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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, April tenth,

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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 the Serpent. The Serpent. We'll get into

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

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com please join our online community.

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world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new

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day and for the privilege that we have to open

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up your word again. And I'm asking you to give

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us a revelation of Jesus Christ today. Please, and all

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things that we say and do help us to have

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the revelation in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen

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again the serpent. Now, I really don't want to talk

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about this, but the reality is we do have an enemy,

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and our enemy is the devil. In Ephesians chapter six,

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the Bible says that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood,

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but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the

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darkness of this age and spiritual wickedness in high places.

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And it gives us the antidote for that in seven

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key points. We're not going to break those down today,

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but in seven key implements of war, God has given

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us the antidote against the enemy, or what we need

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in order to insulate ourselves against his fiery darts. Okay,

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and so today we're going to look at this parallel

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between the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation

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and to see how this enemy, the serpent, the devil,

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the dragon operates. But more than that, I am asking

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that God would give us a revelation of himself. So

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let's go ahead and begin with the Bible Book of

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jen Genesis, chapter three, and the Bible reads, now, the

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serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field

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which the Lord God had made. And that same serpent,

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that same devil, that same beast said unto the woman,

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yea hath God said. Let me just say this. I'm

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not going to read every word in these passages, but

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I'm going to give the points as we read through

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the passages. So he is insinuating doubt, I said, he

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it is not really a serpent. It is that the

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devil is using a serpent. The devil is being a ventriloquist.

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He's a puppet master. He's speaking through this serpent, and

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he is causing the woman to re examine what God said,

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one of my friends said. Some years ago, she said,

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she said, she said, God told me Xyz. I want

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to see what you have to say. I said, you said, God,

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I told you Xyz. She said yes. I said, So

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what I have to say is like, why are you

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asking me? If God said x y Z, I have

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nothing to offer you. Understand, I have no interpretation of it.

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I have no direction to give you based on it.

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Because God is speaking, and I am keeping my mouth

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quiet except to go go and do what he said.

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And so in this case, now the devil is doing

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the opposite. He is insinuating dealt with Eve, and he

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is hoping that she will go down the wrong path

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Verse four. And the serpent said, unto the woman, you

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shall not surely die, even though God said, if you

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do this, you'll separate yourself from me. He is saying.

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The serpent, who is really the devil, is saying, no,

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God is not telling you the truth. Verse five. For

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God doth know that in the day that you eat

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thereof you shall be as God's knowing good and evil.

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So he's trying to make it seem as if God

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is hiding something from us. Really, and truly, God was

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not hiding something from us. He was protecting us from something.

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He was protecting us from separating ourselves from him. He

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was protecting us from eternal damnation and death. He was

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giving us the privilege of being with him forever. And

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all Adam and Eve needed to do was pass that

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simple test. What is your test today? What is your

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test today? Is God? That the devil, excuse me, is

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tempting you to disbelieve God when he said I will

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be with you all way, even unto the end of

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the world. You're wondering, God, are you listening? Is it

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that he is trying to cause you? The devil is

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causing you to doubt whether God is actually your shelter

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in the time of storm, that He is indeed your refuge,

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your trust. He is the one that you can hide ian,

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you can go into him and be safe. And the

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devil is saying, no, God is not trustworthy. You see,

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every single day, many times throughout the day, we are

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faced with our tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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And God has given us the privilege to go into

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him and to be safe. But the enemy is always

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trying to pull us away, pull us away and cause

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us to eat or at least entice us to eat,

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because really he can't cause us to do anything, you see.

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And so in the Book of Revelation there was war

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in heaven chapter twelve, beginning at verse seven Mi kay

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Yell and his angels fought against the dragon. So there's

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Jesus and his angels, the dragon, who was also the

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devil and his angels verse nine. And the dragon was

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cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan,

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which deceiveth the whole world. And so we see some

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common themes deception methods. In Genesis, the devil said, yeay,

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have God's an insinuated doubt in Revelation, which deceived the

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whole world. And so this shows that he questions God's word,

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he challenges God's authority, He misrepresents God's character and then

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uses subtlety. And of course there is this power struggle,

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this power struggle. And in Genesis he said the devil said,

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you will be as God's in Revelation is causing a

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war in heaven. And it shows that the devil wants

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to be supreme, that he is rebellious against authority. Wait

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a minute, maybe I'm speaking too quickly, are you rebellious

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against authority. Do you know people who are rebellious against authority?

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M M. There is pride as a motivation. Am I

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motivated by pride? Are you? Do you know people who

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are motivated by pride? And then of course there are conflicts.

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There's a conflict between the kingdom of God and the

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kingdom of the enemy. And then of course there is

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an attack on the character of God. Those in both

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of those God doth know, and he's making it seem

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as if God is holding something back, and he is,

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in Revelation, the accuser of the brethren. So it questions

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God's motives, attacks God's character, suggests God is withholding something,

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and portrays God as selfish. There are so many things,

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but listen, the reality is the devil is consistent in

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his onslaught and his attack. He's always lying. Even if

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there is a measure of truth, he's really using it

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in order to deceive. So really he's lying. There is

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an ongoing conflict as long as we live on planet Earth.

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Every time you go to work, every time you are

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in your relationships, hi, every time you are developing spiritually

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and personally, there is an ongoing conflict, and it is

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happening with all of us. It is universal in its scope,

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like nobody is excluded. As long as we live on

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planet Earth, we are in this same conflict. And this

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conflict has eternal implications. It's truth versus lies eternally huh

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in terms of the implications, love versus selfishness, and fear

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and hatred, faith versus doubt. And so if we choose

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the side of God, then we choose the side of victory.

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We don't choose the side of the serpent. We don't

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choose when he is insinuating doubt. We don't choose his

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version of who God is. We choose Christ. And when

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we choose Christ, we will have victory over the devil

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one hundred percent of the time.

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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,