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04 17 2024 Human Reasoning Apart from Scripture · 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 morning.
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  It is Wednesday, April seventeen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  nam 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 under the principle the
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  Great Controversy. Our caption for today is human reasoning apart from Scripture. Oh,
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  human reasoning apart from scripture. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,
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  in the world at your daily portion dot com. This is a way that
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  we continue to build faith and fellowship, brothers and sisters. I don't know
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  if you realize this, but there are tens of thousands of you who are
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  watching and listening every day, actually more than that, and I'm thankful because
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  small group because there are millions and millions and millions and millions and multiple millions
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  of people on the earth. But He is bringing his small groups of people
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  together so that just like the Disciples, just like the Apostles, from their
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  small vantage point, they were able to change the world. We are doing
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  the very same thing under the guidance of the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  In twenty twenty four. You understand, this little program has been on since
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  about twenty sixteen seventeen in the way that it is now, and we have
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  grown two hundred radio stations, come on thirty platforms online. This is a
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  privilege and I need you to see, like the song that we heard when
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  we were young, brighten the corner where you are. I want you to
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  see yourself as one of the people I don't care where you are. Papua
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  and New Guinea, you're in Nigeria, you are in Australia, you are
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  in the United States of America, Jamaica, Land, We love Guyana.
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  It doesn't matter where you are. I need you to see yourself as one
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  of the people who are hastening the coming of Jesus Christ. You understand we're
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  going with this. Yes, good, Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for these words that
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  you've entrusted to us. Teach us to live them in Jesus' name. I
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  pray, Amen and a men again. You know, I think part of
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  the problem with humans, besides us being humans, is that we think too
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  highly of ourselves. Some of us think of ourselves too highly, and and
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  some of us think that we're more intelligent than we actually are. Now.
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  Now, don't get me wrong, listen, listen. I'm not saying that
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  we're not intelligent in an earthly way. Mm hmm. Some of you misheard
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  me already. I'm not trying to give you a complex and say that you're
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  unintelligent. I'm not trying to limit you. In my mind, the sky
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  is not even the limit. But let me say this spiritually, if we
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  don't humble ourselves before God, listening and listening to and doing what He says,
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  then we are foolish. That's all I'm saying. So the fool in
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  his or her own heart, there is no God right fools despise wisdom from
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  God's word and instruction. These are things that God has said, and so
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  we don't want to be caught into the quagmire of being that way. In
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  fact, in the Book of Proverbs, the wisest man who had ever lived
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  wrote these words, there is a way that seems right to a man,
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  but the end thereof are the ways of death. Let me read it in
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  another translation, there is a way that seems right to a person, but
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  its end is the way that leads to death. How many times have we
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  made decisions that are actually destructive in guiding us down the pathway to destruction?
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  Like, how many times have we been in that situation? Brothers and sisters.
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  Let's just be honest here. So the fact is the fact is that
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  God is preparing our minds to say, if you will just abiden me and
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  my word abides in you, then you can ask what you will. And
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  in fact, if you lack wisdom and you ask God, he will give
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  it to you. It will be done unto you. So human reasoning apart
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  from scripture, leads to what death. It's as simple as that. Not
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  trying to give you a complex. In fact, I'm trying to set your
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  feet in the way that God is wanting to set my feet on the path
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  to righteousness. The book says here in the Book of Judges, the Book
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  of Judges, please just run quickly with me to the Book of Judges,
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  chapter twenty one and verse twenty five, and the Bible reads, that's the
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  last passage in that book, in that chapter. In those days there was
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  no king in Israel. Every man did with what he thought right in his
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  own eyes. Again, in those days Israel had no king. Every person
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  did what he considered to be right. Now, let me just ask you
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  a question. Is it rhetorical? Is it a real question? I don't
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  know what happens when we just lean to our own understanding, when we think
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  that we have all the answers. Have you ever been in a situation like
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  I'm a coach. I'm a coach. I coach a lot of folks every
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  day. And what I realize about human nature is that when people are invested,
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  and you can fill in the blank about what that means, but when
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  people are invested, they are more receptive than people who are not. People
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  that don't need to do anything, like people who are just in an environment
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  because you know, it's a habit. You go to church every day,
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  or you are being mentored by somebody who holds you under their wing, but
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  you didn't really kind of put buy into it. You're just there because they
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  seem to be kind or whatever. Yeah, people who are not invested are
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  usually to their own understanding, they're not invested in their own growth. But
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  people who are yielding to God's will, now let's make it spiritual, who
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  are fully invested in the community of faith and determined to live according to God's
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  principles. When God brings his word, we face the truth about ourselves and
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  the truth about God. The truth about ourselves is that we are miserable,
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  poor, blind, and naked spiritually speaking, and we need to be transformed
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  like we're cardinals sold under sin. And the truth is that God is love.
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  He is full of truth, full of grace, full of mercy,
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  and he is communicating that through his word to us, so we can live
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  it. And it says here in Isaiah chapter fifty three and verse six that
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  all of us have wandered off like sheep. Each of us have strayed off
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  his own path. But the Lord has caused the sin or iniquity of us
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  all to attack him, meaning Jesus. Let me read it in the familiar
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  way. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned
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  everyone to his own way. So we need to humble ourselves and know that
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  all of us have had difficulty. All of us have turned our way from
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  God at some point in our lives. Yes, and the Lord hath laid
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  on him meaning Christ. He was the Messiah, the lamb of God,
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  being referenced here in the book of Isaiah. He has laid on Jesus the
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  iniquity of us. All he was oppressed and afflicted for our benefit. He
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  took the punishment brothers and sisters, that we deserve so that we can live
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  the life and the eternal reward that Jesus reserve deserves. And therefore, whatever
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  it is that he says to us, then we should esteem it as more
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  than our necessary food hmhm. We should relish the words of his mouth.
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  A few years ago, the lesson writer says, my wife and I decided
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  to do some hiking in the forest near a hotel where we were staying for
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  the night. Typically, I am fairly good at directions, and after hiking
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  for about an hour or so, taking various trails, I was quite confident
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  that I would find our way back to the little with little difficulty, but
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  soon found that we were hopelessly lost in the forest. And then, of
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  course the story continues. Discovering someone who knew the way and someone who had
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  the ability to get us back to our destination made all of the difference for
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  us. Listen, Jesus is the way, he's the truth, and he's
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  the life. Follow him fully and follow his words and you'll never get lost.
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,