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05 10 2024 The Truth Has BENEFITS · 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 Friday, May ten, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is the Truth has Benefits. Ah, the truth
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  has benefits. All I could say the truth has its benefits. We'll get
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  into that in just a moment, but let me just say, first of
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  all, Happy Preparation day. And I'm asking you to please go over to
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  ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for
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  this new morning and for the privilege you have entrusted to us to prepare for
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  the time of the Sabbath. That especially enriches our lives because we're able to
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  walk away from all of the things of the world for just twenty four hours
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  and focus solely on You. Please help us to live according to the principles
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  we learn in the time of preparation and during the Sabbath. And let us
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  see the benefits of your word today while we're studying together. In Jesus name,
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  I pray he Amen and Amen again. The truth has its benefits now
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  let me read really quickly from the book that not the desire of ages,
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  that's where my mind is, but really the Great Controversy, page two hundred
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  and eighty six, where it reads when France publicly rejected God and set aside
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  the Bible. We're talking about way back in the seventeen hundreds. If you
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  are coming in for the very first day, here wicked men and spirits of
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  darkness exalted in their attainment of the object so long desired, a kingdom free
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  from the restraints of the love of God. Can I just pause right here.
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  Yeah, it's a foolish desire for us to say we want to be
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  disconnected from God, the one who is life right, the one who gave
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  everything for us so we could be saved, the one who has empowered people
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  to walk away from that hopeless life that has no real purpose into a life
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  full of purpose. Come on, yeah, sort of like the prodigal son
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  who decided he wanted to be separated from his father's law. Well, we
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  see where that got him, And so God is giving us the privilege not
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  to do that again. But the people there desired I'm going back into the
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  quote a kingdom free from the restraints of the law of God, the restraining
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  spirit of God, which imposes a check upon the cruel power of Satan.
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  Did you get that? So when God gives us these rules and guidelines,
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  he gives us these principles, He gives us these relationship guard rails. It
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  is to put a check on the devil's power in our lives. Let me
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  continue. It was in a great measure removed, and he whose only delight
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  is the wretchedness of men was permitted to work his will. Those who had
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  chosen the service of rebellion were left to reap its fruits, until the land
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  was filled with crimes too terrible for pen to trace, Oh My, From
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  devastated provinces and ruined cities, a terrible cry was heard, a cry of
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  bitterest anguish. France was shaken as if by an earthquake. Religion, law,
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  social order, the family, the state, and the church all were
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  smitten down by the impious hand that had lifted against the law of God.
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  Listen, listen, I understand like I'm a human and humans like, for
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  instance, I would prefer to go much faster than the speed limit. Sometimes
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  I feel like it limits my creativity and my growth. Okay, I'm saying
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  that tongue in cheek, But the fact is I would rather put my foot
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  to the ground and drive as fast as possible to get where I'm going,
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  and by the way, to stay awake. That's how I was, you
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  know, thirty and odd years ago, when I was a young driver,
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  I just pushed my foot down and went as fast as possible and not recognizing
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  that. Well, the speed limit in many places and cases is something that
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  is protective against injury and death. Yeah, mass death and injuries and some
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  other things, right, And that's one of the simplest laws that we can
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  keep, like driving close to the speed limit. I said close to the
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  speed limit. Oh my, maybe I should have said speed limit. But
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  the fact is that sometimes people find what God says to be inconvenient. I
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  wish I had the time. But we see in the case of the time
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  right before the flood, during Noah's Day, and we see what happened during
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  this period of time during France's rejection of the word of God and exaltation of
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  what they considered to be reason. We see what that got them in both
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  cases. And so sometimes we don't even need to look into history. We
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  can just look into our own lives. When I walk away from the principles
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  of God, what is the outcome? What is the outcome? What are
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  the pros and cons of walking away from God? Come on, now,
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  I think it's very simple to identify that the light of God and his word
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  is the only way that makes any sense. The truth has its benefits.
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  Now I am understating, but I have picked three categories of our lives where
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  the truth manifests its benefits. Right, and the first one I want to
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  highlight is in finances. In finances, in the Book of Luke, chapter
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  sixteen, verse ten, the Bible reads, the one who is faithful and
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  very little is also faithful in much. The one who is dishonest and very
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  little is also dishonest in much. And you might be saying, well,
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  what does that mean? That means that God will entrust more and more responsibility
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  where finances and business and productivity are concerned. If we will just simply surrender
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  our will to him and be faithful to him. If we have little and
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  we're faithful with little, he will increase it incrementally as he sees fit.
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  I wish I had the time, but you see the principle. There also,
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  the Bible says here in the Book of Hebrews, chapter thirteen and verse
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  five, let your conversation or your conduct be free from coveteousness, and be
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  content with such things as he have. For he hath said, I will
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  never leave thee nor forsake thee. And so contentment contentment doesn't mean just being
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  okay with the status quo. The Bible is teaching us that when God causes
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  us to abound, like when we can be wealthy like Abraham or Job right,
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  then we are content. If God forbid we go down like Job did
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  for a period of time where he seemed to have lost everything except his connection
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  with God. But it seemed that he had lost everything materially. He said,
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  naked came I into this world, and naked shall I depart Ah?
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  And he said, blessed be the name of the Lord. And so contentment
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  doesn't mean just status quo, and it's not a big deal. It just
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  means that in whatever way God sees fit for my life to be, then
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  I am content, okay. And then of course generosity generosity every man according
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  as he purposes in his heart. So let him give not grudgingly or of
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  necessity, because God loves a cheerful giver. That's from Two Corinthians, Chapter
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  nine and verse seven. Do I need to really talk about the spirit ritual
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  growth that we experience by embracing the word of God. I think I do.
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  I should not take it for granted. Ah and tewod Timothy chapter three,
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  verses sixteen and seventeen. It says all scripture is given by inspiration of
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  God, and it's profitable for doctrine that's understanding from the Bible teachings, for
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  reproof, for correction, for instruction, and righteousness. That the Man of
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  God and women of God, of course, may be perfect throughly furnished unto
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  all good works. I wish I had the time to get into relationships and
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  and but the truth is, there are so many benefits that if we had
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  five hours to discuss them, we would not be able to cover. The
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  truth has its benefits. Live there. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el
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  David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,