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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 Sunday. It's

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April twenty, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle

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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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our

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caption for today is Nimrod and Nineveh. Nimrod and Nineveh.

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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, especially in these studies. I want

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you to pick up the your Daily Portion Companion Guide

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because we apply these lessons to four key areas of

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our lives. Sometimes we get lost in all of the

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Bible details and don't know how to apply it. So

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please pick that up and we can talk about that

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in the community that we've developed. Also, also, please go

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day

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and for this new work week. I pray that you

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will give us the wizdom that we need to apply

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the truths that we will discover today. In Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again. Our caption is Nimrod

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and Nineveh. Nimrod and Nineveh. And as I said in

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the preamble, please pick up the Companion Guide because, like

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I said, it's very easy to read and then just

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completely forget how to apply what we have read to

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our personal lives, okay, personal spiritual, our relationship lives, and

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our professional lives. Okay, So the lesson writer said something

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very interesting. In the very beginning of it. Eden was

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created as the ideal home for the human race. Once

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sin entered, God had no choice but to separate humanity

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from the Garden and the Tree of Life, at least

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for now. Now, let me just get this very clear.

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Sometimes people miss this. The Garden of Eden wasn't the

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entire planet, right, And outside of the Garden of Eden

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wasn't something negative or somehow distant from God. It's just that,

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if I were to use today's language, the Garden of

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Eden seemed to be the capital of the world, the

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capital of the earth if you want to say home base.

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That is where Adam and Eve actually lived. They lived

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in the capital of the world, and the Tree of

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Life was in the capital of the world. I wish

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I had the time to develop that, okay, But because

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of their sin, God had to restrict access from this

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capital of the world that also had the Tree of

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Life as an insulation against them being eternal sinners. So

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I wish I had the time, but I don't. But

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God did something very special. Now let me go to

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the book Prophets or Patriarchs and prophets. Let's see page

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sixty eight. The garden of Eden remained on the earth

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long after humankind had become an outcast from its pleasant paths.

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Hither came Adam and his sons to worship God. Here

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they renewed their vows of obedience to that law of

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the transgression of which had banished them from Eden. When

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the tide of iniquity overspread the world, the wickedness of

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humankind determined their destruction. By a flood of waters. The

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hand that planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But

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in the final restitution, when there shall be a new

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Heaven and a new Earth, it is to be restored

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more gloriously adorned than at the beginning. Did you get

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that God is going to restore it more gloriously then

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at the beginning. Sometimes I wonder, and normally I don't

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talk about what I'm wondering or guessing. I try to

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stick to what we can obviously see. But sometimes I

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wonder if in the end analysis, after the thousand years

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following Jesus's return, I wonder if the Holy City New Jerusalem,

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and Eden are the same one and the same, like

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the New Jerusalem being the new and improved version. That's

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something I'm wondering. Go ahead and type it in the

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chat and tell me what you think about that, and

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certainly come into our community and talk about that, because

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the Tree of Life is there, and there's some other reasons.

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But I digress, I digress. I don't want to just

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wonder on this or wander for that matter, on this program.

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So let's go ahead now to Genesis chapter three and

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begin at verse sixteen. The Bible says, unto the woman,

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he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.

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In sorrow, shalt thou bring fourth children, and then thy

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and desire shall be for thy husband, and he shall

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rule over thee. And and to Adam, he said, because

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thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and

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hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee,

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saying thou shalt not eat of it. Cursed is the

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ground for thy sake. Y'all need to know that whatever's

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going wrong on planet Earth is Adam's fault. It was

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not Eve's fault. I just don't have the time to

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deal with that. Adam represented the human race. It was

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Adam's sin that caused degradation and our proclivity or predisposition

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to sin. I wish I really had the time, but

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I don't. But just get that straight right here. And

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now Adam jumped into sin. Eve was deceived. She fell

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into sin. But the Bible continues, thou shalt not eat.

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I told you to. Don't eat of it. Curse is

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the ground for thy sake and sorrow. Shalt thou eat

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all of the days of thy life, thorns and thistles.

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Shalt thou bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat

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of the herb of the field. And in the sweat

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of thy brow thou shalt eat bread till thou return

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unto the ground. And so there were a couple of

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responses to this new reality, because Adam and Eve had sinned.

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Adam in particular, Number one is a faith response, a

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faith response as outlined in Hebrews chapter eleven and verse four.

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By faith, Able offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice

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than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was

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righteous God, testifying of his gifts, and by it, he

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being dead, yet speaketh. And then there was a human response.

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Of course, we could just go to Cain for that.

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But let's fast forward to Nimrod. There was a faith response,

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Able was a faithful youth. And then there was somebody

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in the Bible named Nimrod. In Genesis chapter ten and

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verses eight and nine, the Bible says Cush was the

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father of Nimrod. He began and to be a valiant

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warrior or a mighty one in the earth. He was

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mighty hunter before the Lord. That's why I said, like Nimrod,

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a mighty hunter before the Lord. Now some people think

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that's a compliment, but if you look at what Nimrod

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actually did with his life, he was the beginning of

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a really terrible dynasty of people who were self reliant

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and decided that they could overcome what God commanded and

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said what happened on planet Earth. Now, there is a

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problem with our hearts posture. There's a problem like some

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people don't choose a like Abell did, and choose b

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like Nimrod instead. And so the Bible says about us

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left by ourselves in Jeremiah chapter seventeen and verse nine,

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the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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Who can know it? And so This shows us that

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we can be protected against rebellion because Abel was Abel

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knew how to live godly, even though he paid with

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his life. But we can recognize human the tendency of humanity.

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We can maintain our dependence upon God. We can submit

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to God's authority just like Abel did, wait for God's

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timing and trust in his promises and accept his methods.

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Remember the lessons in Eden that Abel are after Eden

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that Abel showed us. But this showed us that Paradise

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lost needs divine restoration and human solutions will fail. We

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see that at the Tower of Babel. But God is ready,

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willing and available to make us holy and overcome our

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human proclivities.

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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,