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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. Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It

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is Sabbath, April twenty, twenty
twenty four. Hello, my name is

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

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

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We are continuing in our lesson study
with lesson number four on Great Controversy

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under the caption standing for the Truth, Standing for the True. We'll get

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into that in just a moment,
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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 giving

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us this new day and for giving
us the privilege to stand stand for your

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truth. Please help us to actually
do so. In Jesus' name, I

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pray, Amen and Amen again.
So the truth is, and I know

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I'm probably going to say the term
truth multiple times today, but the truth

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is that we need God. And
the blessing is that He knows it,

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and he is what he is making
provisions so that we can always have him

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in our lives. And I say
that again, we need God, and

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he is so kind to give himself
to us. In fact, in fact,

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the Bible says, for God so
loved the world that he gave his

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only begotten son, that whosoever should
believe in him, who should not perish

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but have everlasting life. God didn't
send his son into the world to condemn

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the world, but that the world
through him might be saved. And so

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right before that passage of scripture though, is verses fourteen and fifteen of the

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Book of John chapter three, and
it reads as Moses lifted up the serpent

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in the wilderness. I want somebody
to go ahead and type in the chat

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antidote antidote, and I know it's
like, well, how do you spell

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that antidote? Okay, as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,

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even so must the son of Man
be lifted up, that whoever believes in

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him should not perish but have eternal
life. Jesus minimally is the antidote,

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and you're like, the antidote for
what, the antidote for eternal death,

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the antidote for the consequences of sin
ah, the antidote for eternal separation from

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God. Jesus is the antidote from
the deadly, deadly disease of fear and

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condemnation. You see, the Bible
says in first John chapter four that there

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is no fear in love, but
perfect love casts out fear, for fear

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hath torment. Those who are perfected
in love are bold. We stand bold

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in the time of judgment. Why
because we are transformed by His love.

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The same one who is love.
God is Love, is the same one

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who is the Way, the truth, and the life. And so when

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we have God in our lives,
through Christ in particular, we are able

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to stand for truth. We're able
to stand for truth. Now, the

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lesson writer used this passage in John
chapter three. It's very interesting, I

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said, Jesus is the antidote.
You see, the people of God had

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been disobedient by show of hands,
who has been disobedient here? Anybody listening

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on the radio, podcast, on
the internet, on television, have you

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ever been disobedient? And then the
people of God in the particular case here

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we're bitten by serpents, and they
were dying and dying and dying and dying.

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It was terrible. It was a
fearful time in the history and lives

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of the people of God. And
so what God said is, what I

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need you to do is to put
a brazen serpent on a pole, and

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I need you to give clear instruction
that if you have been bitten, you're

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about to die. If you have
been bitten, lift up your eyes,

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look at the serpent by faith and
live. And you're like, but hold

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on, why what God use the
same us a symbol of the same thing

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that was killing them in order to
save them. Well, that's a very

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good question. I wish I had
the time. But the antidote all often

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has it has a little bit a
touch of what has been working against us.

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It is used in a way that
works for us. So the serpent

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biting the people, they're fearful,
and God is taking the bite out of

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the serpent. Even in twenty twenty
four, he's taking the venom out of

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the serpent. He is causing people
to say, Okay, if I look

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to God in faith, then I
will be saved. What does that even

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mean? Yes, when I embrace
the blessing that God is, I'm no

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longer fearful of the things that used
to hurt me. I'm no longer fearful

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of the lies that the devil has
told me. I'm no longer fearful of

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those things that used to separate me
from God, my Father. Now I

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am looking to God to live.
And when I'm looking to God to live,

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that means my relationship with God is
a life giving relationship. And so

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Jesus wasn't on a pole, he
wasn't in the form of a serpent,

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but he took the curse of the
Roman cross and turned it into the antidote.

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Because Jesus now at the time,
was raised up and he gave his

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life on the cross. So that
you can live eternally. Brothers and sisters,

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all of those mistakes and those deliberate
things that you have done to separate

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yourself from God, because now by
faith you can turn away from those things,

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because you can now confess your sins
and be holy, and that means

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agreement with God. So you can
look to Jesus and live. You can

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look death in its eyes and say, but Jesus has the keys of hell,

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death and the grave, and he
has victory all in his hands,

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and he's giving that victory to me. When the devil says you have sinned,

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you can say, yes, I
have sinned, but Jesus came to

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save sinner. Stand for the truth, even when the devil tries to throw

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in your face the times that you
fell or a lie. And so what

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we want to do, what we
want to do is believe God. Believe

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God for eternal life, because he
said whoever believes in Him will not perish,

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but have eternal life. So that
is our step number one today.

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Believe God for his word. Also, there is a message of salvation that

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we want to share. He wants
us to share. As we receive the

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truth, we need to stand for
it and share it. In Romans chapter

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ten and verse nine, the Bible
reads that if thou shalt confess with thy

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mouth that Jesus Christ his Lord,
and shall believe in thine heart that God

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has raised him from the dead,
you shall be saved. So commit to

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sharing the truth of salvation through Jesus
Christ with as many people as possible.

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Now, truth is that there are
some people who have lost their lives for

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the sake of truth, that who
have to wait until the coming of Jesus

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Christ to receive the reward that he
has promised, because now they're resting in

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their graves. They lost their lives
at the hands of cruel people who did

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not love God. And what God
teaches us is that there are historic examples

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in the Bible, biblical figures of
people who did just that, they gave

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their lives for the cause of Christ, and God is going to give them

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their reward. God is going to
give them reward. And in the Book

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of Revelation chapter two and verse ten, the Bible says, fear none of

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those things which thou shalt suffer.
Behold, the devil shall cast some of

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you in prison, that you may
be tried, and ye shall have tribulation

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for ten days. Of course there
is a specific context. Yes, but

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be thou faithful to death, and
I will give you a crown of life.

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So whether we live or die,
we need to know, whatever trials

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we go through, whatever tribulations we
go through, if we will stand for

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truth and we will continue to surrender
our will for God to God, then

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we will have a crown of life. There is so much more, but

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we need to be courageous in our
faith and choose today. And as for

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me and my house, as for
you and your house, we're gonna serve

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the Lord. A wonderful day.
Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Friends, Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with

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El David Harris. Make it a
great day. Yeah,