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04 18 2024 Battle for the Mind · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris gool. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Thursday, April eighteen, 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 Battel for the Mind. Battle for the Mind.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot
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  com. Please join our online community there. Please pick up your Daily Portion
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  book and let us know where you are in the world. At your Daily
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  Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  under way. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for the privilege that we have to open your word again. Please give
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  us the fullness of your understanding and your word. Please teach us how to
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  serve you and how to love you, how to do your will. Father,
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  Please please help us to yield our minds to you. In Jesus' name,
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  I pray, Amen and Amen again. The battle for the mind.
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  Really, that's what our series could be called for these thirteen weeks. The
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  great controversy really is the battle for the mind. Because wherever our mind goes,
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  where our energy moves. Ah. Whatever we are settling our minds on,
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  that's what in our determination will be. Whatever we focus on will guide
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  us to the end. That's related to the focus. If all I focus
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  on is vehicles and money, then really the outcome of my life is maybe
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  I'll have money and a bunch of cars. If my focus is on my
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  belly, then all I'll be able to accomplish is having more of a belly
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  because of my intake of food. If my intellect is and spirit and emotions
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  are are focused on poor entertainment, then that means that the only outcome that
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  I can have is whatever the entertainment is bringing forward to my mind. You
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  see. But if I yield my will to God and my mind is centered
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  on things of God, then all that I do, all that I enjoy,
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  all that I involve myself in, will be godly. I didn't say
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  religious, I said godly. So when I enjoy nature with my wife Simon
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  and with Josiah, it will be in a way that pleases God. When
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  I enjoy things that He enjoys. Josiah enjoys, He enjoys vehicles won't it
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  won't be it won't be overboard, It'll be balanced. It'll be something that
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  we can enjoy it together. And God is saying, well, this I
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  have put here for your enjoyment, you see. And when we come to
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  the things that are holy, we will not get confused about them and make
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  them unholy. The Bible says, woe unto those in Isaiah chapter five who
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  call the things of God to be evil, and the things that are evil,
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  we try to make those holy. God says, don't get that twisted
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  like, don't get that mixed up. Make certain that when you are yielding
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  your will to me meaning God, then what I see is what you see.
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  My mindset is your minds. You are in agreement with me. You
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  see, confession and holiness are agreement with God. And so the Bible says,
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  let this mind be in you, or allow this to be your reality,
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  which was also in Christ Jesus. And then the Bible teaches us the
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  type of mindset Jesus had in humility and holiness and submission to God. And
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  Paul said, now, because God has demonstrated his power through Christ to be
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  all that I just described him more now that message of holiness through the Gospel
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  of Jesus, Christ meaning Jesus gave his life. He lived a perfect life
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  on planet Earth, so that and then when he gave his life on the
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  cross of Calvary, he died in our place, so that in his resurrection
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  power we can live holy lives. So Paul said, he's not ashamed of
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  the Gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
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  that believe. So those who have the mind of Christ have the power of
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  salvation because we believe in Him. Yes, when illicit drugs are a temptation,
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  we can walk away and embrace a relationship with God. Why because we
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  have his mindset. Not when people want us to gossip and to have even
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  a poverty mindset. We can replace those gossip minded people in our minds and
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  the mindset and the improvished mindset with the mindset of Christ, who says we're
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  above and not beneath. We're the head and not the tail. We're the
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  lender and not the borrower. That will be blessed in so many different ways,
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  as according to Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, verses one through fourteen. And
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  so the mind of Christ submits to the will of God our Father, and
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  we live holy lives as a result. Okay, and so tewod Corinthians chapter
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  four, beginning at verse six reads, but even if our gospel is veiled,
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  it has veiled only to those who are perishing. So this is a
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  way of saying that in twenty twenty four, I'm going to bring it to
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  today. In twenty twenty four, if we are living on planet Earth,
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  God has revealed himself through Jesus Christ and through his word, the power of
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  God into salvation I described and if people are not seeing it, knowing that
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  the Holy Ghost is doing all that is possible in order to lead people to
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  him. When people aren't seeing it, it's because they're perishing. They're perishing.
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  They're people who refuse to be transformed. There are people who resist the
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  urges of the power of God. I hope that's not you Verse four,
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  among whom the God of this age has blinded the minds of those who do
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  not believe, so they would not see the light of the glorious Gospel of
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  Christ, who is the md of God. I have a friend who is
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  angry with This person says, if there is a God angry because of some
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  things that happened many, many, many many years ago, and the way
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  this individual interprets what's happening on planet Earth today, and that individual, unfortunately
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  is choosing because I know that this individual has had access to the Gospel of
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  Jesus Christ, but in this moment, in this moment, this person is
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  choosing to be deceived, to choosing to be blinded, because this person's life
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  is not submitted to God. And anybody who doesn't choose to submit to God
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  are choosing blindness, are choosing darkness rather than light. And so the Bible
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  continues verse five, for we do not proclaim ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord,
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  and ourselves as your servants, for Jesus' sake. For God, who
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  says let the light shine out of darkness, is the one who shined in
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  our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the
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  face of Christ. And so even though we go through trials and temptations,
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  even though this world is really really weird and wicked both and at the same
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  time, even though there are things that we cannot explain about our existence these
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  days, because the devil is out here as a roaring lion seeking whom he
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  may devour. He's confusing a lot of things through politics and entertainment, even
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  sometimes politrics inside of the fellowship of believers. But God is saying that if
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  you will just yield your mind to him. Hmm. That means literally your
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  perception and your mental faculties to him. Then only what God teaches will you
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  live by. Only what God teaches will you embrace and be transformed by.
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  You will not be squeezed into the mold of this world, but you'll be
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  transformed I'll be transformed by the renewing of our minds. In fact, the
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  Bible Commentary SDA Bible Commentary, Volume six, page eight fifty four says the
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  Gospel is the only means by which by which Satan's diabolical schemes and deceptions can
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  be exposed, and by which people can see the way from darkness to light.
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  The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
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  who believes. You want to live according to the principles of God, then
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  yield your will to him. That's simple. Yield your will to him,
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  and let the power of the Gospel transform you and make you into the image
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  of Christ. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,
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  make it a great day. Yeah.