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06 17 2024 Sealed for Heaven · 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
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Monday, June seventeen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is Sealed for Heaven, Sealed for Heaven. We'll get
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  into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community. I ask you also if you want to be
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  This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  thank you for giving us the opportunity to pray and to open up your word
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  today. I'm asking you to please give us the fullness of your holy spirit.
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  Teach us today that you have claimed us from before there was a beginning.
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  We are yours. Help us to live like this In Jesus's name,
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  I pray, Amen and Amen again, sealed for Heaven. I love this
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  caption because it gives us the outcome. God's intent for all people is that
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  we live with him eternally. Now Heaven of course, Heaven. Of course
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  we're going to live there for one thousand years after Jesus returns and takes his
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  people there. But it represents an eternal principle. If you get to heaven,
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  brothers and sisters, and there's no reason why we shouldn't. Ah.
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  If you get to Heaven, then that means that you're going to live with
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  God throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity and explore the vast expanse of the universe,
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  because God's love will have already permeated your life and you would have already
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  made your final decision to experience God throughout eternity. And of course again,
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  when Jesus returns, we'll live with him in heaven for a thousand years.
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  And when those thousand years are finished, we know now that we will receive
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  the earth made new as home base, with the New Jerusalem as the capital
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  that will come down from God out of heaven. Will become the capital of
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  this world for sure, and I'm thinking even the universe, but I guess
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  we'll have to get there to see what that will really be. But I
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  believe that will also be the capital of the universe. Okay, so now
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  we have that sealed for heaven. Now, the lesson writer is pointing out
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  the specifics of the seal of God that is in the law. The seal
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  that is in the law, what law, the Ten Commandments law, The
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  seal of God that is nestled, I will say, in the Law of
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  God is the Seventh day Sabbath. Okay, the Seal of God. We're
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  going to talk about the Holy Spirit who seals us. But let's talk about
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  the seal itself. And so the lesson writer says, here we have three
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  elements of an authentic seal. The name to whom the seal be longs the
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  Lord thy God we're reading from We're actually make an allusion to as I mentioned
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  already, but now from Exodus chapter twenty, verses eight through eleven. So
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  we have the name to whom the seal belongs. That's the Lord thy God,
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  his title, the one who quote made the heavens and the earth and
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  everything else. That's the Creator. And number three his territory heaven and earth
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  see and all that in the miss and appropriately. So the lesson writer also
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  says a seal is sometimes called a sign in the Bible Romans chapter four and
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  verse eleven. The two words are interchangeable as God's sign. We did read
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  that God said that the seventh day Sabbath is a sign that He is the
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  Lord who sanctifies us or makes us holy. Okay, and so God sign
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  or seal in the heart of God's law, the Sabbath is at the center
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  of the final conflict over worship. Okay. So now let's go a little
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  bit deeper. What we want to do is remain faithful to God, remain
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  faithful to God concerning his commandments. And it's like, oh, but Dave,
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  that just sounds so legalistic. Well, I don't know about that.
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  If the commandments, if the commandments are a transcript of God's character, if
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  Jesus said and he did, like, if Jesus said, if you love
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  me, you will keep my commandments, then that means that it's it's not
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  legalistic to want to do what God says. It's not, absolutely not.
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  And so in Revelation chapter fourteen and verse twelve, the Bible reads, this
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  requires steadfast endurance of the saints, those who obey God's commandments and hold to
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  their faith in Jesus or have the faith of Jesus. Okay, so this
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  is the patience of the saints. These are they that keep God's commandments and
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  have the faith of Jesus. So we stay faithful to God. We remain
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  faithful to God, and the measure of our faithfulness in righteousness is God's law.
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  Now we don't worry about that because you know, God is the one
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  who works his works in us. So we're not trying to muster up the
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  energy. We're not trying to make ourselves stronger in our own abilities. No.
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  No, And in fact, let's make this point right here from Ephesians,
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  chapter four and verse thirty to see how this works. How does it
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  work? Okay? The Bible reads, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit
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  of God by whom you are sealed for the day of redemption. So we're
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  looking forward to the day that Jesus Christ will redeem its people from the earth.
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  And in the meantime, it's the Holy Spirit who is sealing us.
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  He is sealing us through his power so that we remain, we remain in
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  right relationship with Him. So we don't have to worry about the commandments,
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  because the commandments are a transcript of God's character that by the way, he
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  promised under the New Covenant that he would write in our hearts and on our
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  minds, so that no one would have to tell any man, any woman,
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  their neighbors to serve the Lord because or to know the Lord. Excuse
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  me, because he will introduce himself. So the New Covenant with the House
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  of Israel is that he will write his laws in our hearts, part of
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  me, and on our minds. How will that remain through the power of
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  the Holy spirit. And again I want to focus just for a moment on
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  Exodus chapter twenty, verses eight through eleven. I'll read it from the New
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  English translation. Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart as holy,
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  because God already did that. For in six days you may labor and do
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  all your work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord,
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  your God. And so when we're working, we say, God has given
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  us the strength. He has given us the power to do this work and
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  to get wealth. He has said to cease from labor during this twenty four
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  hour period from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturday, as we call it in
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  the Western world. Right. And this is saying we respect you, and
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  we'll keep what we'll keep, the appointment that you have prescribed in scripture.
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  Right, you shall not do any work. And then the Bible continues in
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  that for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the
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  sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.
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  Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
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  Did not God set you apart as holy? Brothers and sisters? The
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  word Church comes from a Greek term that means to be called out or called
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  out ones. So if you're set aside, you are called out of darkness
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  into this marvelous light. And he has given us a divine appointment that occurs
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  every single week consistently, the seventh day Sabbath. Then why would we not
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  get together? Why would we not get together? And know that these two
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  coincide? And in Ezekiel, chapter twenty and verse twelve, the Bible reads,
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  I also gave them my sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so
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  they would know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them. Well, make
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  it a great day, be sealed for heaven peace. Thanks for joining us
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  listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,