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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 Monday, June tenth,
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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Our caption for today is the Coming
Crisis, The Coming Crisis. We'll get

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inn to that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to please
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Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father

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in heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day and for the blessing

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that you are to us. Thank
you for giving us your holy spirit to

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teach us. Please help us to
listen for your voice and only do what

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pleases you. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and a men again.

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Now let me just say right here
that there are some people who live

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in this constant state of fear.
Constant state of fear. People are concerned

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about all kinds of things, which
is why people build bunkers and put up

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ways to store food for years and
years and years. And I can go

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on through an entire list extreme security
systems and all kinds of things, because

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fear is a thing. In twenty
twenty four, I'm not saying we should

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not be preparing, but I am
saying that life continues and we should be

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thinking God is in control. I
am surrendering my will to God. Now.

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There is indeed a coming crisis,
and we've been talking about this for

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many, many years, and we
get sneak peaks of this crisis on a

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regular basis. But what God wants
us to do is to put our trust

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where in Him, not in our
intellect, not in our ability to break

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down the details of certain things from
history and scripture and Bible prophecy, but

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to put our trust in Him.
In fact, Jesus said to some enemies

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of his he wasn't making enemies,
but those guys decided they didn't really want

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to serve him. He said,
you search the scriptures, for in them

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ye think ye have eternal life.
They are they that testify of me.

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So God wanted us to really focus
our attention on the relationship with God and

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not just the words that we understand, as if if we get those things

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in our minds, then we're safe. The Pharisees had the words locked in

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their minds. The Sadducees had there
had the words locked in their minds,

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but they did not have a connection
with God. Jesus is the truth.

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His word is truth, and the
commandments are truth. But we must not

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forget that Jesus himself is truth.
Okay, And so what we want to

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do is worship God wholeheartedly as we
are preparing. It's true that we are

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preparing for a coming crisis, and
so in John chapter sixteen and verse two,

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the Bible says, they shall put
you out of the synagogues. Of

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course, Jesus was speaking in his
day. Yay, the time cometh that

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whosoever killeth you will think that he
doeth God's service. That will not have

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been the first or last time.
We know that for twelve hundred and sixty

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long years during the Dark Ages,
people who said that they were the people

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of God were actually persecuting and destroying
people who actually served God. So we've

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seen this movie before, We're gonna
see it again. And so he said,

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there will be people who do that, but we're not to fear.

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We are not to fear. We
expect this because God gave us free and

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clear understanding. So ground your faith
deeply in the Word of God. Yes,

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uhhah, understanding that trials and persecutions
will come. But remember Jesus said,

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when these things happen, reach and
be exceeding glad, for great is

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your reward in heaven. For so
persecuted day the prophets which were before you.

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When I was going through a certain
trials some years ago, many years

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ago, in the nineties, I
was working in the psych field, and

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it was just too much for me, or at least that's how I felt.

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And I spoke to a mentor of
mine, and he said, unlike

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everybody else who said, oh it's
going to change, everything's going to be

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all right, it's going to be
perfect one day. Oh this is something,

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and they would palliate me. He
said, now, Dave, I

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want you to strap up like a
good soldier. God is with you.

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And that's what I want to say
to you all. I want you to

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put on the entire armor of God
because He is with you. And in

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two Timothy Timothy, chapter three and
verse twelve, the Bible reads, yeay,

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and all that will live godly in
Christ, Jesus shall not might shall

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suffer person. It's a promise,
but he said that I will be with

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you. I will be with you. When the waters and the floods come,

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they will not overflow you. When
the fires come, they shall not

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kindle upon you nor destroy you.
And so when the persecution comes, you

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are in good company. Anticipate opposition, Prepare spiritually. This is what we're

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saying. We're not preparing physically,
We're not preparing in some other way.

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We're preparing spiritually fortifying our lives with
an experience with God that is rooted in

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his word. We come together with
God every day we walk with God like

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Enoch did. We'll talk about that
in a few days. Walk with God.

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Be sure that we are on the
same page with God. Ask him

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what we can do for him,
Ask him in what way we should live.

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Ask him for wisdom, ask him
for the fortitude to get through every

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trial and temptation, and he will
do it. And in Matthew ten and

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verse twenty two, the Bible reads, and ye shall be hated of all

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men for my name's sake. So, uh, yeah, people hated Jesus.

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They're gonna hate you if you're his
child. But he that does what

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endures to the end shall be saved. We're gonna talk about that endurance over

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the next couple of days. So
those who endure, those who don't give

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up, those who don't ask,
keep asking God, why me? Well,

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why not you? Jesus was down
here, and Jesus was one hundred

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percent innocent, and Jesus was persecuted. Jesus was beaten and slapped, Jesus

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was murdered. Really, yes,
he laid down his life. That he

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might take it again. But it
happened at the hands of people with murderous

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thoughts and intent. Yes, and
so what we need to do is commit

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to enduring these challenges without compromising our
faith. Okay, Verse Peter, chapter

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four and verse twelve. The Bible
reads, Think it not strange, beloved,

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concerning the fiery trial that is going
to try you as some strange thing

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that happens to you. You're not
a victim. Can I say that again?

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You are not a victim. God
has positioned you so that one day

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you will be fully refined and purified, no matter what happens down here.

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Religious persecution, Yes, yes,
Cain killed Abel, his own brother.

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We've seen this movie before, and
so throughout Christian history persecution was common.

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This is according to the lesson writer. It happened with pagan Rome, and

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especially evident during the persecution of the
Dark Ages, as I mentioned to you.

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But the fact is, even though
the devil is already preparing for professed

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Christians to receive the mark of the
Beast, even though he has done very

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similar things in the past, no
final conflict is going to be what final

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Yeah, those who endure to the
end will be saved at some point those

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who look for him. Jesus said
he will appear a second time without sin

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unto salvation. Finally, Jesus will
vanquish the foe once and for all.

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No more beast, no more dragon, no more false prophet, no more

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people who march around thinking that they
can take advantage of God's people. Jesus

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said, He's going to prevail,
and he is going to bring his reward

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with him to give every person according
as our works shall be. Do not

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give up the fight, brothers and
sisters. God is with you, Beast,

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

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

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This has been your daily portion with
el David Harris, make it a great

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day. Yeah,