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04 06 2024 The Central Issue- Love or Selfishness · 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 Sabbath already, yap, It's Sabbath, April six,
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  twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris. I am
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  your host, and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  every single day, and today is no exception. This is our second week
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  in our Lessons study series the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is
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  the central issue? All right? You want to know what it is?
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  Love or selfishness? What is the central issue, y'all? The love or
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  selfishness. 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 go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com. Please join our online community. Pick up your Daily Portion book
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  at the appropriate time at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way
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  that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Bother and Heaven. Thank you for this
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  new morning and for the privilege you have given us to consider your word again.
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  Please Lord, help us not to just simply consider it or think about
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  it, but to live your word, to be full of your word,
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  and to be an example to people who don't know your word so they can
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  be introduced to Jesus Christ, the ultimate word. I pray now that we
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  will. We will yield our will to you today in Jesus' name. I
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  pray Amen. Then amen again. The central issue love or selfishness. Okay,
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  And so our text comes in from the Book of Isaiah, the Book
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  of Isaiah, chapter forty one, and I will read verse ten. The
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  Bible reads, and this is one that I really love. I can hear
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  the song we used to sing this song years ago. Fear not, for
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  I am with you. Be not dismayed. Why not, For I am
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  your God. I will strengthen you. This is God speaking. Yes,
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  I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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  I need to read it again. Please fear not, for I am with
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  you. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen
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  you. God will strengthen you. Yes, I will keep you. I
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  will help you. Who will help you? God will help you. I
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  will uphold you with my righteous right hand. There are so many people who
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  are falling, falling, falling, falling and can't get up. And I'm
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  not trying to make a joke. I'm saying there are people who are falling
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  and cannot get up. Falling for the enemy's traps, Falling for those evil
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  deceptions that he has brought against us that make us to minimize our family members.
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  Falling for all of those wicked desires that cause people to cheat people in
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  business. Falling for the lie that our spouses are not enough, which causes
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  people to step out, step out, and to do things with people that
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  are not our spouses, like commit adultery. What people are falling for the
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  okie dough like. The devil has so many deceptions that people are falling for.
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  And God is saying, no, don't do that. I'm with you.
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  You don't have to be dismayed because I'm your God. Like I'm going
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  to strengthen you. When you are feeling weak and you feel like like today
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  has to be my last day, like my life must end today. No,
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  I will strengthen you. Hm when you feel like no one is listening,
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  because maybe it's true. Maybe when you reached out to your friend,
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  your friend didn't have enough time for you. Huh ah. When you feel
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  like there is nobody there for you, Jesus says God, our Father says,
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  through the power of the Holy Spirit. God says, I will help
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  you when you have more month than money and you are in despair. I
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  will help you. When your children seem to have lost their mind. God
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  is saying, I will help you, and I will uphold you with my
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  righteous right hand. When injustice is all around you you don't know how to
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  get through those terrible dark valleys. God is saying that he's going to lift
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  you up and he's going to hold you up with his righteous right hand.
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  I think we have a good foundation here, so there is no fear in
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  love, brothers and sisters, because the Bible says, fear thou not,
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  I am with thee. Remember that song yes, So you don't have to
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  fear because the God of Love is for you. Okay. The Bible says
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  there is no fear in love because perfect love casts out fear. Yes,
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  fear hath torment, but God's love, God's love strengthens us and gives us
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  boldness. John said in the Day of Judgment, you understand we can know
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  that as he is, Jesus is. That is as he is, so
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  are we in the world. So the fact that Jesus is alive. When
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  I say alive, I'm talking about he is the source of all life.
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  Yes, he came through the portals of the tomb when he took on human
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  flesh, and he took up his life again like he promised that he would
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  that Sunday morning, and he had all power in his hands. He had
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  the keys to hell, death and the grave. And now victory can be
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  ours. And so as he is victorious, so can we be victorious.
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  Yes, because he has the keys to death. Now we can live eternally
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  with God. One day, when Jesus does return, it's going to stick
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  that key in the lock, if you want to say, He's going to
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  open it up, open up the portals to eternity with us. Yes,
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  we get a glimpse. Now, we get a glimpse of the sweet bye
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  and by now. But then, finally, we will no longer feel the
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  physical pain that we feel now these days. We will no longer have to
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  sleep anymore, because we will not get tired. We will run and not
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  get tired. You understand, we will no longer be limited by the human
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  predicament. We will no longer be tempted by sin, because sin will not
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  pardon me, have no dominion at all, and it will no longer rise.
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  It will not rise a second time. That affliction of sin will not
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  rise a second time. And therefore, as he is, so are we.
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  And now we can be perfected in love. Fear not why, because
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  I'm with you? Okay, So the lesson writer says this. Suppose you
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  are a herdsman tending to your goats in the hillsides of the Mount of Olives,
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  overlooking the city of Jerusalem. You hear voices. Immediately you recognize the
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  voice of Jesus. As the setting sun gleams off the temple and reflects the
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  snowy whiteness off its magnificent marvel walls. Jesus emphatically states assuredly, I say
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  to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, then that
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  shall not be thrown down. And you're like, well, hold on,
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  hold on, hold on, And that obviously is from the Bible from Matthew
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  chapter twenty four and verse two. What do you mean by as I look
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  at this magnificent structure that was in building for decades, are you saying?
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  What do you mean by it's not going to be here anymore? What do
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  you mean by it's not going to be here? It's going to be destroyed?
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  There will be no stone left upon another? What do you mean?
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  This is like the This is like the spiritual Titanic. It cannot sink a
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  w a amen, Wait the tit the Titanic did sink. This is like
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  Babylon, the Babel Babel Tower of babel Ah that they built with all of
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  their human ingenuity to avert any destruction that God could think of where floods are
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  concerned. Even though God promised and signified in the clouds with a bow that
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  he would not destroy the earth again by water. Oh amen, the Tower
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  of Babel was destroyed too. Well. Why why why in this case,
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  why would the edifice that represented the presence of God, that was to be
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  a house of prayer for all people. Why would Jesus say that it'll be
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  thrown down? That is because God knew. Jesus knew that. Unfortunately,
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  the people of God would have gone too far and rejecting him. People of
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  God would have gone so far in disrespecting the image of God in their lives
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  and misrepresenting Him in the earth, and not accepting his entreaties, not accepting
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  his warnings through the prophets, in fact, to the degree that they would
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  destroy the prophets. Jesus is saying all that you think, all of your
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  human ingenuity, all that represents, whatever you think is good, I'm going
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  to destroy it. And yeay he indeed did. The people have an opportunity
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  today to live for God and to live according to His principles. Thanks for
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  joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,