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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

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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 Tuesday, December twenty six, twenty twenty three. 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 for this final week.

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God's mission, my mission, and
our caption for today is the Final

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Crisis. The Final Crisis. We'll
get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to go over

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our online community there. Also, let

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us know where you are in the
world, and please, by all means

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pick up the your Daily Portion book
at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is a way that we build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for

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giving us this day and our daily
bread. Please teach us to look forward

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to the day when you will finally
end this crazy race of between the conflict

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between you and the enemy, and
finally we will have love pulse through the

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universe. Please make us holy in
the meantime, in Jesus name, I

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pray, Amen and damen again the
Final Crisis. I remember there was a

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book by mister Chai, Fernando Fernando
Chai when I was growing up. I

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remember that book, and then eventually
I met him because I worked in the

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university setting with his wife, Selma
Selma Chai, and it was an honor

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to to meet them. Because this
book, Preparation for the Final Crisis,

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was a compilation of Bible teachings and
quotes from inspiration that did exactly what the

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book titled says, like prepare us
for the Final Crisis. It wasn't this

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frightening sort of book, but it
did show that there are judgments that will

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take place. It did show that
there was a way for people to be

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holy in preparation for that final final
push before Jesus comes. And it's going

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to be difficult, no question.
The time of Jacob's trouble is not going

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to be a joke. But one
day, finally, finally, sin and

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sinners will be no more, and
so we'd have to be prepared for the

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final moments, the final crisis as
Jesus's own on his way. Now,

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let's focus right here, focus our
attention just for a moment on the fact

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that Jesus gave his life for us. Okay, let me say it another

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way. Jesus died, he gave
his life for you. He gave his

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life for you, brothers and sisters, He gave his life for you.

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I want you to focus on that. I want you to dwell on that,

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like he gave himself for you.
Personally, there is nothing that you

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could have done that is so dark
and so wicked that Jesus's sacrifice cannot resolve

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if you submit your will to him, isn't that wonderful? And so when

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you go out with this mission,
this message to people that you know or

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people that God just gives you an
encounter with now you can be fully convinced

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and in your own spirit, because
you know what it's like to be loved

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to the degree that finally, finally, somebody is willing to see who I

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am, still love me, and
then transform me, give me a new

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mind. God said that he will
take out from us the stony heart and

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put in us a heart of flesh. And so it can be your testimony

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now that since Jesus died for us, I am now personalizing has died for

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me and is transforming me from a
hopeless sinner into a hopeful and holy sing

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I know that he can do it
for you. He's done it for me,

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and this is my testimony he can
do it for you. And so

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dwell on that every day of your
life, and give thanks, Give thanks

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as you prepare for the final crisis. Give thanks now, Jesus said to

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his disciples and to us, go
therefore and make disciples of all nations,

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baptizing them in the name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

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teaching them to observe all things that
I have commanded on you. And

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you know what's really cool about this, brothers and sisters, he didn't just

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give us instructions. Now he says, I will be with you, and

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lo give keen attention to look.
I am with you always, even until

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the end of the earth and to
the end of this age. A men,

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this is the Great Commission, and
in many ways the three angels messages

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that we barely even scratch the surface
of yesterday. With a call to every

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nation and tribe and tongue and people, is simply the truth for our day,

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the present truth, the expression of
the Great Commission. Go out,

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teach people who Jesus is and about
his transformative love and power. And the

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fact is, right before Jesus comes, it will become difficult. But once

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that difficulty passes, those individuals who
are completely committed to God will finally get

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to a point where we don't have
to contend with sin or sinners anymore,

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and it'll be one pulse of love
throughout the entire universe. I'm gonna say

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that often so that we can get
it into our minds now. In the

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Book of First John, the Book
of First John, chapter four, and

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the Bible reads here in verse eight
it says he that loveth not knoweth not

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God, for God is Love.
So those who are in romantic relationships.

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You're trying to decide whether you should
get married or not. But one or

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the other person is abusing you,
showing selfish tendencies, not preferring you above

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his or herself. That is not
love, That is not godly. Run

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like, run away quickly, get
away quickly, because you don't want to

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be married to someone in that kind
of mindset. Right. And I could

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talk about so many other things,
But the Bible reads here in verse nine,

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and this was manifested the love of
God to war us. How did

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we see love? Like? How
do we know the love of God?

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Because that God sent his only begotten
son into the world that we might live

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through him. Wait a minute,
let's see if there's anything else. Verse

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ten. Herein is love, not
that we loved God. See, God

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wasn't waiting for us to love him. He wasn't saying, well show me,

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show me your love and then I'll
bless you. No. It says

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here not that not that I lost
my place here in his love, not

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that we loved him verse ten,
but that he loved us and sent his

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son to be a propitiation for our
sins. That means that he was the

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sacrifice He was the substitute. He
was a manifestation of mercy, the mercy

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seat. He was a propitiation for
our sins. Beloved. If God so

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loved us, we ought also to
love one another. As we prepare for

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the final crisis. Love must be
the overarching principle of our lives. Love

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for God, God, love for
humans. We love God so much that

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because of his love in our lives, He is the cause of our love.

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We love him because he first loved
us. Now we see the manifestation

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of that love, because we are
able to keep his commandments. He is

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keeping his promise in us that He
can keep his commandments in our lives,

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including one and two, and three, and four and five, all the

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way down to the tenth. Not
just one of them, but all ten

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of them. God is able to
keep in our lives. And it shows

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as a manifestation also in how we
treat our neighbor. And we've covered already

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that our neighbor or other humans are
anybody who needs God, anybody who needs

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God. That is a manifestation of
his love in our hearts and in now.

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In the Book of Second Peter,
The Book of Second Peter, Chapter

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three, verse and verse nine.
We read the Lord is not slack concerning

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as promise as some men count slackness. But it's long suffering to us word

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not willing that any should perish,
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But the day of the Lord shall
come as a thief in the night,

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and the witch that the heavens shall
pass away with a great noise, and

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the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that

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are therein shall be burned up.
What kinds of people should we be?

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We talked about that the other day. Seeing that this is the reality,

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as we prepare for the final crisis, we need to know that Jesus is

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coming soon and finally, finally we'll
be able to say, Lo, this

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is our God. We've waited for
him, and he is now here to

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save us. Let's prepare with holiness
as we look forward to the coming.

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

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

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