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08 20 2026 Final Victory over Death · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, August twenty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is final Victory. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to it, final victory over death. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to say, please go over to
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  Speaker 2: portion ministries. We are a listener and beer supported ministry. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us the promise and giving us
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  Speaker 2: a foretaste of the victory that comes over death only
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  Speaker 2: from you. Please please give us hope in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yes, final victory over death.
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  Speaker 2: I am tired of death. I cannot wait until death dies.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait until death is thrown into the lake
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  Speaker 2: of fire. I'm trying to be graphic here. I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait until that day because I'm tired of the campaigns
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  Speaker 2: that say cancer sucks. Because there are people who have
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  Speaker 2: lost loved ones and have suffered through even for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Even though some have recovered, some have not. And I'm like, God,
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  Speaker 2: when are we going to get through all of the murder,
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  Speaker 2: all of the pain, all of the war and it
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  Speaker 2: is very clear in the scriptures that when Jesus comes,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, can you just type that in the chat,
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus comes, we will finally have victory over death.
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  Speaker 2: And how do we know, Well, there's the promise Jesus
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  Speaker 2: actually overcame the most impossible. Can Can I just share
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  Speaker 2: that with you for a moment. You already know, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you think of it in this context.
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  Speaker 2: You see, the Bible says that the wages of sin
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  Speaker 2: is death, and the gift of God is eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: So the death that are the wages of is the
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  Speaker 2: wages of sin. It is not anything that I just said.
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  Speaker 2: It is not when my mom succumbed unfortunately in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty and tragically, when the tractor trailer plowed through her
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  Speaker 2: vehicle and she passed away, that is not it. That
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  Speaker 2: is part of what happens as a result of sin.
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  Speaker 2: But the penalty for sin is hell fire, and the
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  Speaker 2: outcome of hell fire is full extinguishment, if that's a word,
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  Speaker 2: and the people no longer exist for ever and ever
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  Speaker 2: and ever. That is full separation from God. That's it,
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  Speaker 2: and that is the penalty. But Jesus, now when he
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  Speaker 2: died the death on the cross. He was dying the
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  Speaker 2: second death. He died the second death. He died the
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  Speaker 2: penalty for sin. Nobody ever has except him, nobody ever
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  Speaker 2: will come back from the second death. But Jesus did.
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  Speaker 2: Are you seeing where we're going here? So since Jesus
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  Speaker 2: overcame the second death, Since Jesus, because of who he is,
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  Speaker 2: my God, and how perfect the plan of God is
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  Speaker 2: to save his people from our sins. Because he overcame
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  Speaker 2: the second death, now he can destroy death forever. And
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  Speaker 2: whoever chooses to surrender our will to God, those individuals
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  Speaker 2: will never taste of the second death. Even if we
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  Speaker 2: go to sleep like Lazarus did, even if we go
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  Speaker 2: to sleep like Moses did. God is going to raise
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  Speaker 2: us incorruptible, and then we will begin to experience eternity
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  Speaker 2: once the resurrection morning comes. And so for me, the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing is death is not the last word.
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  Speaker 2: At the sound of the trumpet blast ha, the last
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  Speaker 2: trump of God, death itself will be swallowed up in victory,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of the death that sometimes human beings experience on
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  Speaker 2: this side of glory. And every believer whoever closed their
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  Speaker 2: eyes will open them to face the face of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and then begin our journey throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity,
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  Speaker 2: where the second death also will have no power. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so we read now one of my favorite passages
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  Speaker 2: from First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen, verses fifty one and fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: I have been trying now to preempt myself for the
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  Speaker 2: last several days and the days, and the Bible says, behold,
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  Speaker 2: I show you a mystery. What is the mystery? Paul?
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  Speaker 2: We shall not all sleep what but we shall be
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  Speaker 2: changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye
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  Speaker 2: at the last trump For the trumpet shall sound, and
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  Speaker 2: the dead shall be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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  Speaker 2: And of course this is speaking of the people who
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  Speaker 2: are choosing to surrender to God.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: This is good. This is good because the heart of
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  Speaker 2: for the heart of the believer, the one no, for
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  Speaker 2: the one who is a believer and does die, God
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  Speaker 2: forbid Today the next conscious moment, you can hear the
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  Speaker 2: old preachers now in your mind. The next conscious moment
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  Speaker 2: will be the return of Christ. That's the next conscious moment.
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  Speaker 2: There is no long waiting, there is no awarenness of
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  Speaker 2: passing centuries or minutes or days or months or weeks,
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  Speaker 2: depending on you know the timing. Here, Just sleep and
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  Speaker 2: then the trumpet? Can we just say that one more time?
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  Speaker 2: Just sleep and then the trumpet and then glory. Do
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  Speaker 2: you see where we're going here? When I went to
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  Speaker 2: sleep last night, I woke up this morning, and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't think or feel or sense the length of the
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  Speaker 2: pathway between the time I went to sleep and the
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  Speaker 2: time I woke up. I am oblivious. I did not
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  Speaker 2: feel those hours at all. And that is the way
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  Speaker 2: that this will be. But better. The delay that feels
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  Speaker 2: long to us will feel like nothing to them. And
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  Speaker 2: so what do we do with this? Let the immediacy,
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  Speaker 2: the right now ness of the resurrection comfort any grief
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  Speaker 2: or anxiety you carry about death. Today we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see our loved ones, the faithful loved ones again. For
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  Speaker 2: the believer, the gap between closing your eyes and seeing
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  Speaker 2: Christ is from your own experience, no gap at all.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you may be facing your own demise.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be melodramatic, but some of you
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  Speaker 2: may be suffering right now, in the final moments before
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  Speaker 2: you close your eyes, I want this to be a
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  Speaker 2: word of comfort to you. People seldom speak these words
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  Speaker 2: because it almost feels crass, but I want to speak
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  Speaker 2: those words of comfort to you that in a moment
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  Speaker 2: you may close your eyes. It may be that you
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  Speaker 2: will experience your last breath on this side of glory.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as your concern, if you are submitted
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  Speaker 2: to God's will, that when Jesus comes, it'll be almost
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  Speaker 2: like an instant to you. And I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day. I'm looking forward to seeing you one day
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  Speaker 2: and we can say soon, one day soon. So comfort
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  Speaker 2: yourself with this hope. Comfort yourself with this hope. And
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  Speaker 2: let me see do I have enough time? Let me
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  Speaker 2: read just one more quote from The Great Controversy, page
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  Speaker 2: six forty five. I don't, I don't. Let's read a
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  Speaker 2: part of it. The Resurrection of Christ declares the triumph
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  Speaker 2: of God over the powers of darkness. And I'll have
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  Speaker 2: to pause right there. Listen, Jesus has given us the victory,
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  Speaker 2: and one day we'll experience it in the fullness 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,