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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 morning.

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It is Tuesday, April 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 through the Great Controversy.

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Our caption for today is planet Earth
becomes involved. Earth becomes involved And

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you want to say, well,
involved in what? Yes, we'll get

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into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to

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you and ask you to please go
over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community, pick
up the Your Daily Portion book and let

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us know where you are in the
world. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and
fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and

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see what God has to say to
us. Father, thank you for giving

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us the opportunity to pray. And
I'm asking you to please give us understanding

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of your will and then for us
to have the will to do of your

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good pleasure. Please fill us with
your Holy spirit in Jesus name, I

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pray, Amen and Amen again.
All right, and so again the caption

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planet Earth becomes involved. I have
said to you already that sin didn't just

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happen in Adam and Eve, right, it didn't just impact them. It

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also impacted the earth. There are
things that we see in our weather patterns.

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There are things that we see in
how things grow or don't grow,

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how the mountains are. We see
things in the waters and the seas,

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and in animal behavior we see that
well, there are predators. Now,

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when God created the animals, there
were no predators. They ate like elephants

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eat. If you want to say, yeah, but now we have a

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problem, and so we're going to
talk about that. But see if there

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is any grace in the situation for
us to grow from. Okay, and

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so there's problem on planet Earth.
Okay. So according to the lesson writer,

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when God created the Earth, he
created it perfect. And I think

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that there is no argument here on
that, not from people who believe God.

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The Bible says that he saw,
meaning God, he saw that everything

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that he had made indeed was good, good, very good. This is

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what the account is in the Book
of Genesis chapter one. There was no

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stain of sin or evil anywhere.
And let me just add here un planet

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Earth. Because Lucifer had war with
God. Lucifer lost, he became the

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devil. Of course in that process
he chose. By the time he was

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warring with God, he had lost
his Son of the Morning status, right,

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and now there's war in heaven.
God kicks him and his evil angels

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out of heaven and they're here.
But the human race hadn't chosen to follow

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him, well, not yet.
But the lesson writer says he gave Adam

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and Eve the same freedom of choice
he had given to Lucifer. He didn't

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want robot on Earth anymore than he
wanted robots in heaven. And so what

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I want to be sure of is
that you're not reading this, but this

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butt like there was no stain of
sin or evil anywhere on planet Earth.

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But we don't want to see that
as a contrast, like everything was good

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but God gave free will. That's
not what we want to see. But

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we want to see, however,
that now as the story is being told,

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there is a decision for Adam and
Eve to make. They have to

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decide whether they are going to follow
God fully as they have been created to

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do, as they had done all
the time up until this point, or

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make a decision to go the other
way like Lucifer and his evil angels had

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done. Okay, And so there
was this tree of the knowledge of good

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and evil. So love, I'll
call this absolute love, meaning God,

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because the Bible says that God is
love. Love gives humans the ability to

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choose in the same way that he
gave angels the abilities to choose. Okay,

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And so now we're going to look
at a contrast between what God said

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and what the devil said, and
now we will have the decision making process

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of humankind. Here we go.
In Genesis chapter two, verse fifteen,

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the Bible reads, and the Lord
God took the man and put him into

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the garden of Eden to dress it
and to keep it. So God gave

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Adam responsibility. He gave him the
privilege of work and labor, meaningful labor.

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And the Bible says and the Lord
God commanded him saying, of the

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tree of the garden, of every
tree, excuse me, of the garden,

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thou mayest freely eat. I want
you to hear how this works.

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Of every tree of the garden you
may eat except one. Okay ah.

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And it says here but verse seventeen, of the Tree of the Knowledge of

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good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it, for in the day

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that thou eatst thereof thou shalt surely
die. So God gave him work,

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He gave him meaningful labor. If
you want to say, maybe that's the

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way to say it. He gave
him responsibility, and of course he gave

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him his love. So there's no
problem here, nothing to see here.

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And he also now gave him the
ability to see like in real words,

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God is saying, I'm giving you
an opportunity to continue along this beautiful pathway

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that you have with me. You
are perfect. The earth is perfect.

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When I have given to you is
perfect. Even this decision making process at

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this point of your life is perfect, and I want you to keep it

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that way, okay, And then
the devil shows up. Long story short,

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we see now we see that by
the time let me go to Genesis

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after three, by the time the
devil shows up in the garden, something

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goes very wrong. Beginning at verse
one. Now the serpent was more subtle

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than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made. And he

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said, unto the woman, yea
hath God said, now we're seeing the

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subtlety right. Watch where he tries
to twist God's words. And he said,

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did God say that ye shall not
eat of every tree of the garden?

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Wait a minute, The Bible said
you may eat from every tree of

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the garden except one. So he
twists it. Okay. And the woman

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said, unto the serpent, we
may eat from the tree or the fruit

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of the tree of the God,
or the trees of the garden. But

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of the fruit of the tree which
is in the midst of the garden.

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God said, ye shall not eat
it. That's correct. Then she adds

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something, neither shall ye touch it
lest ye die? And the serpent said,

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unto the woman, ye shall not
surely die. So God said,

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we're walking now into these contrasts,
what did God say? What did the

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enemy say? See? God said
by his action that he loves them.

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Right. He gave them every possible
thing for their comfort, every possible thing

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for their continued growth imperfection, every
possible thing to demonstrate his love and protective

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care over them. And he gave
them guidance that this enemy would come and

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that they should make a specific decision. Even though they already innately had the

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ability to choose right, God still
gave him a bonus and told them exactly

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what their decision should be if they
were going to continue to follow him.

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Now, now she sees, wait
a minute, the devil says this,

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or this being says this, and
then the serpent says, wait a minute,

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God doth know that ye will eat
if you eat this, that when

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you do that, your eyes will
be open. Wait a minute. That's

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not what God said, you shall
be as God's Wait a minute, that's

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not what God said. Knowing good
and evil, God didn't say, this

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is what I want for you,
and then I'm gonna hide it like no,

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Wait a minute. And then the
woman said she saw the tree was

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good for food. Now her perspective
changes because she's beginning to accept the deception,

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and that it was pleasant to the
eyes. A tree that desired to

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make one wise, sin does not
make us wiser. She did eat,

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gave her husband, and he did
eat. So the minute that Eve accepted

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the counterfeit and the deception and Adam
made his choice to sin, then there

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was a problem talk about that one
planet Earth peace. Thanks for joining us

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listening. Friends. Always remember we
cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth
of God. This has been your daily

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portion with el David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,