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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 Thursday, May
two, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle 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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and our caption for today is obedience
the Fruit of faith. Obedience the

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Fruit. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like

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to say welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, and ask you to please

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for
giving us the opportunity to open your

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word today. Please teach us to
do your will in Jesus name. I

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pray, Amen and Amen again.
Let me begin with a part of a

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quote from yesterday's lesson that I didn't
get to, but it's critical and actually

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pivotal for what we'll talk about today. And it comes from the book The

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Desire of Ages, page twenty five, and it reads, Christ was treated

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as we deserve? Did you get
that Christs was treated as we deserve that

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we might be treated as he deserves. He was condemned for our sins in

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which he had no share. See, he didn't have anything to do with

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our sinning, that we might be
justified or or seen just as if we

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had never sinned, that we might
be justified by His righteousness, which we

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had no share. Mm hm,
I'm pausing on purpose. He suffered the

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death that was ours that we might
receive the life which was his. What

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a most what a powerful way for
us to begin today's lesson study about obedience

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the fruit of faith. And so
Jesus already did the heavy lifting. He

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has already done the hard work.
And so when we begin to be obedient

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to God by faith, right then
that means we're doing it in His strength.

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I'm deliberately pausing everybody, because I
think sometimes we run through these things

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and it's just like, okay,
and then the next lesson and then the

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next discussion in the next text.
No, no, no, no,

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no. The reason we are able
to do what God wants us to do,

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which is holiness, to be righteous
one hundred percent of the time.

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I didn't say that yesterday, Like
what one hundred percent of the time.

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Yes, we are able because Jesus
was. He did that already, and

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so if we yield our will to
God, then we can be holy just

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like Jesus was. And you're like, but David, we weren't born that

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way. I know that that was
that was our first birth. But after

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we are reborn, we can live
like Jesus lived. Yeah, yeah,

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I know it's going to take some
time to settle in. It's going to

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take some time to settle in.
Well, there was a new wind blowing

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through the Christian Church in the days
of Martin Luther ten thousands of people,

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And I'm reading this from the Lesson
where tens of thousands of people were taught

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to look away from their sinful cells
and look to Jesus instead. No doubt,

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these people, looking to themselves and
what they were like themselves, saw

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only things to discourage them. That's
what popped into some of your minds when

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I said that we are to be
holy one hundred percent of the time.

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You're like, wait a minute,
wait a minute, and you started looking

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to you, look to Jesus.
Let me continue, Let me continue.

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What believer today doesn't have the same
experience. That's why we need to look

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instead to Jesus. See, this
is what resolves pride in my mind.

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Sometimes we manufacture rules, some of
us, so that we can accomplish them,

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tick them off the list, and
then feel like we've done something right.

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Ah, we can feel good about
ourselves because it's like whoa, But

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one hundred percent holiness one hundred percent
of the time, that is impossible.

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Well, with man, with humans, that is impossible. But with God,

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all things are possible. The Bible
says that Enoch walked with God.

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The Bible says that job was holy
he was holy, He was holy,

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he was perfect. There was none
on the earth like him. And then

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he went through his trial, and
then God doubled down on what he said

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about him because he had learned to
confess his sins. He had learned to

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turn away from his sins. Do
you think that God takes unholy people into

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the Kingdom? Look at Elijah.
We saw some of the things that he

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did that were wrong, yes,
but we also saw that he was able

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to overcome those by the power of
God. And now Elijah lives in heaven.

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I don't know what he does on
a day to day basis, where

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he goes to visit Hah in some
place that we don't have access to because

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we're unholy. But I promise you
Elijah, Enoch and others that we don't

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know of are all ready in the
Kingdom because they are holy, So we

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can be holy. All right.
So let's go into the scriptures and see

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what the Lord has to say the
Book of Romans, chapter eight. There's

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just too much for us to cover, but let's cover the fundamentals Romans chapter

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eight, beginning at verse one.
There is therefore no condemnation for those who

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are in Christ Jesus. So if
you want to resolve your unholiness problem,

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if you want to resolve the consequence
of sin problem, then be in Christ

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Jesus. So God makes that first
step in our lives within for us.

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If we will surrender our will to
God and be in Christ, make a

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decision to follow Christ. Right,
submit our will to Christ. There's no

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condemnation. So now we can start
with a clean slate for the law of

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the life giving holy Spirit. In
Christ Jesus has set you free from the

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law of sin and death. In
Romans chapter seven, there were two laws.

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Two laws. One is the law
of sin and death and one that

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is, of course, the spirit
of life, which is in Christ Jesus.

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So when we're in Christ, he
delivers us from the law of sin

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and death, that is that thing
that is inside people, humans, every

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human that drives us to do wrong
because of our human and earthly dna.

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God has delivered us through Christ from
that law. Who has nothing to do.

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Well, anyway, I'm not going
to get in with it to what

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it doesn't have to do with verse
three. For God achieved what the law

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could not do because it was weakened
through the flesh by sending his own son

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in the likeness of sinful flesh,
and concerning sin, he condemned sin in

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the flesh. So let me just
say this, as Paul said another place,

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that sin no more has dominion over
you, brothers and sisters, because

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Jesus conquered sin while while living in
human flesh. So now the covenant of

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God, God's side of it as
God, and now the human side of

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it has been kept through Christ,
which means now He can give to us

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as a free gift what we need
in order to not only be saved as

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some kind of judicial act, but
that we can actually live like Jesus wants

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us to live. We can live
like God wants us to live. We

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can live like Jesus lived because of
what Jesus did Verse four, so that

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the righteous requirement of the law may
be fulfilled in us who walk not according

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to the flesh, but according to
the spirit. This is good. It's

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not just good, it's great.
And you want to say, well,

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why is it so great. It's
so great because some of you have been

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bound to the liquor bottle. You've
loved rum and become drunken, and you

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wonder, how can I be victorious
you have been. You have been addicted

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to sexual sin and wonder how can
you be victorious. You've been addicted to

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violence and things that are not leading
you toward God. You love entertainment,

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or have loved entertainment that leads away
from God, and you're like, well,

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how can I be delivered? Give
God your faith, Lay hold upon

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this great and precious promise that God
can deliver you by faith, and then

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by faith, simply do what he
says. Faith lays hold on the power

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of God, and then we can
be obedient. 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,