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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 Wednesday's June

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twenty five and twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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El David Harris. I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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

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in our lesson study series. We're mid week how to

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study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for today is the

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drying of the euphrates. Yes, of the euphrates. We'll come

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back to that in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say welcome to you. Please please join our

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online community at your Daily Portion dot com. Please also

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide as

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I said yesterday, the new version is out or addition

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is out for the coming quarter, because we're almost done

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with this one. But let's not look past this one.

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We have the Life Applicacation Guide still available for those

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who want to keep it in your library because there's

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so much yet to learn. Yes, and also, please let

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us know where you are in the world at your

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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,

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We thank you for this day. Please teach us your ways,

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help us to surrender to your will in Jesus name. Pray,

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Amen and amen again. Yeah, all right? Is the handwriting

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on the wall in your life? Like, really, Dave, you're

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going to start right there. Yes, is the handwriting, hand

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writing of God on the wall of your life. Well,

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what are we talking about? We were talking about humility yesterday.

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So much we could have said, and indeed maybe should

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have said, but so little time we did not. Read

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from the Bible Book of Daniel, chapter five and verse

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twenty five. It'll be the precursor to what we'll talk

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about today. And the Bible reads some of what it

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says here and this writing so while bel Shazar was

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in his pride and they were reveling and having a great,

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big old party, even though God had already shown him

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in his own history, had already shown him what it

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was like in the history of the generations of folks

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who decided, all of those leaders who decided to erect

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idols in place of God, to disrespect God and his people.

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The handwriting was about to be on the wall about

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what would happen in Belshazzar's actual time this moment in

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history and the Bible reads, while these dudes were drunken,

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while they were in their greatest level of pride, there

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was a hand that had no body, that had no

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blood dripping from it, just a hand, and it began

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to write, and it wrote in the language of the

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people who were present. And now this hand mysteriously appears

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and begins to write, and it writes this way Mini

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Mini teckle Eupharsin Mani Mini tackle Epharsin, And it says, basically,

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your life is weighed in the balance, and you are

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found woefully wanting your life. The preview of the review

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of your life in judgment has been now manifest in reality,

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and as it is weighed against the justice of God,

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as it is weighed against the love of God, as

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it is weighed against what God has revealed, so that

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you can live your best life. People talk about it

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on the internet. They don't even know what they're talking about.

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Half the time. It's not buying cars and having time,

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just time with your family, which I love, by the way. Ah, Yeah,

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it's about eternity with God. Living your best life leads

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to eternity with God because this life alone is not enough.

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It's not enough. I don't care what your level of

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saying excess is. But when God weighs your life in

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the balance, are you found covered in the righteousness of

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Jesus Christ? Are you found woefully wanting? And so God

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weighs individuals and nations. I need you if you are

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a leader in any nation around the world, if you

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are at the local level, if you at a higher level,

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if you are at the national level, I want you

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to hear this and hear it well. God weighs all

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of us individuals and nations based on the responsibility that

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He has given to us. Every life will be reviewed,

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every action, every intent, every thought, every inaction, and it

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will be reviewed in final judgment. Am I trying to

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say it to cause fear to rise up in you know?

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Because the Bible says that you know, perfect love casts

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out fear, for fear has torment. Yes, those who are

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perfected in love have no need to fear in the judgment,

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you understand. But there are those who ignore the warnings.

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There are those who figure, by the stroke of a pen,

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can just make history go away. The Bible teaches us

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that we have the privilege to live transparently before God.

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Ask him daily to weigh your heart. I will do

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the same. I do the same, and to correct me

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even now. And so now the bloodless hand has written

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the reality. So let it be written. So let it

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be done. And now. One of Babylon's strengths was the

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way the Euphrates river float underneath her walls, as the

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lesson writer pens, providing the city with an unlimited water supply.

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By the way, I'm obsessed by pottable water, the kind

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you can drink and be. As we say in Jamaica,

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water is life. Yes, it also proved to her to

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be her weakness. Uh oh, no, wait a minute. Oh.

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An ancient Babylonian queen had created in earthen works along

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the river in order to develop it as a route

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to the city, and in the progress process, had diverted

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the river into a swamp in order to allow crews

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to work comfortably. Wait a minute, Cyrus, remember Cyrus is

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the one who basically is a symbol of Christ in

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this story, realized that he could do the same thing,

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drying up the euphrates enough that he could comfortably Marchish

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troops under the wall. So while Babylon felt like they

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thought that they would be in undefeatable, they thought that

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they would be on the world stage forever and ever.

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As as the head of gold Nebuchadnezza learned before he

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died that that ain't the case. But his generations after

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him clearly missed that memo. And uh yeah, while they're

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in their party, and while God has put the handwriting

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on the wall that they are coming up short. They're drunken,

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and they're using the things of God to fix in

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their mind, fix their time and history. And God is like, no, no, no, no,

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that's not about to happen. Mm hmmm. He found the

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defensive walls that followed the river through the city unguarded,

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and the city fell in a single night. The ancient

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Greek historian heroted to Us tells us that those who

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lived in the center of Babylon had no idea that

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the suburbs had fallen, for it was a time of festival.

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All were dancing, indulging themselves in pleasures, in pleasures that

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were ungodly. While people are having freak offs and parties,

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they are unbeknownst to them, the lives are weighed in

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the balance, and their lives are found wanting. Somebody just

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heard me, And in the last of the last days,

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the reality still holds true. While God is shining a

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light on his truth, shining a light on his covenant,

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including those ten commandments that he writes in the hearts

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of the people who choose to love him. While he's

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shining the light on the righteousness of Christ, there are

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people who say, no, no, no, no, We're going to

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do it our own way. Well, God forbid that anybody

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listening to my voice at this moment should be found wanting,

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including me, make it a great day.

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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,