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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 Thursday, February nineteen,

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twenty twenty six. 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, and our caption for

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today is to reconcile all things. To reconcile all things.

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Before we get into that, i'd like to say welcome

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support it and also let us know where you are

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in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for giving

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us a pathway to peace. Thank you for the reconciliation

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that comes through Christ. Please help us to be reconciled.

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In Jesus's name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. I

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just want to say a great big shout out to

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people who remember the gospel group. I don't know if

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that's the way you would say it, if it's the genre,

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but it's a Christian woman's singing group from back in

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the day reconciled a couple of whom I actually grew

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up with in New York City, And that brings to

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my mind how reconciliation. Reconciliation is music to God's ears.

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Reconciliation is music to God's ears. Why because the way

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we were born the first go around. I know what

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I'm saying the first go around, that which is born

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of flesh is flesh birth. That one, yeah, that one

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is dissonant, That one is disharmonious, that one is hostile

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toward God. Because we are not able in our flesh

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based on our first birth to have harmony with God.

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We just literally cannot do it. It's not possible. And

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so because God loved the world so much and he

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sent his son to save us from our sins, the

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purpose was reconciliation, to make us one with God. Atone

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meant at one ment with God where we were fragmented

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and we were not unified with God. Now through Christ,

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we are reconciled or made to be at one with God.

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Aren't you glad that God made the plan for us,

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because if he had left it up to our diplomatic

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process between humans and God, we would have been lost.

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And so let me just say from the Reviewing Herald

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article eighteen eighty four in the Cross of Christ, justice

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and mercy of God meet together. Justice requires let me

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pause right here, that's not the quote. Now, justice requires

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that the soul that sins has to die the second death,

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eternal death. The soul that sineth it shall die. That's

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the requirement of the law. There's no compromising with the law.

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There's no provision in the law. Now, if you look

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at the mercy of God, it's like, okay, well, whoever

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sins has to die. So what if now we have

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the perfect sacrifice standing in for and as the one

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who actually sinned, and then the justice of the law

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is met by executing the punishment on the victim, the

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innocent victim who's standing in for the one who actually

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committed the sin crime. Do you see where we're going

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with this? And since God did that through Christ and Jesus,

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Christ now has raised and he took up his life again,

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and now ever lives to make intercession for us. Now

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he can have mercy on us because the requirements of

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the law are satisfied in Jesus having given his life

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for us. So that means it's unnecessary. That's a word

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that you seldom here in gospel teaching. It is unnecessary

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for any human being to die the second death. Why

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because if we choose to die the second death, it's

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meaning that we reject the sacrifice of Jesus. We say

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we'll take it from here. Don't worry about it, I'll

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pay for my own sin. Well, you can't pay for

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your own sin, because if you do, that's the end

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of the story. But in the person and work of

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Jesus Christ and ministry of Jesus Christ, we can be

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reconciled to God and live eternally. Let me read the

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quote without stopping. Now, in the Cross of Christ, the

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justice and mercy of God meet together. And the universe

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sees that love not force and secures loyalty. Oh my,

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and the universe that sees that love not force secures loyalty. Now,

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let me just say it like this. The universe is

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not some like sort of I don't know, mystical entity

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like some people say. It's like some people are using

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the term the universe as a replacement for God. But

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it's but even the characteristics of quote the universe are

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not exactly what God is. I'm not talking about none

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of that that's confusing. We're talking about heavenly agencies. There

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are beings that live in heavenly places. If you look

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in Revelation chapters four and five, you see some of

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those heavenly agencies that are not people who live on

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planet Earth. I'll just lead that right there and so

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well those beings, at minimum, the angels of God and

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et cetera. Those beings become more and more loyal because

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they see the character of God as consistent. And I'm

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grateful and we got to see that in the Ministry

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of Christ. And so from the book The Desire of Ages,

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page six hundred and fifty one, we read the Cross

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of Christ will be the science, holy ghost and song.

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I added holy ghost. My bad, this was really good

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for me. Let me start again, the Cross of Christ

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with the will be the science and song of the

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redeemed through all eternity. Do you know why? First of all,

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just like while I'm reading the quote, I was immediately

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inspired to worship. That is what's going to happen all

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throughout eternity when people see what to what lengths God

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went in order to save sinners. Aren't you glad that

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he went to the to that length and not only

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the song but the science. Like wait a minute, this

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is how if you look at it forensically, wait a minute,

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if you look at it scientifically, wait, it required all

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of this in excruciating detail for each one of the

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people who are now redeemed to be redeemed and all

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you can do in that reality is worship God. And

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so our first lesson, our first lesson is reconciliation flows

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from the fullness of God dwelling in Christ. The Bible

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reads in Colossians chapter one and verse nineteen, for it

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pleased the Father that in him should all the fullness dwell.

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That means the totality and completeness of who God is.

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And so Paul is affirming that everything that makes God

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who he is resides fully in the person of Jesus Christ.

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Nothing of God is absent from Christ. The Father's eternal nature,

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his creative authority, his moral perfection, and redemptive wisdom are

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all present in Jesus Christ. This fullness is not symbolic,

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It is not a type. It is not partial. It

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is the complete. It is complete in Jesus the person.

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The action step is to trust Jesus fully rather than selectively.

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Jesus is not the vice God. And then, finally, our

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lesson the cross is the means by which reconciliation is accomplished.

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And I thank God, do you 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,