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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 Friday, preparation day,
May thirty one, twenty twenty four.

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Hello, my name is Elle David
Harris. I am your host,

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and this is your Daily Portion where
we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We
are continuing in our Lesson study series

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The Great Controversy our caption for today, and I want you to get this

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and get this good. Don't trust
the preacher, don't try the preacher.

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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 everyone joining us, especially
those joining us for the very first time.

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This is a way that we continue
to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for giving us this new
day and for the time to prepare to

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connect with you in a special way
on tomorrow. If we are honored for

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you to spare our lives. Father, I pray that you will open up

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your word to our minds today in
Jesus name, I pray Amen and Damen

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again. So I have a baby
brother. He's not my real brother,

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but it feels like he is.
Right. He's my brother in the faith.

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And his name is Norman, and
Norman I call him Jonathan because I'm

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David. So you know the David
Jonathan connection. You see how that goes?

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Uh. And one thing that Norman
says, like he's a preacher and

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teacher as well, he says,
don't trust the preacher. Don't trust the

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preacher like he says it while he's
preaching. He says it while he's teaching

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the Bible. And I ascribe to
the to the same sentiment because there are

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too many of us. And I'm
not saying that Norman does it. I'm

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not saying that I do it.
But so there are so many of us

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who are lying when we're preaching,
or we're severely misguided. And I'm not

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saying it for you to have the
kind of distrust that means suspicion. That's

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not what I'm saying, because I
preach all the time, you see.

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But what I'm saying is that our
trust should be in God. Our trust

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should be in the Holy Spirit teaching
us what things are true from the scriptures.

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In fact, the Bible writer actually
spoke about it. He said that

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there were some Bahreans who, when
they heard the teachings of the apostles,

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they would go back into the Bible, the scriptures that they had access to,

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and they would determine whether the things
that the apostles the preachers were teaching

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them were true or no. So
I'm saying, don't trust the preacher.

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Trust us enough to go and examine
the scriptures for yourself under the power of

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the Holy Ghost, but do not
take our word for it. Go back

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to the Word of God and see
if what we're saying is actually true.

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You understand now, don't trust the
preacher. And so in the last days

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we understand. And not only in
the last days, but especially in the

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last days. The Bible teaches us
that there will be false Christs and false

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prophets. There will be angels,
evil angels masquerading as angels of light,

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and also so as ministers of righteousness. Right. And so what we want

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to do is nullify that by surrendering
our will to God, by yielding to

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the point that when he speaks and
we read the Bible, we will see

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and hear what he has said,
and not what people say he said.

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And so in the Lesson we read
that in the absence of the Bible,

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testimony and their favor, many with
unwearying persistence urged forgetting how the same reasoning

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had employed against Christ and his apostles. Here it is, why do not

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our great men, those are preachers
and teachers. Huh, how come our

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great men understand this? Don't understand
the Sabbath question? But few believe as

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you do. It cannot be that
you are right and that all of the

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men of learning in the world are
wrong. That's an exaggeration. By the

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way, there are people who actually
believe the Bible know that what he said

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is true concerning the holiness and sanctity
of the Sabbath right and to refute.

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To refute such arguments, it was
needful only to cite the teachings of the

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scriptures. This is why I said
that earlier. Don't believe the preacher.

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All we have to do is cite
the scriptures. All we need to do

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is see what God has said and
the history of the Lord's dealings with his

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people in all ages. One more, Christians of the past generations observed the

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Sunday, supposing that in so doing
they were keeping the Bible Sabbath. And

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so we understand that there are people
who love God. There are people who

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love God all over the world who, for whatever reasons, did not understand

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or ascribe to the truth concerning the
Holy seventh day Sabbath. And so what

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God is saying to us is that
if we study and believe the scriptures,

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if we listen for God's voice,
then everything that he has to say all

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truths. According to John chapter sixteen, verse thirteen, when the spirit of

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truth is come, he will guide
us into all truth about him. He

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will guide us into all truth about
ourselves and where there are gaps. Now

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we have the impetus to yield our
will to God, Yes, that He

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will also teach us to observe all
things whatsoever He commanded. Whatsoever Jesus commanded

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us, and Jesus promised that lo, I will be with you always,

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even to the end of the earth. Have you ever been in a position

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where God revealed some things about your
own character and you were like, oh,

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my Lord, how did I miss
that? I definitely have been in

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that situation. I've been in it
often. In fact, as I am

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speaking to you now, I just
got finished talking to God about a time,

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a two year period of time of
my life when I may have missed

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some of the things that God was
teaching me to refort find my character.

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While I was going through I thought
I was getting it. I was asking

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him to show me and to teach
me. But I realized today that I

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was missing some things, and I
asked God for forgiveness for missing those things.

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He was teaching me some things about
me and how I was to relate

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to the world. I was to
relate when I am under fire and in

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tribulation in my own mind and based
on some external forces, right, And

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I said, God, please forgive
me. Will you show me how to

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live according to your principles? And
that is all we're talking about today,

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Brothers and sisters. If it's about
the Seventh Day Sabbath, or if it's

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about something else in our lives,
we can trust God. We don't trust

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preachers. We trust God to teach
us. And when He shows us these

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things, we can't act like we
did not hear them. When He gives

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us access to the truth concerning his
word, we cannot act like he has

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not given them. And so in
Acts chapter seventeen and verse thirty, the

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Bible reads and the times of this
ignorance. Of course there was a specific

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context. But you can apply this
to your life right now. God winked,

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but now commendeth all. Let me
use a different translation. Let me

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say it again from the net translation. Therefore, although God has overlooked such

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times of ignorance, he now commands
all people everywhere to repent. Was that

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clear? Yes, So embrace the
understanding that God's patience accommodates human ignorance.

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There are times that we don't understand
things, or we're slowly learning things,

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And this is why even in the
Old Testament system of sacrifices, God had

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this continual sacrifice, this burning that
happened around the clock from evening to morning,

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morning to evening, so that in
the event that somebody in the camp

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had committed sin, they would not
die immediately. Like there is grace while

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we are learning, grace, while
we're coming to the knowledge of the truth,

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Grace while we are positioning our minds
to finally repent. When David the

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King had done what he did to
Bethsheba, what he had done to Uriah,

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and brought other people into his sinful
activity for a year, he was

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on the run basically and not repenting. So God gave him grace while he

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was drawing him. And so God
is giving us grace. But once we

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are clear and this is accessible to
us, God is saying we are now

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responsible. Don't believe the preacher.
Let me just say again, the seventh

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day Sabbath is holy, whether you
think so or not. And I'm thankful

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that God has given us the light
concerning his work. Peace. Thanks for

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joining us listening. Friends, Always
remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has been

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your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,