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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 Sabbath, March one,

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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, God's Love and Justice. We're in Lesson number ten.

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Our caption for today is Rules of Engagement. Rules of Engagement.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community and let us know where you

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are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot Com.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you

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for giving us the opportunity to pray today. Thank you

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for loving us and protecting us and giving us the

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privilege of being called by your name. Father. I'm asking

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you now to give us the fullness of your holy spirit.

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Please teach us how to love and to serve you.

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

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of Engagement. So we're going to begin today from the

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Bible book first John, First John, chapter three and verse eight,

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and then jump right in with two feet and the

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Bible reads, he who sins is of the devil. I

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just need to pause for a moment. What does this mean.

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It means to continue in a sinful lifestyle without submitting

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our will to God. Okay, so the person who continually

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sins as a lifestyle without submitting ourselves to God is

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of the devil. Doesn't mean if God forbid we commit

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a sin, then the Bible is saying where of the devil? Well,

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the Bible says that all have sinned and comes short

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of the glory of God and John resolved that in

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the chapter before when he said, my little children, these

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things write I unto you that ye sin not. And

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if any man or any person sins, you have an

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advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous. Okay. And

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so it's not about committing a sin, which really is

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not a small or a light matter. Please don't get

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that wrong. But the Bible is saying that those who

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continually or live in a lifestyle of sin without submitting

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to God, those are of the devil. And the Bible

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continues for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For

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this purpose, the Son of God was manifest that he

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might destroy the works of the devil. And so we

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need to be answering and asking, like, what are the

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rules are? What are the rules of engagement? The Bible

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

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against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness

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of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places. That

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basically means that the devil is our real enemy. The

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devil and his evil angels, those are our real enemies.

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And they're not of human origin, you see. And so

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since that is the case. We need the armor of God,

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We need the warfare that comes from the armaments of

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God's Arsenal. Bible says, the weapons of our warfare are

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not carnal or earthly or human. They are they are spiritual, okay,

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and so let's continue. So in the Bible, in the Lesson,

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the lesson writer says, behind the Gods in Air quotes

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that the nation surrounding God's people thought they were worshiping

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was actually something else. See, sometimes we worship all kinds

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of things. We worship money, God forbid, we worship church positions.

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Sometimes we worship relationships. Sometimes we worship social media following

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follower numbers and engagement numbers and analytics and our ability

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to create content. And everybody's a content creator because now

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artificial intelligence is there and we're collectively stupid. So everybody

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thinks that they're a content creator because really the machine

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is creating it. But there are few that actually are.

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But regardless of that, like, people worship all of that.

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I know, I said a lot right there. You're going

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to have to slow it down, repeat it later, rewind,

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and slow it down. But the Bible is teaching us

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that there are those who are are worshiping all kinds

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of filters that make our faces look pretty online, like

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the desire to be famous, so many are worshiping. In fact,

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there's a mogul on trial right in the moment that

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because people worship that desire to be famous, he exploits

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he exploited that, or he allegedly exploited that and committed

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all kinds of crimes against people. And there are actual

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false gods too. What does the Bible say about all

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of those things that we put in place of God?

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That's really what it means to worship those, to worship

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like we put these things above God. Okay, so what

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does the Bible actually teach us? It means according to Deuteronomy,

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chapter thirty two and verse seventeen, they sacrificed to demons,

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not to God, to gods that they did not know,

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to new gods, new arrivals that their fathers did not fear.

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And then Paul in the New Testament said in First Corinthians,

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chapter ten and verse twenty, the things which the Gentiles

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sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And

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I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

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So behind the quote false gods of the nations and

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everything that I just mentioned, Like if we put anything

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above God, we put anything before God. If even I,

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God forbid put this program that supposedly in honor of God.

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But if I put it ahead of God, then I'm

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worshiping it. And of those things then are actually demons

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in disguise. Anything I put ahead of God is a

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demon in disguise, because really the devil has been searching

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for an opportunity to usurp God's authority and be worshiped

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like he wants to be worshiped. And so this means

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then that all of the texts of scripture dealing with

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idolatry and the foreign gods are cosmic conflict texts. We're

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in a war, brothers and sisters, is a war in

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our minds that started in heaven. The devil and his

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angels were kicked out of heaven, but they were kicked

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out of Heaven onto planet Earth, and for a time

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they are allowed to do certain things. God does have

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them under manners, he does have them on some level

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of control, but what he allows is ridiculous, Like these

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evil angels are ridiculous. The Devil is ridiculous. Wreaking havoc

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on planet Earth, but God still has it under control,

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and so the Bible write. The lesson writer wanted us

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to go to First Kings, chapter eighteen and read from

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verses nineteen to forty. The long story short is God's

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people had lost their minds spiritually speaking. One of God's

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people married. He was a king Ahab. He married a

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woman that he shouldn't have married, who was not from

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among God's people. So that just showed his compromise. And

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during his reign bel a false god in Astroa. Both

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of them were being worshiped, and then God created a

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showdown experience on Mount Carmel with his man, his Prophetylijah

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and those eight hundred and fifty false prophets to those

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false gods. And so they're up there, and God's people

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are there, and the people who supp the false gods

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are there, and there's a showdown, and for a period

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of time God is showing that he is is God.

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But in waiting, the people who don't love God are

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allowed to suck or try to cause fire to come

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down from heaven. They're allowed to try to get their

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false gods to pay attention. But at the appropriate time.

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At the time of the evening sacrifice, the Bible says

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that God shows up and shows out, demonstrates that he's

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the only one, wise and true and living God worthy

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of worship. There's a showdown going on now. Who is

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the God your worshiping peace? Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,