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06 01 2024 Spiritualism Exposed · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Sabbath, June one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series, the Great Controversy.
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  This is Lesson number ten and our caption for today is Spiritualism Exposed. Spiritualism
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  Exposed. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Let us know where you
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  are in the world. And this is one of the ways that we continue
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  to build faith and fellowship. I'm thankful because the community has grown to past
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  five hundred people. That's a blessing because our last community that had almost five
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  hundred people, the system was purchased by somebody else and then we lost all
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  of that connection. So I'm thankful that we are able to have rebuilt and
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  so we continue to grow, and we thank God because we're doing our best.
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  The Bible says this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached into all the
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  world for a witness, and then and only then shall the endcome. Looking
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  forward to Jesus coming, are you yeah, Well, let's go ahead and
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you
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  for giving us this new day and for the opportunity to open your word.
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  And I'm asking you now for a special understanding, a special power, a
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  special comfort in our time of need and loss. I pray that you will
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  give us understanding that leads us closer to You in Jesus name, I pray
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  Amen and Amen. Again. I need to say that in the discussions that
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  we have been having for the last nine weeks, it's easy to get caught
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  in a theological debate or simple discussion, when really God's goal, his intent
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  for us is to become his children, and ask we have become his children,
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  to continue in that relationship and then to lead other people in the same
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  situation. Because of course, we were born in sin, shapen in iniquity,
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  and because of that that means that we are condemned, like naturally condemned
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  to die. And God does not want us to die. He wants us
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  to live with him forever. And so it makes sense that as we discuss
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  spiritualism in over the next several days, that we keep in mind that God
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  is about relationship, and we should always be asking when we're discussing these things,
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  what can I learn about God while I am learning? Okay? And
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  so the key today is that there's no need brothers and sisters to say rip
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  or rest in peace regarding those we have lost. There's no need to say
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  that, because really and truly, there is no other way to rest.
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  When our brothers and sisters, our friends, our neighbors, people we love,
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  when they die and they will have lost their last breath, breathed their
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  last breath, all they can do is what rest in what some call a
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  dreamless sleep. That's just a way to illustrate that nothing is happening in terms
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  of their thoughts, their lives, or anything when have died. Why because
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  well, the Bible does teach us that when God created Adam and Eve.
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  I want to interrupt myself, right, when God created it, At created
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  Adam and Eve. He Adam in particular. The Bible says that he he
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  formed him of the dust of the ground, and then he breathed into what
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  he formed, his own breath, God's breath into what he formed, and
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  what he formed became a living being. So God's breath plus what he formed
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  with his hand became a living soul. You see how this works. So
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  let's just do a little bit of math. One plus one is what yes,
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  two Yes, two plus two is four. And if we do it
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  in reverse, if we if we do two minus one, then we have
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  only one. And so God's breath plus what he formed creates living beings.
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  So if God removes his breath, that's the breath of what the breath of
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  life. If God removes the breath of life, what we have is just
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  the dust. And that's why some people say, as we are at the
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  graveside ashes to ashes dust to well, you see where this is going.
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  But more than just an intellectual pursuit, God is saying that we have the
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  opportunity, opportunity to what to come into such a relationship with Him that even
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  though we are living on planet Earth and the living know that we shall die
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  and the dead don't know anything, that during this time we can have such
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  a good relationship that if we do happen to die, if we do breathe
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  our last breath, then all we're doing is looking forward to the best resurrection.
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  You see, there are two resurrections. There's the resurrection of eternal life,
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  right, the resurrection of eternal life or even immortality. That next level.
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  So when Jesus returns those who loved him until the end, right whose
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  life was a life of love toward God. Ultimately those individuals who are resting
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  at the appropriate time, Jesus Christ will raise those individuals unto everlasting life,
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  the kind of life that cannot get tired again, the kind of life where
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  there is no more breathing your last breath, the kind of life that does
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  not break down, no more disease, you understand. And so this is
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  the goal. Now, of course, there are some people who are choosing
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  day by day, which is why there are people who love to preach the
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  gospel and to teach our friends the right path of life. But there are
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  people who are choosing day by day to live the kind of life that will
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  separate themselves from God. We don't want that. There is the other resurrection,
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  which is the resurrection of condemnation. So at the appropriate time, one
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  thousand years post Jesus's return, he will raise those who hated love, who
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  hated a connection with God, who did not want to be in a relationship
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  with God. He will raise those individuals and they will get what they desired,
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  which was separation from God. And so two resurrections, one of holiness
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  and life everlasting, in one unto condemnation. Okay, And so no need
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  to say rest in peace, because anybody who dies is resting until one or
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  the other of the two resurrections. And so the lesson writer has us to
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  read from first Thessalonians, and I made allusion to it chapter four, verses
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  sixteen and seventeen, where it says, this is at the second coming of
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  Jesus Christ, for the Lord himself from heaven with a shout with the voice
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  of the Archangel, with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ
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  will rise first. So if you have a brother, a sister, your
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  mother, you're unto, your father, your uncle, someone you love,
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  yes, who had a right relationship with God. At the second coming of
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  Christ, this voice of the Archangel, this trumpet sound of God will awaken
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  those awaken those individuals, so that they, with those who are alive and
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  remain, will be caught up. The Bible continues. Then we who are
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  alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet
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  the Lord in the air. And thus shall we always be with the Lord.
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  And so I'm so thankful that God does not put anybody in a position
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  ah to be in some kind of restless situation waiting for their fate. No,
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  No, while we live, we have the privilege of knowing that,
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  yes, we may die, you know, like a privilege. Yeah,
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  we may get to the position where we will be in that dreamless sleep phase
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  until Jesus comes. But again, if you're faithful brothers and sisters, let's
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  just stick to that one for today. We'll talk about the other end of
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  it another day. But if you're faithful brothers and sisters. It doesn't really
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  matter. We'll just be resting. We'll rest until we hear the voice,
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  just like how the Bible talks about the story of Lazarus, when Jesus said,
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  Lazarus, come forth. He will call your name, brothers and sisters.
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  She'll call your loved one's names if we were faithful, if they were
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  faithful, and we will live with God eternally. Make it a great sabbath.
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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,