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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

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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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 Wednesday, April three,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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is El David Harris. I am
your host, and this is your Daily

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
new Lesson study series, The Great Controversy,

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and today's caption is Love finds a
Way. Love finds a Way and

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I underscored fines. I can't wait
to get into this, but before we

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do, let me not jump the
gun. I'd like to welcome everyone joining

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us, especially those joining us for
the very first time. You are on

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every continent of this well every continent
probably besides one on this great Earth that

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God has entrusted to our care.
You are in so many countries, and

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I'm thankful so many platforms and radio
stations and even one television station. So

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we take this time together seriously,
and I'm asking that you will continue to

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pray, pray that God's word will
go forward without any hitches, without any

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delays, because we're looking forward to
Jesus to come. Aren't you looking forward

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to Jesus coming? Yes, I
definitely am. I'm tired of this life

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the way that it is, and
so we do what we can so to

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have this gospel of the Kingdom to
be preached into all the world for a

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witness. And then and only then
will the end come. Let's go ahead

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and pray, and then we will
get underway. Father and Heaven, thank

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you for this new day and for
the privilege that we have again to open

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your word. Please help us to
live according to the love principle that we

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will see and experience today. In
Jesus' name. I pray, Amen,

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and a man again. Love finds
a way. I'm trying to highlight and

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copy that caption. Yes, love
finds a way. Now, let me

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read really quickly from the lesson just
to get us started. Do you ever

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wonder if God really loves you?
I used to talk to someone specifically about

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that as I was writing a new
lesson study some years ago, and I

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think, sometimes we talk about God
loves you, God is love, but

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when we look at it closely,
you know, and do we personalize it?

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God loves me? You see the
difference. Okay, So do you

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ever wonder if God really loves you? Look at the cross, look at

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the crown of thorns, look at
the nails in his hands and feet.

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Were talking about Jesus, some of
the things that he went through in order

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to save us. He gave his
life for us, like he was murdered

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in our place, like humans murdered
him. That was the thought that they

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had toward him. And yet at
the same time, he willingly surrendered to

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that because he was taking our guilt
and our shame to that place so that

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we don't have to go there.
I wish I had the time with every

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drop of blood that Jesus shed on
Calvary, that was the place where the

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cross was. God is saying,
I love you. I do not want

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to be in heaven without you.
Okay, Well, since that's the reality.

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Love has to make away, love
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so now we're going to read from
the Bible Genesis, chapter three, verses

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seven through fifteen. Let's see what
we can do with this time. And

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the eyes of them both were open, So we're talking about Adam and Eve

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after they had sinned. Eve was
deceived, Adam was not. Both of

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them sinned. Eve fell into sin, Adam jumped. I wish I had

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the time to get into that.
But their eyes were both opened, and

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they knew that they were naked.
So remember they were naked and undershamed before.

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And they sewed fig leaves together and
made themselves aprons. They were trying

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to cover their shame. They were
using human ingenuity to cover their shame.

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But how many know that if you
put on an apron over a naked body,

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that there are still some things exposed. And so they were still exposed

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even though they were trying to cover
themselves from spiritual and physical shame. Let's

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keep going. And they heard I
heard the voice of the Lord God walking

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in the garden in the cool of
the day. They were accustomed to that,

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but there was something different today.
And Adam and his wife hid themselves

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from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden. How

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could you try to hide from the
one that you normally had conversations with,

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you walked and spoke with. How
could you be hiding? Oh wait a

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minute, There is some shame now
because we have turned our backs on God.

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There's some guilt now. There is
fear now, Oh God. And

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so the Bible continues, and the
Lord God called to Adam. He was

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the one responsible. Adam was the
one who was created first. Adam,

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where art thou verse ten? And
he said, I heard thy voice in

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the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked, and I hid

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myself. What a terrible, terrible
commentary, brothers and sisters, A terrible

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condition to be in. The one
who was your friend from the moment you

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were created, the one whom you've
never hidden from, the one whom you've

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never felt shame around. Now you're
hiding from him, and now you're afraid

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of what. You have no context
for fear. You've never known anything about

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sin, Like, what are consequences? You don't know anything about consequences.

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But all of this now is crowding
in on your spiritual psyche, and you

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don't know what to do, And
so Adam in that state in desperation,

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he hides from the one who created
him. He hides from the one who

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loves him. Are you hiding,
brothers and sisters? Are you hearing the

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voice of God? Even right now, just fewer than just shy of seven

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minutes into our broadcast? And God
is calling out to your name? Fill

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in the blank. Where are you? You were naked and you hid yourself.

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God is saying, come out of
the bushes, like, come out

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of the trees, stop hiding in
the shrubbery, and come and stand before

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me, willing to surren under your
will, and I'm going to do something

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special for you. Are you hearing
the voice of God calling your name?

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Well, let's continue the discussion.
Yeah, so who told you that you

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were naked? Still? In verse
ten, hast thou eaten of the tree?

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Whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest
not eat? And the man said,

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what does a man say when he
is in shame? What does a

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man say when he's hiding from God? Like? What does a man who

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was still in his weakness and has
not yet confessed his sins? What does

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he do a man who's also married, he does the thing that weak men

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do in those moments. He blamed
his wife. That's what he said.

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That's what he did. And the
man said, the woman that thou gavest

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unto me. Oh, and by
the way, he blamed God to you,

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gave her to me. Yeah,
she gave it to me, and

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I did eat. And Lord said, unto the woman, what has what

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did you do? Like? What
have you done? And the woman said,

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the serpent beguiled me? So she
did what I used to hear mass

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murderers say when I was a young
child in New York City, that you

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would be on the news and say, the devil made me do it.

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And it's like what So he blames
his wife and she blames the devil.

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Nobody's taking responsibility for their actions here. This is a sad commentarian. And

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the woman said, the serpent beguiled
me, and I did eat. Okay,

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this thing just disappeared. Oh verse
twelve, Well, let me hold

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on to this. Here it is, and the Lord said, God said

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to the woman, what it's out
done? And then she blames the devil.

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And then, of course God deals
with the devil. He deals with

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the woman, he deals with the
man. I'm just going to pause right

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there, because I'll go into a
clinic if I don't. I don't want

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to do that. But the Bible
says in verse nine of Hebrews chapter two,

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what God has done in order to
save us. Hebrews chapter nine to

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and verse nine, we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than

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the angel. So Jesus took on
human form for the suffering of death,

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crowned him with glory and honor,
that he, by the grace of God,

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should taste death for every man.
So Jesus in the moment, the

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exact moment that they needed him,
Ah, humans needed him, Jesus stepped

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in. And then at the appropriate
time, which we'll talk about tomorrow,

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if the Lord spays life, Ah, Jesus gave his life so that we

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would not have to die. Love
made away. Man is blaming wife,

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wife is blaming devil. God is
taking responsibility. Love finds a way Peace.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by

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bread alone, but by every word
that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with
el David Harris. Make it a great

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day. Yeah,