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04 28 2024 God’s Word Alone · 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, April twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El 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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  Our caption for today is God's Word Alone, God's Word Alone. We'll
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  get into that in just a moment, but first I like to say welcome
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  to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  dot Com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new morning and for the privilege
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  of a new work week. Father, Please give us guidance as we move
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  into all that you will have for us to do. Father, please give
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  us an appetite for you and for holiness. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. So I need you to be honest, please
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  and thanks. Like, how's your appetite? Do you have a healthy appetite?
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  I said, do you have a healthy appetite? And when I ask
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  about healthy appetite, I'm not asking about whether your appetite has heft to it
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  or that you did desire a lot of things. When I say healthy appetite,
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  I'm asking do you have an appetite for healthy things? Healthy food,
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  healthy entertainment, huh, healthy relationships? Do you have an appetite for healthy
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  things? And of course, the truth of the answer is between you and
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  God. If you'd like to share in the chat, please go ahead.
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  But this is really something we all need to resolve between us and God.
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  And so in the Bible Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred nineteen, Beginning
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  at verse one hundred three, the Bible reads, how sweet are thy words
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  to my taste? Are you seeing where we're going this morning? How sweet
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  are thy words unto my taste? Yay, sweeter than honey to my mouth?
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  How many of you love honey? I love honey. I love how
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  it tastes. There is a kind of honey that I wish I could taste,
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  but I've not been to that side of the world to get it.
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  Manuka honey. I want to get it straight from New Zealand. I think
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  that's where it is predominant. Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth verse
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  one hundred and four. Through thy precepts, I get understanding. Therefore,
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  I hate every false way. And so the Psalmist's appetite for God's words and
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  how sweet it is to his mouth makes him detest every false way. Can
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  I just say it another way. When we have a healthy appetite, those
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  things that work against us, those things that work against our health, those
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  things that work against our spiritual health, those things become detestable to us,
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  you see, hateful to us. In fact, Job said something very interesting
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  in the Book of Job Chapter twenty three, beginning at verse twelve, neither
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  have I gone back from the command of his lips. This is when Job
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  was in the hottest part of his trial. He couldn't understand what was going
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  on. He wanted a days man or a mediator between him and God to
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  try to explain, like, what in the world is going on in my
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  life? I'm holy? I know that I'm holy, And he wasn't talking
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  about self righteousness. Like he could not think of anything that he had not
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  confessed. He could not think of any place that he was not in agreement
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  with God. He knew that he was in right standing in air quotes with
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  God, and yet his life was in upheaval. He could not figure out
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  what the thing was. And he had three friends plus one three plus one
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  friends and then his wife who were not helping any at all. But he
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  still said, neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips.
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  I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food verse thirteen.
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  But he it is in one mind, and who can turn him?
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  And what soul desireth even that he doeth. And so again again, Job
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  considered everything that God said to be premium. It was like a seven course
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  meal to him. He desired them more the words of God's mouth as more
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  than his necessary food. Every single one of us have to eat. I
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  have fasted for twenty three days before. I'm talking about no food, nothing
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  in my mouth to chew, no smoothies, only green drink. Yes,
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  uhhah, for twenty three days. And then I was like, okay,
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  it's time to eat now. They're people who have starved themselves because of some
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  religious, social, or political thing. But at some point, either we're
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  gonna eat or we're gonna die. That's just the way it is. Because
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  God created us in a way that we need that sustenance. We need a
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  balance of all of the key elements that God has put in nature for us
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  to eat, you see. And so he said he esteemed the word of
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  God's mouth as more than is necessary food. And then in Psalm chapter one
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  hundred and nineteen Psalmchapter chapter one hundred and nineteen, verse one sixty two,
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  I rejoice in your instructions like one who finds much plunder. How is your
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  diet, brothers and sisters, that is the question. And of course we
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  see that John Wycliff's passion was to translate the Bible. Remember we're talking about
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  God's word and the appetite that we must have for God's word. He had
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  a passion to translate the Bible into English so that the average person could read
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  and understand it. Did you get that? So we don't need necessarily.
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  I know sometimes we preachers and teachers sometimes get ahead of our skis and we
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  get all intelligent on you and start sharing what this word meant in this certain
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  other language and what it means to us today based on that ancient language.
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  But what God did for us is that in many of the tongues languages I'm
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  saying of the world, he has brought humans to translate them in the Bible
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  so that people common people, not people necessarily with PhDs and other terminal degrees,
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  people with all kinds of higher education and learning. No, people who
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  are just walking around every day, doing our business every day, whatever it
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  is that God wants us to do, will be able to access what God
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  has to say to his people. Yes, And so I want to give
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  a few things before we come to a swift close here, because it's like,
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  well, how do we apply this? How do we apply this?
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  So here's a question. How does finding sweetness and come in God's commands influence
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  your decision making your daily decisions? How does finding sweetness in God's words influence
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  how you make decisions? Right? Because sometimes people when they read and hear
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  the word of God, sometimes people start to kind of WinCE and it just
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  like, ah, I don't really want to do that, and they find
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  reasons that it is inconvenient to do what God says. And so what we're
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  finding, having read in Psalm one nineteen already, we're finding that if we
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  will see, like, if we will change our perception, our perspective,
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  huh, and understand that God's word is sweet, sweeter than honey, that
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  we will embrace it more quickly. Yes, sometimes it's bitter, it feels
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  bitter, but we should still see it as sweet. Yes, sometimes it
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  is difficult, but we should see it as sweet. Why because it is
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  the word of God, It's the word of life. These are the words
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  of life, okay. And so another question is is what role does early
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  communion play in your spiritual life? And this is coming right out of the
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  Bible, Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and nineteen, Verse one forty
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  seven I am up early before dawn crying for help. I find hope in
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  your word. Jesus would go and in commune with God his father a great
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  while before day, and also pray. He would pray, listen for the
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  voice of God, yes, and speak to God honestly as to a friend.
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  And so God's word alone can sustain us. Subsist on it, feast
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  on it, peast. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,