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12 28 2023 Mission Complete · 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 Thursday, December twenty eight, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in the last moments of our Lesson
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  study series, God's Mission My mission under the caption mission complete, Mission Complete.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I would like
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  to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join our online community.
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  box in that system that says, where are you in the world, and
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  also pick up the Your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  This is a way that we can build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for this day and for the privilege you have entrusted to us to do
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  your will. Please teach us to love you, Please give us holiness,
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  help us to look forward to the completed mission that you have put in us.
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  And then finally, finally, finally, we look forward to the day
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  that Jesus comes in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Mission complete. Hmm. I am so happy that we can even look at
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  this concept. Right, But let me not get too far ahead of myself.
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  Let's just read simply from the Book of Revelation, chapter twenty one,
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  verses one through four, and I will say, as people who are looking
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  forward to the coming of Jesus Christ, we're called adventists. People looking forward
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  to the coming of Christ. The advent, the Second Advent of Christ,
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  are often focused on that time, and we should be. We should be
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  the second Advent. But you know there is a third advent, right,
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  and maybe you don't want to put it that way because it sounds weird,
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  like some new doctrine. No no, no, no, no, no
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  no. Listen, when Jesus comes, according to Revelation chapter twenty, when
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  we see him come with clouds, and every eye shall see him, them
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  also who pierced him according to Revelation chapter one, and all the kingdoms of
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  the earth shall mourn because of him. When that happens, that's what we
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  know as the second coming of Jesus Christ and God's people. Those who are
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  are resting in the grave will be awakened at the appropriate time. Those who
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  are alive and remain. Both sets of people will be caught up together and
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  then go to heaven and live there for a thousand years. I often tongue
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  in cheek call it a vacation, a thousand year time that we will live
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  in heaven. But what we're going to look at today is when God will
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  wipe away all tears from our eyes. So after the thousand years are finished,
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  now we're moving to Revelation chapter twenty one. This happens according to verse
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  one, I saw a new heaven and a new Earth. Oh this is
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  good for the first heaven and the first Earth were passed away and there was
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  no more sea. And I John saw the Holy City New Jerusalem coming down
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  from God out of heaven. So this is after the thousand years are finished.
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  We're in heaven with God for a thousand years. During that period,
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  not that it takes that long, but during that period, we're looking over
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  the books of record of people and evil angels, people who chose to say
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  no to God ultimately and are not saved. Yeah, and the devil and
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  his evil angels. We look over those books. We will judge with God
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  during that time, awaiting the execution of judgment which will take place afterward.
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  And now John is seeing this time the Holy City New Jerusalem coming down from
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  God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And
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  I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, that Tabernacle of
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  God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be
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  His people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God.
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  And then finally, for the very first time, it's almost like drum roll,
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  like we're anticipating something we have never seen ever at any point in time
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  in history. God will wipe away all tears, how many tears He will
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  wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death.
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  You see, when God destroys the enemy, he destroys his evil angels,
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  and then those who will have chosen to separate themselves from God are also destroyed.
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  That is still death, you understand. So after the thousand years are
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  finished, we're in heaven, we come down. There has to be a
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  final execution of judgment, and there will be death at that time. But
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  finally, somebody type in the chat, come on, But finally God is
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  gonna put death to death, as in First Corinthians chapter fifteen, the closing
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  verses beginning at verse about fifty. And so there will be no more death,
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  there will be no more sorrow. Finally, there will be no more
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  crime. Are you looking forward to that day? Mission complete? There shall
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  neither be any more pain for the former things, Thank God will be passed
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  away. Thank God that he will give us amnesia. If you want to
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  say, we will never ever contemplate the evil effects. And maybe I'm going
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  a little overboard. I don't know the details of sin. Like we will
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  not remember the day that we God forbid got cancer, like we will not
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  remember the day that we experienced church hurt like we will not remember the day
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  that we got stabbed or shot or beat or imprisoned. We will not remember
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  the day we were abused by that neighbor or so called family friend or so
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  called family member, like. We will not remember the day that we were
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  in the hospital for days and weeks and months, and some for years,
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  and abandoned in hospice care. We will not remember any of those things.
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  Why because the former things will be passed up. Yeah, mission complete.
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  We will have done what God said. We will have finally, finally done
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  everything that God said and led as many people as possible to him. And
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  now we receive the reward finally that Jesus promised in Matthew chapter five. He
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  said, the meek shall inherit the earth. The meek shall inherit the earth,
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  not heaven. The meek will inherit the earth. So at the third
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  coming, if you want to call it finally, we will experience this.
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  And the Bible does continue in chapter twenty one, beginning at verse twenty two,
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  and I saw no temple Therein the second time we saw that concept.
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  For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. I
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  wish I had the time. We talk about the sanctuary, and I am
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  a firm believer in the sanctuary message. Do you realize, however, that
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  Jesus Christ, when he lived on planet Earth, said destroy this time,
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  and in three days I will raise it up, And he was speaking of
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  his body. Do you realize that the Old Testament Bible writers said that God
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  is a little sanctuary to us. Do you realize that the heavenly sanctuary,
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  the very real place wherein Jesus ministers, has an ultimate goal and ultimate revelation,
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  which is Jesus Christ himself. And I saw no temple therein the Lord
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  God Almighty, and the Lamb are the temple of it. I wish I
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  had the time Verse twenty three. And the Holy city in the city had
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  no need of sun, neither of moon to shine in it, for the
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  glory of God did lighten it. And the Lamb is the light thereof.
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  And you want to know, like when God said in the beginning, let
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  there be light on the first day of Earth's creation, and there was light.
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  You're like, but Dave, the sun, moon and stars were only
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  created on the fourth day. Well, what was that light? I think
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  we just read that Jesus is the light of the world right, and it
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  says the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
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  thereof, and all the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the
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  light of it. And the kings of the earth do bring their glory and
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  honor into it, because God said, let your light so shine among people,
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  so that when they see your good works, they will glorify your Father,
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  which is in heaven. The Bible says in Daniel chapter seven that God
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  will give dominion and the kingdom and power and glory to his people after the
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  judgment is set. So God is sharing something so beautiful there with us.
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  And then the Bible just teaches us that the mission is complete. Bottom line,
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  I'm looking forward to the day when the mission will be complete. Are
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  you thanks for joining us listening? Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great
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  day. Yeah.