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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 Friday, April
twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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

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

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today is no exception. We are
continuing this preparation day morning in our lesson

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study series, the Great Controversy,
under the caption our Progress, God's Perfection,

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Our progress, God's Perfection. We'll
get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome
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So many to say, let's go
ahead and pray and then we'll get

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underwagh. Father, thank you for
this day of preparation. Help us to

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prepare our hearts and to live in
the light of your perfection. In Jesus'

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name, I pray Amen and a
men again. Yes, So there are

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certain people with my behavior style aham, who are looking for perfection all the

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time, always looking for perfection,
like because we like things tidy, well

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organized and nice, right, and
sometimes to be frank in our religious or

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i should say spiritual lives, our
connection with God lives, things get a

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little messy and I'm not trying to
minimize it as if it's not a big

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deal, like when we make mistakes
and if God forbid we sin. It's

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not that God is saying, oh, no big deal. I know that

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you're only human in air quotes.
But it does mean that we should not

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arrest our own progress because we are
not seeing God's perfection in our own eyes,

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in our own lives. Can I
say it just another way, do

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not fall off the bike of spiritual
connection with God and growth? And then

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and then decide, well, it
doesn't make sense to continue along the path

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because I keep messing up. No, no, no. When we are

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in the light of God's word,
we are in the light of His salvation.

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We live according to the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. If God forbid we

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should fall, let me say it
this way. I'm going to read it,

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write out of the scriptures in first
first John, chapter two the Bible.

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The Bible says, my little children, these things write I unto you

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that she sin not right. And
if anyone sins, you have an advocate

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of the Father, Jesus Christ,
the Righteous, who has become the propitiation

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for our sins. So he stands
in our place, brother and sisters.

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So God has empowered us so that
we can live from the moment of our

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new birth experience until we die or
Jesus comes. We can live like Jesus

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lived from his natural birth ah until
his death. We can live holy lives.

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We can. But if along the
pathway we make a mistake, we

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do a sin, we can go
to God and confess those sins, agree

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with him about what happened, and
then in the power of the Holy Spirit,

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be restored, be restored and empowered
to do God's will, our progress,

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God's perfection. And so let me
just read from the book The Great

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Controversy, page one hundred three,
and then we'll go into the scriptures.

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God permitted great light to shine upon
the minds of those chosen men. We're

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talking about some of these reformers that
we made allusion to this week, but

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they did not receive all the light
that was to be given to the world

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through these his servants. God was
leading the people out of the darkness of

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Romanism, but there were many and
great obstacles for them to meet, and

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he led them on step by step
as they could bear it. They were

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not prepared to receive all the light
at once. Sometimes you wonder, well,

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why is it that God, God
didn't shut down the kings having on

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so many wives, Why is it
that you know the reformers that we revere

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in a lot of ways. I
respect the reformers, the Husses of this

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life, right, I respect I
respect the Martin Luthers of this life.

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And then of course the walden Scenes
and so many others. And you're like,

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well, well, they still had
misunderstandings, they still didn't keep.

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You could say the Sabbath, they
could they still didn't believe, and you

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could pick some other truths that they
didn't yet under stand or believe. And

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what God is saying is that our
understanding and our connection with God is progressive.

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If we are continuing along the pathway
that leads to life, then God's

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perfection stands in our stead. May
I say it again, this is not

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an intellectual journey. This is not
an intellectual journey. There are things that

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we don't either understand yet or know
as yet, and God is not holding

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that against us as long as we
stay on the path of progress. On

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the path of progress, I wish
I had the time to deal with people

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in the scriptures like Rayhab who had
a former life of whoredom. And she

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told, uh, well, Alie
really like, she was like, yeah,

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they're not here. I don't know
what y'all talk about. They're not

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here. And she hid them.
If you want to say, I'm saying

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that tongue in cheek, right,
she hid the people of God and she

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was rewarded. She was rewarded for
doing so. And you're like, but

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that doesn't seem right. Well,
who says it's not right? When God

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is the one who understands our progress. God is the one who understands what

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our real standing with him is,
how far he has led us, and

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how far he is still going to
lead us our progress. God's perfection.

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Okay, let me continue, Let
me continue. Therefore, he revealed it

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to the leaders, little by little
as it could be received by the people

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from century to century. Other faithful
workers were to follow, to lead the

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people on still further in the path
of reform. You see. So God

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did not give the every person in
the Reformation every little detail. And I

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don't mean little in terms of magnitude, but little in terms of how many

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of them there are. There's so
many, so many in this huge,

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grand scheme of things. He didn't
give them every single detail at the right,

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at the exact moment that they received
certain other elements of light. He

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has been leading his people, step
by step by step into a complete and

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right relationship with God. I think
that is a wonderful thing that will lead

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us now to a few a few
points that can be of help to us.

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Number one, embrace progressive revelation.
Progress progressive revelation. Here in the

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Book of Proverbs, chapter four and
verse eighteen, the Bible reads, but

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the path of the just is as
the shining light. Okay, okay,

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wise man, what does that mean? That shineth more and more unto the

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perfect day? So God is leading
us step by step more light, a

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little bit more light, more light
until the perfect day. Of course,

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we should prioritize spiritual wealth over material
wealth. In fact, the Bible says

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that we're not to lay up our
treasures on earth, but accumulate for ourselves

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treasures in heaven. That has to
do with priority, has nothing to do

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with how much or how little we
have on planet Earth. In fact,

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God wants us to be the lender
and not the borrower, the head and

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not the tail. Right, but
He wants us not to prioritize our earthly

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things, but rather prioritize the treasures
that we build in heaven. Yes.

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Well, there's so much else we
could say, but again, our progress,

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God's perfection. Trust him along the
journey. Peace. Thanks for joining

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

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

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