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05 24 2024 He Knows My Name · 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 Friday, May twenty four, 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 he Knows my Name. He Knows my
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  Name. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I like
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  to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  first time. We are asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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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's go ahead and pray
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  and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for this
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  day and for giving us the opportunity to pray. Thank you for giving us
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  your word and for this time of preparation for the Sabbath. I pray God
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  now that you will give us understanding, that you will teach us how to
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  love you and serve you, teach us to do your will and to be
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  confident but confident in You in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  again. He knows my name. I remember it was about nineteen ninety nine.
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  I was in Florida at a Callporter's convention or Literature Evangelists convention, and
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  I remember the one of the people who was there. She said, Dave,
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  please pray for me. Call my name. God knows me. And
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  I say that again. She said, pray for me, call my name.
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  God knows me. And that really just in the way that I'm stumbling
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  here, I was flabbergasted because I never thought of that. I was a
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  new believer. I'd been around the church all my life, but I was
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  a new believer of just about just under three years. And when she said
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  he knows me, I said, wait a minute. So there's a sense
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  of belonging. There is a sense of God taking Ownership's a sense of He
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  claims me and is not just leaving me up to my own devices. God
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  loves me and he knows me. He knows my name. I love it.
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  Well, why would God know my name? Now? We could say
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  that because like our parents gave us a name and God knows everything. It
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  could be because God created us. Well, that makes sense, it's logical.
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  But what we're talking about now is something spiritual. We're talking about something
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  spiritual it is. It is about the relationship that we have with God.
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  You see, he knows those who know him. I'll say it one more
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  time, he knows those who know him. In the Book of Matthew,
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  I think it's chapter seven, the Bible talks about there are some people that
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  I call the didn't ee guys. I just made that up, the didn't
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  I guys. There are people who will go to God in air quotes and
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  say, well didn't I cast out devils in your name? Didn't I prophesied,
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  didn't I do very many wonderful works? And God would say to some
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  of those people, the ones who are not surrendered to His will, those
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  who did not feed the hungry, right, did not clothe those who were
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  without clothes, did not see the lame, the main, the blind,
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  the oppressed, right, did not set the captives free, people who ignored
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  the widows, and those who were not well. And He gave us the
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  power, the influence, and the opportunity to be of service in some turn
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  a blind eye. He is saying to those individuals, I never knew you.
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  Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. And it's just like,
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  what, how could God say he never knew me? What if for ten
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  years I was in a good relationship with him, fifteen twenty thirty years I
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  was in a good relationship with him. Well, okay, that's fine and
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  wonderful. But God knows people who are currently presently in relationship with him because
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  he has the covering of Jesus. She has the covering of Jesus, the
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  righteousness of Christ as a covering for our lives. Okay, And so the
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  lesson writer actually quoted from the book The Great Controversy, page four hundred and
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  eighty four. And I think this will give it some more context. God
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  or Jesus excuse me. Does not excuse their sins, but knows what shows
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  excuse me, their penitence and faith, and claiming for them forgiveness. He
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  lifts his wounded hands before the Father and Holy Angels, saying, I know
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  them by name. Who are the people that he is saying? He knows
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  the ones who are penitent and faithful, those who turn away from our sins
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  and recognize that we went the wrong way, and we begin to agree with
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  God and say, God, I realize that I fill in the blank,
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  and this is not something that's pleasing in your sight. And I now use
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  the faith that you have given me. You're the author, God and finisher
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  of my faith. Thank you. You give every person a measure of faith,
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  and I'm one of the persons. And so with this little bit of
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  faith, this mustard seed faith, I will lay hold of your power and
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  I will rely on you to make me holy. So he says, I
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  know them those kinds of people who do not resort to the rum bottle as
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  a way to escape life. I know them, people who do not hide
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  behind our titles, our religiosity, the respect that people who go to church
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  give us, or our political prowess, our business. We do not rely
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  on our ability to speak eloquently or write things that move generations. We are
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  not relying on any great good or nasty thing that is about us. In
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  order to recommend us to God. We throw all in and say God,
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  I am yours, Please make me holy. So he says, I know
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  them. Let me continue the quote, I have graven them. Oh wait
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  a minute. On the palms of my hands. I want you to look
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  at your hands, look at your hands, or look at a picture of
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  someone else's hands, and see there are lines. And I don't know what
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  they mean. I just know that it's very interesting that we have these lines
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  all throughout our hands, and nobody has the same pattern. But regardless of
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  that, Jesus, when he looks at his hands, we see that when
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  he gave his life on the cross to save his people from our sins,
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  he can see that the nail prints glorified. Yes now, but the nail
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  Prince, they are there forever etched in his hands. There is the reality
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  that he gave his life for you brothers and sisters, and for me I
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  have graven them on my hands. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
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  a broken and contrite heart. Oh God, thou wilt not despise.
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  And that comes from Isaiah from Psalm chapter fifty one, verse seventeen, and
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  the accuser of his people, And to the accuser of his people, he
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  declares, the Lord rebuke thee o Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen
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  Jerusalem, rebuke thee I'm thankful that God is willing to rebuke the devil for
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  me. Can I say that just another way? I am so glad that
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  Jesus is willing to rebuke the devil for you. When he stands up as
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  the accuser of the brethren, the Bible says that he's cast down. Why
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  isn't this a brand plucked out of the fire. Is this not a set
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  of people that I have given my life for. This is in the voice
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  of Jesus himself. And so when the devil is trying to accuse you,
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  and even has evidence Jesus giving his life for you, giving you his righteousness
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  when you agree with him and you are turning away from your sin, that
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  record is expunged. There is no evidence because Jesus now is pleading his blood.
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  His blood. He knows my name because he gave his life from me,
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  and we can't lose. Make it a wonderful day, 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,