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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 manner 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 L. David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Friday, August four,
twenty twenty three. Hello, my

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name is L. 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 through the Book of

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Ephesians, and our caption for today
is His Revelation. Now, m his

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revelation. Now. We'll get into
that in just a moment, But first

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I'd like to say Happy Preparation Day
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and pick up your Daily Portion book. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father
in heaven, thank you for giving us

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today and the blessing that you have
been to us thus far, and for

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the privilege we have to experience your
word today. Please give us the revelation

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of Jesus Christ as we prepare for
the Sabbath hours that are coming soon.

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In Jesus name, I pray,
amen and amen again his revelation. Now,

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remember when I was a new believer, So I got baptized in about

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nineteen nineteen ninety six, and in
about nineteen ninety nine, mentor of mine

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asked me, brother, this is
what he said, brother, do you

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believe that we can have the revelation
of Jesus Christ? And I said,

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of course, you know that wasn't
a difficult question. And he said when.

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And as he was asking me the
question, we were already studying in

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Paul's writings, and so my mind
already was prepared to receive what my mentor

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was teaching me. But the fact
is that we arrived at the same destination

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that we can and will and must, if we are God's children, have

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His revelation now. And of course
I need to say, this is one

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big caveat through the Holy Spirit,
Okay, And so I say often to

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you that repetition deepens impression. So
let me read just a few pasts us

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few verses here from Ephesians chapter three, and then let's see if we can

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get through this other quote. Okay, the Ephesians chapter three, beginning at

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verse fourteen, and the Bible reads, for this cause, I bow my

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knees unto the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Okay. So Paul

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is praying for us people of whom
the whole family in heaven and Earth is

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named. And so we talked about
angels. We've talked about the twenty four

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elders we talked about, you know, the people who will at the Second

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Coming occupy heaven four thousand years and
then ultimately the earth made new. And

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so we don't have time to go
into those creatures and beings and those redeemed

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from the earth. But the point
is there is an entire family in the

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universe, and we know that many
of them are in heavenly places. I

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wish I had the time verse sixteen, that He would grant you, according

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to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with might by His Spirit,

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by his whom spirit I didn't say
what I said, whom, by

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the Holy Spirit in the inner Man. God wants to transform us from the

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inside out Verse seventeen. That Christ
may dwell in your hearts by faith,

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that ye, being rooted and grounded
in love, may be able to comprehend

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with all saints. What is the
breadth and the length, and the depth

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and the height. That is the
magnitude of God's love. And to know

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the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge. Remember, I've said to you

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that God is making known to you
that which is beyond knowledge. Right,

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He's making known to you the love
of Christ, which is beyond knowledge,

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that ye may be filled with all
the fullness of God. We talked about

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the revelation of Jesus Christ are the
glory in his people and the glory of

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Jesus, and how those come together. Right, So when we are yielded

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to God, then we begin to
look like Jesus. Our characters are like

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Jesus. Like the way we behave
like Jesus. The words that we speak

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like Jesus. The things that we
are thinking are like what Jesus would think.

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Remember the Bible says, let this
mind be in you, which was

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also in Christ Jesus. Right,
So this is really kind of the beginning

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of the revelation of Jesus Christ in
our lives, that it is Christ in

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you the hope of glory. If
you abide in Me and my word abides

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in you, then you can ask
what you will and it shall be done.

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So your desires and hopes and dreams
are in alignment with God's will as

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you yield your will to God.
You see, let me read this quote.

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It's coming from or at least as
much as I can from it,

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the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald from
October one, eighteen eighty nine, and

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it reads, how can we harmonize
our dwarfed spiritual condition with the presentation of

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the text that we just read that
describes the fullness of knowledge? It is

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our privilege to possess. How can
Heaven look upon us? And I wrote

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in my notes, Lord help exclamation
point, how can Heaven look upon us,

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who have had every spiritual and temporal
advantage, that we might grow in

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grace when we have not improved our
opportunities. The Apostle did not write these

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words to tantalize us, to deceive
us, or to raise our expectations,

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only to have them disappointed in our
experience. I'm continuing the quote. He

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wrote these words to show us what
we may and must remember. Earlier,

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I said, I can, I
will, I must receive the revelation of

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Jesus Christ right so to show us
what we may and must be if we

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would be heirs of the kingdom of
God. How can we be laborers together

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with God if we have dwarfed experience. If we have a dwarfed experience,

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a tiny experience, an experience where
we do not receive the length and the

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breadth and the depth and the height
of God's love, where we are not

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receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ,
but we are satisfied by simply saying we

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are so glad we're a part of
the family of God, when in fact

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we are not receiving the power of
God unto salvation. Some people, I'm

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saying, some people, this may
not apply to you, and indeed I

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hope it does not. But if
it does, I beg you receive in

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this moment of time, just more
than eight minutes into what we're saying today,

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receiving this moment of time, the
revelation of Jesus Christ. This is

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no hocus pocus like. This is
no positive thinking, This is no mere

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affirmation. This is not just me
saying or spouting across this microphone and camera

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with lights, camera in action.
I am saying that, through the impartation

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of the Holy Ghost, under the
authority of God's word, we can and

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will and must, if we will
yield our will to Him, receive the

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revelation of Jesus Christ, here and
now, and there is a blessing in

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it. Can you please, when
you have an opportunity, read in the

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Book of Revelation, chapter one,
the first fifteen verses, and you will

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see where God wants to give you
all of his light and revelation. And

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it's the revelation of Jesus Christ,
not just the revelation of intellect, not

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just the revelation of new understanding,
but to have Jesus in you the hope

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of glory. Let me continue,
Let me continue, let me go down

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here. Do we really believe the
Bible? Do we believe that we may

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attain to the knowledge of God that
is presented before us in this text?

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Do we believe every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God? And

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of course the Bible continues. If
that is the passage continues. If so,

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then receive the revelation today. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Friends, Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with

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l David Harris. Make it a
great day.