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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

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speaker, Elle David Harris. Good
morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Sabbath, June one,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you God's Word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series, the Great Controversy.

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This is Lesson number ten and our
caption for today is Spiritualism Exposed. Spiritualism

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

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to say welcome to you and ask
you to please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. Please join our
online community. Let us know where you

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are in the world. And this
is one of the ways that we continue

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to build faith and fellowship. I'm
thankful because the community has grown to past

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five hundred people. That's a blessing
because our last community that had almost five

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hundred people, the system was purchased
by somebody else and then we lost all

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of that connection. So I'm thankful
that we are able to have rebuilt and

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so we continue to grow, and
we thank God because we're doing our best.

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The Bible says this Gospel of the
Kingdom shall be preached into all the

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world for a witness, and then
and only then shall the endcome. Looking

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forward to Jesus coming, are you
yeah, Well, let's go ahead and

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pray, and then we will get
underway. Father in heaven, thank you

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for giving us this new day and
for the opportunity to open your word.

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And I'm asking you now for a
special understanding, a special power, a

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special comfort in our time of need
and loss. I pray that you will

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give us understanding that leads us closer
to You in Jesus name, I pray

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Amen and Amen. Again. I
need to say that in the discussions that

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we have been having for the last
nine weeks, it's easy to get caught

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in a theological debate or simple discussion, when really God's goal, his intent

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for us is to become his children, and ask we have become his children,

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to continue in that relationship and then
to lead other people in the same

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situation. Because of course, we
were born in sin, shapen in iniquity,

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and because of that that means that
we are condemned, like naturally condemned

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to die. And God does not
want us to die. He wants us

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to live with him forever. And
so it makes sense that as we discuss

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spiritualism in over the next several days, that we keep in mind that God

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is about relationship, and we should
always be asking when we're discussing these things,

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what can I learn about God while
I am learning? Okay? And

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so the key today is that there's
no need brothers and sisters to say rip

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or rest in peace regarding those we
have lost. There's no need to say

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that, because really and truly,
there is no other way to rest.

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When our brothers and sisters, our
friends, our neighbors, people we love,

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when they die and they will have
lost their last breath, breathed their

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last breath, all they can do
is what rest in what some call a

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dreamless sleep. That's just a way
to illustrate that nothing is happening in terms

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of their thoughts, their lives,
or anything when have died. Why because

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well, the Bible does teach us
that when God created Adam and Eve.

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I want to interrupt myself, right, when God created it, At created

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Adam and Eve. He Adam in
particular. The Bible says that he he

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formed him of the dust of the
ground, and then he breathed into what

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he formed, his own breath,
God's breath into what he formed, and

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what he formed became a living being. So God's breath plus what he formed

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with his hand became a living soul. You see how this works. So

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let's just do a little bit of
math. One plus one is what yes,

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two Yes, two plus two is
four. And if we do it

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in reverse, if we if we
do two minus one, then we have

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only one. And so God's breath
plus what he formed creates living beings.

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So if God removes his breath,
that's the breath of what the breath of

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life. If God removes the breath
of life, what we have is just

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the dust. And that's why some
people say, as we are at the

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graveside ashes to ashes dust to well, you see where this is going.

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But more than just an intellectual pursuit, God is saying that we have the

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opportunity, opportunity to what to come
into such a relationship with Him that even

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though we are living on planet Earth
and the living know that we shall die

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and the dead don't know anything,
that during this time we can have such

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a good relationship that if we do
happen to die, if we do breathe

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our last breath, then all we're
doing is looking forward to the best resurrection.

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You see, there are two resurrections. There's the resurrection of eternal life,

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right, the resurrection of eternal life
or even immortality. That next level.

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So when Jesus returns those who loved
him until the end, right whose

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life was a life of love toward
God. Ultimately those individuals who are resting

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at the appropriate time, Jesus Christ
will raise those individuals unto everlasting life,

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the kind of life that cannot get
tired again, the kind of life where

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there is no more breathing your last
breath, the kind of life that does

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not break down, no more disease, you understand. And so this is

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the goal. Now, of course, there are some people who are choosing

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day by day, which is why
there are people who love to preach the

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gospel and to teach our friends the
right path of life. But there are

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people who are choosing day by day
to live the kind of life that will

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separate themselves from God. We don't
want that. There is the other resurrection,

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which is the resurrection of condemnation.
So at the appropriate time, one

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thousand years post Jesus's return, he
will raise those who hated love, who

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hated a connection with God, who
did not want to be in a relationship

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with God. He will raise those
individuals and they will get what they desired,

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which was separation from God. And
so two resurrections, one of holiness

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and life everlasting, in one unto
condemnation. Okay, And so no need

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to say rest in peace, because
anybody who dies is resting until one or

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the other of the two resurrections.
And so the lesson writer has us to

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read from first Thessalonians, and I
made allusion to it chapter four, verses

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sixteen and seventeen, where it says, this is at the second coming of

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Jesus Christ, for the Lord himself
from heaven with a shout with the voice

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of the Archangel, with the trump
of God, and the dead in Christ

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will rise first. So if you
have a brother, a sister, your

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mother, you're unto, your father, your uncle, someone you love,

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yes, who had a right relationship
with God. At the second coming of

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Christ, this voice of the Archangel, this trumpet sound of God will awaken

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those awaken those individuals, so that
they, with those who are alive and

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remain, will be caught up.
The Bible continues. Then we who are

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alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet

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the Lord in the air. And
thus shall we always be with the Lord.

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And so I'm so thankful that God
does not put anybody in a position

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ah to be in some kind of
restless situation waiting for their fate. No,

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No, while we live, we
have the privilege of knowing that,

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yes, we may die, you
know, like a privilege. Yeah,

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we may get to the position where
we will be in that dreamless sleep phase

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until Jesus comes. But again,
if you're faithful brothers and sisters, let's

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just stick to that one for today. We'll talk about the other end of

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it another day. But if you're
faithful brothers and sisters. It doesn't really

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matter. We'll just be resting.
We'll rest until we hear the voice,

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just like how the Bible talks about
the story of Lazarus, when Jesus said,

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Lazarus, come forth. He will
call your name, brothers and sisters.

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She'll call your loved one's names if
we were faithful, if they were

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faithful, and we will live with
God eternally. Make it a great sabbath.

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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,