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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 Sabbath, June
eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is El 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 with Lesson number

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eleven, the Great Controversy under the
caption the Impending Conflict, The Impending Conflict.

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

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say welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
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This is a way that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Our numbers
are growing, which is a blessing because

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the Lord said, this Gospel of
the Kingdom shall be preached into all the

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world for a witness, and then
and only then shall the end come.

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So we're looking at just about six
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we were catching up because we lost
almost five hundred in the transition. So

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I just thank God for you,
and thank God for the message that you

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are sharing by clicking the share button. And whatever your thoughts and feelings are

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concerning God's word as we study together, let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us

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this new Sabbath morning and for the
blessing that you have been to us until

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now. Please, Father, help
us to be ready for the crisis.

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But Father, I know that some
of us are always thinking negatively, always

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bracing for something. But more than
that, teach us to worship you.

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Please in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again. All right,

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So our key for this Sabbath morning
is where whenever we are facing conflict,

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God's word provides the solution. May
I say it again, Whenever we

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are facing conflict, God's word provides
the solution. Yeah, there are times

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that people are overwhelmed with the trials
of the certain politics that are happening in

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your particular country. Right, who
will lead? Who will not lead?

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Like what party will be the ones
in power or not? Right? You

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know, wherever there is conflict,
God's Word gives us the solution. May

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be wondering, like what's going to
happen in your Christian fellowship, like your

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faith community, because you see some
things that you just don't agree with,

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and you're like, but God,
how is this happening under your watch?

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Remember, whenever we are facing conflict, God's word provides the solution. And

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so we see, based on what
we've been studying for the last several weeks,

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that even conflict had even started in
heaven, in the courts of Heaven

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near the throne of God. But
at the appropriate time, at the appropriate

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time, when there was war in
heaven and mike Al and his angels fought,

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and the dragon fought, the Bible
says there was no place found for

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the devil. Right, the dragon
and his angels had to leave why Because

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God's word was that only peace and
love and everything that has to do with

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Godliness must reside in heaven, abide
in heaven. And so since they that

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they did not want to repent,
they had to go conflict averted. Conflict

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ended, I should say, in
heaven. And now we see that the

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conflict is on planet Earth. What
will happen the same thing. God will

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let this conflict run its course and
at just the right time. I told

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you, God's timing is not our
timing, Ah, But just the right

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time, God will end that conflict
once and for all. And then one

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pulse of love will go throughout the
universe that says again, God is love.

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And so the listen writer wants us
to focus today on a simple passage

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that really comes from a prayer that
Jesus was praying to his father. Sanctify

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them by your truth. Your word
is truth. Who is the them?

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These are the people that Jesus said
that God, our Father gave to him,

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the people who love God, the
people who follow God's word, the

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people who, in these last days
in twenty twenty four, love the Lord

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and keep his commandments. Because God's
commandments become ten promises when we have love

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for God, and perfect love casts
out fear, so we don't have to

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worry about fear or torment or being
condemned, because there is no condemnation for

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those who are in Christ Jesus,
and so God wants us to be set

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aside. He is setting people aside
for a holy use. And in fact,

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in the Book of Psalms, chapter
one hundred and nineteen and verse fifteen,

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the Bible reads, I will meditate
on thy precepts, Ah, and

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have respect unto your ways. You
see, this is a step, one

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of the steps for us to wholeheartedly
worship God in spite of the conflict that

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is looming, the conflict that is
even going on between God and Satan right

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now. But there is a bigger
one, a looming that will come to

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a head a point critical mass.
But remember, if I meditate on God's

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precepts and have respect unto his ways, Ah, then I will internalize his

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truths. His truths will become who
I am. Remember some people said that

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we are what we eat, So
if we eat God's word, they become

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a part of the fiber of our
being. And when that happens, then

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we have no problem connecting and staying
connecting, connected with God. But he

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also says, God says in the
Book of Hebrews, Chapter ten and verse

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twenty five, not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together as the manner of some

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is by exhorting one another, but
of exhorting one another, and so much

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more as you see the day approaching, let me use it in another translation,

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not abandoning our own meetings, that
is, God's people coming together to

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worship God in the beauty of holiness, where two or three are gathered together

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in God's name. There He is
in the midst that kind of a thing.

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Okay, not abandoning this kind of
a fellowship, in these kinds of

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meetings as some are in the habit
of doing, but encouraging each other.

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And even more so because you see
the day drawing near. What day the

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day of the arrival of Jesus Christ, the day of the end of the

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world. And so we thank God
that he allows us to have relationship with

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Him so that we can meditate on
his words, meditate on his laws,

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and become one with Him and also
become one with other believers. And of

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course we have been talking about the
Seventh Day Sabbath a lot in the last

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several weeks, because that is the
focal point, because God said that if

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the word of God is truth,
and we are sanctified by his truth.

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It also says in the Old Testament, in the Book of Exeits the Book

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of Ezekiel, that the Law or
the Sabbath and in the Law is a

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sign between God and his people that
he sanctifies us. So he's keeping the

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promise. He's keeping the promise that
Jesus prayed about, sanctify them by thy

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truth. Thy word is truth.
Part of God's word has to do with

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keeping holy the seventh day Sabbath,
because God said to remember, even though

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so many people are forgetting now.
The Bible does also say in the Book

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of Matthew, chapter twenty five and
verse forty, insomuch as ye have done

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it unto one of the least of
these, my brethren, you have done

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it unto me. And so God
wants us to think about the people,

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the lane, the main, the
blind ah, the halt, the people

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who are not able to do for
themselves, those who are incarcerated, and

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others. The least of these in
air quotes people that are often for gotten

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dejected, rejected, God is saying
that if you want to be connected with

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me, huh, then you take
care of these people. You don't leave

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them on their own. If you're
a worshiper, this is what you will

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do, because you will do it
as if you were doing it toward Jesus

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himself. And then finally, in
Revelation, chapter twelve and verse eleven,

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the Bible reads, and they overcame
him, meaning the devil, by the

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blood of the Lamb Jesus Christ,
and by the word of their testimony.

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The Bible continues, they love not
their lives, even to the point of

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death. So people who are true
worshippers, who are sanctified by God's truth,

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those individuals who take care of God's
children also have a testimony. Thanks

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

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

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