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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 Thursday, April
four, 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 principle

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of the Great Controversy. Our caption
for today is our High Priest, Our

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

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like to say welcome to everyone joining
us, especially those joining us for the

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is the way that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then get underwaigh Father, thank you for this new day and

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for getting us closer to the coming
of Christ and closer to the Sabbath.

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I pray that we will have our
hearts prepared, prepared to meet you in

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this moment of time so that we
can worship you and then leave from this

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space and go out and serve in
the way that You've called us to serve

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in Jesus name. I pray amen
and aamen again. Okay, our High

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Priest. Now let me ask you
a question. So much to cover,

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so much to cover today? How
do you want understand this concept or principle

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today in twenty twenty four h on
April four, Like, how do you

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how do you see this high priestly
concept where Jesus is concerned. Have you

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ever needed someone to speak up for
you, to come into an intermediate,

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become an intermediary, huh, someone
to be an advocate, someone to stand

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up. Have you ever been in
that position? Now? I feel like

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I'm in that position. Yeah,
some years ago. I feel like a

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certain big bank in Jamaica. It's
not only in Jamaica, but a certain

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big bank in Jamaica. I think
they only one point seven million Jamaican dollars.

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That's how I see it. I
need somebody to speak up for me,

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Like, yeah, I've been abused
over the years when I was a

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young person. Not now, but
when I was young, I was abused

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in some unmentionable ways by different people. And I am not overstating this,

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by the way, I need somebody
to stand up for me. Yeah,

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I needed that when I was a
young boy. I needed somebody to stand

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up for me. But guess what, Yeah, more critically, more critically,

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the devil has abused every human being, like every human being has been

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abused by the enemy. Every human
being has been taken advantage of by the

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devil. Right, every human being
has experienced the wrath of the enemy,

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that roaring that one that's like a
roaring lion seeking whom he made devour because

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his time is short. So we
need a human and I need to be

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very careful and prayerful about how I
try to communicate this. We need a

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human being who was equal to God
to stand up for us. Did you

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get that we need God, the
Son, who is also mysteriously the Son

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of God, to stand up for
us. Okay, let me just go

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ahead. Let me just go ahead
and read. Read a couple of things

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here, and then we're going to
jump into the scriptures. First, I'm

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going to read from the book The
Great Controversy, page five hundred one,

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beginning at five hundred one, when
the Great Sacrifice had been consummated, So

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Jesus gave his life for us already
in this discussion. Here Christ ascended on

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high. So he went back to
heaven. Remember why stand ye gazing here

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up into the sky. The angel
acts the people who were seeing Jesus going

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back to heaven. Or maybe that
was a different timing. There were two

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times that he went up in that
short span of time. I realized what

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I just said. But anyway,
he's in heaven right, So he's ascending

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on high, refusing the adoration of
angels until he had presented the request,

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I will that they also whom thou
hast given me be with me where I

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am in John chapter seventeen, verse
twenty four. Then with inexpressible love and

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power came forth the answer from the
Father's throne let all the angels of God

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worship him. So let me just
say this. Jesus said, I don't

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want any worship from angels right now. I need to know if these people

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are going to be saved as a
result of what I just did. And

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God the Father's response was, go
ahead and worship Jesus' angels, go ahead

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and worship him. And so that
means that God the Father gave his stamp

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and seal of approval in that moment
that Jesus's sacrifice and his continuing work is

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enough and more than enough. Saying
yesterday we said love finds a way.

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This is another discussion. I wish
I had the time to really extend this

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one, but alas we don't.
We have just a few minutes left,

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and so I just want to say, thank God, thank God that Jesus,

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what he did was enough, as
high priest and more than enough.

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Where sin abounds, grace doth much
more abound. And so in the Book

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of Hebrews, chapter four, we
read, beginning at verse twelve, for

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the Word of God is living.
I want you to hear and understand why

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I'm going that far back in the
text. For the Word of God is

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living and active and sharper than any
two edged sword or double edged sword,

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piercing even to the point of dividing
soul from spirit and joints from marrow.

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It means that God can see everything
that we are, everything that we think,

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and this is why we see what's
coming next. It is able to

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judge the desires and thoughts of the
heart verse thirteen. So God knows everything

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about us. He sees and knows
everything about us, all of our sins,

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all of our desires, all of
our intents. Yes, and everything

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we're hiding or trying to hide.
And no creature is hidden from God,

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but everything is naked and exposed to
the eyes of Him, to whom we

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must render an account. Adam,
where are you Remember we said something about

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that yesterday verse fourteen. Therefore,
see, God doesn't leave us alone,

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knowing everything about us, knowing that
we are miserable, poor, blind,

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naked and don't even know it.
God is coming in search of you.

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Fill in your name here. God
is calling your name even now now that

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we understand that. Therefore, since
why is this thing doing this to me?

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Therefore, since we have a great
high priest who has passed through the

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heavens, Jesus, the Son of
God. So Jesus lived on planet Earth.

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He was tempted in every way like
we are. I think I'm getting

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ahead of myself. Let me just
read it. Let me just read it.

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I'm getting excited. It says here, for he's passing to the heavens,

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Jesus the Son of God. Let
us hold fast to our confession,

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for we do not have a high
priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses,

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but one who has been tempted in
every way just as we are. Yet

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he did never sin verse sixteen.
Therefore, let us come boldly, confidently

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and approach the throne of Grace to
receive mercy and find grace whenever we need

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help. Whatever you're going through,
brothers and sisters, Jesus went before you.

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Jesus was tempted in all points,
like as we are. If we

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read in first John chapter two.
We don't have the time today. Beginning

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I think around verse sixteen, the
Bible says that the deeds of the flesh

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are these lust of the flesh,
Lust or the world, are these lust

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of the flesh, lust of the
eyes, pride of life. Whoever embraces

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that is not embracing God. And
so if you look into the Book of

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Luke, chapter two and look at
the temptation order, the order of temptations

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that Jesus experienced, it was in
that same order of the flesh, lust

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of the eyes, pride of life. The devil tried to get Jesus to

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jump into sin in the same way
he caused that Adam jumped into sin.

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But Jesus, thank God, refused, which is why now by the power

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of the Holy goes, why he
can stand strong and tall as the great

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high priest that he is, that
when we have challenges with sin, he

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can help us overcome them and then
present us faultless before the presence of God.

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Wonderful day. Thanks for joining us
listening. Friends, Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but
by every word that comes from the mouth

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

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it a great day. Yeah,