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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 Wednesday, June eleven,

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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 Haymen and Satan. That's interesting, Hey Man

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and Satan. 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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of weeks well for this study, so this is still

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very useful. And also please let us know where you

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

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we will get underway. Father, thank you for this day

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that comes right in the middle of the week. And

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I pray God that you will give us the power

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to get over the hump here, the speed bump here

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in this week and then go down toward the Sabbath

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with a new outlook. Father, Please teach us the lessons

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we need to live today. Gez name I pray Amen

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and DayMen again Hayman and Satan. So there's so much

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in the story of Esther that we are not drilling today.

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But I want you to read the entire book of Esther.

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It's a short book and see what God has to

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say to you. But Pastor Boonstra pointed out something very

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interesting in the story of Esther. We meet Hayman who

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is hungry for position and power. So let's pause right

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here for one moment. Answer the question for yourself. I'm

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not asking you to type it in the chat or

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anything like that. Are you hungry for power and or position?

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And please, let's not run by this. Even in the church,

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there are people who either naturally or you've been socialized

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to be hungry for power and position. If that is

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something that's in you, talk to God about it. Because

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there are times that God positions us in power. Yes,

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but when we're hungry for it, that's a different matter. Altogether.

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This is a deliberate pause. Now he has given a

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great degree of prominence in the empire. Now you know,

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in the Bible, we see that Moses was given prominence,

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Joseph was given prominence, prominence, Daniel, Michel, Azariah, a Hannah,

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and Ayah. We're given positions of prominence. So that's not

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the challenge. But above all other princes. But if we

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read in Ezekiel chapter twenty eight and in Isaiah chapter

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fourteen about Lucifer, we can find some parallels. You see,

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God gave Lucifer a position of prominence. We can find

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some parallels with Hayman, an evil antagonist to God's chosen people.

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Now this is it who refuses to bow to God's supremacy.

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You see, power is not the issue. Position is not

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the issue. It's the attitude, it is the heart stance.

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How do we see ourselves in our connection with God?

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How do we see our responsibility when God and trusts

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power to us. So what I'm going to do is

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go straight down, and if we have time, we'll go

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back to the parallel between Hayman and Lucifer. But we're

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going to go down now to the center of the

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lesson where there is a comparison between Esther chapter three

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and two chapters in the Book of Revelation, chapters thirteen

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and twelve and thirteen. Okay, and so this is where

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we begin. This is where we begin. I'm going to

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give you five parallels. Okay. The first one comes in

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from Esther chapter three and verse eight, and it reads,

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in part, there is a certain people. Their laws are

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diverse from all people. So there in the story, God's

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people's laws are identified as as different. I think the

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Bible says that we are not to be conformed to

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this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind.

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And so the Bible says in Revelation chapter twelve and

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verse seventeen that the dragon was wroth with God's people

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who keep the commandments of God. And the Bible continues

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and so in both cases. Because it's the same holy

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ghost that has God's people having different ways of living,

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different ways of seeing the world, different ways of making contribution,

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responsibility that is different in our hearts than the people

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of the world. We have God's people always being different.

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The difference, though, invites resistance that is from the world

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from people who don't love God, but it also reveals

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our loyalty to God, so it invites some resistance, but

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it also brings a light to how loyal we are

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to God. And so for us today in twenty twenty five,

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because it's interesting and easy to kind of look back

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and break down forensically what went right what went wrong

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back then. But we need to live boldly by God's

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standard even when we know people are looking like when

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Daniel was worshiping God and praying same way toward Jerusalem

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three times a day with his windows open, even though

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he knew that there was an edict that would have

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gotten him into some trouble. While we live boldly by

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God's standard and not by the world's approval. Now comes

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from verse nine of Esther chapter three. Let it be

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written that they may be destroyed and I think somebody's

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already right running right before me in Revelation chapter thirteen

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and verse fifteen, that as many as would not worship, Yeah,

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the worldly paradigm, the religio political power should be killed.

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And so in both cases there were laws to destroy

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the people of God, or there will be laws two

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where and will be laws to destroy the people of God.

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Why because we're the people of God. Because the devil

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is still angry with Jesus and can't get at him,

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and so the enemy of God's people always seeks legal

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means to silence the faithful. I hope you're listening. This

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is the reality. We could go down through history, but

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we just literally don't have the time. So today, build

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a faith with God. Jesus said, He is the author

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and finisher of our faith through Paul. Build a faith

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today that can stand when your life may depend upon it.

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So when God is giving you the opportunity to simply

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tell the truth when there are two options on the table,

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that's a way to build faith. When your month and

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money don't line up, when the month is longer than

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the money, and you have to be honest with your

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returning of tie and your free will offering or how

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to acquire more money. You need to be honest and

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not steal, not lie, not cheat, or do anything that

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is unlike God. That is one of the ways we

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build our faith. When you and your spouse are talking

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to one another and you have a disagreement, whether to

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show respect or disrespect is another way to determine if

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we're building faith or we're building a break between us

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and God. And so another one comes from verse twelve,

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All that Hayman had command it unto the king's lieutenants. Yeah,

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that was written in such a way, just like in

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Revelation chapter thirteen, verses fourteen and fifteen, telling those who

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live on earth to make an image to the beast.

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In the final days, the last of the last days,

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laws will be passed that directly challenge God's authority. What

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do we need to do? What is our privilege to do?

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Stay rooted in scripture so you recognize when policy becomes persecution. Oh,

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I wish I had the time. Stay connected to God

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so you can recognize when policy becomes persecution. But stay

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loyal to God.

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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,