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04 12 2024 The Gospel MOVEment · 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 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, April twelve, 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 Lesson study series through the concept the principle
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  of the Great Controversy. Our caution for today is the Gospel Movement. The
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  Gospel Movement. I can't wait to talk about this with you, but before
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  we do, I'd like to just say welcome to you and happy Happy Preparation
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  Day to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  I'm asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let
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  us know where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  thank you for this new morning and for the fact that we are one day
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  closer to the time of rest and Sabbath. I pray God now that you
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  will give us understanding that we will not stagnate, but we will always be
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  on the move for you. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. The Gospel movement, I just want to pause right there.
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  I would have paused longer if you were not also listening on the radio,
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  because dead air on the radio is deadly right. Ah, But the Gospel
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  movement, what happened to the people of God in some places in the world
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  where the movement has become stagnant? Is said some places, some places,
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  not everywhere. God's people are definitely on the move. I will go remember
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  God's people, you know, total member involvement. God's people in some places
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  and spaces have stagnated. What causes people to no longer be on the move
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  for God? Is it guilt feelings? Is it that I have done something
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  agreeous in my own thoughts to the degree that I have separated myself from the
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  people of God, and I am no longer on the move while the people
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  of God are marching on. Could it be that while I am still quote
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  a part of the movement on the inside, it appears that I'm on the
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  inside, But maybe I have a challenge with gossiping and sowing discord and walking
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  in the opposite direction of the way that the people of God are moving.
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  Now, this is not me speaking to you as if I know you,
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  like if you were here, I couldn't speak to you directly and say this
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  is what you're doing because I don't know you like that. But I can
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  say that there are people who are just like that, who scatter rather than
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  gather, people who have allowed sin to overwhelm us to the degree that we
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  have not we are no longer in agreement with God. So we're not confessing
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  our sins. We're ashamed, but we're not confessing and now putting ourselves in
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  the position of holiness and agreement with God. And so we pull against instead
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  of pulling with you see where this is going. Sometimes our old thought processes
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  hinder our movement the way that we did it in nineteen seventy seven, and
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  yes I was around, right, I was young, but I was around.
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  Like the way we did it in nineth teen seventy seven is not the
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  way that we do it in twenty twenty four. I promise you. It's
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  not not that seventy seven was bad and twenty twenty four is better. It's
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  just that, yeah, well, there was no internet. Like there was
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  no internet when I was in the universe in university, much less in the
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  seventies. Right, we have the internet, now we have social media.
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  We have young people who are ready to do God's bidding because they are enabled
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  to do so. But sometimes our own own old mindsets are limiting to the
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  energy that God put in them. The Bible even says like we lay hold
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  on the the young, not suddenly we give them guidance, but we do
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  put them into the into the fight. Why because they are young and strong,
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  They have the energy, they have the innovative mindset, they have the
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  connections, they have the ability to build communities quickly. We have seen that
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  many times in social media on the Internet and in other ways. I'm just
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  focusing on those because I don't have enough time. So the Gospel movement needs
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  to be the Gospel movement. I think Paul said that the Gospel is the
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  power of God, unto salvation to everyone who believes. Yes, and it's
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  God's word in our lives, so that when we move out into our communities,
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  into the places we exercise, those public squares, right the places where
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  we work, even in our homes. First our homes, we have the
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  message of Gospel. We have the message of peace, God's ability to save
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  a sinner like me and make me holy, to take away selfishness and give
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  me humility. Yes, take away this discordant mind set, and give me
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  a peaceful mindset, harmonious mindset. Not everywhere I go and the miasma,
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  if you want to say, maybe that's not the right word. The atmosphere
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  I am accompanied by is a peaceful calming. If necessary, it will agitate,
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  but agitate only unto holiness, only unto action for the Gospel's sake and
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  for the benefit of those who are not able to fend for themselves. The
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  Gospel movement is for real, for real, for real, This is not
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  a joke. And according to the book Great Controversy, pages forty one and
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  forty two, we read the gospel continued to spread and the number of its
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  adherents to rise or increase. It penetrated into regions that were inaccessible even to
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  the Eagles of Rome, said a Christian expostulating with heathen rulers who were urging
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  forward the persecution. They may destroy us, or torture us, or condemn
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  us. Your injustice is proof that we are innocent. Nor does your cruelty
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  avail you. But it is but a strong invitation to bring others to their
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  persuasion. The oftener, we are mowed down by you. Those are the
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  people that did not love God. They were mowing down the people who did
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  love God. The more that that happens, the more in number we grow.
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  The blood of the Christian was seed. How in the world can you
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  when you were at work, if it doesn't even go to that extreme of
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  death right, you're at work and people are criticizing you, they are poltricking
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  you. Even in those situations like how is it that you are able to
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  continue? How is it that you are able to continue to do things according
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  to God's will except to say that it was the Holy Spirit who did it
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  in your life. Live out your life within me, Oh Jesus, King
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  of Kings, This is what our goal and desire is, Isn't that right?
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  Of course the answer is yes, and so we thank God that he
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  is able to move his gospel message through our lives. Now I will read
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  again from page forty seven of the same book. The mysterious providence, which
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  permits the righteous to suffer persecution at the hand of the wicked, has been
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  the cause of great perplexity to many who are weak in the faith. Many
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  who are weak in the faith, I need to underscore that some are even
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  ready to cast away their confidence in God because He allows the most vile of
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  people to prosper while the best and purest are afflicted and tormented by their cruel
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  power. Did Jesus take that too? Of course he did. He was
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  bruised for our iniquities, right m hmm. Let me continue reading. How
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  it is it is asked, can one who is just and merciful, and
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  who is infinite in power tolerate such injustice and oppression? This is a question
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  with which we have nothing to do. God has given us sufficient evidence of
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  his love. And we are not to doubt his goodness because we cannot understand
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  the workings of His providence. You see, if you could master and that's
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  the end of the quote, if you could master God, God forbid,
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  If you could master your God, then he wouldn't be worthy of worship.
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  If you could understand every single detail, then he would not be worthy.
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  But I promise you, when all is said and done, we will see
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  God's character fully vindicated, all of these answers fully answered, and we will
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  see on whose side we really were along the journey peace. Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,