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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 Monday, April fifteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El 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 through the concept of

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the Great Controversy, and our caption
for today is Savage Wolves. Savage Wolves.

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

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say welcome to you and ask you
to please go over to your Daily Portion

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Let us know where you are in
the world. And this is one

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of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. As I say

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every day for those who are here. That is how we do this.

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We're spreading the gospel together. We
are enriched together, we experience God's word

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and then share it with other people
because Jesus is coming back once this gospel

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is spread into all the world for
a witness. He said, then and

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only then shall the end come.
So let's do our part. Okay,

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Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and

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Heaven. Thank you for this new
day, this work week that you've entrusted

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to us. Now I'm asking you
to please give us your spirit, help

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us to be on the lookout for
truth at all times and certainly never be

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deceived by savage wolf. In Jesus
name, I pray, Amen and Amen

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again. Yes, you have heard
many times that there are sheep in wolve's

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clothing. Okay, I said it
backwards. You have heard many times that

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there are wolves in sheep's clothing.
That makes more sense, doesn't it.

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See The thing about it is we
learned the other day that the enemy,

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the devil, is subtle, many
times, at least in the way that

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he came to Eve in the garden
of Eden. The Bible says that the

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serpent was the most subtle beast that
the of the field that the Lord God

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had made, and what he did
was use not the sort of aha in

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your face, overt sorts of tactics
in order to get Eve to go in

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the wrong or at least entice Eve
to go in the wrong direction. I

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didn't want to say get because she
did have a choice, just like we

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do a We have a decision to
make every time the enemy comes with his

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temptations, and so in the same
vein in these days in which we live,

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and the apostles talked about it a
lot in the last days, we

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understand that there are savages among the
people of God, pillaging and going into

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the churches of God. With the
way that they insinuate doubt. They behave

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as if they are sheep. Some
even behave as if they are shepherds.

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In fact, I wanted to write
a book many years ago, and I

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may do it. I may do
it. That's on that very topic.

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I was about to tell you the
title, but I think I'll just hold

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that for you. But the Bible
is teaching us that we can, we

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will we must connect with God in
a way that when the wolves do come,

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when the tears are growing among the
great good plants of God's garden,

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we will be able to see them, we will be able to expose them,

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and we will be able to walk
in the office direction of them.

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But let's go ahead and begin in
the Book of Acts, because this is

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just discussion if we don't open the
Word the Book of Acts, chapter twenty

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and I am reading beginning at verse
twenty seven, the Bible reads, for

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I did not hold back from announcing
to you the whole purpose of God.

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Watch out for yourselves and for all
the flock of which the Holy Spirit has

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made you over seers to shepherd the
Church of God that He obtained by the

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blood of his own son. And
so this is why we need to be

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protective. Brothers and sisters, those
of you who have been entrusted the care

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of people has been entrusted to you
and to me. Yes, because Jesus

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gave his life for them. Jesus
gave his life for all of us.

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But when we have new people in
the fellowship of believers, when we are

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building relationships with people who need to
be closer to God and we are doing

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our best to assist in that regard. We have to be jealous over them,

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like Jesus is jealous over them.
Why because this is not just the

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country club, like where you just
put up a sign, you say,

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hey, if you meet these criteria, you pay this amount of money,

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then you can come on into this
club. And it doesn't really matter anything

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else except that you keep paying and
you keep the status that is required for

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the country club. You hear what
I'm saying, I'm saying it quickly because

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that's frivolous. But in the community
of faith, Jesus gave everything in order

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to save us, and for those
who have been making these decisions to serve

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Him and they come into the family
of God, we need to be on

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the lookout so that they can be
safe Verse twenty nine. I know that

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after I am gone, fierce wolves, fierce wolves will come in among you,

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not sparing the flock from among your
own group, men will arise.

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Jesus spoke about that in John chapter
ten, teaching perversions of the truth.

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So now we know that part of
what makes a wolf a wolf in this

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fellowship is when they start to teach
perversions of what God said it's like the

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enemy, the devil. He switched
up what God said, and then as

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a result of that, Eve was
deceived and she went down the path toward

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destruction. Thank God that Jesus didn't
just let her go. But the bottom

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line here is that there are people
who come in and they pervert the truth

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to draw according to the scriptures,
the disciples away after them verse thirty one.

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Therefore be alert, remembering that night
and day for three years, I

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did not stop warning each of you
with tears. See, God warned Adam

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and Eve about what was going to
happen at the tree, and he warned

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them that everything that they had access
to in the garden, it was just

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one thing that He had restricted for
them. It was a protective measure.

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It was also a test of faith, a test of commitment to God,

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and they both failed. But the
Bible is teaching us here that even the

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apostle is saying, I have warned
you about these kinds of people verse thirty

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two. And now I entrust you
to God and to the message of his

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grace. This message is able to
build you up and give you an inheritance.

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Among those who are sanctified or set
aside for a holy youth. So

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be on the lookout. I'm not
saying be paranoid, brothers and sisters.

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God said that we are to be
fruit inspectors. We should see the fruit

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of people who are among us,
and by them, by those fruits,

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we will know whether they are of
God and whether they are not. And

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if they're not, if they are
on the pathway wanting to learn and to

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surrender their will to God, that's
a different thing. But the people who

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come in looking like sheep and they
are spreading lies, that sounds so close

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to the truth. We need to
be very clear about what that is.

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And so the lesson writer points out
that these wolves would bring in heresies and

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false doctrines and practices that go against
God's word, and compromise. Compromise that's

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a big one. Where you knew
that there was a certain kind of relationship

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that you would have with your spouse
and your spouse only, But maybe you're

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staying too long on a telephone with
somebody who's not your spouse, and you

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find yourself endeared to that person,
and now you're emotionally attached, and next

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thing, you're in fornication mode full
stop. And now you're like, Okay,

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how did I get here? Will? It was a creeping compromise.

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Certain things that we watch on the
television or on our devices that lead us

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away way from God. Compromises,
gossip, huh unforgiveness, and we justify

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ourselves sometimes and think, well,
it's because this person did this to me,

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That's why I fill in the blank
negative. No. God has given

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us the ministry of reconciliation, you
see. And so in the Last Days

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it says here in the Book of
Second Thessalonians, chapter two, beginning at

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verse seven, that God is going
to allow people who choose to turn their

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backs on Him without repenting to go
along that pathway. We don't need to

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be those people. God has given
us the truth. The wolves are exposed.

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Let's go with God. Peace.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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

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

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David Harris. Make it a great
day. Yeah,