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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

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to 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 Thursday, August, I
keep saying August April twenty five,

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twenty twenty four. Hello. My
name is El David Harris. I am

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your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word

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every single day, and today is
no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series, the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is Cheered by

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Hope, Cheered by Hope. 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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have chosen to invest your time with
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you are in the world. That
way we can know from what purview,

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right what perspective, this word is
being spread into the world, and we

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can see that Jesus Christ will come
very very soon and we are building the

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kingdom together. It's encouraging to me. So again your Daily Portion dot com.

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This is one of the ways that
we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then
we will get underway. Father and

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Heaven, thank you for this new
day and for the opportunity that you have

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given us to open you word and
to have a peek into history. And

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I pray God that we will repeat
only the good things in history, that

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we will learn from those things that
were not helpful to us, and that

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we will have a right relationship with
You until the coming of our Lord and

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Savior, Jesus Christ. In Jesus
name, I pray. Amen and amen

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again, cheered by hope. Cheered
by hope. All right, so I

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did not speak to you specifically about
mister Wycliffe yesterday, one of the reformers.

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So let me just begin here and
then we'll talk about another reformer and

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see how all of this can help
us in our day. Okay, And

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so I'm going to read now from
the book The Great Controversy, page ninety

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four. I'll read some of it. The character of Wycliffe is a testimony

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to the educating, transforming power of
the Holy Scriptures. Remember yesday we were

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reading in the Book of Psalms,
chapter nineteen about the law of the Lord

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being perfect and how it converts the
soul and so forth. Yes, that's

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what we're talking about today, transforming
power of the Holy Scriptures. It was

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the Bible that made him what he
was. The effort to grasp the great

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truths of revelation imparts freshness and vigor
to all the faculties. It expands the

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mind, it sharpens the perceptions,
it ripens the judgment. The study of

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the Bible will ennoble every thought,
feeling, and aspiration as no other study

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can. And then, of course, the writer continues Missus White continues,

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and then you know, it was
very interesting. Some people considered mister Wycliffe

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to be the morning Star of the
Reformation. And that's an incredible moniker,

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if you want to say, because
we understand that Jesus is the son of

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righteousness, so to be assigned or
attached to the original and holy and eternal

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light of the world, like the
Bible says, to let our light so

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shine before people, so that when
they see our good works, they will

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glorify our Father, which is in
heaven. This is what people are saying

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about mister Wycliffe, that he was
a bright light during the time of Reformation.

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Okay, and so now we're talking
about being cheered by hope. And

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the person who comes up on our
radar before we go into the scriptures is

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Huss Huss. I don't know if
you've ever heard of him, but John

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Huss. And it says that John
Huss would not falter in the face of

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imprisonment, in justice and death itself. May I just ask you really quickly,

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without having to go into some hominous
spiritual or religious persecution, are you

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willing not to falter? I'm saying
I'm not talking about waiting until the big

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one quote an end quote. I'm
saying that when somebody gives you an opportunity

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to earn money, all you have
to do is lie. Will you falter?

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Hhh? When somebody vexes your spirit? Are you willing to commit murder?

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Or are you willing to stand firm
on the word of God? And

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understand that the law of the Lord
is perfect? And so that promise that

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it promise in the in the Ten
Commandments, thou shalt not kill, or

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thou shalt not murder can be can
be yours because God writes his law in

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our hearts and in our minds so
that we can live like him. Or

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if you know, maybe you are
protective of your your your reputation, and

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you wouldn't dare quote murder anyone.
But when somebody gives you an opportunity to

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assassinate someone else's character, will you
stand firm or will you falter? That's

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a question that I'm even asking myself, And the lesson writer continues. He

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languished in prison for months. The
cold, damp conditions brought on a fever

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that nearly ended his life. Nevertheless, now we're quoting from the book Great

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Controversy, The grace of God sustained
him during the weeks of suffering that passed

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before his final sentence. Heaven's peace
filled his soul. I write this letter,

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he said to a friend, in
my prison and in my fettered hand,

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expecting my sentence of death. Tomorrow, when with the assistance of Jesus

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Christ, we shall again meet the
delicious peace of the future life. You

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will learn how merciful God has shown
himself toward me, how effectually he has

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supported me in the midst of my
temptations and trials. And this is from

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Bonnicholl's Volume two, page sixty seven, continuing the full quote. In the

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gloom of his dungeon, he foresaw
the triumph of the true faith. And

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that's from the book Great Controversy,
page one hundred and seven. And so

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again we're cheered by hope that God
will do in us the same thing he

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did in Jesus. When Jesus lived
on planet Earth, no matter what the

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trial or temptation was, Jesus came
forth as pure gold. Why because he

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was full of the Holy ghost.
Uh. He invested time a great while

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before the days of his life,
and prayed and lived the kinds of principles

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that God our father taught we understand, and so he was victorious so that

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we could be victorious. And from
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see beginning at verse fourteen. Therefore, since the children share in flesh and

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blood, he likewise shared in their
humanity, so that through death he could

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destroy the one who holds the power
of death, that is the devil.

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So Jesus lived on planet Earth.
He lived a victorious life so that we

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could be victorious. Keep going,
keep going, verse fifteen, and set

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free those who were held in slavery
all their lives by the fear of death.

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One of the things that people struggle
with mm hm yes, even in

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twenty twenty four, is whether they're
going to live or die. There's some

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people who are just so fearful and
paranoid of what might be hiding and lurking

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around this corner, or what is
behind door number one, or who's going

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to come in and do this to
me or harm me in that way,

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or what disease will sneak up on
me and then overtake my life until I

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die. Well, really and truly, the only power that death has is

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for people who don't love God.
Ma, I just say that the reformers

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of old, the people who stood
up for the truth of God, no

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matter what came to them hah,
they know they learned and lived the fact

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that death is just asleep. It's
just a pause. It's rest before the

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resurrection. Do you understand? And
so, no matter what happens in our

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lives, brothers and sisters, Jesus
has shown us that because he was victorious,

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we can be victorious at work and
our businesses, and our relationships with

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our families and other relationships, and
our personal development and in every other way

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we can be victorious. Why because
Jesus was wonderful. Thanks for joining us

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listening to friends. Always remember we
cannot live by bread alone, but by

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

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