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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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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

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, March seven,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are rounding off Lesson number

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ten in our Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice,

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and our caption for today is Christ within. I love

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it qwicst Christ, not Christ. That's not a word christ within.

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Of course, if you remember the scripture, he's the hope

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of glory. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first i'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. Please pick up the Your

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Daily Portion application Guide here. It is the application guide.

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We apply these scriptures to our lives and four key areas.

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Sometimes we study and don't know how to actually put

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it into our lives. So that's what this is for.

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And also please let us know where you are in

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the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for giving

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us this new day and for the opportunity to open

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up your word, and I'm asking you to please fill

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us with your holy spirit. Please give us the hope

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of glory Christ within. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Okay. So I'm going to read right

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from the Lesson Study because there's so much to say

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from that, and then I'm going to give you some tips. Okay.

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This is coming from the book Testimonies for the Church,

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Volume one, page three hundred and forty one, and I

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want you to listen carefully, and it reads fallen man

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is Satan's lawful captive. You see, the Bible teaches us

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in Romans chapter seven, that there is this guy, and

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people are confused about whether it's somebody who is is

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already a believer or not. I will tell you straight

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away that the person in Romans seven most of the

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chapter is not yet a believer, someone who may want

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to be one, but is not one because that person

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is bound by the law of sin and death. Okay,

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cannot please God, the Bible says, okay, And so fallen

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man is Satan's lawful captive. This is why at the

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end of Romans chapter seven, the Bible writer is crying out,

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like on behalf of that mindset? Who shall rescue me

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from this body of death? And then Romans eight opens

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up with the antidote, which we may get into a

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little later. The mission of Christ was to rescue him

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from the power of his great adversary. Man is naturally

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inclined to follow Satan's suggestions, and he cannot sect successfully

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resist so terrible a foe unless Christ, the mighty conqueror,

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dwells in him. Remember I said, Christ in you, Christ

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within Christ in you, Christ in me, the hope of glory.

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Here we go, Here we go, dwells in him, guiding

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his desires and giving him strength. God alone can and

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limit the power of Satan. He is going to and

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fro in the earth. We read about that in Job,

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or talked about it when we were talking about Job

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and walking up and down in it. He is not

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off his watch for a single moment through fear of

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losing an opportunity to destroy souls. It is important that

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God's people understand this, that they may escape his snares.

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Satan is preparing his deceptions that in his last campaign

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against the people of God, they may not understand that

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it is he and the Bible reads and no marvel,

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no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel

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of light. And while some deceived souls are advocating that

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he does not exist, he is taking them captive in

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his working through them. To a great extent, Satan knows

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better than God God's people the power that they can

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have to overcome him when their strength is in Christ.

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Did you get that the enemy knows better than even

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God's people that he can be overcome in the strength

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of Christ. Now I find it tragic that the Angel

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of light, this Angel of light concept that Satan is

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transforming himself into the Angel of light you know, he

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used to actually be the Angel of light. That's why

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his name was Lucifer, Son of the Morning. And so

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now he has replaced being the angel of light or

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an angel of light, with counterfeiting being an angel of

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light because he wanted to be God. He wasn't satisfied

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with being an angel of light. And now all he

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can do is masquerade as one. All he can do

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is masquerade as a false God. He can only masquerade

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when before God had already esteemed him him and given

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him the blessing of being the Sun of the morning,

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the cherub that covered. He was as close to God

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as any being could be who was not equal with God.

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But he was not satisfied. So now all he can

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do is play dress up. He can only play dress up.

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Now let me continue. When they humbly meaning God's people

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and treat the mighty conqueror for help the weakest believer,

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the what kind of believer? The weakest believer, okay, can do?

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What the weakest believer in the truth, relying firmly upon

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Christ can successfully repulse Satan and all his host Did

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you get that? When they humbly entreat So what are

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we going to do? We're gonna ask God humbly, Please God, Please, God,

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you're the mighty conqueror, Please help me, the weakest believer,

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so you don't have to go to that prayer warrior,

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as you say, right, and those people that you feel

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have stronger faith. The Bible is the inspiration. Part of

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me is teaching us here that even the weakest believer

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in the truth, if we rely firmly upon Christ, can

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successfully repulse Satan in all of his hosts. Let me continue,

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He is too cunning to come openly and boldly with

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his temptations, where then the drowsy energies of the Christian

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would arouse and he would rely on the strong and

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mighty deliverer. This is why the devil comes by sleight

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of hand. This is why he really isn't that one

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in those creepy scary costumes. He's not the one in

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those creepy sounding movies. He's there, he's active, but he's

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there trying to get you to believe that that's how

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he comes, when in fact he comes as an angel

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of light. When in fact he comes as a dazzling,

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beautiful serpent in a tree where God said, don't eat

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of the fruit of that tree in the garden of

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Eden like he comes in beautiful Garb, because he knows

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that humans naturally do not expect to see him there.

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He is the ultimate trojan horse. So as long as humankind,

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especially God's people, do not see him for what he

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really is, that he is already halfway there. So what

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God wants us to do, and he's welcomed us to do,

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is to rely on him fully and don't trust anything

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that the devil does. So let me give you a

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few steps. I want it to be seven, but maybe

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you'll have to go into the community at your Daily

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Portion dot com and ask me to put it in

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there if I forget to put it in there. Okay,

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seven steps from Romans seven and eight that will help

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us to have Christ within. Number one, Acknowledge the sin struggle.

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Acknowledge the sin struggle from verse fifteen and nineteen of

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of Romans chapter seven, So don't close your eyes to

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it and say it's not a big deal. Number two,

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recognize your need for deliverance. Even in the twelve steps program,

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we have to realize, like we have to be in

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a position that we need a power greater than ourselves.

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So we need deliverance number three. Accept Christ as the

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one who is the deliverer, like he is the answer,

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Verse twenty five. Live by the spirit, Romans Chapter eight

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and verse one. Set your mind on spiritual things Verses

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five and six of Romans Chapter eight. Trust in the

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adoption that you have in Christ, and then rest in

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God's love. Please please ask in the community for this

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with the scriptures.

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Speaker 1: Pease, thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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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,