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

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is Wednesday, August twenty three,
two twenty three. Hello, my name

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is Lle 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 Snapping
up the Bargains. Some of you

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love shopping, so this will resonate
with you snapping up the bargains. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

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pray and then we will get underway.

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Father in Heaven, thank you for
giving us the opportunity to open your word

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again today. Please give us your
holy spirit teach us how to redeem the

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time that you have entrusted to us. And I pray that we will be

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prepared prepared for the coming of Jesus
Christ. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Snapping up
the bargains, I'll get into what

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that means as we jump into the
passage today and it will begin to make

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sense. Okay, so we're going
going into Ephesians chapter five, very interesting

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chapter for me. We'll begin reading
at verse fifteen. Okay, first verse

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fifteen, and the Bible reads,
see then that ye walk circumspectly, circumspectly

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that means diligently, perfect, that
means accurately. So God wants us to

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be diligent where holiness is concerned,
not as fools, but as wise.

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In the Old Testament, many of
the times that the term fool is used

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like, especially in the Book of
Proverbs. It is not just about silliness,

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like a silliness sort of mindset or
unintelligence. Yeah, it's really about

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unholiness. Fools despise wisdom and instruction, and that term for fool in the

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Old Testament, that text, it
almost sounds like evil. It almost sounds

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like evil in English. Right,
fools, we're going to use that not

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as silliness, not as unintelligence.
We're talking about evil, so not as

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evil minded people, but as wise. And we know that the wisdom is

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connecting with God. Okay, Verse
sixteen. Redeeming the time, that's where

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the snapping up the bargains comes from. Redeeming that is, that is transactional

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term that has to do with exchanging, exchanging resources in order to purchase something,

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often to purchase something back. Redeeming
the time because the days are evil.

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We want to redeem the time because
the days are evil. Wherefore be

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ye not unwise, but understanding what
the will of the Lord is. So

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the best thing that we can do. In twenty twenty three, as we

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are marching down approaching twenty twenty four, can you imagine more than half of

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the year is over. Yes,
is to redeem the time. It's to

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snap up the bargains. I'm coming
back to that. Let me see the

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lesson writer actually actually points out here. Paul also encourages intentional discipleship with a

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vivid image in the phrase make the
best use of time or redeeming the time.

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Paul uses the verb that I cannot
pronounce in Greek draw from the marketplace.

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It is an intensive form of the
verb to buy, I said that,

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or to snap up the bargains on
offer as we await Jesus's return.

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Well, what is on offer right
now? Like if we were to walk

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into our marketplace, a holy marketplace, what is on offer? I think

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the Bible says that we are to
buy buy of God like, without money

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and without price. I think I
need to go back to that passage,

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and fact I wasn't intending to read
it. So let's go back to Isaiah

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chapter five, I mean fifty five. Excuse me. The Bible reads whole

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everyone that thirsteth, come ye to
the waters, ye that hath no money,

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Come buy and eat yea, come
buy wine and milk without money and

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without price. Wherefore do ye spend
money for that which is not bread and

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labor for that which satisfieth. Not
hearken diligently unto me. Eat ye that

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which is good, and let your
soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your

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ear and come unto me here,
and your soul shall live, and I

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will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the shore mercies of David.

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So one of the things, if
you want to say, that is in

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spiritual marketplace, is that which satisfies. And God is saying that even without

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money. I want you to come
into my presence and be satisfied by my

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presence. I want you to be
satisfied by the power that comes through the

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Holy Spirit. I want you to
be satisfied by having fellowship with Me and

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fellowship with people who love me.
I want you to buy to redeem your

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time, snap up the bargains of
connection with me. I'll come back to

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that if we have the time.
Let me continue in Ephesians chapter five,

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beginning at verse eighteen. I think
that's where we're going to begin. Yeah,

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verse eighteen. And be not drunk
with wine wherein there is excess,

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but be filled with the spirit.
Of course, sometimes we believers use this

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to talk about actual alcoholic beverages.
And okay, true, God does not

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want us to be drunk with drunken
with alcoholic beverages. But this is talking

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about excess of life, right,
surfeiting. Like in the Gospels, Jesus

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said, don't become overcharged with surfeiting, like, do not get into that

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excessive lavish lifestyle where all you're thinking
about is fun and folly, eating,

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drinking. Let us be merry because
tomorrow we die. God is saying no,

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in these days, do not be
obsessed with excess in anything, but

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be filled with the spirit. If
you want to be filled with something,

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someone, be filled with the spirit. Do you remember at the day of

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Pentecost the people who some of the
people who were listening, the ones who

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were not actually trying to have a
connection with God. They said, oh,

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these people are drunken, like the
people who are preaching up there.

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They are drunken. They are drunken. And of course the apostle said,

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these men are not drunken as you
supposed, seeing it is it's only certain

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hour of the day. But these
are being a fulfillment of the prophecy of

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Joel that God would pour his spirit
into us. People and so God is

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saying, don't be drunk with the
things of this world, but be filled

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to the brim and overflowing with the
Holy Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms

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and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
and making melody in your heart to the

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Lord, giving thanks always for all
things unto God and the Father, in

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the name of our Lord, Jesus
Christ. And I will just add one

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more passage here, submitting yourselves to
one another in the fear of God.

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So this is an admonition to all
of the people of God in the community

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of faith. And then the Bible
makes a transition that a lot of preachers

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miss, transition to the relationship between
husbands and wives. So up until now

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it has been about the fellowship of
believers. How we should snap up the

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bargains that which God is offering in
these last days, being connected with him,

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turning away from the excess that is
out there in the world and turning

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to being filled with the power of
the Holy Spirit. And then he makes

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another transition into relationships which will come
to if the Lord spares life. And

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so Paul repeatedly uses the common Old
Testament metaphor to walk for how one lives.

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Do you remember when we were young. Oh, be careful little feet

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where you go. God wants us
to walk, To walk according to what

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he has shown us. Walk on
the pathway that Jesus has marched out before

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us, and we will be safe. Have a wonderful day, peace.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread

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alone, but by every word that
comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.