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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna, 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, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Tuesday, June eighteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is Elle 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 the Great Controversy.

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Our caption for today is whom do
we worship? Whom do we worship?

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

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welcome to you and ask you to
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and the details. Okay, so
let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Bothering Heaven,
thank you for this opportunity that you have

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given to us to refocus our mind
and attention on you and the things that

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matter to you. Please, Father, teach us how to love you,

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how to serve you, how to
yield our will entirely to you. In

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Whom do we worship?

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Now? I'm really excited about this
subject because it's more than just an

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idea. Now, in Romans chapter
one, I want you to read,

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beginning at verse eighteen. When you
have an opportunity Romans chapter one, something

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very interesting happens among God's people.
It is somehow the people of God decided

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that God wasn't enough. He wasn't
enough. This is why narcissism exists.

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This is why legalism inside of faith
communities exists. Part of me, this

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is why people choose to worship self, worship our money, worship, our

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homes, our possessions. Sometimes we
worship our negative thoughts, our negative mindset.

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We make those even more powerful than
God. We make our ability to

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sin stronger than God's ability to save. Which is why some of us continue

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in the paths of unrighteousness, because
we don't actually believe that God is able

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to deliver us from our sins and
to cleanse us from all on righteousness.

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There are people who worship our degrees. We worship where we live on the

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planet. We worship sometimes even our
spouses or some other relationship that we have.

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Anything that we put before God,
that is what we are worshiping.

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Can I say that again? Maybe
I just wasted all of these words over

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the last two minutes. Whatever we
put in place of God or above God,

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that's what we worship. And so
children of Israel decided way back then,

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when Jesus and Moses were on the
mount, and Jesus was enfolding Moses

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in the cloud to teach him the
Ten Commandments, give him the Ten Commandments

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law, and eventually give him the
blueprint to the sanctuary on Earth. Yes,

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well, the people down below at
the leadership of Aaron, we're building

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a golden calf that they said was
going to be a monument to God like

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in a way, because they were
like, we don't know where this Moses

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is, give us something that we
can worship. And it was really supposed

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to be sort of a go between, a way for them to have something

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in front of them so that they
could feel good about worshiping God. And

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it's like, Nah, even if
you're trying to do that round the bush

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way, you can't use that as
a crutch to worship even the True and

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Living God, blessed be his name. This is not how this works.

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God said, I am the Lord, thy God. I am the one

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that brought you out of the land
of Egypt and bondage. I am the

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one that empowers you to live a
holy life. I'm the one that sanctifies

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you. Have no other gods before
me, full stop. And so in

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the last days, according to the
Lesson writer, the great great controversy will

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be played out in a dramatic way
over worship. Do we worship our creator

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or do we worship the beast and
its image? There is no middle ground.

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Now we continue the First Angel of
Revelation, chapter fourteen, urges men

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and women to worship him who made
the heaven and the earth, the sea,

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and the springs of water. In
further support of Heaven's appeal, the

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third Angel reveals the dire consequences of
worshiping the beast in his image. The

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same shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God that will be poured

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out without mixture into the cup of
his indignation. In contrast, and then

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we'll read from the scriptures those who
worship the Creator, and they are described

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as keeping the commandments of God and
have the faith of Jesus. It's very

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simple, brothers and sisters. The
Lord created us, and so he's worthy

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of worship. And I say that
again. When those people come to your

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house two and two and try to
teach you all kinds of things about Armageddon

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and one hundred and forty four thousand, and the law of the Christ,

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and all kinds of interesting things,
and they give you a magazine or all

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kinds of discussion, just ask a
simple question, do you worship Jesus?

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Like, is Jesus worthy of your
worship? And it's like, what,

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Yes, it's Jesus worthy of your
worship. And in Revelation chapter four and

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five. We see that there is
no conflict between God, our Father,

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and Jesus Christ where worship is concerned. Jesus, the one who comes from

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the midst of the throne in that
scene, is worthy to open the seals,

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to lay his hands on that book
that is there, and open up

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those seals and see and look upon
those things that are there. In Why

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because He gave his life for you, and he also created you, he

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created me. And so the Father
is worshiped in chapter four. Jesus Christ

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and the Father are worshiped in chapter
five because there is no conflict in heaven

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about worship, not anymore, not
since the devil got kicked out. And

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so we read now from Revelation chapter
fourteen and verse seven. Fear God.

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Fear God, and give glory to
him, for the hour of his judgment

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is come. And worship him that
made heaven and earth, the sea and

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the fountains of water. So we
recognize that true worship is directed only to

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the one, True and Living God. Why because he created us, and

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he created everything we can see and
that we cannot see. In Revelation chapter

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thirteen and verse thirteen, the Bible
reads, and he doe with great wonders,

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so that he maketh fire to come
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the sight of men. Of course, there is a historic element to this,

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and of course we see that there
are different beast powers that are driven

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by the devil, and they are
given the ability to deceive people. And

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in this text we see that that
is the reality. Do with great wonders,

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And so God is saying, God
against deception, be vigilant against deceptions,

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anything or anybody that does not agree
with God, We run far from

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them. Jesus said in Matthew chapter
twenty four that there will be false christs

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and false prophets, whether they're religion, political powers, or religious powers or

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political powers, or individual humans,
or the devils that are masquerading as ministers

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of righteousness, whatever it is that
conflicts with God's word. God's word,

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Jesus what he taught, the Ten
Commandments, law, what they are teaching,

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the entire body of the Canon of
Scriptures. Whenever there is a conflict,

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whether there was a miracle present,
yes or no, we go far.

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We run far from those. Why
because God is clear who he is,

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and he said, be not deceived, don't be deceived in the last

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days, because that's the intent of
the devil to trick us, just like

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he did Eve, to run away
from our relationship with God. And so

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in the Bible here a Book of
Revelation, chapter fourteen and verse twelve,

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it says, here are the patients
of the saints. I made allusion to

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that earlier. Here are they that
keep the commandments of God and have the

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faith of Jesus. So we uphold
the truth of God's word, including his

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commandments, patiently through the last days. Some of us are impatient. When

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will be the sign of thy coming? Like Jesus, when are you coming?

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It seems like all things are the
same since our fathers went to sleep.

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No no, no, no no, Do not become a scoffer.

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Brothers and sisters, know that even
though even though it seems that God is

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tarrying, hold fast, hold fast
worship God in the beauty of holiness and

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the fullness of your experience with Him
until he comes. Because soon he will

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come. You're going to be his
child when he gets here. It's a

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decision we make today. Peace.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,

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

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from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with EL David

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Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,