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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 that.

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Let's experience God's words today and receive
the power we need to live healthy,

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

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L. David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It

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is Sabbath, August nineteen, twenty
twenty three. Hello, my name is

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L. 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

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exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series through the Book of Ephesians,

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and our caption for today is living
Wisely, Living Wisely. Before I

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get into that, I'd like to
just say happy birthday to my big sister

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Lisa. I know that you will
have a continued blessed life. Continue to

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pray, continue to trust God,
and listen. I am thankful that you're

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here because I don't know where i'd
be without you. So happy birthday to

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my big sister Lisa. Let's go
ahead and pray and then we will get

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underway. Father, thank you for
this Sabbath morning and for the privilege we

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have to open up your word.
Please give us the wisdom that we seek

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in Jesus name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again, living wisely.

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All right, So I'm going to
read a couple of passages for you.

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First is the book is from the
Book of Psalms, the Book of Psalms,

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chapter ninety and I will read verse
twelve. And so the Bible reads

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here, so teach us to number
our days. And of course there is

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much said before this, but the
bottom line here is teach us to number

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our days that we may apply our
hearts unto wisdom. We see, our

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lives are fleeting right now, we
are all dying. Did you get that?

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That sounds so ominous, like it
sounds almost pessimistic, But it's it's

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not. It's the reality, like
matter left alone breaks down. Now we

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are matter, and thank God he
is sustaining us. But really and truly,

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like we are not going to live
on planet Earth as it is forever.

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And if the Lord delays us coming
long enough, then each of us

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will die, if not, if
not, or not each of us,

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but each of us can die.
Right But every one of us has experienced

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the death of a friend or a
loved one, and we understand what that

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is. So while we are here, with the time that we have left

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talk, we are to apply our
hearts to wisdom. All right now to

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Proverbs chapter two, beginning at verse
one, and the Bible reads, my

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child, if you receive my words
and store up my commands inside yourself,

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by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding.

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Indeed, if you call out for
discernments, shout loudly for understanding,

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if you seek it like silver,
and search for it like hidden treasure,

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then and may I add right here
and only then, then and only then

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will you understand how the fear of
how to fear the Lord, and you

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will discover knowledge about God. For
the Lord gives wisdom, and from his

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mouth comes knowledge and understanding. So
God has given us incredible promises that if

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we are hungering and thirsting after His
righteousness, if we are calling out unto

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God and giving all that we have
and all that we are in the pursuit

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of his wisdom. Then he will
give us a bonus. He will give

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us an understanding and the ability to
fear him and to respect him. Right,

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the fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom. You see,

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fools despise knowledge and instruction or did
I say it backwards? But you understand

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where I'm going with this, right, So I'm thankful that God, when

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he says that we should live wisely, does not leave us defend for ourselves.

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There are so many people coaches like
me, but not exactly like me,

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who are selling all kinds of snake
oil, right, all kinds of

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things, how to do this and
how to do that, And your coach

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probably has no either experience or enough
scruples to say no, maybe you should

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go over there, right. And
there are even therapists and professionals of other

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trades that normally it would be wonderful
to trust them, but even some of

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them are unscrupulous. Preachers and leaders
in the family of God, sometimes unscrupulous

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and not really giving people what we
need on this pathway to godly wisdom.

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I'm just saying like, those are
the are close to the worst case scenarios,

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and so This is why God wants
us to connect with him directly,

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so we can see and understand and
detect wisdom. Yes, when it is

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available, seek unto God for wisdom. Now, the lesson writer wants us

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to go back again to the Book
of Ephesians, chapter five, beginning at

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verse fifteen. We're just setting up
for the coming week, okay, and

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the Bible reads, Look carefully then, how you walk not as unwise,

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but as wise making the best use
of time. Remember we got that from

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the Book of Psalms. Because the
days are evil. Therefore, do not

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be foolish, but understand what the
will of the Lord is. Do you

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understand, like the Bible is showing
us here the connection with living wisely and

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listening to what God's will is.
Yeah, I'm going to read a story

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right of the lesson Okay. Not
long ago, a crystal jug was placed

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on auction in the United Kingdom.
The auctioneers described it as a nineteenth century

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French claret jug. I don't know
if I pronounced that correctly, estimating it's

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worth at the US two hundred dollars
two percent to excuse me. Perceptive bidders

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recognize the jug as an extremely rare
Islamic your it's true? What is the

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appraised worth? Appraisal worth five million
euros or about six point five million US

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dollars? What allowed the bidder to
walk away with such a bargain? The

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bidder knew something that the auctioneer did
not, the true value of the jug.

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In Ephesians Chapter five, verses one
through twenty, Paul contrasts what pagans

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and believers valued. Pagans valued a
racy story and a drunken party and debauched

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sex as the great treasures of life. Believers, though, in contrast,

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know the ultimate day of appraisal is
coming, when the true value of all

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things will become apparent. Instead of
placing their bid on partying and drunkenness,

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they treasure, among other things,
all that is good and right and true

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in Christ. Paul thus urges them
to snap up the bargains found in Christ,

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as they live as well and do
on the threshold of eternity. And

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so God is showing us that we
are of inestimable value to him, and

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he wants us with that value he
has placed on us by giving us his

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son, like if you have a
need of something like earthly we have to

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look at what God has already given
us, Like if you need money,

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you need rent, you need food
for the baby, you need diapers,

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you need simple things of life,
and just don't have them right now.

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The Bible says, if God has
given us Christ, his son, how

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shall he not also with him give
us freely all things. So God has

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already shown us his value of us, and he wants us also to value

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the things that matter to him,
to value, wisdom, to value,

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submission to his will, to value, not diminishing ourselves by doing things that

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separate us from God. You understand
by giving us a mindset, the Bible

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says, let this mind be in
you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

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And then he showed the path of
humility that Jesus walked. Okay,

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and so since our time is limited, as we walk on planet Earth today,

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let's read what the Bible says and
Ephesians five verses fifteen through seventeen.

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As we come to a swift clothes
see, then let you walk circumspectly,

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not as fools, but as wise. I'm reading it again, redeeming the

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time, because the time or the
days are evil, have a wonderful rest

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of your sabbath peace. Thanks for
joining us listening. Friends, Always remember

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

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mouth of God. This has been
your daily portion with L. David Harris.

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Make it a great day.