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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 Thursday, May twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle 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, the Great

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Controversy. Our caption for today is
Jesus our Advocate in judgment. Please us

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our advocate in judgment. We'll get
into that in just a minute. You'll

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see I'm looking around. I'm making
sure that all of my systems are what

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I expect. But before we do, I'd like to say welcome to you

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that we continue to build faith and
fellowship. I'm locked in now, let's

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go. Father in Heaven, thank
you for giving us the opportunity to open

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up your word again. Please give
us your Holy Spirit, teach us how

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to live as people who are in
judgment and be connected to you. And

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I pray that you will give us
the fullness of your Holy Spirit. In

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Jesus name, I pray Amen and
Amen again. Okay, Jesus our advocate

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in judge. And as I said
to you the other day, what we're

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doing is focusing in a way that
is a key, like a key point

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in the beginning, so we don't
miss anything. And the key for today

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is Jesus advocates what looks like him. Can I say that again, Jesus

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advocates what looks like him. Remember
we're talking about judgment, and so the

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only way that we can come through
judgment is if we're holy, if we're

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righteous right, if we are fully
connected to God. And so the answer,

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the question is like, well,
how do I get like that?

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Well, by surrendering your will to
God. When we surrender our will to

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God, we receive the righteousness of
Christ. It's like Jesus puts on us

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a garment, a garment of holiness, a garment of looking like him spiritually

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speaking, Do you hear where I'm
going with this? And so when we

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appear in judgment, God, our
father sees the record books right everything that

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has to do with determining the eternal
experience of people, whether we're going to

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live with God eternally or we're going
to die and be dead eternally. And

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I'm like, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. So how do we

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get out of that death experience by
surrendering our will to God. We said

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the other day that we can't lose
because Jesus is our judge, Jesus is

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our advocate, he is the substitute. He's the good and faithful witness or

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the true and faithful witness, and
so on. And so we're going to

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focus on the advocacy part right now. Jesus advocates what looks like him,

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that is, people who are covered
in His righteousness. So We're going to

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begin now with the Book of Hebrews, the Book of Hebrews, chapter ten,

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and I I will read beginning at
verse nine. That's the Book of

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Hebrews, chapter ten, and I
will read beginning at verse nine. And

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the Bible reads. Then he said, lo, I come to do thy

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will, Oh my God, who's
speaking here? Let me read it in

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another version. By his will,
we have excuse me verse nine. Then

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he says, here I am,
I have come to do your will.

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He does away with the first to
establish the second. Now I'm going back

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to verse ten. By the witch
will, we are sanctified, that is,

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we are set apart for a holy
use. We are seen in God's

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sight as if we have never sinned, through the offering of the body of

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Jesus Christ once for all. So
now we know who is coming to do

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God's will, Jesus Christ. What
is part of the will that Jesus was

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doing in the presence of God his
father, saving you, brothers and sisters,

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saving me. So when Jesus is
doing God's will, his will is

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to do all that is necessary in
order to save me, to save you

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from your sins. Okay, So, Adam and Eve, they messed up

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royally. They messed up royally.
These individuals were created perfectly. They had

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nothing to separate them, nothing to
weaken them, nothing to make anything expect,

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make you expect at any point that
they could sin, because they were

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perfect. But they chose to sin, both of them. They both chose

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to sin. Eve was deceived and
Adam jumped into sin. Both of them

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chose to sin. And so well, the question is, well, how

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do they get out of that state? Because they covered themselves with goats that

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looked like or aprons that look like
fig leaves like that left things uncovered spiritually

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speaking and physically, by the way. And so Jesus he comes, he

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strips off though fictitious spiritual coverings,
He strips off those inadequate spiritual coverings.

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Are you seeing where we're going with
this? And then he puts on them

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the coats of skins. He puts
on them what is necessary and more than

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adequate in order to save them from
their sins, to cover them in the

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righteousness of Christ. And so now
we know that when Jesus gave his life

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for us and then was victorious even
through the grave, when he rose and

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took up his life again, on
that Sunday morning. He had power in

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his hands. He had the keys
of hell, death, and the grave

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in his hands. And now he
can give you, brothers and sisters,

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the victory that he had when he
lived on planet Earth. He's just giving

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it to us as a gift if
we will surrender our will to him.

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And so now we know that he
gave himself once for all, not like

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the Old Testament sacrifices that had to
be made over and over and over again.

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No, and so the Bible continues
verse eleven, and every priest standeth

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daily ministering and offering, oftentimes the
same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

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And so the Kindercartan view and the
Old Testament, when God was using

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the sanctuary of the Old Testament to
teach us how we are being saved,

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to take us through a journey of
relationship with him, he is telling us

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here in the New Testament that those
sacrifices were not really what was taking away

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our sins. It was pointing forward. It was a foreshadowing, a prefiguring

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of what Jesus was going to do, which was really wash away our sins.

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So now I can hear the songwriter. What can wash away my sins?

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?

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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
And I'm so thankful that he has given

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us this message and verse twelve.
But this man, after he had offered

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one sacrifice for sins forever, sat
down at the right hand of God.

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And so now we have the one, the sin bearer, Jesus Christ,

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who was our substitute in this case
and also our advocate. He now is

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sitting down at the right hand of
God. How can we lose Verse thirteen

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from henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool Verse fourteen and final for

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by one offering? How many offerings
did Jesus have to make? How many

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times did Jesus have to die on
the cross to save us from our sins?

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For one offering he hath perfected forever
them that are sanctified. See God

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is showing us that the ministry of
Jesus Christ in the most holy place in

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twenty twenty four, in the presence
of God our Father, is effective.

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And I think, you know,
using that word may be too little effective.

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I'm saying that because of what Jesus
is doing in the most holy placed

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ministry today. I don't have to
say bad words. I don't have to

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have a marriage that is not blissful. I don't have to have a mixed

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up money situation. I don't have
to be in a situation where I can't

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be in control of rage or anger. I don't have to be in a

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situation that I lose hope if my
children go astray. I don't have to

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be in a situation where I'm confused, like is God listening to me?

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Why not? Because Jesus is my
advocate and judgment and most of all,

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I can be assured. You can
be assured, brothers and sisters, that

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you will be saved if you are
one of His children. Peace. Thanks

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for 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

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