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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. It is Tuesday, April
thirty, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's Word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.

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Our caption for today is Enlightened by
the Spirit, enlightened by let me

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add the Holy Spirit. Yeah,
we'll get into that in just a moment,

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But first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot
com, please join our online community,

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pick up your Daily Portion book,
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in the world at your Daily Portion
dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let me just say,

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welcome to everybody who's watching on YouTube, multiple YouTube channel channels, multiple Facebook

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channels, hundreds of radio stations,
on Twitter and other platforms, television and

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devices. Sometimes I feel like I
want to call out those devices, but

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then it would make your devices go
crazy, so I won't say their names,

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right, But I'm grateful because that
just means that God is more interested

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in saving people than people are interested
in being lost. Can I just say

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that again? God is more interested
in saving you than humans are in being

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lost. And really we're just one
great decision and multiple other decison away from

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being in right relationship with God.
So today may be your day. If

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you've not already decided to follow God. Go ahead. Today is today?

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Why wait? Like, what are
we waiting for? Let's go ahead and

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pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for

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today. You've only given us this
moment. Please help us to maximize it.

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Please teach us to love you and
be enlightened by your Holy Spirit.

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In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again now let me ask

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you a question. You don't necessarily
need to confess this one, but are

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you Are you afraid of the dark? Is there anybody here that's afraid of

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the dark. Now, I'm a
grown man. I'm a grown man.

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I'm at least a half a century
old. Doesn't that sound ominous, right,

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I'm not afraid of the dark.
That's silly, right. Well,

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But then again, like I remember
moving out into the country. That I

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mean the rural area, a rural
area in West Virginia, many many years

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ago before we moved to another country, right, And yeah, being a

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city boy, I'd never experienced true
darkness, even at night time, there's

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always something on. And then yeah, I went outside when I lived in

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West Virginia and I realized, WHOA, Like, it can actually get dark

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and there's no street light, there's
nothing out there. If the sun or

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excuse me, if the moon is
not shining that night, or the stars

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are not bright, It's like,
whoa, this is crazy, this is

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really dark. I'm not afraid of
guns and gunmen. I'm not afraid of

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the things that happen in urban society. But when the wind breeze moved a

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little bit and the trees started flowing. I had to ask myself, like,

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are you a man or a mouse? Like? Why are you worrying

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about stuff you can't see? But
I say all of that in jest.

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It's true. But I say that
in jest because sometimes we are stumbling in

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darkness, sincerely, unnecessarily. When
the Holy Spirit is available to guide us

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into all truth and to lead us
into the path of righteousness to Jesus,

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the light of the world, sometimes
we stumble in darkness anyway, you see.

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And so let's go ahead and begin
with the Bible Book of John,

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chapter fourteen and verse twenty six,
where it reads but the comforter, or

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we could say, advocate, which
is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will

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send in my name? Of course
Jesus is speaking. He shall teach you

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all things. So I'm saying to
you, brothers and sisters, we don't

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need to stumble around in the darkness. We don't have to be afraid of

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our own shadow. We don't have
to be wondering whoa what is that over

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there shaken in the trees. No, when life is weird and we are

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humans, all we need to do
is yield our will to God and let

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the Holy Spirit guide us into all
things and bring, according to the scriptures,

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all things to your remembrance what I
have said to you. And so

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Jesus assures us that the Holy Spirit
serves as our teacher. He's the one

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that guides us if we want to
say, into the truths that Jesus would

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have taught while he was on planet
Earth, and of course everything that the

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Holy Spirit inspired those Holy Men of
God to put in the scriptures. Okay,

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and so we move now to John
chapter sixteen. And you've heard me

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quote this one many many times,
but let me read it again. Howbeit,

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when he the Spirit of Truth,
is come, he will guide you

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into all truth, all truth about
what Dave Well, I am so glad

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you asked the Holy Spirit guides us
into the truth about God and the truth

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about us. I don't want to
get into a big theological discussion, but

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the theologians heard exactly what I was
saying because of the way that this text

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is actually written in the original language. The truth about me is that I'm

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miserable, poor, blind, naked, don't even know it. I'm carnal,

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sold under sin. I came forth
from my mother's wombs, speaking lies

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right. I am born in sin, shapen in iniquity. That is my

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natural self. Like hiding in the
bushes, I'm naked. I hid myself

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because I was afraid, like Adam. That's my natural reality, my first

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birth reality. Well, what is
the truth about about God? The truth

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is that God is holy, just
and good at all times. Yes,

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he's the Lord, the Lord God. He is holy and righteous and merciful.

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But he would also in no wise
clear the guilty, you see.

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So God loves us even though we
are horrible on our own. And that

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truth is transformative. God knows everything
about you, and yet he still loves

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you. He guide you in the
truth about that reality so that he can

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lead us, lead you into a
right relationship with Him, so that I

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cannot have to be his miserable,
poor, blind, naked and not even

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know it. Where I can be
not any longer a miserable sinner, but

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a holy saint. You see.
So God wants to transform us, and

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he sends the spirit. And guess
what. The Spirit doesn't speak of himself,

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But whatsoever he shall hear, that
shall he speak, and he will

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show you things to come. So
the Holy Spirit of truth actively guides everybody

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who yields our will to him,
every believer into the truth of God's Word,

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the truth of how to live a
godly life in these last days,

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the truth about how to help other
people get into a right connection with God.

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Now. In the Bible Book of
Two Peter, chapter one and verse

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twenty one, we read that the
prophecy came not in old time by the

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will of man, but holy men
of God spoke as they were moved by

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the Holy Gold. There are people
who try to interpret the Word by themselves,

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instead of recognizing the fact that God
breathed, he inspired, He breathed,

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He inspired his word in the people
that He gave to write the Word

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of God as we know it today. He inspired them. And therefore that

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same power, that same enliving breath, or in living breath, like that

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breath, that power that comes from
God, just as God breathed into Adam's

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nostrils and he became a living soul, that kind of power animates our lives

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today. Yes, the same one
who breathed the scriptures can breathe into our

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lives so that we begin to live
the scriptures. And so and every breath

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that you take, I want you
to remember that the Holy Spirit is the

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one who was guiding you, yes, And that the Bible was authored by

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through the Holy Spirit, and he
used holy men, that he made holy

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Yes. But these are the words
of God. And when we know this,

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then we don't misinterpret that, we
don't make up our own way of

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communicating that. We ask God,
what would you have us to say?

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How would you help us? How
would you have us to help other individuals

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to live in the paths of your
word? And then having done this,

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we know that God is with us. And so many of those reformers we

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talked about why Cliff, we talked
about the Walden scenes. John Knox is

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the one that we're mentioning today and
others. Those individuals knew that the Holy

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Spirit was the one to give them
enlightenment, and so we must live in

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that spirit today, enlightened by the
truth of God's Word. Peace. Thanks

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

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

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,