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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 us

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through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of

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

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

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

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is Thursday, March twenty one,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our lesson study
series through the Book of Psalms,

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and our caption for today is when
God does not delight in sacrifices, when

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God does not deal light in sacrifices. Before we get into that, I'd

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just like to welcome you to the
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don't say anything in the community,
then I won't say anything in the community

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our discussions there. Let's go ahead and

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pray, and then we will get
underway. Father and Heaven, thank you

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for giving us this day and for
the opportunity that you have in trut did

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to us to open up your word
and to live according to those principles.

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Please help us to live principled lives, to be of service to others,

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and to glorify You and all that
we say, do and think in Jesus

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name, I pray, Amen and
a man again. Okay, when does

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God not delight in sacrifices? That's
a question. Now, when is it

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that God does not delight in sacrifices? Now you might be saying, but

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Dave, it's twenty twenty four.
So this is a moot point, like

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it's irrelevant. Okay, let's make
an application. First, Let's look at

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what the sacrifices were that he was
referencing. God was referencing. So,

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of course, before Jesus came miraculously
through Mary, by the Holy Spirit,

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before then, and then by the
before he gave his life. He gave

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his life as the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the

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world. Yes, before that,
we had to give sacrifices. Before Jesus

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gave his life, we had to
give sacrifices. This is a part of

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the plan of salvation, if you
will, where God through this sacrificial system,

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or some would call it sacradotal system. Through this system we see that

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an innocent victim would be in the
place of the sinner. We can go

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to Leviticus chapters one through seven and
see the details of the sacrifices, but

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we won't. But the bottom line
is, because all have sinned and come

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short of the glory of God,
God gave us a kindergarten view, if

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you will, He gave us a
way through this system of sacrifices and the

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priesthood and the high priestly ministry to
see like what is the the what is

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the cycle of sin? Like how
do we become forgiven? Like what does

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it take to become unified again with
God once we have sinned? That is

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the long story short but anyway,
God prescribed how this system of sacrifices should

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be done and what it would take
in order to symbolically be in a position

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where we are forgiven of our sins
and then cleansed from all unrighteousness. Again

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Leviticus chapters one through seven give those
details. And if you want another view,

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it's from the book of Hebrews.
So good, Okay. So the

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people knew that they were in air
quotes doing what God would say for the

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particular sacrifices. They gave what the
prescribed sacrifices were, and God was like,

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yeah, I don't need those now. It wasn't a wholesale discussion.

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He was saying, if we are
not actually committed to God, keep your

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sacrifices. God does not light in
all of the blood that comes from these

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sacrifices. Like, God is not
like, go kill some more animals to

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appease me, not bring more blood
to appease me. No, this is

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not what God was after. He
was not after what some of the proud

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people who felt like if they gave
these sacrifices in air quotes, if they

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did that, then God owed them
something. They were like Cain, who

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said, you know, I gave
you this and you didn't accept it.

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What's the problem God? No,
God was like, hold on, hold

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on, hold on, hold on, your brother Abel. He gave the

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sacrifice that I desire. Not only
did he give the correct one, but

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he gave his heart. His heart
was in it, like he yielded himself.

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But Cain did not. He was
proud. Not only was he proud,

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but he also didn't give what God
asked for. And so the question

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for me in twenty twenty four understanding
that we are no longer doing sacrifices because

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again Jesus Christ is the lamb of
God that was sacrificed for us, like

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he is the one who taketh away
the sins of the world. So that

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is over and done with, and
now he stands at as the great high

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priest right, who is acquainted with
the feelings of our infirmities, who is

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able to succor or to provide what
we need and help us in the time

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of need because he lived in human
form, Like he knows what it's like

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to be human and to struggle through
the human predicament of having to eat and

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to sleep, and to surrender our
will to God and to be tempted by

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the devil. You understand. And
so now that we have this, what

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is the reference point for us?
Like, how do we apply it to

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us? You know, some people
fast. My wife just came off a

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fast last month. Yep. I
fasted many times, one time twenty three

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days. Should I pat myself on
the back and say, Lord, look

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at what I've done? Now you
owe me something. There are people who

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give alms. They give money to
the poor and other things. And sometimes

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we get cameras out and take take
pictures like our own private paparazzi like,

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and we take pictures of all the
things and write stories about the things,

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and then want everybody to congratulate us. And please do not misunderstand what I'm

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saying here. What I am saying
this is not what pleases God. What

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pleases God is a heart that is
yielded to him. And if from a

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heart that is yielded to him,
then we give to the poor that is

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acceptable. Huh. If through a
heart that is yielded to him we do

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fast, that is accepted to him, acceptable to him. If through a

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heart that is yielded to him,
then we earn our income and share with

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as many people as possible. This
is acceptable to God. But if we

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are doing it for show, or
for a payment from God, or somehow

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that we might feel like that,
we will have merit with God as a

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result, or favor with people as
a result. God is saying, keep

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that. You can keep that,
And so let me read from the Book

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of Psalms. I think we have
made that point sufficiently for this moment.

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Psalms the Book of Psalms, chapter
forty, beginning at verse six, and

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the Bible reads sacrifice and offering.
Thou didst not desires mine ears hast thou

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opened burnt offering and sin offering Thou
hast not required. Then I said that

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lo I come in the volume of
the book. It is written of me.

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I delight to do Thy will.
That's what God is after in our

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inward parts, brothers and sisters,
to where we delight ourselves in the Lord,

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and then we will have the desires
of heart. I delight to do

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thy will. Oh my God,
yay, Thy law is within my heart.

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That's what God is after. Like
He wants our lives, he wants

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our thoughts, he wants our affections. He wants the energy that comes from

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our exercising and our energy that comes
from a relationship with him. Just talk,

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not just show. Not flowers for
my spouse, my wife after I've

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abused her, just to make her
feel like we're together. God is saying,

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no, give me your heart.
And when you give me your heart,

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then all that comes as a fruit
of that that is acceptable to me.

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For a wonderful day. Peace.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,

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Always remember we cannot live by bread
alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with El

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David Harris. Make it a great
day. Yeah,