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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 Friday, April twelve,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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is El 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 through the concept the principle

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of the Great Controversy. Our caution
for today is the Gospel Movement. The

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Gospel Movement. I can't wait to
talk about this with you, but before

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we do, I'd like to just
say welcome to you and happy Happy Preparation

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This is a way that we continue
to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for this new morning and
for the fact that we are one day

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closer to the time of rest and
Sabbath. I pray God now that you

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will give us understanding that we will
not stagnate, but we will always be

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on the move for you. In
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. The Gospel movement,
I just want to pause right there.

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I would have paused longer if you
were not also listening on the radio,

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because dead air on the radio is
deadly right. Ah, But the Gospel

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movement, what happened to the people
of God in some places in the world

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where the movement has become stagnant?
Is said some places, some places,

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not everywhere. God's people are definitely
on the move. I will go remember

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God's people, you know, total
member involvement. God's people in some places

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and spaces have stagnated. What causes
people to no longer be on the move

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for God? Is it guilt feelings? Is it that I have done something

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agreeous in my own thoughts to the
degree that I have separated myself from the

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people of God, and I am
no longer on the move while the people

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of God are marching on. Could
it be that while I am still quote

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a part of the movement on the
inside, it appears that I'm on the

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inside, But maybe I have a
challenge with gossiping and sowing discord and walking

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in the opposite direction of the way
that the people of God are moving.

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Now, this is not me speaking
to you as if I know you,

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like if you were here, I
couldn't speak to you directly and say this

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is what you're doing because I don't
know you like that. But I can

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say that there are people who are
just like that, who scatter rather than

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gather, people who have allowed sin
to overwhelm us to the degree that we

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have not we are no longer in
agreement with God. So we're not confessing

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our sins. We're ashamed, but
we're not confessing and now putting ourselves in

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the position of holiness and agreement with
God. And so we pull against instead

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of pulling with you see where this
is going. Sometimes our old thought processes

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hinder our movement the way that we
did it in nineteen seventy seven, and

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yes I was around, right,
I was young, but I was around.

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Like the way we did it in
nineth teen seventy seven is not the

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way that we do it in twenty
twenty four. I promise you. It's

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not not that seventy seven was bad
and twenty twenty four is better. It's

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just that, yeah, well,
there was no internet. Like there was

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no internet when I was in the
universe in university, much less in the

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seventies. Right, we have the
internet, now we have social media.

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We have young people who are ready
to do God's bidding because they are enabled

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to do so. But sometimes our
own own old mindsets are limiting to the

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energy that God put in them.
The Bible even says like we lay hold

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on the the young, not suddenly
we give them guidance, but we do

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put them into the into the fight. Why because they are young and strong,

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They have the energy, they have
the innovative mindset, they have the

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connections, they have the ability to
build communities quickly. We have seen that

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many times in social media on the
Internet and in other ways. I'm just

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focusing on those because I don't have
enough time. So the Gospel movement needs

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to be the Gospel movement. I
think Paul said that the Gospel is the

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power of God, unto salvation to
everyone who believes. Yes, and it's

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God's word in our lives, so
that when we move out into our communities,

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into the places we exercise, those
public squares, right the places where

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we work, even in our homes. First our homes, we have the

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message of Gospel. We have the
message of peace, God's ability to save

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a sinner like me and make me
holy, to take away selfishness and give

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me humility. Yes, take away
this discordant mind set, and give me

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a peaceful mindset, harmonious mindset.
Not everywhere I go and the miasma,

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if you want to say, maybe
that's not the right word. The atmosphere

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I am accompanied by is a peaceful
calming. If necessary, it will agitate,

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but agitate only unto holiness, only
unto action for the Gospel's sake and

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for the benefit of those who are
not able to fend for themselves. The

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Gospel movement is for real, for
real, for real, This is not

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a joke. And according to the
book Great Controversy, pages forty one and

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forty two, we read the gospel
continued to spread and the number of its

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adherents to rise or increase. It
penetrated into regions that were inaccessible even to

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the Eagles of Rome, said a
Christian expostulating with heathen rulers who were urging

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forward the persecution. They may destroy
us, or torture us, or condemn

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us. Your injustice is proof that
we are innocent. Nor does your cruelty

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avail you. But it is but
a strong invitation to bring others to their

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persuasion. The oftener, we are
mowed down by you. Those are the

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people that did not love God.
They were mowing down the people who did

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love God. The more that that
happens, the more in number we grow.

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The blood of the Christian was seed. How in the world can you

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when you were at work, if
it doesn't even go to that extreme of

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death right, you're at work and
people are criticizing you, they are poltricking

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you. Even in those situations like
how is it that you are able to

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continue? How is it that you
are able to continue to do things according

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to God's will except to say that
it was the Holy Spirit who did it

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in your life. Live out your
life within me, Oh Jesus, King

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of Kings, This is what our
goal and desire is, Isn't that right?

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Of course the answer is yes,
and so we thank God that he

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is able to move his gospel message
through our lives. Now I will read

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again from page forty seven of the
same book. The mysterious providence, which

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permits the righteous to suffer persecution at
the hand of the wicked, has been

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the cause of great perplexity to many
who are weak in the faith. Many

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who are weak in the faith,
I need to underscore that some are even

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ready to cast away their confidence in
God because He allows the most vile of

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people to prosper while the best and
purest are afflicted and tormented by their cruel

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power. Did Jesus take that too? Of course he did. He was

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bruised for our iniquities, right m
hmm. Let me continue reading. How

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it is it is asked, can
one who is just and merciful, and

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who is infinite in power tolerate such
injustice and oppression? This is a question

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with which we have nothing to do. God has given us sufficient evidence of

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his love. And we are not
to doubt his goodness because we cannot understand

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the workings of His providence. You
see, if you could master and that's

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the end of the quote, if
you could master God, God forbid,

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If you could master your God,
then he wouldn't be worthy of worship.

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If you could understand every single detail, then he would not be worthy.

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But I promise you, when all
is said and done, we will see

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God's character fully vindicated, all of
these answers fully answered, and we will

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see on whose side we really were
along the journey peace. Thanks for joining

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

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

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