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09 27 2024 Arise · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, September
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are at the final
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  Speaker 2: day in our lessons study series through the Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is a rise, a rise,
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  Speaker 2: This is an end. May I just say it that
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  Speaker 2: way to you. I'm saying it in the voice of
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  Speaker 2: someone who's inviting you to arise with the power of
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  Speaker 2: God in every area and at every aspect of your life.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome, to you and ask you to go
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new day,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for this time of preparation. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for taking us through the Book of Mark and now
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  Speaker 2: inviting us to live in power with you. Please, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: help us to accept this invitation. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Arise. Yes, as I said, it's
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  Speaker 2: an invitation. Let's begin by reading from the book The
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  Speaker 2: Desire of Ages, page seven hundred and eighty six, and
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  Speaker 2: it reads, to the believer, Christ is the Resurrection and
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  Speaker 2: the Life. Notice the qualifier. If I am a believer,
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  Speaker 2: then to me, Christ is the Resurrection and the Life.
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  Speaker 2: You see, the devil does not actually have power over
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  Speaker 2: God's people. He can he can tempt, he can throw
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of tribulations our way. But even still, these
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  Speaker 2: have to be measured by and approved by God. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't just have carte blanche. He doesn't just have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to do whatever in the world he wants to do. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: but the power of death cannot hold God's people. Deadly
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  Speaker 2: mindset cannot hold God's people, Deadly health conditions cannot hold
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  Speaker 2: God's people. Do they have an impact on our lives?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but only to a degree. You see, when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: went and raised Lazarus from the dead, he was showing
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  Speaker 2: us that even though we die, yet shall we live?
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  Speaker 2: And one day death is going to be destroyed. Do
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  Speaker 2: you see where we're going with this? And so in
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  Speaker 2: the meantime, In the meantime, Jesus gives us the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of living a lively lifestyle. I think I use live
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  Speaker 2: three times, living a lively lifestyle, not a dead to
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  Speaker 2: dead in sins lifestyle. I'll pick up on that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment. In our Savior, the life that was
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  Speaker 2: lost through sin is restored, for he has life in
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  Speaker 2: himself to quicken whom he will. He is invested with
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  Speaker 2: the right to give immortality. You see, when Jesus comes finally, finally,
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  Speaker 2: for the first time, human beings can become immortal for
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  Speaker 2: the first time. Now I understand Moses was given immortality already,
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  Speaker 2: Elijah Enoch, they were given immortality. Twenty four mystery people,
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  Speaker 2: mystery human beings were raised from the dead and went
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  Speaker 2: into heaven with Jesus. They were given immortality. We understand that.
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  Speaker 2: But the rest of us who have been living on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, you know, apart from those people, are awaiting
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  Speaker 2: the day that ever that eternal life, that quality that
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  Speaker 2: comes when we choose to become followers of Christ, will
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  Speaker 2: finally be matched with our bodies. We will finally be
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  Speaker 2: able to see Him as he is. We will finally
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  Speaker 2: be in a position where death has literally no dominion
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  Speaker 2: over us. We cannot rest in sleep in the grave. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you see where this is going. And Jesus has the right.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, in fact, he said I am come. He
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  Speaker 2: said that they might have life, and that they might
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  Speaker 2: have it more abundantly. Whosoever drinketh of the water that
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  Speaker 2: I shall give him shall never thirst. In Jamaica, we
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  Speaker 2: say water is life. That is the motto. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to say, for the National Water Commission, water is life.
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  Speaker 2: Water is life. So also, who so eateth my flesh
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  Speaker 2: and drinketh my blood hath eternal life. I will raise
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  Speaker 2: him at the last day. I'm thankful that we get
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  Speaker 2: to look forward to the day. See, there are some preachers,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, like some of my fellow let's say, preachers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a pastor, but I am a preacher of
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  Speaker 2: the gospel. Some people are preaching doom and gloom. Some
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  Speaker 2: people are teaching the last day as if it's something
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  Speaker 2: to be concerned about, when in fact, Jesus said, let
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  Speaker 2: not your heart be troubled. Why because why not? Because
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  Speaker 2: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my
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  Speaker 2: father's house are many mansions. If it were not so,
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  Speaker 2: I would have told you I go to prepare a
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  Speaker 2: place for you. And if I go to prepare a
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  Speaker 2: place for you, I will come again and receive you
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  Speaker 2: unto myself. That where I am there ye may be also.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're grateful. Let me continue reading, and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll give you some steps here. To the believer, death
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  Speaker 2: is not no. To the believer, death is but a
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  Speaker 2: small matter. Christ speaks of it as if it were
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  Speaker 2: of little moment. If a man keep my saying he
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  Speaker 2: shall never see death, he shall never taste of death.
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  Speaker 2: To the Christian death is but a sleep, a moment
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  Speaker 2: of silence and darkness. The life is hid with Christ
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  Speaker 2: in God. And when Christ, I want you to type
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  Speaker 2: in the chat, when Christ, when Christ, who is our life,
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  Speaker 2: shall appear, then ye shall also appear with him in glory.
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  Speaker 2: And to this I say, amen, it was all worth it,
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  Speaker 2: whatever trial that you've gone through, whatever tribulation that you
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  Speaker 2: have gone through. In fact, Inspiration says that there will
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  Speaker 2: be people who went to sleep, like people who died
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  Speaker 2: God's people, some who have died right and they did
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  Speaker 2: not get to live through the last days, and they
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  Speaker 2: may have a discussion with people who did live through
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  Speaker 2: the final final part of the last days, and when
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  Speaker 2: they meet in heaven, the people who were resting may
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  Speaker 2: say to those who are alive and remain at the end,
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  Speaker 2: what happened while I was resting? And as the individuals
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  Speaker 2: who are alive and remained try to call up what
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  Speaker 2: happened in their minds, try to bring to their minds
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  Speaker 2: the trials and tribulations and even some of the triumphs.
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  Speaker 2: When they try to call it to mind, they they
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  Speaker 2: swell in a worshipful tone. Heaven is cheap enough. They
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  Speaker 2: will not be able to remember what happened down there.
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  Speaker 2: That's it down there, because we will be up in
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  Speaker 2: heaven by that time. They will not be able to
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  Speaker 2: call it to mind, because why, heaven is cheap enough.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever we went through, it doesn't matter anymore because, thankfully, thankfully,
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  Speaker 2: based on Jesus's promise, Thankfully, based on the power that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus showed when he took his life up again, Thankfully,
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  Speaker 2: we get to a rise with Christ. And so I
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  Speaker 2: want to give just a few steps before we come
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  Speaker 2: to a swift close for living that a risen life,
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  Speaker 2: that everlasting life with Christ. Embrace the abundance of Christ's life.
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  Speaker 2: Embrace the abundance. He said that he came to give
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  Speaker 2: us life, and that life more abundantly also draw sustenance
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  Speaker 2: from the living water. Drink freely. I always keep a
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  Speaker 2: cup of water next to me, forty ounces minimal right
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  Speaker 2: next to me, and I drink multiple times that full
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  Speaker 2: cup of water, because I know that water on earth
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  Speaker 2: even is life. But Jesus is saying he is the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate life, and he wants us to drink freely from him.
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  Speaker 2: And of course we can overcome fear of death. We must.
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  Speaker 2: We have assurance in Christ's resurrection, and we live in
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  Speaker 2: anticipation of Christ's return, and in the meantime we purify
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  Speaker 2: ourselves even as He is pure. Arise, brothers and sisters, Arise.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,