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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 Monday, April twenty two, 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 Light Vanquishes
the Darkness. Light vanquishes the darkness.

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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, Welcome, Welcome everybody,
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This is a way that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will

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get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for giving us this new day

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and for the privilege we have to
open up your word. I pray God

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that you will help us to live
in the light, even as you are

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in the light. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again,

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light vanquishes the darkness. Let's go
ahead and begin by reading in the Book

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of Jude. The Book of Jude. It's one of the last books of

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the Bible, and it only has
one chapter. So we're going to verse

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number three and it reads, Dear
friends, although I have been eager to

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write to you about our common salvation, that is, the salvation that we

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have in common, I now feel
compelled instead to write to encourage you to

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contend earnestly for the faith that was
once for all entrusted to the saints.

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Notice now that the Bible is not
saying Jude, who was the brother of

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James, who was also the half
brother of Jesus. Judas the half brother

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of Jesus. Yeah, he's not
saying that we're supposed to be having arguments

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about the scriptures. That is not
what he's saying. He's not saying that

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we're supposed to stage a debate to
prove how intelligent we are. He's definitely

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not saying that. But we need
to say, like, this is the

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good Gospel of Jesus Christ that is
transformative in our lives, to the point

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that now when I was blind,
I can now see you see where this

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is going. Like when I was
dark in my imagination and loved things that

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God didn't love, Now I am
aligned with God. I love godly things.

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Like when I was not about committing
to one woman as a husband,

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you were not committed to one man
as a wife. Now we can be

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committed. Why because of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. There are people who

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will try to take the faith of
Christ out of your life and experience,

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and you should contend so that does
not happen. You don't lay down and

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say, well, whatever happens happens. No, God has entrusted us with

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a faith that cannot fail when people
come in and try to mix truth with

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error. You're in a faith community, and people mix up all kinds of

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things and then try to feed it
to the people of God. You're supposed

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to contend and not allow that to
happen. For certain men have secretly slipped

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in among you, men who long
ago were marked out for the condemnation.

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I am about to describe ungodly men
who have turned the grace of our God

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into a license for evil, and
who deny our only Master and Lord,

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Jesus Christ. This is a clarion
call, like Judas putting him out there.

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He's not allowing these wolves in sheep's
clothing to come into the fellowship of

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believers and then spread all kinds of
wicked propaganda. During the pandemic, there

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was all kinds of wicked propaganda.
And it's not the only time in history,

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but that one is one that all
of the people of God would have

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felt for the period of time that
the pandemic had its teeth sunken into our

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skin and had its grip on us. But God is saying no, no,

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no, no, no no.
I want you to contend and earnestly

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for the faith that was once for
all entrusted to all saints. In the

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last days, we will see all
kinds of abominations creeping in We talked about

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creeping compromise, and the lesson writer
actually says this admonition meant even more to

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the believers of the Middle Ages,
after pagan practices had flooded into the Church

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and human traditions compromised the word of
God. Let me just say, not

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compromise the word of God, but
in the hearts and minds of the people.

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It was snatched out of the hearts
and minds of people for centuries,

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many centuries, people like the walled
Denscenes, and you need to look them

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up. These people, these people
when when God's people were being persecuted from

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hither and yon like, when they
were when they were challenged to either keep

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the truth in their hearts or to
yield to the way that the world and

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the false Church had been pushing forward. The Waldensians stood, according to the

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Lesson Writer, as champions for the
truths of Scripture. They believed that Christ

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was their only mediator and the Bible
their sole source of authority. Let me

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just pause right here. Do you
still believe that Jesus Christ is the one

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mediator between God and humanity, I'm
saying, Or do you believe that there

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was a human being that has to
stand in the gap for you. I

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know we say it, stand in
the gap for me, brother, stand

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in the gap for me, sister. And when we say it, if

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we say it according to the way
that the scriptures would approve, we're simply

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saying, like, talk to God
about me, talk to God for me.

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Not because we can't do it ourselves, not because the person that we're

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asking to pray for us somehow has
more power with God. No intercession is

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just another opportunity for God to hear
the voices and the christ and the petitions

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of his people on behald half of
others, so that He can do what

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his will is in our lives anyway. But sometimes people take that too far,

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like that standing in the gap concept. They take it too far,

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and they make it seem as if
some person in a box in some room

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has power to keep us in connection
with God or out of connection with God,

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that somehow they are able to put
God into a little wafer and stick

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him in your mouth. And I
know that sounds sacrilegious, Well that's because

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it is. We are not living
on planet Earth with humans that have power

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with God that we don't have because
There's one mediator between God and humanity,

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and that mediator is Jesus Christ,
who took on human flesh. He lived

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the life in the way that we
should live it, powerfully, full of

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the Holy Ghost, right completely surrendered
to the will of his father, and

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his his victory now can be transferred
into our lives if we will just trust

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him by faith. When Jesus lived
his perfect life, he died, He

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died in our place, but he
still had his perfect record with God.

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Yes, and then he took up
his life again one beautiful Sunday morning.

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And he took up his life having
all authority in his hands, the keys

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of hell, death, and the
grave in his hands, the ability to

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unlock those things in your mindset,
my mindset, those things that have so

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easily beset us over the generations because
Grandma and Grandpa had challenges. And he

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says, no, you can stop
right here. You can stop right here.

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The buck stops right here. You
can decide to serve me. You

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can decide no matter what your DNA
or genealogy has determined, you can follow

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me. And now a quote from
the book Great Controversy, page sixty one.

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In every age, there were witnesses
of God for God, people who

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cherished faith in Christ as the only
mediator between God and man, who held

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the Bible as the only rule of
life and hollowed the truth of the Sabbath.

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That is the end of the quote. And so we give God thanks.

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Why do we give God thanks?
Because He's able to keep us in

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these last days. He can shine
in our hearts as the light shines in

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the darkness. Yes, and we
can do what God says. Why,

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because He's empowering us even in twenty
twenty four and beyond, to do and

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to live according to His principles.
Come what may? Is that your commitment?

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Peace? Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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

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

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a great day. Yeah,