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06 08 2024 The Impending Conflict · 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
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  morning. It is Sabbath, June 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 with Lesson number
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  eleven, the Great Controversy under the caption the Impending Conflict, The Impending Conflict.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  say welcome, Welcome, Welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  for the very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com,
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  join our online community and let us know where you are in the world
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  at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to
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  world for a witness, and then and only then shall the end come.
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  So we're looking at just about six hundred people in the new community, and
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  we were catching up because we lost almost five hundred in the transition. So
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  I just thank God for you, and thank God for the message that you
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  are sharing by clicking the share button. And whatever your thoughts and feelings are
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  concerning God's word as we study together, let's go ahead and pray, and
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  then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us
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  this new Sabbath morning and for the blessing that you have been to us until
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  now. Please, Father, help us to be ready for the crisis.
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  But Father, I know that some of us are always thinking negatively, always
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  bracing for something. But more than that, teach us to worship you.
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  Please in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again. All right,
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  So our key for this Sabbath morning is where whenever we are facing conflict,
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  God's word provides the solution. May I say it again, Whenever we
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  are facing conflict, God's word provides the solution. Yeah, there are times
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  that people are overwhelmed with the trials of the certain politics that are happening in
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  your particular country. Right, who will lead? Who will not lead?
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  Like what party will be the ones in power or not? Right? You
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  know, wherever there is conflict, God's Word gives us the solution. May
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  be wondering, like what's going to happen in your Christian fellowship, like your
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  faith community, because you see some things that you just don't agree with,
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  and you're like, but God, how is this happening under your watch?
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  Remember, whenever we are facing conflict, God's word provides the solution. And
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  so we see, based on what we've been studying for the last several weeks,
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  that even conflict had even started in heaven, in the courts of Heaven
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  near the throne of God. But at the appropriate time, at the appropriate
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  time, when there was war in heaven and mike Al and his angels fought,
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  and the dragon fought, the Bible says there was no place found for
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  the devil. Right, the dragon and his angels had to leave why Because
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  God's word was that only peace and love and everything that has to do with
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  Godliness must reside in heaven, abide in heaven. And so since they that
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  they did not want to repent, they had to go conflict averted. Conflict
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  ended, I should say, in heaven. And now we see that the
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  conflict is on planet Earth. What will happen the same thing. God will
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  let this conflict run its course and at just the right time. I told
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  you, God's timing is not our timing, Ah, But just the right
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  time, God will end that conflict once and for all. And then one
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  pulse of love will go throughout the universe that says again, God is love.
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  And so the listen writer wants us to focus today on a simple passage
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  that really comes from a prayer that Jesus was praying to his father. Sanctify
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  them by your truth. Your word is truth. Who is the them?
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  These are the people that Jesus said that God, our Father gave to him,
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  the people who love God, the people who follow God's word, the
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  people who, in these last days in twenty twenty four, love the Lord
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  and keep his commandments. Because God's commandments become ten promises when we have love
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  for God, and perfect love casts out fear, so we don't have to
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  worry about fear or torment or being condemned, because there is no condemnation for
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  those who are in Christ Jesus, and so God wants us to be set
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  aside. He is setting people aside for a holy use. And in fact,
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  in the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and nineteen and verse fifteen,
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  the Bible reads, I will meditate on thy precepts, Ah, and
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  have respect unto your ways. You see, this is a step, one
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  of the steps for us to wholeheartedly worship God in spite of the conflict that
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  is looming, the conflict that is even going on between God and Satan right
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  now. But there is a bigger one, a looming that will come to
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  a head a point critical mass. But remember, if I meditate on God's
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  precepts and have respect unto his ways, Ah, then I will internalize his
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  truths. His truths will become who I am. Remember some people said that
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  we are what we eat, So if we eat God's word, they become
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  a part of the fiber of our being. And when that happens, then
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  we have no problem connecting and staying connecting, connected with God. But he
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  also says, God says in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter ten and verse
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  twenty five, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some
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  is by exhorting one another, but of exhorting one another, and so much
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  more as you see the day approaching, let me use it in another translation,
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  not abandoning our own meetings, that is, God's people coming together to
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  worship God in the beauty of holiness, where two or three are gathered together
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  in God's name. There He is in the midst that kind of a thing.
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  Okay, not abandoning this kind of a fellowship, in these kinds of
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  meetings as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other.
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  And even more so because you see the day drawing near. What day the
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  day of the arrival of Jesus Christ, the day of the end of the
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  world. And so we thank God that he allows us to have relationship with
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  Him so that we can meditate on his words, meditate on his laws,
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  and become one with Him and also become one with other believers. And of
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  course we have been talking about the Seventh Day Sabbath a lot in the last
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  several weeks, because that is the focal point, because God said that if
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  the word of God is truth, and we are sanctified by his truth.
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  It also says in the Old Testament, in the Book of Exeits the Book
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  of Ezekiel, that the Law or the Sabbath and in the Law is a
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  sign between God and his people that he sanctifies us. So he's keeping the
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  promise. He's keeping the promise that Jesus prayed about, sanctify them by thy
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  truth. Thy word is truth. Part of God's word has to do with
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  keeping holy the seventh day Sabbath, because God said to remember, even though
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  so many people are forgetting now. The Bible does also say in the Book
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  of Matthew, chapter twenty five and verse forty, insomuch as ye have done
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  it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, you have done
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  it unto me. And so God wants us to think about the people,
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  the lane, the main, the blind ah, the halt, the people
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  who are not able to do for themselves, those who are incarcerated, and
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  others. The least of these in air quotes people that are often for gotten
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  dejected, rejected, God is saying that if you want to be connected with
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  me, huh, then you take care of these people. You don't leave
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  them on their own. If you're a worshiper, this is what you will
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  do, because you will do it as if you were doing it toward Jesus
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  himself. And then finally, in Revelation, chapter twelve and verse eleven,
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  the Bible reads, and they overcame him, meaning the devil, by the
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  blood of the Lamb Jesus Christ, and by the word of their testimony.
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  The Bible continues, they love not their lives, even to the point of
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  death. So people who are true worshippers, who are sanctified by God's truth,
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  those individuals who take care of God's children also have a testimony. Thanks
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  for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,