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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 Tuesday, May twenty one, 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 the Great Controversy.

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Our caption for today is the Judgment
has Come. The Judgment has Come.

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

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welcome to you and ask you to
go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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program for your Daily Portion. Please learn

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about all of this at your Daily
Portion dot com. This is a way

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that we continue to build faith and
fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving

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us this new day and for putting
us in a position that we cannot lose.

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Father, please give us your understanding
and help us to live like people

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who understand that the judgment is for
our benefit. In Jesus's name, I

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pray, Amen and Amen again.
The judgment has come. Okay, let

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me get Let me just share the
key this morning. I'm excited about this

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one. God's people cannot lose.
I need you to say that to yourself

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in the faith that you have connected
to God. God's people cannot lose.

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Now, let me just say I'm
not a competitive person. I really don't

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think about what others are doing and
whether I do what I do better than

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they do or the reverse. Right, But in this case, I'm thinking

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about like eternal salvation, I'm thinking
about connection with God. God's people cannot

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lose connection with God. God's people
cannot lose an eternity with God. Like

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God's people cannot lose in the judgment. Why not? Because there is no

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condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus. So the question really is,

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well, what is at stake?
What is at stake here? What is

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at stake? Eternity with God?
That's what's at stake? Well, how

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has that resolved? Being fully connected
to God, being fully submissive and submitted

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to God's will? Okay, so
what we're going to do is read why

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why can we not lose? We're
going to begin in First John chapter four.

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I don't know if I'm going to
get through all of this, beginning

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at verse seventeen, and the Bible
reads herein is our love made perfect that

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we may have boldness in the day
of judgment. Huh, Because as he

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is, so are we in this
world. There is no fear in love,

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but perfect love casts out fear,
for fear hath torment. He that

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feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him because he first loved

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us. Did you get that?
So this is all about connection with God.

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There is no way that we can
be fearful if we are perfected in

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love. If we are perfected love, we are not fearful. We stand

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boldly in the day of judgment.
That means we can't lose. Well,

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what else does the Bible say about
this? And Romans chapter eight and verse

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one, the Bible reads, there
is therefore now no condemnation to those who

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are in Christ Jesus. So that
is the question, are you in Christ?

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And the Bible continues, who walk
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spirit. So when we have the
Holy Spirit ruling in our lives, that

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means that we are in Christ Jesus, in right relationship with Him, in

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submission to his will, in covenant
with God. Therefore there's no condemnation.

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So when the judgment is set and
the books are opened, and God is

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looking to see what kind of lifestyles
and relationship with God we have when we

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are covered in Christ, when we
are walking after the spirit and not after

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the flesh, that means he will
see that there was no condemnation. Now

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you just wonder, well, well, what else can we say about how

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we cannot lose? Well? In
John chapter five and verse twenty two,

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the Bible says that the Father judgeth
no man, but hath committed all judgment

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to the son. So in this
phase of judgment, I'm going to call

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it. But in judgment overall,
Jesus is the judge. Okay. In

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First John chapter two, verses one
and two, the Bible reads, my

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little children, these things write I
unto you that she sin not. And

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if any man sins, you have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ

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the Righteous. So the Bible says
that Jesus number one is our judge.

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Number two, Jesus is our advocate. And verse two of First John chapter

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two, the Bible continues, and
he is the propitiation for our sins,

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and not for ours only, but
also for the sins of the world.

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So he is our what judge.
He is our advocate. The Bible just

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said propitiation. That means he's our
substitute. And then in Revelation chapter three

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and verse fourteen, the Bible reads, and unto the Angel of the Church

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of the laoedicians, right, these
things set the amen and the faithful and

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true witness the beginning of the creation
of God. He's the what faithful and

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true witness. Let me run it
back again. If you were in a

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court room scene and you were standing
trial at the bar the judgment seat of

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Christ, and if Jesus is the
judge. If Jesus is the advocate,

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huh. If Jesus is the substitute, that's the one who takes the punishment

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in our place when we should have
died. Jesus died in our place.

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And he's the true and faithful witness. How in the world, How in

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eternity can we die? How can
we die? How can we lose?

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How can we die? Well we
can't, That's the whole point. So

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once we are in Christ and our
love is made perfect in Him, then

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we have him as our judge.
Can I say it again? We have

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him as our advocate, We have
him as the one who stood as the

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substitute. We have him as the
true and faithful witness. And therefore we

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cannot be condemned. But what is
at stake? The Bible reads in John

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chapter three, beginning at verse sixteen. For God's so loved the world that

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he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish

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but have everlasting life. God did
not send his son into the world to

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condemn the world, but that the
world through him might be saved. Do

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you understand now there are a set
of people who are still in a condemned

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state. According to verse eighteen,
he that believeth on him is not condemned.

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Do you believe him? Brothers and
sisters, tell the truth? Do

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you believe in him? If you
do, then you're in the right relationship

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with him. But it says here, but he that believeth not is condemned

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already because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of

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God. And so this is why, this is why we're actually going to

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talk about this some more. But
this is why we need to be welcomed

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into the judgment, into this phase
of judgment that started in eighteen forty four

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that we made allusion to the other
day, because because those who are not

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in that phase of judgment where he's
judge, he's advocate, he is our

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substitute, he's the true and faithful
witness, where there is no condemnation.

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I'm talking about in twenty twenty four, whoever is not in that judgment with

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God covered in the righteousness of Christ, is in that what condemned position,

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condemned already, just awaiting the execution
of judgment. And so I'm thankful that

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God is giving us every single day, the opportunity to make momentary decisions.

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Moment by moment, we get to
decide, are we going to be for

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Christ or against him? Are we
going to love Christ or be in fear

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of him? Are we going to
submit our will or take our lives into

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our own hands? And then one
day, one day, very soon,

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he that is righteous will remain righteous, and he that is filthy will remain

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filthy. The question is, while
the judgment is set, can you lose?

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Well, it's up to you.
Are you on God's side or not?

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Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of

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God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,