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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 Friday, April
five, 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 through the Great

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Controversy, and our caption for today
and I want you to hear it with

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an exclamation point, Satan must go. Satan, he has to go,

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He has to go. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but

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first i'd like to say welcome to
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray and then we will get underwayh

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Father in Heaven, thank you for
this day of preparation. Please kick the

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devil out of our lives. Help
us to cooperate with you. In Jesus'

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name, I pray, Amen and
a man again. So I'm going to

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ask. I hope it's a rhetorical
question, but really and truly it may

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be something that you have to consider. So this is between you and God.

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You be the judge with God's help. Do you welcome Satan into your

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life? And it's like, wait
a minute, why would you begin in

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there? Well, there are things
that we do to either welcome God or

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the enemy in our lives. Right, we can't live in a relationship with

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God by default because we have good
intentions. We hope to pray more,

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we hope to connect with God more. We hope to yield our will to

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God more, and say, Okay, Lord, whatever you say for my

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day that I'll do it. I
intend to, I want to, I

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wish to, I hope to.
No So The question is, again,

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do you welcome the devil into your
life through gossip or not yielding your will

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to God? God forbid? Do
you welcome the enemy into your life through

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the music and other entertainment that you
see and enjoy and do it on purpose

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on the YouTube channels, in your
podcast listening, in the conversations that you

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have and may even enjoy and welcome
like a comedy that you find really funny,

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when it's stuff that makes God unhappy
with. Okay, you see where

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I'm going Like, So do I
welcome? That's the question. Do I

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welcome the devil into my life?
Or do I ask God to banish him

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from my life? My personal life, my spiritual life, right my financial

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life, my relationship life. The
people that I choose to surround myself with

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often determine, often determine the true
answer to this question. And when I

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say surround myself with, I'm not
saying that when we are assisting people who

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don't know God, that the answer
is going the wrong direction. What I'm

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saying is that there are people that
we hang out with and enjoy, whose

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company we enjoy, and we do
activities and have conversations and make plans that

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are contrary to God's will, and
in that case God forbid though people are

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welcoming the enemy into their lives.
And so with that we have to exclaim.

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Let's proclaim and confess today on this
fifth day of April twenty twenty four,

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that we want the devil to go
like he has to go. The

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same Jesus who banished the devil from
heaven must banish him from our lives.

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Now, let me read. Let
me read now from the book The Great

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Controversy, page five hundred, pages
five hundred and five hundred and one.

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In the banishment of Satan from heaven, God declared his justice and maintained the

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honor of his throne. Is God
declaring the justice his justice in your life?

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And you're like, well, what
is justice like? Is it pump

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your fist? We need justice,
we need justice? Or is it righteousness?

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As the Bible teaches, right,
we know that it's not just standing

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up with placards and signs saying we
want justice. It is the righteousness of

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God that we want in our lives. We need to have holy thoughts,

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we need to have holy intentions,
we need to help those who are oppressed.

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Yes, we have to help those
women who are widows. We help

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those who don't have any parents,
they are orphans. And we seek that

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justice, that holiness on earth in
the way that God sees it in heaven.

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Okay, and so let me continue
the quote. But when man had

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sinned through yielding to the deceptions of
this apostate spirit we're talking about the enemy,

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the devil, God gave an evidence
of his love by yielding up his

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only begotten son to die for the
fallen race. So now we see that

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the truth is that God loves us. He loves us because otherwise he would

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have seen our injustice, our unholiness, our unrighteousness, the times that we

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have welcomed the enemy into our lives. Yes, and he could have said,

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well, that was their decision and
then walked on by. He could

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have just walked on by and said, well, that's the choice they made,

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so well you make a bed,
go lie in it. Uh ha.

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The chickens have come home to roost. Like he could have said that.

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He could have said, you sowned, you've sown those seeds, and

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so you're going to reap that harvest. But instead of that, he said,

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I need to give them a chance. And before there was a beginning

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from eternity past. The Bible teaches
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was this plan of salvation. Knowing
that at whatever time he was choosing to

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create humans and the earth, he
knew the decisions that Adam and Eve would

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make. Adam in particular, Adam
in particular because as by one man,

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the Bible says, sin entered into
the world and death by sin. So

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we're talking about how, the how, the how Adam chose to go the

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pathway of welcome the enemy into his
life. Eve was deceived and chose the

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pathway to welcome the enemy into her
life. And because of this we now

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we now inherit the tendency to do
the same. It is a proclivity,

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if you want to look that word
up. It is a It's almost like

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a predisposition. We are pre exposed
genetically, and I'm talking about every human

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being. I'm talking that crazy stuff
that people talk about with evolutionary theory and

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the survival of the fittest and the
superior, the superior mindset of a certain

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set of people that live on planet
Earth to the exclusion of others. I'm

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not talking about that. I'm saying, every single human being, if you

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were born, if you were born
of a woman, then that means that

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you two brothers and sisters have a
predisposition to sin, predisposition to welcome the

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devil into your life. And so
God loved the world so much that he

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wants to eradicate that. This is
why Jesus told Nicodemus, you have to

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be born again. He wants to
give all of us new DNA. He

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wants to give all of us the
ability to not only resist the devil,

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but to embrace God. He wants
to give us the ability to do His

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will in all things, just like
Jesus did when Jesus lived on planet Earth.

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Let me continue to read. The
mighty argument of the Cross demonstrates to

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the whole universe that the course of
sin which Lucifer had chosen was in no

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wise chargeable upon the government of God. So we cannot blame God for the

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devil's deeds. Can I just say
that when things are destroyed, your homes

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are destroyed, or some hailstorm happens, and they put that into insurance,

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whether to cover it or not to
uncover it, or to cover it or

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not to cover it, and in
the United States of America and other parts

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of the world. They call it
an act of God. All of this

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destruction they call it an act of
God. And I'm like, why don't

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call it an act of the devil. Why is it always an act of

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God? Every evil thing that happens
on planet Earth, people blame God for

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it. I don't want to get
on my soapbox. Let me continue reading

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now. In page five hundred and
three, with a few moments, we

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have left the Cross of Calvary.
While it declares the law immutable, it

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proclaims to the universe that the wages
of sin is death. In the Savior's

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expiring cry, it is finished.
The death knell of Satan was wrung m

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so the devil had to go.
The devil had to go. God wants

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the devil to go out of our
lives. Yeah, embrace God. Let

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the devil go in peace. Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends. Always

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remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

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the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,