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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.

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It's Tuesday, February twenty seven,
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

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

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and our caption for today is forever
Faithful to His Covenant, Forever Faithful

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to His Covenant. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first

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I like to say welcome to you
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portion dot Com. Let's go ahead
and pray, and then we will get

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underway. Father and Heaven, thank
you for giving us this new day and

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for the privilege we have to open
your word again. Please teach us to

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be faithful to you. In Jesus'
name, I pray Amen and Amen again,

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forever faithful to His Covenant. Now, I know that there are some

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of you who are like Bible scholars, and if I say something about covenant,

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You're going to wonder, well,
which one. And then if I

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say something that seems to be related
to a covenant related to Noah or the

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New Covenant or the Davidic Covenant or
some other covenant in the cloud because of

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the rainbow after the flood where Noah
and so forth right, and you'll want

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to be like detailed and say,
well, no, that's not which one

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we were talking about. Okay,
So I'm going to use the covenantal concept

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as a principle today. Okay,
So don't worry texts me or anything like

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that and say, Dave, you
missed the detail, because the principle of

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these covenants and God's response and how
this thing all works out is the same,

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Okay, the same. So the
fact is that God makes covenant with

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humans. God makes covenant with humans, and the thing about it is humans

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are faulty. Man, say that
again, Humans are faulty. We make

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a covenant with God, we make
promises and vows to God and then fall

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short, not always because we intend
to fall short, but because our humanity

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is limited. It's not an excuse, it's a reason. I'll come back

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to that. So where David failed, we'll go to this Davidic covenant.

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Where David failed, the son of
David more than succeeded. I'm going to

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come back to that principle in just
a moment, Okay, let me read

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from the lesson and then we'll get
into the word. Although the human component

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of the covenant failed, the people
could rest in the promise of God's unchanging

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promises through the Messiah. So you
see where this is going. The humans

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failed in the covenant, but the
promises are kept through Messiah, who embodies

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all righteousness and salvation of Israel and
of the whole world. That is,

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in the end, God will prevail
and his eternal Kingdom will be established forever,

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but only because Jesus, not because
of God's people keep the covenant.

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So Jesus is the son of David
the Messiah according to Matthew chapter one and

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verse one and Hebrews chapter one and
verse eight. So I think we have

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a base line here. The fact
is, brothers and sisters, that covenants

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have two sides. Now, God
makes covenant with us that he will establish

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relationships so that we can live eternally. That's an understatement. And then he

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says, through what we call the
New Covenant, that he makes with the

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House of Israel. And we understand
in the New Testament, these are anyone

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who are baptized into Christ and now
become Abraham's seed. So once we yield

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our will to God, that means
that we are recipients of this covenant,

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even though he used the imagery of
Israel, you see. And so he

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makes this covenant between us and him, that he will write his laws in

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our hearts and on our minds so
that we can be His people, so

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that we can keep covenant. You're
like, but Dave, we fail so

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much. We broke the covenant.
That is true. So there is the

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God side and the human side,
the God side of the covenant and the

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human side. Because God knows you, brothers and sisters, because he knows

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me, he took care of both
sides. Let me say that again.

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He took care of both sides.
And so let's get to the human side.

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We understand that God keeps his covenant
good on the human side. Now,

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in the fullness of time, the
Bible writer said, God sent forth

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his son, made of a woman, made under the law, so that

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he could fulfill what is in the
law, and we could be adopted as

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his children. We shall receive the
adoption of sons. We were condemned to

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eternal death, but because of Jesus
coming and the fullness of time threw Mary

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miraculously by the Holy Spirit. Now
Jesus being the ultimate human, the ultimate

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representation of what humanity was intended to
be when God created Adam. Now that

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second atom, this representative now of
the human race, the son of David.

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In Air quotes, he keeps the
human side where Adam failed, the

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second atom wins. Where David,
the king, who was after God's own

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heart, where he failed, and
all of the kings that came after him,

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where they technically failed. Some of
them in an abysmal way, but

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because of their humanity they failed.
Where the throne was vacated by Zedekiah,

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like no more earthly kings on David's
throne, Jesus Christ, the son of

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David, succeeded. I think we're
getting the picture now. So God keeps

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the covenant from the God side,
and then when Jesus Christ comes through as

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Messiah, he keeps the human side, so that by faith we can become

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covenant keepers. This is good.
This is good, It's more than good.

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And so the Bible actually begins this
has a discussion of this in the

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Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred
and thirty two, verses ten through twelve.

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And by the way, this is
why we should be praying. God,

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Please keep your promises through me.
Lord, when I want to do

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right, please teach me to do
right in your strength. Abide in me.

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So when I am living and moving
and breathing, I am living and

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moving and breathing according to the power
that you put in my life. The

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Bible reads here in verse ten.
For the sake of David, your servant,

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do not reject your chosen king.
The Lord made a reliable promise to

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David. He would not go back
on his word. He said, I

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will place one of your descendants on
the throne. Now do you understand how

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this works? We know now that
the Davidic line had ended, at least

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according to the normal human kingly succession, Zedekiah was the last one. Now

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who was going to ascend the throne? God? Is it gonna be?

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Well? I won't get into that. I think I'm gonna get on a

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soapbox if I if I go off
here, let me not do this.

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Ah, But who is it going
to be? God? It will not

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be an emperor coming out of Ethiopia. It will not be some guy on

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the internet who says that he is
a descendant of the throne of David.

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He is not. It says here
in verse twelve. If your sons keep

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my covenant and the rules I teach
them, their sons will also sit on

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your throne forever. Well, we
know that they did not keep the covenant.

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We know that they failed miserably.
And so now enter g Jesus the

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first born. According to Isaiah Psalm
chapter eighty nine, at verse one,

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I will appoint him to be my
first born son, the most exalted of

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the Earth's kings. I will always
extend my loyal love to him, and

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my covenant in him is secure.
I will give him an eternal dynasty and

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make his throne as enduring as the
sky above. And so, Jesus is

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a fulfillment of that covenant where David's
descendants failed. And I'm so thankful.

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Why because when I make a promise
to God, now I can keep it.

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Why because God empowers me to keep
my promise to God. Do you

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see how that works. It's a
circle of love, forever faithful to his

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covenant. Thank you God, Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends. Always

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

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

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Make it a great day. Yeah,