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06 07 2024 Perfect Timing · 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, June seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is Elle 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, the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is perfect Timing. I said, perfect timing.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd
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  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 in
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  heaven, thank you for the opportunity to open your word. Thank you for
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  your Holy Spirit who is faithful to teach us your word. I pray God
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  now that you will teach us to understand your will and then that we will
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  live it. Please insulate us against the attacks of the enemy, and help
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  us to listen keenly to your voice, so when the counterfeit comes in,
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  we'll know it's not you. Teach us to love you. Please, in
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  Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay again, our
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  caption is perfect timing. One of the quick phrases that I learned some years
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  ago, and really this can be applied in a number of contexts is no
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  haste, no delay. No haste, no delay, and that means just
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  at the right time. There are times that we want to jump the gun.
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  There are times that we don't know what the right time of a thing
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  is, and we want to either hurry up, press on the gas no
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  breaks, or if we don't like how fast something is going, but it's
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  appropriate from God's perspective, we want to put two feet on the breaks and
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  then put our cars into park while it's supposed to be in drive. God
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  is teaching us that his time is perfect. And you're like, well,
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  what does that have to do with our lesson study. Well, Jesus understands
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  what the right time is, and not this just that he understands because he
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  determines what the right time is. God determines what the right time is.
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  The Father Son, the Holy Spirit. Together they determine what the right time
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  is, the right time for what right time for resurrection, right time for
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  resurrection. And so when Jesus gave his life for us, right he died,
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  He gave his life a ransom for many so that we could be saved.
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  He came up out of the tomb at the right time, right at
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  the right time. Jesus will come at the right time. Jesus will shout
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  with the voice of the archangel. At the right time, Jesus will raise
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  the dead. You see and by the way, when Jesus was giving his
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  life for us, it was on Friday that he breathed his last and the
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  Bible says, gave up the ghost, meaning the breath that was in his
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  body. That was the day. Friday was the day God is orderly.
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  And then on Sabbath, the Bible says. The Bible says that he rested
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  according to the commandment. He rested in the tomb according to the command So
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  on Friday, Jesus gives up the ghost. Before sunset he passes away.
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  He lays down his life just like he said he would. And then during
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  the Sabbath hours he was resting in the tomb, he was dead, okay.
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  And then, just as the prophecies fore told, just as Jesus said,
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  very clearly in his own voice, just as the people should have expected,
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  excuse me. On the first day of the week, that is Sunday
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  morning. Early Sunday morning, the Bible says that Jesus basically he took up
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  his life again. And when Gabriel came from heaven, he comes down,
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  he says, son of God, thy father Calleth thee. Jesus had taken
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  up his life just as the prophecies said he didn't take up his life on
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  the second day, he didn't give his life on the third day. He
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  didn't give his life on the second day and take it back up on the
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  second day, or Jesus gives his life in order on the second day,
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  he rests in the tomb according to the commandment, on the Sabbath, and
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  then on Sunday morning, Resurrection morning, Jesus takes up his life. You
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  see, God's timing is perfect. Now you're like, OK, why do
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  you keep saying that. Well, we'll come back to the scriptures. But
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  I want you to understand that the enemy does not like you, like he
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  hates you. And so from the book The Great Controversy, page five hundred
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  and sixty, will see how people who do not accept the timing of God
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  will be deceived. Just before us is the quote hour of temptation, which
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  shall come upon all of the world to try them that dwell upon the earth.
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  All whose faith is not firmly established upon the word of God will be
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  deceived and overcome. Satan works with all deceivableness of unrighteousness to gain control of
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  the children of men, and his deceptions will what continually increase, But he
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  can gain his object only as men or humans voluntarily yield to his temptations.
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  Those who are earnestly seeking a knowledge of the truth and are striving to purify
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  our souls through obedience, thus doing what they can to prepare for the conflict,
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  will find in the God of Truth a sure defense. Good. Because
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  thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee is
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  the Savior's promise he would sooner send every angel out of heaven to protect his
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  people than to leave one soul that trusts in him to be overcome by Satan.
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  That's the end of the quote. So in the last days the deceiver
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  is going to be is excuse me, the deceiver is in high gear,
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  all gas, no breaks. All he wants to do is destroy you.
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  In one of the ways is to cause people to see what does not exist,
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  to see that dead loved ones are really not dead, and to send
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  messages through those voices, just like he did in the incident with the witch
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  at end Or and supposedly supposedly the prophet Samuel. And it was a deception.
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  And we could go on and on, But the Bible is teaching us
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  that as in the Book of Ecclesiastes. The Book of Ecclesiastes, chapter nine
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  and verse five. For the living know that we shall die, I said,
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  we ah, But the dead no, not anything. So you don't
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  have to worry about a house being haunted by dead folks because they're dead.
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  You don't have to listen out for a message from somebody who has died,
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  because wait a minute, the Bible says that the dead don't know anything,
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  neither have they any more reward for the memory of them is forgotten. Okay,
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  okay. And then in First Thessalonians, chapter four and verse sixteen,
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  Bible teaches us again the timing that I was alluding to a little bit earlier.
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  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, but the
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  voice of the archangel and with the trump of God, and the dead in
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  Christ shall rise first. So the resurrection that happens first is the resurrection of
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  the just. Okay. The resurrection that happens first, that is at the
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  second coming of Jesus Christ, is for those who are in Christ. Then
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  we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in
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  the clouds. See the people who have passed away that love God. They're
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  not in the clouds already. They are not already in heaven, because then
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  that wouldn't make sense, because then they'd have to come down from heaven,
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  go back into the grave, and then be raised on that day and then
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  we go up again together. You see that ain't there. It's just not
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  there to meet the Lord in the air. And there shall we also ever
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  be with the Lord. And I'm thankful because at the appropriate time when Jesus
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  does come, when he comes, those who loved God who are now resting,
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  will finally be delivered from their tombs. Yes, they will finally with
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  us. If we're alive. When Jesus comes back and remain, we will
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  receive immortality together. And then and only then will we say, in with
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  the scripture's death, where is your staying like where is your victory? Our
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  victory is in Christ. The grave cannot hold God's people. We'll talk about
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  it some more as the days continue. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,