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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 Sunday. It's

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March nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice, and our caption

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for today is Christ the Victor, Christ the Victim? Is

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he the victor in your life? And really it's up

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to you, It's up to me to answer that question.

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And if we allow him to be, then in our lives,

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he will, in fact and indeed be. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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for the very first time. I'd like for you to

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It is attached to this quarter's lesson. You have just

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a couple more days to demonstrate if this is something

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that is useful to you. If it is, then we

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will produce it for next quarter. If not, then this

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not type number seven. I see people doing that sometime,

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typing number seven in the chat. That's not what I'm

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asking you. Click the number seven at your Daily Portion

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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

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will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for this

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day and for the opportunity that you have given us

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to see your victory in our lives. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. You know there are

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times that humans just can't see, we can't see how

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God is being so good to us, how he is

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faithful in our lives. And so I'm very grateful that

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God has given us the privilege of seeing him as

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the victor in our lives. Yes, the devil is a deceiver.

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Yes he is a slanderer and the accuser of the brethren.

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Yes he is a liar, and he was such from

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the beginning. Yes, he has been trying to usurp God's

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authority to take for himself the worship for which only

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Jesus is worthy or God our Father is worthy. Like

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he is all of that. But really, is is that

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what we need to focus on? Do we need to

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focus on how evil evil is?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: The devil is the devil, like, he's devilish, He's doing

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his job, And so our focus should be to connect

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with God. Why because Christ is the victor. Yes, the

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faith that he gives us, the one that is the

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author and finisher of our faith, has told us before

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it has happened, what exactly will happen and what the

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end will be like God wins in the end analysis

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And as I've asked the question multiple times over the

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last couple of weeks, is God winning in my life?

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Is he winning in your life? Christ is the victor.

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Although the lesson writer says there is an enemy at work,

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whom Christ himself refers to usurper ruler of this world,

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the true king of the universe is Christ. Jesus wins

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victory for us, and in him we can have victory

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even in the midst of hardship and suffering. Indeed, the

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work of Christ counters and overcomes the enemy at every turn. Okay,

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and so I am going to whoops, I am going

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to read read a couple of passages to you so

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that it will help all of us get closer to God.

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Number one, let's go to Romans chapter three, beginning at

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verse twenty five. Romans Chapter three, beginning at verse twenty five.

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And I'm hoping that you will do things like this

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in your spare time. Okay. So the first thing I

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want us to do, I said us, I need this

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for me is trust in Christ's righteousness. Trust in Christ's righteousness.

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The Bible reads God publicly, what did he do publicly

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displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible

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through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness because God,

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in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

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This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time,

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so that he would be just and the justifier of

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the one who lives because of Jesus's faithfulness. Okay, and

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let me read it again. This was also to demonstrate

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his righteousness in the present time, whenever that was written

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in that time, in our present time, so that he

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could be just, that is, he could be righteous and

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at the same time justify me. He could make it

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just as if you, dear brother, you, dear sister, had

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never sinned those mistakes that you have made over the

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course of years. And maybe humans have records of those things,

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and they remember and throw in your face sometimes the

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things that you did against them, and they have not

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yet forgiven you right. They have not healed from whatever,

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or you have not maybe even healed from what you've

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done to yourselves. You see, But what Jesus has done

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by becoming the mercy seat, becoming the one who is

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who was covering hovering over the law. I wish I

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had the time to go back into the sanctuary. But

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the mercy seat was right above where the law was housed,

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in the ark of the Covenant. So God, as we

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would see it, is on his throne, seated on the

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mercy seat. And below the mercy seat is the law

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of God. And so if you are going to change

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the law of God, you have to move God out

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of the way. That's not going to happen, right, take

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him up off his throne. That's not going to happen.

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And if you are going to assault God's people, then

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you would have to remove God, take up his mercy,

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get right back to the law, take out the law

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like a sword, and then go against the people of God,

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be like the accuser of the brethren. But you cannot

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move God. Ah, you cannot remove his mercy. You cannot

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misuse his law to the degree of condemning his people.

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And so Jesus, being that perfect mercy seat now is

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showing how even though the law cannot be changed, and

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it is only wholly just and good, and we have

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transgressed the law, which means we should die. Being the

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mercy seat says I'll take the punishment because of God's mard.

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Jesus takes the punishment that we deserve so that we

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can receive the life that he deserves. Now, I also

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want you to remember while you're letting that settle in, like,

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wait a minute, He's giving me life eternal and I

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don't deserve it. That's right. Just yield your will to him,

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confess your sins, live your life according to the principles

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of His word and his Holy ten Commandment's law in

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his strength. Yes, but you know what, while we are

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living in that reality, the devil will still nip at

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our heels. He will still be there at every turn.

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He's not going anywhere until he's ultimately destroyed. But I

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want you to remember one thing. The devil's time is limited.

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He's unborrowed time. The Bible reads in Revelation, chapter twelve

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and verse twelve. Therefore, rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that

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dwell in them, wee unto the inhabitors of the earth

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and of the sea. The devil is coming down unto you,

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having great wrath. And people usually stick right there and

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gets and get and get, and let our minds get poisoned,

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and we wonder, like, oh, my goodness, what in the

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world are we gonna do? Well? He says here, the

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Bible says here, because he knoweth that he hath but

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a short time he's filled with this anger, but he

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knows that he has a short time. This is why

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he redoubles his efforts and lives and behaves the way

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he does against the people of God. That is why,

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because God is going to destroy our enemy and ultimately

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God is going to destroy death. Why because, like Jesus

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is the victor. What did you think? 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,