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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 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 Monday, June three,
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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We're still in Lesson number ten.
Our caption for today is Death in

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the Old Testament. Death in the
Old Testament. We'll talk that in just

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a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you and ask you

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and then we will get underway bathering
in heaven. Thank you for this new

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day and for the privilege we have
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Please, Father, help us to
see the blessing and the messages that you

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intend for us here and not just
think that it's a clinical sort of classroom

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exercise. Please help us to see
the resurrection and the life in Jesus name.

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I pray, Amen and a men
again. So I'm going to share,

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like the key for today in my
mind is that there is hope in

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the truth about death if we believe
God for it. And it sounds backwards

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because you're like death, Yeah,
there is hope. Let me fix the

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microphone. There is hope in the
truth about death if we believe God for

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it. You see, sometimes we
make up reasons as human beings. I'm

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saying, we make up reasons to
have hope, and then when that hope

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is disappointed based on the thing that
we made up, and then we blame

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it on God, you see.
And so what I want you to do

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is think from God's perspective, and
you're like, well, how can I

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think from God's perspective? Well,
the first thing we do through the power

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of the Holy Ghost is to go
into God's word. Okay, and so

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let's go ahead and begin. Let's
begin in the Book of Psalms, chapter

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six and verse five. The Book
of Psalms, chapter six, and then

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we will read verse five, and
the Bible reads for in death there is

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no remembrance of the I'm going to
read it in another version, in a

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moment in the grave, who shall
give thee thanks? Okay, let me

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read it again, for no one
remembers you in the realm of death.

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In shield that's a Hebrew term for
this particular concept relating to the grave who

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gives you thanks. And so this
passage can reassure us that death is a

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peaceful state of rest like there is
nobody who is writhing in pain, no

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one who is restless, No one
can be disturbed, no need as they

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do in hotels, no need to
put up but do not disturb sign right,

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because everybody who dies is resting,
free from troubles. It invites us

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to live meaningfully today. That's what
I wanted to get to Let's live meaningfully

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today. Ask God to teach you
how to remember Him today when you wake

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up every morning, God, help
me to remember what great things You've done

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for me until now. Whenever I
am tempted to worry, Help me to

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remember that every single trial, every
single tribulation, every difficulty that I've ever

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had until now, You've been there
for me, even when I did not

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recognize it. You see, help
me to remember that I can give thanks

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today, you understand. So my
focus, brothers and sisters, is not

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death. My focus is while I
am living. I can give thanks.

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While I am living. I can
remember the greatness of God. While I

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am living, I can lead others
into the same kind of relationship. And

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so I want you to live meaningfully
today. I want you to cherish your

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moments and give thanks and remember God
in everything that you do. Bible says,

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if we remember God, then we
will win, okay. And so

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in the Book of Psalm chapter one
hundred fift and verse seventeen, the dead

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praise not the Lord. So,
thinking from the way that I've been reasoning

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until now, I think you know
where I'm going. But let me pause

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for a moment. The dead praise
not the Lord, neither any that go

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down into silence. So yeah,
there was a well, I don't want

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to go into that video that was
circulating, but there is a concept now

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that we can think about, like
when is it appropriate to to praise God

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loudly? When is it appropriate to
to cry out to God? Like when

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is it appropriate for us to be
silence? Well, all silent, but

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all of that goes away when a
person dies. Right, So now now

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knowing that one day we will go
down in silence. Likely not everybody will

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die before Jesus comes, but billions
of people have already died, and billions

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more will die before Jesus comes back. And every single one of them,

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bar none, one hundred percent of
those individuals are completely silent unless God raised

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them from the dead like he did
Lazarus, you understand. And so in

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the meantime, since the dead,
don't praise the Lord, Since everybody who

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dies will go on down into silence, now is the time to praise him,

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praise him for his mighty acts,
like praise him according to his excellent

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greatness everything that has breath. It
is our privilege to do what praise the

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Lord? Okay, And so we
reflect on this verse. We find comfort

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in knowing that death is a temporary
state. It's temporary where earthly toils shall

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cease. This understanding fortifies our hope
in the resurrection. And guess what happens

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when we're raised by God at the
appropriate time. If we have lived a

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lifestyle of submission to God and praise, you know what's gonna happen. We're

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gonna be able to praise Him forever
and ever and ever. We will enjoy

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the company of India Viduals, who
also lived the life of praise and worship

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forever and ever. And it will
never stop, and we will not keep

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silent from that point forward when Jesus
comes and raises his people. Okay,

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and now we go to First Kings, Chapter two and verse ten. The

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Bible reads, so David slept with
his fathers as King David, he slept

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with his fathers and was buried in
the city of David. Now I remember

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in the New Testament the apostles were
saying that David's grave remains until this day.

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They were just basically saying that like
he's resting, and the place where

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he is resting still remains. All
of those many many years later, and

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so we know now that the phrase
of slept with his fathers suggests a peaceful

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rest, even if you put individuals
who were family members side by side by

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side, or on top of one
another, depending on how the grave site

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is, and then the remains go
down and decompose in whatever. But when

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Jesus comes, he's going to raise
everybody that is his child, and David

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among those, David and Josiah and
others of the family, those will likely

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be raised incorruptible. The Bible says
that we're affirming that death is not an

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end, but a pause. It
offers us the hope of reawakening to everlasting

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life, to immortality, Brothers and
sisters, just as one awakes from sleep,

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refreshed and renewed. I get up
at three a m. Every single

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morning, every day of the week, and I rested through the night.

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You get up at whatever times you
get up, and you rest it through

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the night, and then when you
wake up, you're aware of everything that

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is happening, because why you're no
longer resting. We look forward to the

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day when Jesus will raise those who
love him. He will raise those who

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have yielded their will to him.
He will raise those who are looking forward

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to the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And in the book The Great

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Controversy, it says those visitants those
Sometimes people have visitors and they're wondering if

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it's really their dead loved ones.
But we know now that it's the enemy.

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Impersonating people will appear to our tender
sympathies and will maybe we'll also work

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miracles to sustain their pretensions. We
must be prepared to withstand them with the

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Bible truth that the dead don't know
anything. All of the dead are just

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resting until the appropriate resurrection. Thank
you a great day, peace, Thanks

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for joining us listening. Friends.
Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,