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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 Monday, April
one, 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 new new new Lesson study series

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called The Great Controversy, The Great
Controversy, and our caption for today is

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Lucifer deceives prevails, Lucifer deceives and
Christ prevails. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I'd
like to say welcome to you and ask

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and pray, and then we will
get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank

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you for giving us this new day
and for the privilege that we have to

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open your word. I say it
every day because it is a privilege.

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Thank you, Father for giving us
the key to victory. Please teach us

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how to accept it. You in
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. Lucifer deceives, Christ
prevails. Now I just need to give

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you a tiny little pet peeve of
mine. I don't know if it matters

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or not, but I think because
I'm so technical, I can't overcome it.

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The enemy of our souls used to
be Lucifer. That was the name

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that God gave him. Because he
was the son of the Morning. God

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created him to be this morning star. He reflected the image of God.

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But after he chose for the last
time his rebellious ways, he was called

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the deceiver. He was called Satan, the accuser of the brethren, right,

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the murderer from the time of the
beginning, Like, that's the way

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he was, right, this is
what the Bible references him to be.

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And so I can't call him Lucifer
anymore. I'm just saying I just can't

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do it. So now you'll understand
if I correct. If I'm doing these

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auto corrects often, it's because he's
no longer the son of the Morning.

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So let me just call it what
I see in scriptures. Right, he

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was Lucifer, but not anymore.
He's Satan. So Satan deceives and Christ

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prevails. Now I'm going to repeat
this in different ways now to get deeper

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into our core. So, the
devil hates, Jesus loves. The devil

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is self centered. Jesus is holy, grace and joy centered. And so

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yesterday we read a quote and I
am ashamed. I still didn't go back

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and get where the reference was.
But we showed that rebellion or the sin

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that arose in the heart of Lucifer. Now he's becoming Satan has no excuse.

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He has no excuse. He had
no excuse, especially in his case

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because he was closest to God and
he's still rebelled. You see, there's

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nothing that God can reveal about himself
to Satan today. There's nothing he can

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reveal to him about himself, about
God to Satan today that would cause him

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to reform. There's nothing for him
to learn, there's nothing for him to

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experience. He has seen the best
that God has to offer, and he

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still chose to rebel. This is
why this is such a serious situation.

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Now, do not play around with
the devil, because he's not playing around

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with you. That's what I want
to say. And this is coming from

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the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve
and verse four. Okay, this is

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speaking in symbolic language, but at
the same time we can see exactly what

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it's referencing. And his tale drew
the third part of the stars of Heaven.

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So basicly, this is saying that
one third of the angels, one

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third of the angels that God created
to reflect his own character, that God

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made holy, just like he made
lucifer. A third of those in those

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individuals, those supernatural beings who excel
in strength, who were in the presence

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of God, they decided they didn't
want God anymore. They made a decision

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that they did not want God anymore. They did not want love, they

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did not want joy, they did
not want peace, they did not want

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law and order, they did not
want who God is. And so they

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went with the enemy. They got
kicked out of heaven, right, so

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third part of them out of heaven
and did cast them to the earth.

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That's where God sent them. And
the dragons stood before the woman, that's

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God's people, the church, which
was ready to be delivered for to devour

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her child as soon as it was
born. So this is not about that

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necessarily today the details about the last
part of the passage. But now we

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know that the enemy got kicked out
and a third of the angels that God

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created got kicked out to thirty three
percent. I need that to settle in

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of the angels of God got kicked
out of heaven with the devil. And

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so in the lesson we read when
war broke out in heaven, the angels

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had to decide who would they follow. Jesus or Lucifer. What was the

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nature of this war in heaven?
Was it a physical war or was it

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a war of ideas or both?
We don't know the details, but the

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conflict was physical enough that Satan and
his angels were eventually cast out. Now

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I don't say cast out in my
normal everyday activity. So he got kicked

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out, like he was evicted.
He got his eviction notice, and the

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sheriff or whoever else serves in the
place that you are right, went to

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where he was and kicked him out. Yeah, and a place was not

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found for them in heaven any longer. According to verses eight and nine of

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the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve, the war obviously includes some kind of

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physical element. Now let me just
ask you, we don't have to go

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into the details of that again,
because we understand that the devil that disobeyed

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God. We know that those evil
angels, now they're evil angels, they

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also disobeyed God, and they refused
to turn toward God. They refused to

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agree with God and repent. They
chose that passage, that path. The

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question again, now that we know
all of this, and we understand somewhat

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our wily foe. What is the
reality in your life, brothers and sisters.

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When I switch on the television.
If I switch on the television,

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I'm speaking for all of us,
not necessarily me or you, all of

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us right when I switch on the
TV, when I open up my cell

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phone, when I am having conversations, and the war is still raging in

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the universe, in our minds in
particular, not just on the Earth as

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a physical planet where the plants and
shrubberies are. I'm talking about in our

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lives, in our decision making process, what we will choose in terms of

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how we develop yes or no?
When I'm making these decisions in my mind,

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what is the mind set? What
is the outcome of these decisions?

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Am I choosing God's side? Or
am I choosing the enemy side? You

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see where I'm going with this.
So this war in Heaven it broke out.

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We see what happened there. God
kicked out the devil. Now what

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do we do now? The Book
of Genesis chapter two, the Book of

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Genesis chapter two, we see where
that war it did actually come down to

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planet Earth Verses fifteen through seventeen.
And the Bible says that at the Tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil. That war was at its hottest,

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and God said he gave instructions about
what the people were to do or not

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do at that tree. When the
devil came to that spot and he began

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to share his deceptive thoughts with Eve, then the narrative changed in Eve's mind,

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and she was deceived, and she
chose to sin. And when she

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chose to sin, she went to
Adam he chose to sin. And now

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we have this mess down here.
What is your decision today? Will you

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choose to live with God or to
warn? Thanks for joining us listening.

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

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that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with

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El David Harris, Make it a
great day. Yeah,