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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's 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 to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Wednesday, January twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our lesson study through the Book of

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Psalms, and our caption for today
is Defender and Deliverer. Defender and Deliverer

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Is God your defender? Is He
your deliverer? I know he wishes to

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be and it's really up to you
to accept it. We'll get into it

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in just a moment, but first
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fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and

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then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us

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this new day and for the privilege
that you have entrusted to us to come

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into your presence with thanksgiving. Father, please help us to accept you as

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our defender and our deliverer. In
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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a man again. Okay, So
the question again is do you accepite God

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as your defender and your deliverer?
Yeah? There are times that we take

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in hand aspects of our own lives
that really are in God's hands, you

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see. Okay, So vengeance is
mine Seth the Lord. Do you remember

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hearing anything like that before? I
will repay. There are times that people

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seek reprisals and vengeance and revenge because
maybe they feel like there was some injustice

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that happened to their family. Somebody
did something to you, and maybe you

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want to go back and do something
to them. Somebody did something to a

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family member, you want to go
back and do something to them or their

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family member. Or you understand where
I'm going, Yeah, tit for tat

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Well, God is saying I'm the
one that defends you. There are times

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that you're having arguments and discussions unfortunately, or people come to you with things

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that happen not to be true in
regard to your character. Is it at

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work, is it at church?
Is it at play somewhere else? And

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some other relationship that you have and
you feel like I need to defend myself.

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Well, maybe there are times that
you need to speak up no disrespect

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like there may be times, but
there are times that we go into full

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defense mode and God said, I
am your defender. Yeah, I wish

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I had the time. Let's go
to an extreme example. I'm calling it

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that. Maybe it's not an extreme
example of God being a defender and a

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deliverer for his people. So we're
going into the Book of Psalms, chapter

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one hundred and fourteen. Have you
ever read that chapter before? Something to

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think about. We're going to begin
at verse one the Book of Psalms,

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chapter one hundred and fourteen and verse
one. The Bible reads, when Israel

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went out of Egypt the house of
Jacob from a people of a strange language.

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Judah was his sanctuary and Israel was
his dominion. The sea saw it

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and fled. Jordan was driven back. So clearly we're talking about Joshua is

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the one who is leading God's people
by this time, and God is showing,

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just like he did that first generation
of freed slaves out of Egypt,

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that he is still on their side, he is able to deliver them,

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and as he parted the Red Sea, he is parting the Jordan. Okay,

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the Jordan was driven back. The
mountains skipped like rams, and the

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little hills like lambs? What ailed
thee Oh, thou see that thou Fledtest

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thou Jordan, that thou wast driven
back? Ye mountains that ye skipped like

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rams, and ye little hills like
lambs, tremble thou earth at the presence

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of the Lord, at the presence
of the God of Jacob. What which

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turned the rock into standing water,
the flint into a fountain of waters?

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And so it's really interesting that God
would use this imagery. The Jordan was

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driven back. I'm reading now from
the Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume

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three. The miraculous providences were seen
at both the beginning and the ending of

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God's people's journey from Egypt to Canaan. When I was young, we did

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play this game on Sabbath evenings Friday
nights, called Egypt to Canaan. We

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can take courage in the fact that
the same God who let us out of

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Egypt or Egyptian bondage of sin,
will conduct us safely through Jordan's stormy billows

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to the land of Promise on the
farther shore. And so the writer here

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is saying that in the same way
that God delivered his people from Egypt originally

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passed through the Red Sea on dry
ground, the same way at the time

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that they were entering earthly Canaan,
and the Jordan River and all other obstacles

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stood in their way, and he
parted the Jordan River, he had Jericho's

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walls come down. He took down
those walls in the same way that He

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delivered his people in that way.
In the end, at the end of

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time, God will ultimately deliver his
people so that we will enter into the

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heavenly Promise. And then, of
course the earth made new. I'm thankful

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that God has given us these these
small bites throughout scripture to show that He

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listens to and then delivers his people. Now, Paul had something to say

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about this under inspiration in the book
of First Corinthians, chapter ten, And

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so we're going to read First Corinthians
chapter ten and begin at verse one.

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The Bible reads, moreover, brethren, moreover, brethren, I would not

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that ye be ignorant, how that
all our fathers were under the cloud and

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passed through the sea, and we're
all baptized into Moses in the cloud and

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in the sea. So now we're
seeing that there is a spiritual implication not

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only that God is a deliverer,
not only is God our defender, but

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he is the one that transforms our
lives. You see, Baptism is not

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just that we go into the water, wet a water and get wet and

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then come back out of the water
wet, like go into the water as

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a wet sinner, come back out
as a wet sinner. No, no,

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no, no, no no.
What God is saying is that when

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we enter into right relationship with God
and we are baptized, it is that

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we have already made a decision to
serve God. We've already made the decision

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that God indeed is our defender,
He is indeed our deliverer, and that

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we agree with him, and that
we are yielding our will to God.

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And then we signify that by going
down into the water. Now we are

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going down into the water signifying our
death to sin. Yes, And then

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coming out of the water, not
as if the water transforms us. Ah,

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But now in symbol we are saying
we are dead to sin, and

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now coming out of the water,
alive to God, dead to sin,

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alive to God. No longer a
sinner, but now a sinner saved by

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grace, better known as a sink. Okay. And then the Bible continues

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verse two, And we're all baptized
into Moses in the cloud and in the

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sea. And did all eat the
same spiritual meat, so the manna was

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more their daily portion? Did you
hear that their daily portion was more than

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what went down in their belly?
And did all drink the same spiritual drink?

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Some of you will catch up in
a second here, Ah, For

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they drank of that spiritual rock that
followed them, and that rock was Christ.

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And so God is giving us another
view from Paul's perspective in the New

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Testament era, to say that the
manner that they got in the wilderness was

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really Jesus being provided to them as
their daily bread. And then being in

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the waters, passing through the waters
and coming out on the other shore without

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it being wet at all, passing
through on dry land was God giving them

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deliverance into right relationship with Him.
And so we see all throughout God's people's

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history that He has never left them, he has never forsaken them. And

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in all times, in all places, the pathway to Jerusalem was fraught with

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trials, but God always wins.
A wonderful day, Peace. Thanks for

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joining us listening. Friends, Always
remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has been

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your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,