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04 03 2024 Love Finds a Way · 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 Wednesday, April three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our new Lesson study series, The Great Controversy,
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  and today's caption is Love finds a Way. Love finds a Way and
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  I underscored fines. I can't wait to get into this, but before we
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  do, let me not jump the gun. I'd like to welcome everyone joining
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  us, especially those joining us for the very first time. You are on
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  every continent of this well every continent probably besides one on this great Earth that
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  God has entrusted to our care. You are in so many countries, and
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  I'm thankful so many platforms and radio stations and even one television station. So
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  we take this time together seriously, and I'm asking that you will continue to
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  pray, pray that God's word will go forward without any hitches, without any
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  delays, because we're looking forward to Jesus to come. Aren't you looking forward
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  to Jesus coming? Yes, I definitely am. I'm tired of this life
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  the way that it is, and so we do what we can so to
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  have this gospel of the Kingdom to be preached into all the world for a
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  witness. And then and only then will the end come. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for this new day and for the privilege that we have again to open
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  your word. Please help us to live according to the love principle that we
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  will see and experience today. In Jesus' name. I pray, Amen,
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  and a man again. Love finds a way. I'm trying to highlight and
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  copy that caption. Yes, love finds a way. Now, let me
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  read really quickly from the lesson just to get us started. Do you ever
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  wonder if God really loves you? I used to talk to someone specifically about
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  that as I was writing a new lesson study some years ago, and I
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  think, sometimes we talk about God loves you, God is love, but
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  when we look at it closely, you know, and do we personalize it?
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  God loves me? You see the difference. Okay, So do you
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  ever wonder if God really loves you? Look at the cross, look at
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  the crown of thorns, look at the nails in his hands and feet.
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  Were talking about Jesus, some of the things that he went through in order
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  to save us. He gave his life for us, like he was murdered
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  in our place, like humans murdered him. That was the thought that they
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  had toward him. And yet at the same time, he willingly surrendered to
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  that because he was taking our guilt and our shame to that place so that
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  we don't have to go there. I wish I had the time with every
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  drop of blood that Jesus shed on Calvary, that was the place where the
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  cross was. God is saying, I love you. I do not want
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  to be in heaven without you. Okay, Well, since that's the reality.
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  Love has to make away, love has to find a way. And
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  so now we're going to read from the Bible Genesis, chapter three, verses
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  seven through fifteen. Let's see what we can do with this time. And
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  the eyes of them both were open, So we're talking about Adam and Eve
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  after they had sinned. Eve was deceived, Adam was not. Both of
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  them sinned. Eve fell into sin, Adam jumped. I wish I had
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  the time to get into that. But their eyes were both opened, and
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  they knew that they were naked. So remember they were naked and undershamed before.
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  And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. They were trying
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  to cover their shame. They were using human ingenuity to cover their shame.
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  But how many know that if you put on an apron over a naked body,
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  that there are still some things exposed. And so they were still exposed
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  even though they were trying to cover themselves from spiritual and physical shame. Let's
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  keep going. And they heard I heard the voice of the Lord God walking
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  in the garden in the cool of the day. They were accustomed to that,
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  but there was something different today. And Adam and his wife hid themselves
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  from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. How
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  could you try to hide from the one that you normally had conversations with,
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  you walked and spoke with. How could you be hiding? Oh wait a
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  minute, There is some shame now because we have turned our backs on God.
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  There's some guilt now. There is fear now, Oh God. And
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  so the Bible continues, and the Lord God called to Adam. He was
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  the one responsible. Adam was the one who was created first. Adam,
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  where art thou verse ten? And he said, I heard thy voice in
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  the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid
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  myself. What a terrible, terrible commentary, brothers and sisters, A terrible
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  condition to be in. The one who was your friend from the moment you
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  were created, the one whom you've never hidden from, the one whom you've
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  never felt shame around. Now you're hiding from him, and now you're afraid
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  of what. You have no context for fear. You've never known anything about
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  sin, Like, what are consequences? You don't know anything about consequences.
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  But all of this now is crowding in on your spiritual psyche, and you
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  don't know what to do, And so Adam in that state in desperation,
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  he hides from the one who created him. He hides from the one who
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  loves him. Are you hiding, brothers and sisters? Are you hearing the
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  voice of God? Even right now, just fewer than just shy of seven
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  minutes into our broadcast? And God is calling out to your name? Fill
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  in the blank. Where are you? You were naked and you hid yourself.
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  God is saying, come out of the bushes, like, come out
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  of the trees, stop hiding in the shrubbery, and come and stand before
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  me, willing to surren under your will, and I'm going to do something
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  special for you. Are you hearing the voice of God calling your name?
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  Well, let's continue the discussion. Yeah, so who told you that you
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  were naked? Still? In verse ten, hast thou eaten of the tree?
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  Whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said,
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  what does a man say when he is in shame? What does a
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  man say when he's hiding from God? Like? What does a man who
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  was still in his weakness and has not yet confessed his sins? What does
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  he do a man who's also married, he does the thing that weak men
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  do in those moments. He blamed his wife. That's what he said.
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  That's what he did. And the man said, the woman that thou gavest
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  unto me. Oh, and by the way, he blamed God to you,
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  gave her to me. Yeah, she gave it to me, and
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  I did eat. And Lord said, unto the woman, what has what
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  did you do? Like? What have you done? And the woman said,
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  the serpent beguiled me? So she did what I used to hear mass
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  murderers say when I was a young child in New York City, that you
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  would be on the news and say, the devil made me do it.
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  And it's like what So he blames his wife and she blames the devil.
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  Nobody's taking responsibility for their actions here. This is a sad commentarian. And
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  the woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Okay,
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  this thing just disappeared. Oh verse twelve, Well, let me hold
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  on to this. Here it is, and the Lord said, God said
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  to the woman, what it's out done? And then she blames the devil.
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  And then, of course God deals with the devil. He deals with
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  the woman, he deals with the man. I'm just going to pause right
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  there, because I'll go into a clinic if I don't. I don't want
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  to do that. But the Bible says in verse nine of Hebrews chapter two,
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  what God has done in order to save us. Hebrews chapter nine to
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  and verse nine, we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than
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  the angel. So Jesus took on human form for the suffering of death,
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  crowned him with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God,
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  should taste death for every man. So Jesus in the moment, the
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  exact moment that they needed him, Ah, humans needed him, Jesus stepped
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  in. And then at the appropriate time, which we'll talk about tomorrow,
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  if the Lord spays life, Ah, Jesus gave his life so that we
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  would not have to die. Love made away. Man is blaming wife,
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  wife is blaming devil. God is taking responsibility. Love finds a way Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great
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  day. Yeah,