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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, April
fourteen, 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 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 Controversy.

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Our caption for today is Compromise Satan's
Subtle Strategy. Compromise Satan's Subtle Strategy.

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

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say welcome to you and ask you
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build until Jesus comes. Let's go
ahead and pray and then we will get

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underway. Father in Heaven, thank
you for giving us this new morning,

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for this new work week, and
I ask you to give us understanding and

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give us the fullness of your Holy
Spirit. We really really need you in

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our lives today. God in Jesus'
name, I pray Amen and a men.

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Again, when you have an opportunity, I want you to look up

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the book Creeping Compromise. You can
look it up on the Internet, Creeping

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Compromise, and I think that that
will be of assistance to you as you

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consider what we're going to talk about
today, because really and truly, as

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the lesson writer would have put it, compromise Satan's subtle strategy that lets you

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know how insidious compromise is. Sometimes
people make tiny, tiny steps of compromise

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here and there, and next thing
we know we are completely separated from God.

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God wakes you up in the morning
and you know that it is your

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privilege to speak to him right,
have some time and prayer, listen for

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his voice and his guidance for the
day. But somehow you find something else

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to do something very important. There's
a leaky pipe, there is some small

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thing that you need to do oops
before you go to work. And then

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oh, wait a minute, maybe
I need to do some a little bit

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of my work before I go to
work, or think of a lot of

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things fill in the blank. And
as you compromise God forbid on your time

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with God, then your connection with
God begins to wane. You see where

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this is going. I don't even
have to go into these giant things that

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people would automatically say, oh yeah, this is something that is against God.

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But these little compromises, even with
our dedication to time with him,

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He has an appointment with us every
Sabbath, the seventh day Sabbath, and

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we are instructed that we should guard
well the edges of the Sabbath. And

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so on Friday evening, maybe you
feel like you need to iron that last

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little thing two minutes before sunset,
like what, Or you have to clean

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the toilet just before sunset, and
it's like no, really, if the

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listen, if it's not done already, then I'm sorry. Just keep it

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pushing, because why, God is
ready for his appointment and he wants our

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mindsets already on him. So give
it some give it an hour, give

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it an hour prior to sunset,
that you will not do anything that is

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not worship worthy, that is not
connection with God worthy, and that sixty

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minutes right before before Sabbath comes,
and so on and so forth. But

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let me just say, in the
Book of Genesis, during the creation story,

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we see God created everything. It
was good, good, very good.

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And then at some point, we
don't know how long it took.

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At some point the Bible begins to
show a new story. And the Bible

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says that the the serpent was the
most subtle beast of the field which the

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Lord God had made, and so
the subtlety of this serpent, whom we

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now know is the dragon and the
devil, right, the devil and Satan.

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He comes into a tree, the
only place that he was allowed to

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encounter Adam and Eve. He goes
to this tree. Eve is there,

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and he begins to insinuate doubt when
he says, yea hath God said,

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and she's like, okay, she's
listening, that thou shalt not eat from

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every tree of the garden. God
had already given his guidance. He said

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that there is everything in this garden
is for you, perfect environment, everything

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is for you. But this one
tree, thou shalt not eat of it.

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In the day that thou eatest thereof
ye shall surely die. And so

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he said, ye shall. The
devil said, ye shall not surely die.

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Change one word he said in the
beginning, yea have God said that

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you should not eat from every tree? Wait a minute, no, God

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said, you may have every tree
except one. But the devil made it

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seem as if because he's subtle,
he changed it just a little bit in

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his discussion. And now doubt is
in the air. Right not believe in

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God's word is in the air.
And of course, through subtlety, he

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deceives Eve and then she eats of
the fruit that God forbade. And the

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rest, my friends, is history. And so the subtle, subtlety of

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the devil is what happens to people
who choose not to listen to every word

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of God. Okay. And so
in the Book of John, chapter fourteen

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and verse six, the Bible reads
Jesus replied, I am the Way,

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the Truth, and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through

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me. And so the Father we're
referencing here is God, our father.

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When Jesus said, when you pray, pray ye our Father, which are

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in heaven. And so we're talking
about God, our Father, okay.

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And then in the Book of John, chapter eight, verse forty four,

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the Bible talks about how there are
some people who are supposed to be leaders

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of the people of God. These
people are supposed to be leaders in the

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fellowship, the faith fellowship of God, and those individuals, the Bible says,

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we're already living a compromised life even
though they were supposed to be servant

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leaders of the people of God.
And the Bible says that you are of

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your father. The devil, he
was a liar from the beginning, and

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all he does is speak lies.
He's speaking of his own like this lying

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spirit is his. And you all
have accepted that that is the life that

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you have chosen to live. And
so we have a contrast between God,

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our father, and the Father the
devil, the Father of lies. And

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now a line of demarcation, brothers
and sisters. Whom will we believe?

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Huh, the Father of Heaven,
who's throne is heaven and the earth is

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his footstool, who loved us so
much that he gave his only begotun son

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so that we can live forever hm. Or the father of lies that insinuates

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doubts, who always tells stories differently
than what God would have us to believe

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in order to deceive us, and
so forth and then lead us along the

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path of destruction. Whom will you
serve? Right? And so the lesson

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writer says what Jesus says is true
because he's the author of truth. Truth

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proceeds from the heart of all wise, all loving, and the all knowing

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God. He is the foundation of
reality and of the truth. In contrast,

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Satan is a liar and the father
of lies. He is prepared to

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use lies, deceit disinformation and distortion
of the truth to lead God's people astray,

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and not just God's people, everybody, really and truly, he deceived

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Eve by distorting the truth, creating
doubt, and then blatantly denying what God

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had said. And so really,
the devil is all about subtlety, and

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it doesn't mind if we creep into
compromise. But God gives us the truth

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so we can live and be honored
by the truth. Thanks for joining us

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

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every word that comes from the mouth
of God. This has been your daily

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