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06 06 2025 God's Plan and Our Assurance · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: June sixth in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is God's Plan and our Assurance.
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  Speaker 2: God's Plan and our Assurance. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  Speaker 2: your daily portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and for giving us
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  Speaker 2: the privilege to experience you on this day of preparation.
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  Speaker 2: But more than that, thank you for the full assurance
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  Speaker 2: of salvation when we yield our will to you. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to trust you and not ourselves. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and a man again. Yeah, So I
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  Speaker 2: have a question that should not be a complex question,
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  Speaker 2: but I admit that there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who are struggling to answer this one. Are you ready
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  Speaker 2: for it? Do you have assurance of your salvation? Do
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  Speaker 2: you have assurance of your salvation? I'm talking about like
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  Speaker 2: when you sing, I don't know if it'll be during
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  Speaker 2: family worship this evening, or will it be tomorrow, during
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  Speaker 2: corporate worship or at some other time. Blessed assurance Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory, divine air
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  Speaker 2: of salvation? Do you really mean that? Or are you
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  Speaker 2: confused and wondering? Okay, let me ask you another way,
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  Speaker 2: Are you saved? Yes or no? It's a yes or
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  Speaker 2: no answer or question. You see, there are times that
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  Speaker 2: people over complicate because we definitely don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: self confidence into that we're believers. Like so, once you
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  Speaker 2: say you are a believer, then the Bible teaches, Paul
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  Speaker 2: says this a lot. You're a saint, not a sinner.
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  Speaker 2: I said, a saint and not a sinner. You see,
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  Speaker 2: A saint to someone who is covered in the righteousness
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. A saint is someone who does not trust
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  Speaker 2: his or herself or his or her actions as the
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  Speaker 2: means to salvation. A saint to someone who is completely
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  Speaker 2: palms up, completely surrendering to God. On a regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: Every single day we yield our will to God. We
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  Speaker 2: yield our plans to God to empower us, to enable,
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  Speaker 2: to enact them, or to abandon them as His providence
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  Speaker 2: may indicate someone who is saved by grace through faith,
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  Speaker 2: and that not of ourselves. It is the gift of God,
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  Speaker 2: not of works. Lest any man should boast that individual
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  Speaker 2: should not be confused. In fact, the Bible says, the
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  Speaker 2: redeemed of the Lord should say so. So I ask
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  Speaker 2: you again, with all of what I just said. Are
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  Speaker 2: you saved? Yes or no? Now, if you're still wondering,
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  Speaker 2: then we need the Bible to help us to understand. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in the lesson, we have a quote coming in from
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  Speaker 2: coming in from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, and I
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  Speaker 2: will read through the beginning. The High Priest cannot defend
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  Speaker 2: himself or his people from Satan's accusations. He does not
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  Speaker 2: claim that God's people are free from fault in filthy garments.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about the Old Testament system of sacrifices in
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  Speaker 2: filthy garments, symbolizing the sins of the people, which he
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  Speaker 2: bears as their representative. He stands before the Angel, confessing
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  Speaker 2: their guilt, yet pointing to their repentance and humiliation, and
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  Speaker 2: relying on the mercy of the sin pardoning redeemer. In faith,
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  Speaker 2: he claims the promise of God. Satan's accusations against those
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  Speaker 2: who seek the Lord are not prompted by displeasure at
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  Speaker 2: their sins. He exults in their defective characters. That means
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  Speaker 2: he likes it. He knows that only through their transgression
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  Speaker 2: of God's law can he obtain power over them. And
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  Speaker 2: then the Bible, I mean, and then The quote continues
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  Speaker 2: that he is he is continuing to send accusations and
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  Speaker 2: send accusations. Jesus is breaking Satan's hold upon the human
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  Speaker 2: family and rescuing souls from his power, meaning the enemy's power.
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  Speaker 2: So let me just jump into the Bible. But I
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  Speaker 2: need to give you a couple of things here straight
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  Speaker 2: out at the beginning. Number one. Number one, our sins
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  Speaker 2: are real. Our sins are real, but so is our repentance.
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  Speaker 2: Let me let that settle in for just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: take your time. Yes, we have committed sins. Our sins
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  Speaker 2: are real, but so is our repentance. That means turning
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  Speaker 2: away from our sin, turning toward God because He gives
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  Speaker 2: us the power through the Holy Ghost to do so.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible reads in Zechariah three, verses three and four.
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  Speaker 2: Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments. I explained that
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  Speaker 2: just a second ago, and he answered, take away. This
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  Speaker 2: is what the voice from heaven says, take away the
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  Speaker 2: filthy garments from him. Take away. And so the action
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  Speaker 2: in this case is to honestly confess your sins. That's
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  Speaker 2: what we all need to do. Don't hide them. God
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  Speaker 2: is willing to remove your guilt and clothe you in
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  Speaker 2: the righteousness of Christ, if you come in humility and
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  Speaker 2: are willing to turn away from your sins. Now From
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  Speaker 2: Revelation chapter twelve and verse ten, the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: the accuser of the brethren is cast down, which accused
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  Speaker 2: them before our God day and night. Satan accuses not
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  Speaker 2: because he actually hates sin, but because he hates Christ. See,
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  Speaker 2: he knows that God loves you. He knows that God
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  Speaker 2: so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  Speaker 2: that whosoever that means you, that means me, believeth on him,
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  Speaker 2: should not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't send
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  Speaker 2: his son into the world to accuse him or condemn
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  Speaker 2: the world like the devil does, but that the world
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  Speaker 2: through him might be saved. I need you to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: And so when the devil is accusing people for sinning,
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  Speaker 2: it's not because the devil is righteous, devil is able
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  Speaker 2: to see sin and detests and loads it. No, it's
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  Speaker 2: because he hates Christ and Christ loves you. So if
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  Speaker 2: he thinks he can get to Christ, he thinks that
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  Speaker 2: then he would have to do it by getting to you,
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  Speaker 2: causing you to despond, causing you to doubt your connection
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  Speaker 2: with God if you are submitting your will to God,
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  Speaker 2: causing you to see yourself as unable to be saved
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  Speaker 2: by grace through faith, causing you to be flippant about
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  Speaker 2: the law of God and what God really cares about.
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  Speaker 1: Mm.
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  Speaker 2: And so the accuser Satan, he does this because he
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  Speaker 2: hates Christ. Yeah, okay. So from Hebrews Chapter four, Verses
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and sixteen, the Bible reads, we have not a
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  Speaker 2: high priest which cannot be touched by the feelings of
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  Speaker 2: our infirmities. Now let us therefore come boldly unto the
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  Speaker 2: throne of grace. This is where we get our help.
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  Speaker 2: Our help comes from the Lord which made heaven and
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  Speaker 2: earth like our help comes from Jesus Christ. I know
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  Speaker 2: what I just said. I know what I just said.
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  Speaker 2: So our high priest is not defending our perfection. That's
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  Speaker 2: not it. He's the one that's perfect. He is the
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  Speaker 2: one who's all together lovely. He is defending us so
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  Speaker 2: that we can repent by faith, we can turn away
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  Speaker 2: from our sins. See, God has so much at stake here,
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  Speaker 2: He has so much skin in the game because he
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  Speaker 2: loves us and he is our assurance. He has given
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  Speaker 2: the perfect plan of salvation, and all we need to
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  Speaker 2: do is continually accept and surrender peace.
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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,