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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 already,
yap, It's Sabbath, April six,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El David Harris. I am

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your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word

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every single day, and today is
no exception. This is our second week

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in our Lessons study series the Great
Controversy, and our caption for today is

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the central issue? All right?
You want to know what it is?

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Love or selfishness? What is the
central issue, y'all? The love or

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

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to say welcome to you and ask
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that we continue to build faith and
fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Bother and Heaven. Thank you for this

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new morning and for the privilege you
have given us to consider your word again.

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Please Lord, help us not to
just simply consider it or think about

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it, but to live your word, to be full of your word,

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and to be an example to people
who don't know your word so they can

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be introduced to Jesus Christ, the
ultimate word. I pray now that we

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will. We will yield our will
to you today in Jesus' name. I

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pray Amen. Then amen again.
The central issue love or selfishness. Okay,

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And so our text comes in from
the Book of Isaiah, the Book

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of Isaiah, chapter forty one,
and I will read verse ten. The

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Bible reads, and this is one
that I really love. I can hear

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the song we used to sing this
song years ago. Fear not, for

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I am with you. Be not
dismayed. Why not, For I am

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your God. I will strengthen you. This is God speaking. Yes,

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I will help you. I will
uphold you with my righteous right hand.

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I need to read it again.
Please fear not, for I am with

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you. Be not dismayed, for
I am thy God. I will strengthen

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you. God will strengthen you.
Yes, I will keep you. I

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will help you. Who will help
you? God will help you. I

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will uphold you with my righteous right
hand. There are so many people who

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are falling, falling, falling,
falling and can't get up. And I'm

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not trying to make a joke.
I'm saying there are people who are falling

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and cannot get up. Falling for
the enemy's traps, Falling for those evil

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deceptions that he has brought against us
that make us to minimize our family members.

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Falling for all of those wicked desires
that cause people to cheat people in

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business. Falling for the lie that
our spouses are not enough, which causes

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people to step out, step out, and to do things with people that

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are not our spouses, like commit
adultery. What people are falling for the

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okie dough like. The devil has
so many deceptions that people are falling for.

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And God is saying, no,
don't do that. I'm with you.

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You don't have to be dismayed because
I'm your God. Like I'm going

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to strengthen you. When you are
feeling weak and you feel like like today

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has to be my last day,
like my life must end today. No,

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I will strengthen you. Hm when
you feel like no one is listening,

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because maybe it's true. Maybe when
you reached out to your friend,

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your friend didn't have enough time for
you. Huh ah. When you feel

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like there is nobody there for you, Jesus says God, our Father says,

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through the power of the Holy Spirit. God says, I will help

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you when you have more month than
money and you are in despair. I

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will help you. When your children
seem to have lost their mind. God

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is saying, I will help you, and I will uphold you with my

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righteous right hand. When injustice is
all around you you don't know how to

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get through those terrible dark valleys.
God is saying that he's going to lift

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you up and he's going to hold
you up with his righteous right hand.

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I think we have a good foundation
here, so there is no fear in

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love, brothers and sisters, because
the Bible says, fear thou not,

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I am with thee. Remember that
song yes, So you don't have to

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fear because the God of Love is
for you. Okay. The Bible says

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there is no fear in love because
perfect love casts out fear. Yes,

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fear hath torment, but God's love, God's love strengthens us and gives us

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boldness. John said in the Day
of Judgment, you understand we can know

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that as he is, Jesus is. That is as he is, so

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are we in the world. So
the fact that Jesus is alive. When

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I say alive, I'm talking about
he is the source of all life.

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Yes, he came through the portals
of the tomb when he took on human

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flesh, and he took up his
life again like he promised that he would

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that Sunday morning, and he had
all power in his hands. He had

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the keys to hell, death and
the grave. And now victory can be

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ours. And so as he is
victorious, so can we be victorious.

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Yes, because he has the keys
to death. Now we can live eternally

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with God. One day, when
Jesus does return, it's going to stick

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that key in the lock, if
you want to say, He's going to

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open it up, open up the
portals to eternity with us. Yes,

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we get a glimpse. Now,
we get a glimpse of the sweet bye

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and by now. But then,
finally, we will no longer feel the

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physical pain that we feel now these
days. We will no longer have to

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sleep anymore, because we will not
get tired. We will run and not

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get tired. You understand, we
will no longer be limited by the human

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predicament. We will no longer be
tempted by sin, because sin will not

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pardon me, have no dominion at
all, and it will no longer rise.

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It will not rise a second time. That affliction of sin will not

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rise a second time. And therefore, as he is, so are we.

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And now we can be perfected in
love. Fear not why, because

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I'm with you? Okay, So
the lesson writer says this. Suppose you

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are a herdsman tending to your goats
in the hillsides of the Mount of Olives,

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overlooking the city of Jerusalem. You
hear voices. Immediately you recognize the

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voice of Jesus. As the setting
sun gleams off the temple and reflects the

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snowy whiteness off its magnificent marvel walls. Jesus emphatically states assuredly, I say

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to you, not one stone shall
be left here upon another, then that

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shall not be thrown down. And
you're like, well, hold on,

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hold on, hold on, And
that obviously is from the Bible from Matthew

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chapter twenty four and verse two.
What do you mean by as I look

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at this magnificent structure that was in
building for decades, are you saying?

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What do you mean by it's not
going to be here anymore? What do

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you mean by it's not going to
be here? It's going to be destroyed?

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There will be no stone left upon
another? What do you mean?

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This is like the This is like
the spiritual Titanic. It cannot sink a

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w a amen, Wait the tit
the Titanic did sink. This is like

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Babylon, the Babel Babel Tower of
babel Ah that they built with all of

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their human ingenuity to avert any destruction
that God could think of where floods are

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concerned. Even though God promised and
signified in the clouds with a bow that

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he would not destroy the earth again
by water. Oh amen, the Tower

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of Babel was destroyed too. Well. Why why why in this case,

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why would the edifice that represented the
presence of God, that was to be

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a house of prayer for all people. Why would Jesus say that it'll be

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thrown down? That is because God
knew. Jesus knew that. Unfortunately,

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the people of God would have gone
too far and rejecting him. People of

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God would have gone so far in
disrespecting the image of God in their lives

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and misrepresenting Him in the earth,
and not accepting his entreaties, not accepting

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his warnings through the prophets, in
fact, to the degree that they would

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destroy the prophets. Jesus is saying
all that you think, all of your

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human ingenuity, all that represents,
whatever you think is good, I'm going

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to destroy it. And yeay he
indeed did. The people have an opportunity

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today to live for God and to
live according to His principles. Thanks for

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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 been

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