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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

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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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 Friday, April nineteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is Elle 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 aren't continuing in
our Lesson study series the Great Controversy,

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and our caption for today is be
Vigilant. Be Vigilant. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but
first I'd like to just say happy Happy

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

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Please join our online community, pick
up your Daily Portion book. Let

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

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ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. I need to actually look

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at the map now and see how
many more places you are coming in from,

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because our son and I have not
been able to do it recently.

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So we're gonna go ahead and take
that back up and see where are God's

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people in the world while you are
listening and watching and sharing the great news

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of Jesus Christ. Now, let's
go ahead and pray, and then we

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will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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day and for the privilege you have
entrusted to us for us to focus on

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you. Please, Lord, give
us holiness today. Help us to be

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aware, aware of your protection and
your presence, and also be ready and

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vigilant to do your will against all
odds. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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amen, and amen again, be
vigilant, y'all, be vigilant.

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So what we're going to do now
is read from the book Great Controversy.

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The Great Controversy, pages fifty six
and fifty seven, and it reads the

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same spirit of hatred and opposition to
the truth has inspired the enemies of God

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in every age. So I just
want to begin here and say that the

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devil has not really changed how he
does what he does, like a leopard

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cannot change its spots. And yes, you can see that there is different

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and more crafty methods, but the
fact is that the human heart is the

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same as it's always been, and
so you can predictably know that the enemy

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is going to take pot shots in
the same ways. Yes, we have

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new technologies, Yes there are new
styles of temptation, but really and truly,

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lust of the flesh is always it
has always been the lust of the

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flesh. The lust of the eyes
have always been the lust of the eyes.

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The pride of life has always been
the pride of life, no matter

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what era we live in what era
we live, And so the hatred and

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opposition to the truth is also the
same. Because God has truth as a

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focal point. The devil is the
father of lies, so of course there

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is an antagonism for the enemy toward
God. And also there's no place found

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for the devil again in heaven,
and so he's going to do all that

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he needs to do to get people
on the side of lies and error and

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hatred and fear, when God is
all about truth and holiness, love,

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eternal life, with him, as
you can understand here. Let me continue

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the quote, and the same vigilance
and fidelity have been required in God's servants.

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The words of Christ to the first
disciples are applicable to his followers to

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the close of time. Are we
not brothers and sisters living at the end

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of time? You see? So
if Christ gave his disciples some truths and

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principles and guidelines, and he is
saying through inspiration here that we can follow

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and must follow these to the end
of time, then we need to follow

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here. It is what I say
unto you, I say unto all.

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Watch. And that's from the Book
of Mark, chapter thirteen and verse thirty

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seven. You're like, Okay,
is that it Yes, that's the end

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of the quote right now, but
what does that even mean? Watch?

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Listen, there are people who have
been in the military, and you have

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been on watch, people who have
been security officers and police officers. You

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have been standing guard or watching for
crimes that may happen, and you are

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there to make sure that they don't
happen if possible. You see, the

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worst case scenario is not supposed to
happen under your what watch? When Josiah

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our Son was a little bitty guy, and he was able to creep and

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crawl, and then he was a
toddler and he was able to get up

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and bounce and do whatever it is
that he liked to do at that age.

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Yeah, I saw myself as the
safety mechanism. So we didn't put

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the little things in the plugs right
to keep him from sticking stuff in the

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plug, because my thing is I'm
daddy, that is that is my priority.

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I didn't put the little bumpers on
the edge of tables and all of

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that kind of a thing because I'm
daddy and that is my priority. You

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see, I was with him all
the time, and so I needed to

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make sure that I was watchful and
vigilant. Why because the priority for me

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was to keep Josiah safe. So
in the last days, what is your

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priority in terms of your relationship with
God? Yes, the truth is God's

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word, The truth is Jesus Christ. The truth is his holy ten Commandments

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law. And so when we are
being watchful and vigilant, that means that

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whatever it takes to be holy,
that is our priority. Whatever it takes

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to be on the same page with
God, that is our priority. You

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see, whatever it takes to lead
other people into a right relationship with God.

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That brothers and sisters is our priority. And so here are some action

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items, some action items that will
assist us along this journey of spiritual I'll

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call it vigilance. And so in
the Book of First Thessalonians, chapter five

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and verse twenty one, the Bible
reads, but examine all things, hold

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fast to that which is good.
Yes, so there are people who teach

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all kinds of things from the Bible, and or at least they purport that

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it's from the Bible. And so
what God is saying here is that we

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need to be clear that while we
are studying the Bible, we need to

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let the Bible interpret itself, and
we understand based on the power of the

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Holy Spirit, what is actually there, What is actually there? There is

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context, There is historical context,
There is immediate context. And to whom

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was God speaking when he had his
pen men penning these words in scripture,

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when he was inspiring them. And
so with all of those things taken into

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account, and now how these things
apply to my salvation. We examine all

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things and hold fast to that which
is good. And that means we're not

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going to allow anyone to mix up
what the scriptures is teaching us, but

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to hold fast to what God is
teaching. Also in tewod Peter, chapter

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one and verse twenty, the Bible
reads, knowing this first, that no

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prophecy of the Scripture is of any
private interpretation. And so what we need

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to do is educate ourselves and others
about what God is actually saying, not

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made up things, not things that
people have chosen for their own denominational context.

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Whatever the Bible is actually teaching,
that is what we embrace. So

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if somebody pops up in some city
or country or some island of the sea

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and has come up with a quote
new understanding, it's like, well,

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wait a minute, the scriptures have
interpreted themselves. We test the profits by

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the prophets, and so there is
agreement throughout the scriptures, all of those

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sixty six blessed books. And so
if something does not jive or line up

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with what God has already said,
what do we do? We let it

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go? We reject it. Why
because we are being vigilant, we are

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being watchful, and we're embracing only
what is true. And then the Bible

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says here in the Book of Two
Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen.

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Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be

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ashamed. Rightly dividing the word of
truth, God has given us the prescription

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to vigilance, that is, submit
to God and hold fast to his word

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Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live

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

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This has been your daily portion with
el David Harris, make it a

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great day. Yeah,