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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, March six,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El 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, and today is

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

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Psalms, and our caption for today
is the Parable of the Lord's Vine.

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The Parable of the Lord's Vine.
We'll get into that in just a month

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moment, but first I'd like to
say welcome to you and ask you to

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the world literally, and I'm thankful
that we have our small part to play

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in that regard. Let's go ahead
and pray, and then we will get

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underway. Father in Heaven, thank
you for giving us the opportunity to open

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your word today. Please fill us
with your holy spirit. Teach us to

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serve you. Please, Lord,
help us to be connected to you and

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not let go. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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You know Jesus said, I am
the vine. You are the branches,

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and everybody who stays connected to me. Let me just read it.

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Actually, let me not mess it
up here John chapter fifteen. Let's go

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to the book of John chapter fifteen. I am the true vine, beginning

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at verse one. And my father
is the vine dresser or the husbandman.

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Every branch in me that beareth not
fruit, he taketh away, and every

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branch that beareth fruit he prunes it. So it can be better, yep,

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that it may bring forth more fruit. Okay, Now ye are clean

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through the word which I have spoken
to you. Abide in me and I

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in you. As a branch cannot
bear fruit of itself except it abide in

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the vine. No more can ye
except ye abide in the vine. I

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am the vine. You are the
branches. He that abide in me and

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I in him. So now we
know what the cheatk code is. Now

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we know what we need in order
to win here. So he that abideth

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in me and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit. For

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without me you can do nothing.
If a person abide not in me,

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he is cast forth as a branch, and that is withered, and people

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gather them and cast them in the
fire and are burned verse seven. In

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final, if ye abide in me, now we have some clarity, and

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my words abide in you, ye
shall ask what ye will, and it

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shall be done unto you. Isn't
it a privilege for us to be in

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the vine, which is Jesus Christ. Isn't it a privilege to be called

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by him? This is the parable
of the Lord's vine. Now we're going

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back to the Book of Psalms.
It is it. It is clear now

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that it's about abiding in God through
Christ. In twenty twenty four. We

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don't have to look only into the
past, but we can see now what

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this looks like in our day through
Christ. Okay, and so we go

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to the Book of Psalms, chapter
eighty, just to see the imagery now.

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And first, let me sorry read
some of what the lesson writer said.

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Israel is portrayed, or God's people
is portrayed as a vineyard that God

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uprooted from Egypt, the land of
oppression, and transported into the promised land

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for abundance. The image of the
vineyard conveys God's selection or election of God's

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people Israel, and his providential care. However, however, God's vineyard is

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under the wrath of God. The
prophets announced the vineyard's destruction as a sign

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of God's judgment because the vine has
turned bad. The vine has turned bad.

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Remember what I read from the Book
of John gave us the key to

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this, that we need to be
abiding in Him and God abiding in us,

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so we do bear much fruit.
If not, then we are separated,

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we wither. And then men come
and gather together gather these together,

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and they are are burned. And
so this is why we need to focus

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on what happened to the people in
the past, the decisions they have made.

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Okay, and so verse eight of
the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty

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reads, thus you uprooted a vine
from Egypt, and you drove out nations

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and transplanted it. So now we
see that God, because he's good,

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not because we're good, but God, because he's good, elected his people

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and took care of them, not
because of anything that they had done.

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But then in verse twelve we see
this interesting contrast. Why have you broken

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down its walls so that all who
pass by pluck its fruits? So this

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symbolizes God's displeasure and his corrective judgment. So God is equal, like he's

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not just turning a blind eye,
Like he's not turning a blind eye and

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saying like, no matter what to
his people, whatever happens, it doesn't

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matter, I'm going to live.
I'm gonna do this for you. No,

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there are times that God's judgment comes
because God's people refuse to repent.

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You understand, And I'm not talking
about only God's people in this context.

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I am speaking of God's people.
So if we don't repent, then God

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has given us a clear cut reality. The wrath of God does come.

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We can't shy away from it.
We cannot act like this is not part

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of also the character of God.
Because ultimately God's purpose in the earth is

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to adjoin it to heavenly places like
the holiness and the righteousness that exists throughout

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other areas of the universe. He
needs the earth to come into line so

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that one day sin and sinfulness will
be completely gone. Sin and sinners will

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be gone, the devil and all
of his evil angels will have been destroyed.

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And so God has to do what
he has to do. But guess

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what. God is so good and
you want to say, well, how

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good is he? Dad? He's
so good that this does not have to

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be our plight, Like we can
actually serve and follow God so that this

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does not have to be our outcome. And so there is a tension between

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God's wrath and his grace right and
we see it clearly in verse nineteen.

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God of Heaven's armies restore us,
smile on us, then we will be

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delivered. Isn't it good that God
still can smile on his people. Isn't

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it good that when we call on
him he will answer? Ah? Isn't

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it good that we can turn away
from our sins and turn away from our

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unrighteousness and be delivered so that we
can be holy? Yes? And so

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this Psalmist grapples with the coexistence of
God's wrath and his grace. Grace is

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power of God to do in our
lives what he wants us to do,

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fearing total consumption by God's anger.
So this portrays the hope of redemption despite

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God's judgment. There is hope that
we can be holy. There is hope

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that our relationship can be restored and
not have to be fearful. We don't

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have to be be fearful of God's
wrath. We just need to turn toward

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God. And in that vein we
go to the Book of Jeremiah, chapter

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twenty four and verse seven. I
want you to see yourselves in this regard

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and verse seven, I will give
them the desire to acknowledge that I am

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the Lord. You realize that God
is giving us his desires, like there

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are people who don't desire God,
and God is saying, I'm going to

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instill it into the bosom of these
people right to acknowledge that I am the

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Lord. They will be my people
and I will be their God, for

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they will hoolleheartedly return to me.
Of course, he's speaking in a particular

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context, but it gives us the
heart and mind of God, repentance as

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returning to God. The concept of
being restored is linked to repentance and returning

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to God. This indicates that there
is transformation and renewal that can happen when

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we are committed to God. I'm
thankful that there is this parable of the

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vibe. But God has given us
the promise that we can live eternally with

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Him. Peace. Thanks for joining
us listening. Friends, Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but
by every word that comes from the mouth

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of God. This has been your
daily portion with el David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,