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04 25 2024 Cheered by Hope · 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 morning.
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  It is Thursday, August, I keep saying August April twenty five,
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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. We are continuing in our
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  Lesson study series, the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is Cheered by
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  Hope, Cheered by Hope. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up
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  the Your Daily Portion book, and also let your friends know I want you
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  to share this with as many people as possible. You're doing well. You're
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  world and at least one television station. So I'm just so grateful that you
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  have chosen to invest your time with us. Also, let us know where
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  you are in the world. That way we can know from what purview,
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  right what perspective, this word is being spread into the world, and we
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  can see that Jesus Christ will come very very soon and we are building the
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  kingdom together. It's encouraging to me. So again your Daily Portion dot com.
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  This is one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father and
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  Heaven, thank you for this new day and for the opportunity that you have
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  given us to open you word and to have a peek into history. And
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  I pray God that we will repeat only the good things in history, that
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  we will learn from those things that were not helpful to us, and that
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  we will have a right relationship with You until the coming of our Lord and
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  Savior, Jesus Christ. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen and amen
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  again, cheered by hope. Cheered by hope. All right, so I
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  did not speak to you specifically about mister Wycliffe yesterday, one of the reformers.
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  So let me just begin here and then we'll talk about another reformer and
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  see how all of this can help us in our day. Okay, And
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  so I'm going to read now from the book The Great Controversy, page ninety
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  four. I'll read some of it. The character of Wycliffe is a testimony
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  to the educating, transforming power of the Holy Scriptures. Remember yesday we were
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  reading in the Book of Psalms, chapter nineteen about the law of the Lord
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  being perfect and how it converts the soul and so forth. Yes, that's
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  what we're talking about today, transforming power of the Holy Scriptures. It was
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  the Bible that made him what he was. The effort to grasp the great
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  truths of revelation imparts freshness and vigor to all the faculties. It expands the
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  mind, it sharpens the perceptions, it ripens the judgment. The study of
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  the Bible will ennoble every thought, feeling, and aspiration as no other study
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  can. And then, of course, the writer continues Missus White continues,
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  and then you know, it was very interesting. Some people considered mister Wycliffe
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  to be the morning Star of the Reformation. And that's an incredible moniker,
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  if you want to say, because we understand that Jesus is the son of
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  righteousness, so to be assigned or attached to the original and holy and eternal
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  light of the world, like the Bible says, to let our light so
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  shine before people, so that when they see our good works, they will
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  glorify our Father, which is in heaven. This is what people are saying
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  about mister Wycliffe, that he was a bright light during the time of Reformation.
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  Okay, and so now we're talking about being cheered by hope. And
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  the person who comes up on our radar before we go into the scriptures is
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  Huss Huss. I don't know if you've ever heard of him, but John
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  Huss. And it says that John Huss would not falter in the face of
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  imprisonment, in justice and death itself. May I just ask you really quickly,
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  without having to go into some hominous spiritual or religious persecution, are you
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  willing not to falter? I'm saying I'm not talking about waiting until the big
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  one quote an end quote. I'm saying that when somebody gives you an opportunity
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  to earn money, all you have to do is lie. Will you falter?
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  Hhh? When somebody vexes your spirit? Are you willing to commit murder?
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  Or are you willing to stand firm on the word of God? And
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  understand that the law of the Lord is perfect? And so that promise that
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  it promise in the in the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not kill, or
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  thou shalt not murder can be can be yours because God writes his law in
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  our hearts and in our minds so that we can live like him. Or
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  if you know, maybe you are protective of your your your reputation, and
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  you wouldn't dare quote murder anyone. But when somebody gives you an opportunity to
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  assassinate someone else's character, will you stand firm or will you falter? That's
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  a question that I'm even asking myself, And the lesson writer continues. He
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  languished in prison for months. The cold, damp conditions brought on a fever
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  that nearly ended his life. Nevertheless, now we're quoting from the book Great
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  Controversy, The grace of God sustained him during the weeks of suffering that passed
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  before his final sentence. Heaven's peace filled his soul. I write this letter,
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  he said to a friend, in my prison and in my fettered hand,
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  expecting my sentence of death. Tomorrow, when with the assistance of Jesus
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  Christ, we shall again meet the delicious peace of the future life. You
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  will learn how merciful God has shown himself toward me, how effectually he has
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  supported me in the midst of my temptations and trials. And this is from
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  Bonnicholl's Volume two, page sixty seven, continuing the full quote. In the
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  gloom of his dungeon, he foresaw the triumph of the true faith. And
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  that's from the book Great Controversy, page one hundred and seven. And so
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  again we're cheered by hope that God will do in us the same thing he
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  did in Jesus. When Jesus lived on planet Earth, no matter what the
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  trial or temptation was, Jesus came forth as pure gold. Why because he
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  was full of the Holy ghost. Uh. He invested time a great while
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  before the days of his life, and prayed and lived the kinds of principles
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  that God our father taught we understand, and so he was victorious so that
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  we could be victorious. And from the Book of Hebrews, chapter two we
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  see beginning at verse fourteen. Therefore, since the children share in flesh and
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  blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could
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  destroy the one who holds the power of death, that is the devil.
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  So Jesus lived on planet Earth. He lived a victorious life so that we
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  could be victorious. Keep going, keep going, verse fifteen, and set
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  free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.
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  One of the things that people struggle with mm hm yes, even in
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  twenty twenty four, is whether they're going to live or die. There's some
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  people who are just so fearful and paranoid of what might be hiding and lurking
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  around this corner, or what is behind door number one, or who's going
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  to come in and do this to me or harm me in that way,
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  or what disease will sneak up on me and then overtake my life until I
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  die. Well, really and truly, the only power that death has is
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  for people who don't love God. Ma, I just say that the reformers
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  of old, the people who stood up for the truth of God, no
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  matter what came to them hah, they know they learned and lived the fact
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  that death is just asleep. It's just a pause. It's rest before the
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  resurrection. Do you understand? And so, no matter what happens in our
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  lives, brothers and sisters, Jesus has shown us that because he was victorious,
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  we can be victorious at work and our businesses, and our relationships with
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  our families and other relationships, and our personal development and in every other way
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  we can be victorious. Why because Jesus was wonderful. Thanks for joining us
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  listening to 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,