Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
It is Sunday, March thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
Actually we're not in the book and you see, I told you this first
week when we make a transition always throws me off. The concept where we're
looking at is the great Controversy. That is our theme for the next thirteen
weeks. The Great Controversy, and our caption for today is war in Heaven,
War in Heaven. And let me just say I put a question mark
a question mark after the caption because I'm like a war in heaven? Well,
how did that happen? Yeah, we'll get into that in just a
moment. But first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
those joining us for the very first time. I just want you to please
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to continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us
this new day and for the privilege that we have to open your word again.
I'm asking you now to please let us be subject to you, teach
us submission, so that when the war is raging between you and our enemy,
that you will win in our minds, our lives. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and a man again, War in Heaven, and
again. My first question has often been really, well, how and I
know that some of you are thinking the same thing, So let's just go
ahead and resolve that. And I have a quote here and I'm ashamed that
I forgot to put the reference. But just please hear the quote. Regardless,
the beginning of evil within this perfect angel. We're talking about when he
was Lucifer. Now he's becoming Satan. The beginning of evil within this perfect
angel Satan will remain a mystery. Now I need you to get that,
because we're going to see why this is important. There was no reason for
it, no reason for it. If there ever were a reason, we
could excuse sin. Evil began first with a small step. Lord, teach
us some things here God. It started in Lucifer's heart. He felt jealous
of Jesus. Lucifer also made the wrong use of his God given freedom.
This can be an entire coaching series about how to remain connected to God.
I hope you're listening. It took us. It was a small step.
There is no reason, because if we give a reason, then that means
we are excusing sin. Right. Evil began with a small step. It
began in his heart. He was jealous ah of Jesus. Lucifer also made
the wrong use of his God given freedom. Well, I think I'm actually
going to do a coaching program on this. His sins led to a great
war in heaven. It was an open rebellion, a war against God.
Today, each one of us is living with the results of this war.
Whenever someone dies or suffers, this is the result of the rebellion that began
inside of Lucifer. But do not lose hope. This is the part I
need you to get. Don't lose hope. As we learn in future studies,
Christ came to bring a fair and just that means holy or righteous solution
to the problems that caused this great war. I could say so much here,
but I think I'm going to let it settle right there. So please,
we're going to consider this over and over again for thirteen weeks. So
please just keep that in your mind. And so the question is, if
the war is in your mind, and I'm saying this to myself too,
like, if the war is in my mind, will you ask Jesus to
repeat his success in your mind and life? Well? Where am I getting
that from? I'm getting this from the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve,
The Book of Revelation, chapter twelve, verses seven through nine. And those
of you who are among my brothers and sisters already, like you're among those
the fellowship of Last Day's Believers, like you already have heard these lessons over
and over again. I need you to answer that question though, because sometimes
we read this passage and then it's like, where did war begin in heaven?
What happened? The devil lost the war and Jesus kicked him out of
heaven? Next question, And I'm like, that isn't even close to scratching
the surface. If the war is in my mind, will you ask Jesus
to repeat the success, do the same thing he did in heaven. Repeat
the success, but do it in your mind and in your life. Okay.
So we're reading now from the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve and verse
seven with a little bit more understanding. And there was war in heaven.
Okay, Michael, that's Jesus and his angels fought against the dragon. That's
the devil and the dragon fought and his angels. So now we understand that
there were some sympathizers with the devil. There were some angels, holy angels
who went rogue. They decided that the devil's argument was was worthy of consideration,
to the point that they would not repent. I need you to get
this This was not a one time decision on the devil's part or his evil
angels. They made their decisions over and over as they go down this slippery
slope toward destruction, toward full rebellion. There had to have been, because
of the nature of God, there had to been opportunities for them to turn
away from those sins, but no, they chose not to. Now now
there is full on rebellion in heaven, and so and so there was a
war, and verse eight prevailed. Not neither was there place found any more
in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called
the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out
into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. So now
you know why it's such a mess down here. Now you know why there's
something that some people call global warming. Like now you know why nature seems
to do weird things, like just random fires, Like where are these random
fires coming from? Like where are these these volcanic eruptions coming from? Even
though after the fact, after some time, you start to see in many
of those places some lush foliage growing, some beautiful things that come out of
it. But really and truly did God intend for that to happen in the
beginning? Absolutely not. Why are some of these beautiful mountains that we love
so jagged and full of rocks and stones and little or no vegetation on some
of them? Was that what God's plan was before there was a beginning?
And then when he created the earth before Noah's flood? Did the flood during
Noah's time? Was it like that? Or was it that everywhere was beautiful
and everywhere full of the things that God caused to grow on the earth?
Why are so many things going wrong in the minds and hearts of humans that
were created after God's image? You see? And that's because there was a
war and it's going on now not in heaven because the devil was kicked out.
We know that he's no longer welcomed there. He was kicked out a
long time ago, and his little army was kicked out with him. And
where are they? They aren't domiciled on planet Earth for the most part,
on planet Earth. Yeah, And so if we read through Ezekiel chapter twenty
eight, verses twelve through fifteen and Isaiah chapter fourteen, verses twelve through fourteen,
We see the details, and I need you to do this in your
spare time. Ah. We see the details of his eye problem. I
I, I. Until he got to the point that he said he was
going to replace the most High, and so that equals sin, that equals
a choice to separate himself from God, that equals death. Help us God
to lose ourselves and win. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,