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

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

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

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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

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, June sixteen,

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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 continuing in our lesson

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study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption

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for today is worshiping the image.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Oh, worshiping the image. When you see yourself in the mirror,

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do you worship that image? Oh? Don't do that. Before

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we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please

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pick up the Your Daily Portion life application guide and

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also let us know where you are in the world

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at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway bother

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in heaven. Thank you for giving us the privilege of

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being called by your name, and thank you for giving

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us giving us the blueprint, the blueprint to connection with you.

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I pray now that you will teach us to serve

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you with everything we have today, everything that we are

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in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I

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just want to begin with Jesus is the only one

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worthy of worship. And of course when I say that,

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I'm speaking about God like all of the family, in

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that case, God the Father, God the Son, God, the

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Holy Ghost. But God has shown us that there is

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no name under heaven given among men whereby we must

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be saved, and that's by the name of Jesus, right.

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And so when we have an opportunity to worship, we

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should be thinking, is this God or something else? Is

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it something we've contrived, Is it the way that we

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use our time that we worship, Is it some other paradigm?

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That people say all roads lead to the Creator, which

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that is, it could never be true because God has

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given us the pathway. God has given us the privilege

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of experiencing him, and when we experience him, we can

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see very clearly that he is worthy of worship. And

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so in Daniel chapter three we see that nebuchad Nezar

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didn't bel leave, that he didn't agree with that. He

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worshiped himself and he wanted others to worship him, and

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so he erected a golden altar to himself, really an

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image of gold. And in Daniel chapter three and verse one,

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the Bible says that nebiculd Nezar the king, made an

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image of gold. It was a pride within him that

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challenged God's authority. And the same way that Lucifer challenged

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the authority of God when he lived in heaven and

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had lost his connection, he erected a paradigm. And so

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the lesson here is that nebiculd Nezar he erected or

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exalted human power over divine truth. That's what he did

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when God had given him the reality that he was

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the head of gold. As we talked about the other day,

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he said, no, I'm the entire image. Whatever you say

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about what's coming next, I reject that. And so the

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action for me, though for you, is not just to

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look back at the story and say, look at what

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Nebuchadnezzar had done. Don't look into just the new cycle

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today and say look at what these particular leaders around

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the world may be doing wrong, but at myself, like

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I need to be looking at myself and be cautious

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of any mindset. And maybe cautious is not even strong

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enough word personal or national that exalts me or anything

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else above what God said. And then in Daniel chapter three,

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verses four and five, it says you to you, it

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is commanded ye fall down and worship the golden image.

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Human power demands conformity, Human authoritarian power demands and commands conformity. Well,

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the world will always pressure God's people to conform. But

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what God says is that we have the privilege of

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choosing loyalty to hit Adam and Eve didn't do that

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when they chose to eat the fruit that God forbade,

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and I can go down through history and see most

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of God's people during the scene that we're actually considering

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today chose the wrong direction. Those individuals chose to be

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loyal to, if not loyal fearful of Nebuchadnezzar, and they bowed.

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But Hannah Andanaiah, Azararah Micheal did not bow. I think

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Daniel was not around, But if he had been there,

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he wouldn't have bowed, you see. And so in Daniel

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chapter three and verse six we see whoso far if

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not down and worship, shall the same hour be cast

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in the midst of a burning, fiery furnace. The lesson

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for me is that it wasn't only about loyalty the

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king to the king, but it was about worship. The

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loyalty to the king was in a side. It was

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about worship. When I do things that are contra tray

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to God's will, then I'm worshiping something or someone other

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than Him. And so for me, I need to test

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everything by the first Commandment? Who are what do I

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bow to? The first Commandment? Have no other gods before me?

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That's what God said, And I need to test everything

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I think and do by that standard. Now, before we

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go too far afield, I want to make some last

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day parallels. Some last day parallels. Let's go back. Let's

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go back to chapter three and verse five, ye fall

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down and worship the image that Nebuchadnezzer Hath set up.

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In Revelation chapter thirteen, verse fifteen, it says, and cause

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that as many as would not worship the image of

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the beast should be killed. We have seen that religio

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political powers erect a false Sabbath in the last days,

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to the degree exalted, to the degree trying to replace

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the Seventh Day Sabbath with a different paradigm, to the

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degree that if people choose not to exalt that false Sabbath,

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they should be killed. It says it right there in

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the scriptures. I wish I had the time to go

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through Daniel in Revelation, but I don't, So I want

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you to take your browser to Sabbathtruth dot com or

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dot org so that you can see the entire history

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and story of this controversy. But what we need to

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think about then, whether it is ancient Babylon or in

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the last days, forced worship of a false system will

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be the defining issue resolve now. We need to resolve

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within ourselves now to only worship God. It's very simple,

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until it's not. Uh oh, yeah, we let's run along.

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Verse six. Again, whoso falleth not down and worship it,

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worship show, I'll be cast into the midst of the burning,

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fiery furnace. And it says the same thing in thirteen Revelation,

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chapter thirteen and verse fifteen. And for me, the application

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is the choice is life or loyalty? Life or loyalty.

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God's people will face death, but they will never face

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it alone. Just like the three Hebrew boys and Anaya

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Michel as a riot. They did not face what they

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were about to experience alone. Okay. And again in verse

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twelve of Daniel chapter three, we see these men. They

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were reported by people who were supposed to be on

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the same team. I wish I had the time these

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men shall they serve not Thy gods, nor worship the

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Golden image. So they're being reported on. Look at what

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they're doing. These are the people you have chosen, These

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are the ones in your cabinet. These are the ones

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that are closest to you. And look at them. They

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don't worship as you have commanded o King. Revelation fourteen

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and verse twelve. The Bible says, here are they that

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keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus.

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And so my application is the faithful will always stand out.

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The pressure to blend in will be enormous. Hold the line,

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hold the line, do not conform in Jesus' name, do

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not conform, and let's just go with one more. God

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delivers his faithful and Daniel chapter three and verse twenty five.

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Revelation chapter fifteen and verse two. We see that God

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does not keep us always from the fire, but ultimately

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he saves us in the end. Make it a great day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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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,