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12 23 2023 The End of God's Mission · 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's Sabbath, December twenty three, twenty twenty three. 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, God's Mission,
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  My Mission. This is our final week. Our caption for this Sabbath
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  morning is the end of God's mission, the end of God's mind mission.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  thank you and welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining for the very
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  first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join our online
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  community and then let us know where you are in the world. In the
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  little box it says where are you in the world, And that way we
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  can continue to build faith and fellowship at your daily portion dot com. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  for giving us this new Sabbath morning, and for the privilege you have entrusted
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  to us to serve you and to do your will. I pray God that
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  you will give us understanding and teach us how to love you and to be
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  fully engaged in your mission. And the mission should start with us in Jesus'
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  name, I pray Amen and amen again. Let's begin with Second Peter,
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  the Bible Book of Second Peter, chapter three, and I will read beginning
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  at verse eleven. Let's just read two verses here as the writer would have
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  prescribed, and the Bible reads Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved,
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  what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
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  looking for and hasting until the coming of the day of God. This is
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  a beautiful passage to me for a number of reasons. Number one, the
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  Bible writer is saying that Jesus is coming soon. And for those of you
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  who are not aware, like he is coming soon. The Bible says that
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  his appearing is nearer than when we first believed. And so because of the
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  signs that we see all fulfilling. We see the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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  especially post pandemic, being spread into all the world in a way that we
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  have never seen on planet Earth for a witness, and Jesus promised and then
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  and only then shall the income because we know that the the way that people
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  think and their mindsets is so dark and wicked, and that God is not
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  going to allow that to continue forever. We know Jesus is on his way,
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  And so the question that the Bible writer is asking is like, well,
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  what kind of person should you be knowing this, knowing that you're preparing
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  for the day that finally he that shall come will come, and he won't
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  tarry much longer. We're looking forward to the day when Jesus is going to
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  bring people into his special fellowship in heaven one thousand years of vacation. Think
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  of the places that you love on planet Earth. Is it South Africa?
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  Huh? Is it Ghana? Is it Indonesia? One of the many many
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  thousands of islands in Indonesia? Is it Thailand? Is it one of the
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  islands of the sea in the Caribbean? Is it one of the big sky
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  state in America? Montana? I love the idea of Montana. I love
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  wild and wonderful Virginia. Like is it somewhere in Manitoba and Canada that you
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  love so much? To see the wonders of the world. And then the
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  Bible says that I have not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered
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  into the heart of any human being, the things that God is preparing for
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  us. Ah. But God is only going to take people into that heavenly
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  place who love Him. And since that's the case, and that all of
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  what you think is beautiful I think is beautiful on planet Earth, along with
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  the things that are obviously wicked and dark on planet Earth, will be destroyed.
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  The elements will melt with fervent heat, and finally, all of sin
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  and unrepented sinners, and the devil and his evil angels and disease and everything
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  that is not godly will be burned up. And I'm talking about fully burned
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  up. Since that is the case, what kind of people, what kind
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  of people. Are you going to be? The Bible writer is asking,
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  as you prepare for that day and listen and wait like there's more. You're
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  like, come on, Dave, you sound like an infomercial. Well,
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  yeah, it's better than an infomercial. There's more. And after the thousand
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  years that we have with God in that special, I'll call it vacation time
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  with him as we look over the books of record for those who have not
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  made it into the kingdom and the devil himself and judge evil angels. Once
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  that one thousand years are finished, God is going to finally, finally,
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  finally keep the promise that he made in the Book of Matthew chapter five when
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  he said the meek shall inherit the earth. Finally, John will have seen
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  the Holy City New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven as a
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  bride adorn for her husband. God's people and God's City together now become the
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  bride, and there will be no more death, and no more crying,
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  and no more pain, no more disease. It will all be destroyed finally,
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  and then that Holy City will rest on the newly purified planet Earth that
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  God intended from before there was a beginning, So what kind of people should
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  we be? Are Is there a kindness level that we must attain to,
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  because God said that that is the heart of God? Like is it that
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  we have to help people who cannot help themselves, people who are poor among
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  us, people who are dejected and rejected because people have abused them over the
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  years? Right? Is that we need to stop gossiping? Is it that
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  we need to see what we can do for what Jesus called the who Jesus
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  called the least of these his brethren, and we will be doing it unto
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  to him. Like is it that we have to give a warning, a
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  word in season out of season, to rebuke at the time of rebuke,
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  or show love at the time of love. What is it that we need
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  to be doing during this time of preparation, seeing that these things will be
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  dissolved, seeing that Jesus will come, seeing that he's only coming for a
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  bride or a people who are without spot or wrinkle? How must our lives
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  look? And in the Book of Revelation we have a picture into that,
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  a window into that we'll talk about over the next few days. But the
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  Bible, the lesson writer excuse me, said that the Book of Revelation fills
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  the minds with scenes of the end. And can I say, shamefully,
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  shamefully on preachers, preachers like me, I've been preaching for a long time,
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  pastors, evangelists, so many people have been using thankfully I haven't,
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  But like people have been using scare tactics trying to frighten people into the right
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  relationship with God, like trying to frighten people out of poor behavior patterns.
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  And the Book of Revelation does not do that. The revelation of Jesus Christ
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  manifests the love of God in a special way. And if something is fearful
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  there, it is only fearful because people are choosing to walk away from God.
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  But God never uses tear, never uses scare tactics to try to inspire
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  people to holiness. But the Book of Revelation fills the minds with scenes of
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  the end. The epicenter of the book deals with the cosmic conflict between Christ
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  and Satan. Can you just type in the chat God wins. Just type
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  in the chat like the Great Controversy, the cosmic conflict. In that cosmic
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  conflict, God wins. God wins, and Satan has lost his legal hold
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  over the earth, and now he pursues those who remain loyal to God.
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  The book climaxes with Jesus's return to deliver his children, both the living righteous
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  and those faithful ones who have died since the fall of Adam and Eve.
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  The book shows us too the destruction of Satan we talked about that and the
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  wicked by fire, and Jesus's establishment of his eternal kingdom in the earth made
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  new students enthusiastically explore and seek to identify the predicted signs and events that mark
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  church history from the first century AD to our day in the end of time.
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  They are right to do so too, And in this quarter's final lesson,
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  we will see that The Revelation is a ministry missionary book focused on a
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  missionary God who was calling us to be a missionary people. What a wonderful
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  God we served a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,