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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 us

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through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of

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that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live

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healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to
Your Daily Portion with your host author speaker

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Elle David Harris. Good morning,
Good morning, Good morning. It is

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Wednesday, June twelve, twenty twenty
four. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where

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we give you God's Word every single
day and today is no exception. We

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are continuing in our Lesson study series
the Great Controversy. Our caption for today

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is Identifying the Beast Part two,
Identifying the Beast Part two. Before we

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get into that, I'd like to
say welcome to you and ask you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion
dot com. Please join our online community,

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pick up your Daily Portion book and
let us know where you are in

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the world. Also, if you
choose, please please join the coaching program

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at your Daily Portion dot com.
This is a way that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray and then we will get

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underway. Father and Heaven, thank
you for giving us this new day and

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for thank for giving us the opportunity
to continue the conversation. Father, and

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I pray that you will give us
understanding, give us the fullness of your

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Holy Spirit, give us the fortitude
in these days to serve you with everything

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that we have and everything that we
are in Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. I just
want to begin. I want to begin

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like I did yesterday and I'll do
it again for a couple of days.

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Well, to say that, in
order to get a full grasp of you're

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going to have to study outside of
these couple of moments that we have here.

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So we will encourage you, we
will give you some things to think

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about, but this is something that
you really need to sit down and pray

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over and study deeply. Okay,
So please go to Amazing Facts website,

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the Amazing Facts website and look up
the subject the Mark of the Beast.

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There are studies, sermons, and
all kinds of other resources that can help

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you where that is concerned. Okay, So I'm going to show you how

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to remain connected to God even while
the beast is marking his people. Did

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you hear me? I'm going to
show you, just briefly today, how

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to remain connected to God while the
beast in air quotes is marking his people.

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You see. I want you to
remember the lyrics of one song.

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And I know some people are gonna
be unhappy that I use these lyrics,

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but I want you to get up, stand up, don't give up the

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fight. Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights, your

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rights to do what to worship God
and the beauty of holiness according to your

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conscience. Yes, stand up,
stand up for your rights to serve God

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according to your conscience because you believe
and the word of God. You see,

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I want you to stand up and
fight for your rights to only worship

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God and to live like there is
only one mediator between God and man.

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That is the man Jesus Christ,
not a person that is in the box

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of an uncut confessional booth, not
to some church or some body of deacons

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or elders or bishops or cardinals or
anything else. Right, we stand up

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for our right to worship God according
to what he has said. We stand

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up for our rights because God gave
them to us through his holy ten Commandments.

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Law to continue with the Sabbath being
holy in our hearts, in our

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minds as an appointment, a special
divine appointment where we encounter God in a

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way that even when we worship God
on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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Thursday, Friday, even during those
times while we are worshiping God,

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because we worship God every day if
we're one of his children, we walk

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with God, we talk with God, we live with Him always on our

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minds, as if we are in
His visible presence. But there is a

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sanctity to the holy seventh day Sabbath. I think that was redundant. There

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is a sanctity to the Sabbath,
and we can't remove that. So stand

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up for your right to live according
to this principle. Okay. And so

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according to the Lesson writer, quoting
from the Great Controversy Book, page five

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hundred and ninety two, those who
honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as

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enemies of law and order, as
breaking down the moral restraints of society.

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I wish I had the time,
but I gave you a resource already causing

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anarchy and corruption and calling down judgments
of God upon the earth. They will

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be accused of disaffection toward the government. Ministers who deny the obligation of the

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divine law will present from the pulpit
the duty of yielding obedience to the civil

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authorities as ordained of God in legislative
halls and courts of justice. Commandment keepers

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we're talking about God's commandments will be
misrepresented and condemned. Again, Go to

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Amazing Facts if you miss the beginning
of this, to Amazing Facts and study

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as you search for the mark of
the Beast as a topic there in their

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search box. Okay. And so
now I'm going to give you how to

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remain connected to God during the crazy
crises that are coming upon the earth.

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Okay. And so the first thing
is to continue to commune with God.

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Commune with God through his works.
The Bible reads as Jesus was praying in

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John chapter seventeen and verse seventeen,
Sanctify them by Thy truth. Your word

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is truth. So we need to
dedicate some time every single day when we

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wake up just studying God's word.
But We're not just studying as if we

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are in school. We are committing
God's word to our minds and hearts so

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that He can transform us and we
can live according to his principles. It's

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not only about the things that we
keep talking about for these last few days.

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It's how we treat our spouses if
we're married. It's how we connect

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with God when we are in a
worship setting. Are we criticizing the preacher

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and the singers and everything else that
happens inside of that environment, or are

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we connecting ourselves to God so that
we can have the best experience with Him

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and be transformed? Yes, how
do we relate to our children? How

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do we relate to people on the
road that are not godly? What do

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we think about when people at work
seem not to be going in the right

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place direction? Do we think about
all kinds of evil and firing back on

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them? Or are we looking for
a way that we can be of service

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to them when they God forbid,
should lose a loved one or somehow they

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are in some other kind of trial
or difficulty and we can be of service

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or encouragement. Representing God in real
life settings, you understand when the rum

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bottle is still calling your name.
It's a way out from an air quote,

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it's a way out from your difficulties. Are you going to connect to

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God? Are you going to connect
to the enemy by inebriation? And so

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we study to connect with God,
sanctify them that has set us aside for

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a holy use by thy truth,
Jesus said, Thy word is truth.

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We already spoke about prayer yesterday,
and we want to be faithful in worship,

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the Bible reads in John chapter four
and verse twenty three. But the

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hour is coming and is now here
when true worship are You're a true worshiper

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of the Living God. Huh,
blessed be his name, will worship the

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Father in spirit and in truth,
for the Father is seeking such people to

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worship him. So we engage every
day in a connection so close to God

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that we are doing it in spirit
and in truth. Okay. And so

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the Bible also reads in Hebrews chapter
ten, verses twenty four and twenty five.

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And let us consider how to stir
up one another to love and good

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works, not neglecting to meet together
or assemble ourselves together, as the habit

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of some. But encouraging one another. And all the more as you see

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the day drawing near. God wants
us to remain connected to Him, and

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part of being connected to Him is
to connect with other people. This is

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why you're on this online platform.
This is why you go to services where

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people are worshiping God, God and
the beauty of holiness. This is why

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we continue to encourage ourselves with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in these last

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days, because He said to continue
to come together. Ah, press together,

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Press together, Press together, because
there is a crisis coming and God

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wants us to be unified as we
go through until the end. And of

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course, and of course we know
that God's people overcame the devil anciently by

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the blood of the lamb, and
by the word of their testimony. They

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love not their lives, even to
the point of death. So we have

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a testimony in twenty twenty four that
God has been very good and we need

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to live according to the principles that
give us that testimony and give our lives

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for God. Peace. Thanks for
joining us listening. Friends, Always remember

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we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the

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mouth of God. This has been
your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day, Yeah,