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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 Sunday, May
twelve, 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 and this is where
we give you God's word every single day,

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

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Great Controversy, and our option for
today is the Promise of His Return,

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the promise of His Return. I
will get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say and
say welcome, Welcome to you,

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and ask you, if you've not
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that we continue to build faith and
fellowship. Now let me just say about

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that online community that if you are
not asking any questions or having discussions surrounding

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these studies, then inside of the
community will be kind of quiet because I'm

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speaking to you every day, giving
you the baseline so we can have the

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discussion. Okay, So go again
join the online community, and if you're

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already there, just please go ahead
and begin the conversation and we will have

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it together. I promise you.
All right, let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underwagh,
Father and Heaven. Thank you for

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this privilege of opening your word again. Thank you for this new work week

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and for the opportunity we have to
look forward to the day of the coming

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of Jesus Christ. Please help us
to live like we are expecting you.

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In Jesus's name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. So there is

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a Bible passage that the Bible writer
says that to those who look for him,

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he will appear a second time without
sin unto salvation. The question for

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me is like am I looking for
him? Am I looking forward to the

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day that Jesus will return? That's
the question that with which we all need

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to contend, but me in particular, Like because I'm personalizing it, Are

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you personalizing it? Are you asking
yourself and asking God? Like? Am

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I living in such a way that
it seems that I am waiting your appearing?

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Like? How am I investing?
Am I investing only on things on

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planet Earth? Or am I investing
in the Kingdom? Am I investing in

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the so of people, the fruit
of an experience with God on planet Earth?

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In investing in people so that they
will be fruit that is born in

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heaven? Am I investing my time
in things that are tending upward? Or

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am I in my wasting my time
and things that tend to the earth only

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you see. So the promise of
Jesus's return is something that people have looked

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forward to for millennia because they didn't
really understand fully what God meant. But

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we are sitting on the time when
Jesus will come very very very soon.

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And I'm looking forward to the day
because I'm tired of the earth as it

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is, as beautiful as some places
are, I am tired of the earth

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as it is so. The Protestant
Reformers and the pilgrims who left from Holland

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for the New World longed for the
coming of Jesus. For them, the

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second coming of Christ was a joyous
event that they eagerly anticipated. John Wycliffe

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looked forward to the coming of Christ
as the hope of the church. Calvin

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spoke for all the Reformers when he
talked about the glorious return of Christ as

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all events most auspicious for faithful men
and women of God. The second coming

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of Christ was something to be embraced, not to be feared. Can I

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just say that again? And I
need you to perk up now. I

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want you to hear what I'm saying. The second coming of Jesus Christ is

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something to look forward to, not
something to be feared. And I know

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that there are some people who are
like me, who have microphones in bright

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light to preach, and they preach
everything burning down, blowing up, everything

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going so poorly, so badly and
scary and frightening, and hoping somehow that

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that message that they teach in that
voice will somehow inspire you to a higher

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relationship with God. And I'm like
Wow, how do we begin to get

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hyper focused on all of the terrible
things that would happen in order to hopefully

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get people to follow God? Like
that doesn't even make sense. Fear is

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never a good motivating factor in this
regard. And so we're going to the

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promise, one of the greatest promises
that we have ever seen in the Book

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of John, the Bible Book of
John, chapter fourteen, and I will

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read beginning at verse one, and
Jesus speaking to his disciples, said,

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let not your heart be troubled.
Ye believe in God. Believe also in

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me. In my father's house are
many mansions. Have you ever felt like

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you didn't fit in? Have ever
felt like there's not enough room in those

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positive situations? Ah, those experiences
that you wish you could have, Have

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ever felt like you could not fit
in? Well, he says, in

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my father's house are many mansions.
If it were not so, I would

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have told you I go to prepare
a place for you. And if I

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go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you

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unto myself that where I am there
ye may be also. And so this

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is called the blessed hope. Like
we are believing and hoping that Jesus will

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come in our day. Yes,
and Jesus was making a promise to his

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disciples that if you believe in me
when I do come, you don't have

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to fear. If you believe in
Me when I do come, you're going

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to welcome all kinds of people with
you to enjoy an experience of eternal life

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with me when I do come again. If you love me, then you

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will not be bound to this planet, and then you will not be destroyed.

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You have nothing to fear. Why
because you believe in God, you

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believe also in Me. There's plenty
of good room in the kingdom. Yeah.

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I think I'll pause right there and
go to another passage of scripture because

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so much could be said here.
But I don't want to miss this next

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point. So it's coming in from
the Book of First Thessalonians. The Book

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of First Thessalonians, chapter thirteen,
I mean chapter four. There is no

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thirteen beginning at verse thirteen. First
Thessalonians chapter four beginning at verse thirteen,

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and the Bible reads, but I
would not have you to be ignorant,

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brethren concerning them which are asleep.
See, some people are resting in the

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grave right now. They're dead.
That ye sorrow not even as others which

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have no hope. For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again,

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even so them also which sleep in
Jesus, will God bring with him.

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I just say that again, For
if we believe that Jesus died and rose

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again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus, will God bring with

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him? Okay, keep going,
keep going, keep going. For this

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we say to you by the word
of the Lord, that we which are

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alive and remain unto the coming of
the Lord, shall not prevent or precede

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them which are asleep. Let me
just say that when Jesus comes, he's

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going to wake up. He's going
to wake up the sleeping saints, and

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those sleeping saints will will be caught
up together and will read it in just

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a moment, together with those who
are alive. When Jesus returns that are

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his children, and together they will
go into the heavenly kingdom. So the

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Bible says here in verse sixteen,
the Lord himself who will do this,

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the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout and with the voice of

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an archangel, and with the trump
of God and the dead in Christ shall

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rise first, That's what I just
said. And then we which are alive

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and remain shall I'll be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet

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the Lord in the air. And
so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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And this is where I wanted to
get to. Wherefore, comfort one

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another with these words. Do you
find comfort in the word of God?

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Like do you find comfort in the
promise of the coming of our Lord and

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Savior, Jesus Christ. Do you
find comfort or are you fearful? If

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you're fearful, I need you to
go back to the same passage John fourteen

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feet Thessalonians chapter four, and know
that if you're one of his children,

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He's going to return for you,
this time without sin unto salvation. Keep

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the faith peace. 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,