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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, and happy Sabbath. It
is Sabbath, May eighteen, twenty twenty

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four. Hello, my name is
Elle David Harris. I am your host,

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and this is your Daily Portion where
we give you God's word every single

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day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study

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the Great Controversy. Our caption for
today is Light from the Sanctuary. Light

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from the Sanctuary. Let me just
say that this is one of my favorite

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favorite favorite subjects in the scripture,
and so we're gonna get into that.

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We're at lesson number eight of thirteen
in this series, and before we do,

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I'd like to just say welcome to
everyone joining us. Especially those joining

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray and then get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day, this brand new

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Sabbath morning, and for the privilege
that we have to come together and to

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experience you in your word. Father, Please let us see and experience the

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light from the sanctuary and be transformed
and welcome other people to the same light.

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In Jesus name, I pray Amen
and a men again for this coming

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week. Of course, we're in
Sabbath, but beginning tomorrow, I decided

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that I would put a key point
at the beginning of each of our discussions,

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a key point, something that we
must not miss. And so for

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me for today's study, Jesus welcomes
us into the purity, No, into

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the light of purity and wholeness.
Let me say it again, Jesus welcomes

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us into the light of purity and
wholeness. Let's go ahead and begin by

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reading from the Book of Hebrews.
That's the Book of Hebrews, chapter eight,

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and we'll read verses one and two. This is what the Bible says.

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Now, this is the main point
of the things we are saying.

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And let me just say in the
Book of Hebrews, there are some beautiful,

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full, and yet complex things being
taught there. Many of us believe

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that Paul is the writer. And
even Peter said, there are some things

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that Paul writes, man that are
hard to be understood. Right, So

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even the inspired writers themselves can recognize
when some people are a little more complex

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than others. And so it makes
sense as a good teacher. Now Paul

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is slowing down. He's saying,
I've set a lot up until now.

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But here is the main point about
what we're saying. We have such a

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high priest. Who is the high
priest that's referencing. We're referencing here.

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We have such a high priest.
This is Jesus Christ, okay, who

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is seated at the right hand of
the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.

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And I wrote in my lesson in
big red bold letters with this here

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pen right, what a blessing.
Exclamation point what a blessed saying, why

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is this a blessing? Because our
High Priest is empathetic. Jesus Christ,

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having lived as a human for thirty
three and one half years, is empathetic.

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He knows what we go through.
He knows when we're tired, what

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it feels like to be tired.
He knows what it's like to be hungry.

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He knows what it's like to be
thirsty. He knows what it's like

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to have so many things to do
in the day that he has to go

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into a solitary place and pray,
talk to God, his father, so

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that he could have the energy that
he needed to go in to feed the

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millions of people by extension, of
course, not in reality, but by

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extension through the individuals that he would
minister to all of the hosts of people

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that would be edified. Like he
understood fully what it was like to need

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compassion when his friends wouldn't pray for
him in the garden of Getsemine, when

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he was kneeling and speaking, I'm
imagining that's what it was, and speak

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to God and his Father and was
sweating as it were great drops of blood,

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like while he was on the cross, and he said, my God,

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my God, why have you forsaken
me? Like he knows what it's

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like to be human. In fact, the Bible says in another place,

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in the chapter prior in Hebrews,
that Jesus was in all points tempted like

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as we are. And yet and
yet he never sinned, not even in

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the least particular. And so the
lust of the flesh that Paul talks,

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that John talks about, the lust
of the flesh, the lust of the

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eyes, the pride of life,
Jesus experienced temptation in those key areas.

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If we look at the sequence of
those temptations in the wilderness as recorded in

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the Book of Luke, we'll see
it's in that same order, lust of

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the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life. He experienced temptation,

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and yet he did not sin.
This is the kind of high priest

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that we have, who is well
acquainted with the feeling of our infirmities.

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Okay, and so we have such
a high priest. I think I've painted

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at least a little bit of a
good picture, an empathetic a high priest

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who is seated at the right hand
of the throne of the Majesty of the

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heavens. He's seated firmly at the
right hand of power. If you study

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Revelation chapters four and five, you
will see that in chapter four, Jesus

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is there the Father, the Father. The Father is the one being outwardly

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worshiped by all of the different categories
of creatures that are there. Yes,

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and then at just the right time, we get our worship to a pitch

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where Jesus Christ, the Lamb of
God, the lion of the Mighty,

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lion of the tribe of Judah,
who's coming from the midst of the three.

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In chapter five, we see him
now as being worshiped. Why because

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he was slain, because he gave
his life for you, because he gave

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his life for me, having been
equal with God, his father, right

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before he took on human form,
equal with God as father. In Michael

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chapter five, the Bible says that
Messiah, basically Messiah, is from eternity

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past. So Jesus, being equal
to God our Father, took on human

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form for thirty three and one half
years. He lived a life down here

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in the kind of power, being
fully surrendered to his Father, so that

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now with his empathetic self, with
all of the power that he received at

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his resurrection hah, all of the
keys of hell, grave and death in

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his hands. Now he is seated, and he is worthy of worship,

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as you see in Revelation chapter five
ave and Hebrews chapter one, worthy of

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worship in the Majesty in the heavens. Someone worthy of worship who is empathetic

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toward us is advocating for us.
I'm going to talk about that in detail

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in the next couple of days.
If the Lord spaars life a minister,

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this is Jesus of the sanctuary and
of the true Tabernacle. We're going to

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drill the true Tabernacle in a way. I'm not saying that you've never heard,

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but I think some of your minds
are already going a certain track.

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But there's more than what we say
customarily, but a minister of the sanctuary

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and of the true Tabernacle, which
the Lord erected and not man. This

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is in contrast to where God came
to Moses and said, have them make

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me a sanctuary that I may dwell
among them. Right in addition to that,

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now he's talking about the true Tabernacle. Nah, that place we call

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the Heavenly Sanctuary to include the Holy
of Holies. I wish I had the

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time, but I don't today.
But we're going to talk about how much

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of a blessing it is that Jesus
Christ, being that empathetic and powerful Savior,

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is now representing us. Oh my, he's representing us in heavenly places

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to the degree that we will no
longer need to fall down and keep tripping

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and falling over ourselves in sin.
We can be victorious like we can live

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godly in Christ Jesus in this present
world. And Jesus is well able to

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keep us from falling and to present
us faultless before the Power with exceeding joy,

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before the Presence, with exceeding joy. And so we're going to talk

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about that light, that light that
is coming from the sanctuary. Peace.

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

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

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has been your daily portion with El
David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,