
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  I hope you're listening. It took us. It was a small step.
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  There is no reason, because if we give a reason, then that means
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  we are excusing sin. Right. Evil began with a small step. It
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  began in his heart. He was jealous ah of Jesus. Lucifer also made
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  the wrong use of his God given freedom. Well, I think I'm actually
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  going to do a coaching program on this. His sins led to a great
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  war in heaven. It was an open rebellion, a war against God.
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  Today, each one of us is living with the results of this war.
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  Whenever someone dies or suffers, this is the result of the rebellion that began
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  inside of Lucifer. But do not lose hope. This is the part I
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  need you to get. Don't lose hope. As we learn in future studies,
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  Christ came to bring a fair and just that means holy or righteous solution
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  to the problems that caused this great war. I could say so much here,
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  but I think I'm going to let it settle right there. So please,
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  we're going to consider this over and over again for thirteen weeks. So
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  please just keep that in your mind. And so the question is, if
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  the war is in your mind, and I'm saying this to myself too,
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  like, if the war is in my mind, will you ask Jesus to
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  repeat his success in your mind and life? Well? Where am I getting
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  that from? I'm getting this from the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve,
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  The Book of Revelation, chapter twelve, verses seven through nine. And those
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  of you who are among my brothers and sisters already, like you're among those
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  the fellowship of Last Day's Believers, like you already have heard these lessons over
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  and over again. I need you to answer that question though, because sometimes
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  we read this passage and then it's like, where did war begin in heaven?
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  What happened? The devil lost the war and Jesus kicked him out of
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  heaven? Next question, And I'm like, that isn't even close to scratching
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  the surface. If the war is in my mind, will you ask Jesus
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  to repeat the success, do the same thing he did in heaven. Repeat
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  the success, but do it in your mind and in your life. Okay.
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  So we're reading now from the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve and verse
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  seven with a little bit more understanding. And there was war in heaven.
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  Okay, Michael, that's Jesus and his angels fought against the dragon. That's
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  the devil and the dragon fought and his angels. So now we understand that
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  there were some sympathizers with the devil. There were some angels, holy angels
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  who went rogue. They decided that the devil's argument was was worthy of consideration,
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  to the point that they would not repent. I need you to get
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  this This was not a one time decision on the devil's part or his evil
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  angels. They made their decisions over and over as they go down this slippery
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  slope toward destruction, toward full rebellion. There had to have been, because
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  of the nature of God, there had to been opportunities for them to turn
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  away from those sins, but no, they chose not to. Now now
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  there is full on rebellion in heaven, and so and so there was a
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  war, and verse eight prevailed. Not neither was there place found any more
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  in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called
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  the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out
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  into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. So now
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  you know why it's such a mess down here. Now you know why there's
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  something that some people call global warming. Like now you know why nature seems
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  to do weird things, like just random fires, Like where are these random
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  fires coming from? Like where are these these volcanic eruptions coming from? Even
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  though after the fact, after some time, you start to see in many
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  of those places some lush foliage growing, some beautiful things that come out of
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  it. But really and truly did God intend for that to happen in the
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  beginning? Absolutely not. Why are some of these beautiful mountains that we love
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  so jagged and full of rocks and stones and little or no vegetation on some
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  of them? Was that what God's plan was before there was a beginning?
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  And then when he created the earth before Noah's flood? Did the flood during
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  Noah's time? Was it like that? Or was it that everywhere was beautiful
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  and everywhere full of the things that God caused to grow on the earth?
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  Why are so many things going wrong in the minds and hearts of humans that
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  were created after God's image? You see? And that's because there was a
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  war and it's going on now not in heaven because the devil was kicked out.
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  We know that he's no longer welcomed there. He was kicked out a
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  long time ago, and his little army was kicked out with him. And
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  where are they? They aren't domiciled on planet Earth for the most part,
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  on planet Earth. Yeah, And so if we read through Ezekiel chapter twenty
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  eight, verses twelve through fifteen and Isaiah chapter fourteen, verses twelve through fourteen,
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  We see the details, and I need you to do this in your
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  spare time. Ah. We see the details of his eye problem. I
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  I, I. Until he got to the point that he said he was
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  going to replace the most High, and so that equals sin, that equals
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  a choice to separate himself from God, that equals death. Help us God
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  to lose ourselves and win. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,