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05 21 2024 The Judgment Has Come · 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 Tuesday, May twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name 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 the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is the Judgment has Come. The Judgment has Come.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community and also pick up the Your Daily Portion book.
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  Let us know where you are in the world, and if you choose
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  you can also come into the coaching program for your Daily Portion. Please learn
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  about all of this at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way
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  that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  us this new day and for putting us in a position that we cannot lose.
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  Father, please give us your understanding and help us to live like people
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  who understand that the judgment is for our benefit. In Jesus's name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. The judgment has come. Okay, let
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  me get Let me just share the key this morning. I'm excited about this
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  one. God's people cannot lose. I need you to say that to yourself
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  in the faith that you have connected to God. God's people cannot lose.
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  Now, let me just say I'm not a competitive person. I really don't
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  think about what others are doing and whether I do what I do better than
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  they do or the reverse. Right, But in this case, I'm thinking
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  about like eternal salvation, I'm thinking about connection with God. God's people cannot
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  lose connection with God. God's people cannot lose an eternity with God. Like
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  God's people cannot lose in the judgment. Why not? Because there is no
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  condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. So the question really is,
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  well, what is at stake? What is at stake here? What is
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  at stake? Eternity with God? That's what's at stake? Well, how
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  has that resolved? Being fully connected to God, being fully submissive and submitted
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  to God's will? Okay, so what we're going to do is read why
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  why can we not lose? We're going to begin in First John chapter four.
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  I don't know if I'm going to get through all of this, beginning
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  at verse seventeen, and the Bible reads herein is our love made perfect that
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  we may have boldness in the day of judgment. Huh, Because as he
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  is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love,
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  but perfect love casts out fear, for fear hath torment. He that
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  feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him because he first loved
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  us. Did you get that? So this is all about connection with God.
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  There is no way that we can be fearful if we are perfected in
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  love. If we are perfected love, we are not fearful. We stand
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  boldly in the day of judgment. That means we can't lose. Well,
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  what else does the Bible say about this? And Romans chapter eight and verse
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  one, the Bible reads, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who
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  are in Christ Jesus. So that is the question, are you in Christ?
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  And the Bible continues, who walk not after the flesh but after the
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  spirit. So when we have the Holy Spirit ruling in our lives, that
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  means that we are in Christ Jesus, in right relationship with Him, in
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  submission to his will, in covenant with God. Therefore there's no condemnation.
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  So when the judgment is set and the books are opened, and God is
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  looking to see what kind of lifestyles and relationship with God we have when we
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  are covered in Christ, when we are walking after the spirit and not after
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  the flesh, that means he will see that there was no condemnation. Now
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  you just wonder, well, well, what else can we say about how
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  we cannot lose? Well? In John chapter five and verse twenty two,
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  the Bible says that the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment
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  to the son. So in this phase of judgment, I'm going to call
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  it. But in judgment overall, Jesus is the judge. Okay. In
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  First John chapter two, verses one and two, the Bible reads, my
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  little children, these things write I unto you that she sin not. And
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  if any man sins, you have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
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  the Righteous. So the Bible says that Jesus number one is our judge.
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  Number two, Jesus is our advocate. And verse two of First John chapter
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  two, the Bible continues, and he is the propitiation for our sins,
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  and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the world.
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  So he is our what judge. He is our advocate. The Bible just
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  said propitiation. That means he's our substitute. And then in Revelation chapter three
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  and verse fourteen, the Bible reads, and unto the Angel of the Church
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  of the laoedicians, right, these things set the amen and the faithful and
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  true witness the beginning of the creation of God. He's the what faithful and
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  true witness. Let me run it back again. If you were in a
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  court room scene and you were standing trial at the bar the judgment seat of
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  Christ, and if Jesus is the judge. If Jesus is the advocate,
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  huh. If Jesus is the substitute, that's the one who takes the punishment
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  in our place when we should have died. Jesus died in our place.
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  And he's the true and faithful witness. How in the world, How in
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  eternity can we die? How can we die? How can we lose?
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  How can we die? Well we can't, That's the whole point. So
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  once we are in Christ and our love is made perfect in Him, then
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  we have him as our judge. Can I say it again? We have
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  him as our advocate, We have him as the one who stood as the
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  substitute. We have him as the true and faithful witness. And therefore we
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  cannot be condemned. But what is at stake? The Bible reads in John
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  chapter three, beginning at verse sixteen. For God's so loved the world that
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  he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish
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  but have everlasting life. God did not send his son into the world to
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  condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Do
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  you understand now there are a set of people who are still in a condemned
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  state. According to verse eighteen, he that believeth on him is not condemned.
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  Do you believe him? Brothers and sisters, tell the truth? Do
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  you believe in him? If you do, then you're in the right relationship
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  with him. But it says here, but he that believeth not is condemned
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  already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
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  God. And so this is why, this is why we're actually going to
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  talk about this some more. But this is why we need to be welcomed
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  into the judgment, into this phase of judgment that started in eighteen forty four
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  that we made allusion to the other day, because because those who are not
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  in that phase of judgment where he's judge, he's advocate, he is our
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  substitute, he's the true and faithful witness, where there is no condemnation.
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  I'm talking about in twenty twenty four, whoever is not in that judgment with
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  God covered in the righteousness of Christ, is in that what condemned position,
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  condemned already, just awaiting the execution of judgment. And so I'm thankful that
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  God is giving us every single day, the opportunity to make momentary decisions.
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  Moment by moment, we get to decide, are we going to be for
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  Christ or against him? Are we going to love Christ or be in fear
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  of him? Are we going to submit our will or take our lives into
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  our own hands? And then one day, one day, very soon,
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  he that is righteous will remain righteous, and he that is filthy will remain
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  filthy. The question is, while the judgment is set, can you lose?
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  Well, it's up to you. Are you on God's side or not?
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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,