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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 morning.

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It is Wednesday, April seventeen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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nam is El 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 are continuing in
our Lesson study series under the principle the

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Great Controversy. Our caption for today
is human reasoning apart from Scripture. Oh,

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human reasoning apart from scripture. 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 the Your Daily Portion book, and let us know where you are

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in the world at your daily portion
dot com. This is a way that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship, brothers and sisters. I don't know

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if you realize this, but there
are tens of thousands of you who are

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watching and listening every day, actually
more than that, and I'm thankful because

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God is bringing his people together in
these small groups. I'll call this a

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small group because there are millions and
millions and millions and millions and multiple millions

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of people on the earth. But
He is bringing his small groups of people

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together so that just like the Disciples, just like the Apostles, from their

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small vantage point, they were able
to change the world. We are doing

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the very same thing under the guidance
of the power of the Holy Ghost.

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In twenty twenty four. You understand, this little program has been on since

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about twenty sixteen seventeen in the way
that it is now, and we have

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grown two hundred radio stations, come
on thirty platforms online. This is a

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privilege and I need you to see, like the song that we heard when

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we were young, brighten the corner
where you are. I want you to

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see yourself as one of the people
I don't care where you are. Papua

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and New Guinea, you're in Nigeria, you are in Australia, you are

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in the United States of America,
Jamaica, Land, We love Guyana.

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It doesn't matter where you are.
I need you to see yourself as one

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of the people who are hastening the
coming of Jesus Christ. You understand we're

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going with this. Yes, good, Let's go ahead and pray and then

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we will get underway. Father in
Heaven, thank you for these words that

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you've entrusted to us. Teach us
to live them in Jesus' name. I

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pray, Amen and a men again. You know, I think part of

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the problem with humans, besides us
being humans, is that we think too

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highly of ourselves. Some of us
think of ourselves too highly, and and

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some of us think that we're more
intelligent than we actually are. Now.

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Now, don't get me wrong,
listen, listen. I'm not saying that

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we're not intelligent in an earthly way. Mm hmm. Some of you misheard

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me already. I'm not trying to
give you a complex and say that you're

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unintelligent. I'm not trying to limit
you. In my mind, the sky

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is not even the limit. But
let me say this spiritually, if we

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don't humble ourselves before God, listening
and listening to and doing what He says,

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then we are foolish. That's all
I'm saying. So the fool in

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his or her own heart, there
is no God right fools despise wisdom from

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God's word and instruction. These are
things that God has said, and so

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we don't want to be caught into
the quagmire of being that way. In

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fact, in the Book of Proverbs, the wisest man who had ever lived

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wrote these words, there is a
way that seems right to a man,

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but the end thereof are the ways
of death. Let me read it in

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another translation, there is a way
that seems right to a person, but

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its end is the way that leads
to death. How many times have we

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made decisions that are actually destructive in
guiding us down the pathway to destruction?

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Like, how many times have we
been in that situation? Brothers and sisters.

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Let's just be honest here. So
the fact is the fact is that

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God is preparing our minds to say, if you will just abiden me and

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my word abides in you, then
you can ask what you will. And

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in fact, if you lack wisdom
and you ask God, he will give

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it to you. It will be
done unto you. So human reasoning apart

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from scripture, leads to what death. It's as simple as that. Not

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trying to give you a complex.
In fact, I'm trying to set your

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feet in the way that God is
wanting to set my feet on the path

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to righteousness. The book says here
in the Book of Judges, the Book

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of Judges, please just run quickly
with me to the Book of Judges,

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chapter twenty one and verse twenty five, and the Bible reads, that's the

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last passage in that book, in
that chapter. In those days there was

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no king in Israel. Every man
did with what he thought right in his

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own eyes. Again, in those
days Israel had no king. Every person

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did what he considered to be right. Now, let me just ask you

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a question. Is it rhetorical?
Is it a real question? I don't

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know what happens when we just lean
to our own understanding, when we think

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that we have all the answers.
Have you ever been in a situation like

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I'm a coach. I'm a coach. I coach a lot of folks every

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day. And what I realize about
human nature is that when people are invested,

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and you can fill in the blank
about what that means, but when

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people are invested, they are more
receptive than people who are not. People

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that don't need to do anything,
like people who are just in an environment

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because you know, it's a habit. You go to church every day,

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or you are being mentored by somebody
who holds you under their wing, but

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you didn't really kind of put buy
into it. You're just there because they

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seem to be kind or whatever.
Yeah, people who are not invested are

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usually to their own understanding, they're
not invested in their own growth. But

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people who are yielding to God's will, now let's make it spiritual, who

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are fully invested in the community of
faith and determined to live according to God's

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principles. When God brings his word, we face the truth about ourselves and

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the truth about God. The truth
about ourselves is that we are miserable,

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poor, blind, and naked spiritually
speaking, and we need to be transformed

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like we're cardinals sold under sin.
And the truth is that God is love.

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He is full of truth, full
of grace, full of mercy,

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and he is communicating that through his
word to us, so we can live

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it. And it says here in
Isaiah chapter fifty three and verse six that

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all of us have wandered off like
sheep. Each of us have strayed off

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his own path. But the Lord
has caused the sin or iniquity of us

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all to attack him, meaning Jesus. Let me read it in the familiar

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way. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned

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everyone to his own way. So
we need to humble ourselves and know that

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all of us have had difficulty.
All of us have turned our way from

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God at some point in our lives. Yes, and the Lord hath laid

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on him meaning Christ. He was
the Messiah, the lamb of God,

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being referenced here in the book of
Isaiah. He has laid on Jesus the

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iniquity of us. All he was
oppressed and afflicted for our benefit. He

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took the punishment brothers and sisters,
that we deserve so that we can live

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the life and the eternal reward that
Jesus reserve deserves. And therefore, whatever

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it is that he says to us, then we should esteem it as more

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than our necessary food hmhm. We
should relish the words of his mouth.

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A few years ago, the lesson
writer says, my wife and I decided

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to do some hiking in the forest
near a hotel where we were staying for

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the night. Typically, I am
fairly good at directions, and after hiking

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for about an hour or so,
taking various trails, I was quite confident

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that I would find our way back
to the little with little difficulty, but

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soon found that we were hopelessly lost
in the forest. And then, of

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course the story continues. Discovering someone
who knew the way and someone who had

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the ability to get us back to
our destination made all of the difference for

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us. Listen, Jesus is the
way, he's the truth, and he's

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the life. Follow him fully and
follow his words and you'll never get lost.

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

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

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God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,