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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 is Tuesday, February thirteen,
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 if
you Lord should mark iniquities. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask
you to go over to your Daily Portion

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know where you are in the world. And finally, please please join the

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community. This is a resource for
you if you are asking questions or making

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comments in the community regarding this lesson
study, then we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Remember I am the
one that's proactive in the mornings, right,

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I'm speaking to you on radio,
television, on apps now and on

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the internet and podcasts. And you
now can respond not only in the chat

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in social media and YouTube, but
come into the community, make a contribution,

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ask your questions and we can have
a lively discussion there. And like

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I said, to continue to build
faith and fellowship. Otherwise then you'll just

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listen to me or watch me,
and that's not enough. Right, Let's

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go ahead and pray and then we
will get underway. Father in Heaven,

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thank thank you for giving us this
privilege to open your word again. And

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I pray God that we will recognize
and live according to the principles of confession

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and repentance and keeping a good connection
with you. Please teach us to love

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you because you loved us first.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen,

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and a man again. So we
have spoken in a few days past

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about God and his judgment. Right, we have spoken about God and his

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judgment and The blessing about that is
that there are more than one outcome,

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right, potential outcomes, And the
judgment one is that one that most people

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are concerned about, which is that
foreboding condemnation that says I am guilty before

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God and his righteous bar and therefore
I am deserving of eternal death. Yes,

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that's the one that a lot of
people are afraid of. But the

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fact is that God has given us
such a privilege, and you want to

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know, well, what is that
privilege. The privilege is to be able

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in twenty twenty four to connect with
Him by the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ,

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so that that passage that we now
hold so dear. That really was

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a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus when
he said, when the Bible says,

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for God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son, that

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whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God did

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not send his son into the world
to condemn the world a but he came

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in order for us to be saved. And so if God should mark as

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the lesson writer is focusing here our
iniquities, or of God should hold our

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iniquities, our sins against us,
Then what kind of hope would there be?

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See, God has positioned us so
that those sins can come before us

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through His strength in the reality that
they are, and we can confess,

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we can agree with God and say, Lord, you are right. You're

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right about this situation in my life. How I related to the person who

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did bad things to me? Right, how I related to the individuals that

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I was doing business with and I
was doing dirty dealing. Like I can

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agree with you God, that I
should have been kinder in a situation with

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my parent who was ailing, who
did not do right by me when I

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was a young child. Like,
Lord, there are so many things in

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my life and I am now falling
at the hand of your mercy, and

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I'm asking you, would you please
forgive me. I agree with everything that

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you said. There are people that
I should have assisted and I neglected to

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because I was so narrowly focused on
me, and on and on we can

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go. And so I I'm thankful
that that privilege and opportunity is available to

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all of us. And so we
go into the Book of Psalms, chapter

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one hundred and thirty, and I
will read beginning at verse one, and

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the Bible reads for from the deep
water, I cry out to you,

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oh Lord. So now we have
this conversation with God. Lord, listen

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to me, pay attention to my
plea for mercy. Do we understand and

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believe that God is mercyful. His
mercy endureth unto all generations, His mercy

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is everlasting? Yes? Verse three. If you, oh Lord, were

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to keep track of sins, oh
Lord, who could stand before you?

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It's not that God. Let me
pause right here. It's not that God

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does not have an accurate record of
our sins. It's not that God is

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into sweeping things under the rug like
some humans are for their selfish gain.

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No, God sees and knows all. But I think it was David who

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said, and then Paul said again, blessed is the person to whom God

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does not hold our sins against us
or impute iniquity. So God is not

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looking for a way to condemn us
and audit our sin record and put us

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into prison huh, spiritual prison,
or to destroy us. His goal is

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to save us. That's what we're
talking about here. It says here verse

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four. Now we understand he's not
sweeping it under the rug. He's not

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changing the law of liberty. He's
not changing the transcript of his character in

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order to accommodate people who are not
willing to yield our will to him.

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Verse four teaches us something. But
you are willing to forgive so that you

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might be honored. And so for
God's name's sake, he is going to

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demonstrate into the lives of everyone who
will yield our will to him that he

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is able, indeed, to keep
us from falling. Jesus is able to

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present us faultless before the Father or
before the Presence with exceeding joy. God

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is able, and I need you
to keep that perspective. It's not about

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our abilities, because really we are
born in sin, shaping in iniquity,

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because really there is nothing good in
us, and all of our righteousnesses are

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like filthy rags. And so when
we yield all of that reality, we

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confess that and we are now being
honest, then we can have the blessing

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of this forgiveness, and God's name
will be glorified. Verse five. I

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rely on the Lord. I rely
on him with my whole being. I

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wait for his assuring word. Do
you realize that when God is on your

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side. He does come to you
in this voice that says, this is

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the way walking in it. Have
you ever recognizes that he is the one

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who says, I am the one
who comes to you with an everlasting love.

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Therefore, with loving kindness? Have
I drawn you like as a hen

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gathereth her chicks. This is what
God is saying to his people. So

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have I gathered you. Now we
have a decision to make. We make

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the bad choice that some leaders in
the past have made, as according to

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Matthew chapter twenty three. Or will
we say yes, Lord, yes to

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your will and to your way,
and then accept that love I yearn verse

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six, O Lord, more than
watchmen to do in the morning. Yes,

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more than watchmen do for the morning. People are looking forward to coming

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out of the darkness. Yes.
Have you ever driven through the night and

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started to nod off to sleep?
In the road seemed everlasting? And you

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started even maybe hallucinating a little bit
and wondering when will this trip end?

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And then in the eastern sky you
saw a glimmer of hope, like a

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glimpse of the sun about to rise, and you said, you know what,

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I can continue this trip. I
have the energy to continue until I

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get to the end. And so
when we are buried in the darkness of

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sin, we can know and look
to God, the eternal Son of Righteousness,

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and say I have hope and I
can be victorious by his grace.

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Verse seven. Oh, Israel,
hope in the Lord. But the Lord

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exhibits loyal love and is more than
willing to deliver. He will deliver his

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people Israel from their sins. I'm
thankful that God does not keep a record

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of my sins to hold against me. But we can agree with God and

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have that record expunge. 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 El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,