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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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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

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, November

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twenty three, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our

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caption for today is Eden and Canaan, Eden and Canaan.

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I'm actually fascinating by that connection. Before we get into this,

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I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first time. Please please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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guide and let us know where you are in the

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world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We

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thank you for this new day and for the privilege

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you have given us to consider how you get us

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from what went wrong at the garden and what went

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terribly right. If that's a way of saying it, for

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us to inherit the promise, please help us to inherit

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the promise. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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Eden and Canaan, so Adam and Eve obviously where given

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the Garden of Eden as their home. And I think

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many times when we read the Bible too quickly, or

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we're not paying attention, taking some things for granted, we

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make it seem as if Eden is the entire planet. Well,

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clearly it's not. And I know you're following with me.

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I know clearly it's not. Because they were cast out

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of Eden, you know, and they still had somewhere to live, right,

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But Eden is a representation of the original time they were.

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There was a representation of the closeness of the presence

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of God. The Tree of Life was there. God walked

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in the cool of the day and came and communed

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with them, like talked. I know, we don't say commune

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like that for real in our language these days. But

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they were able to walk and talk with God, you understand,

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Like whatever friends do. They were able to do that

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together with him. I don't want you to see this

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as like when a dignitary comes into your city or town,

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you understand. So they were so close to God that

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they were face to face. And of course after they

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chose to sin, they were put out of the garden.

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Of course God did not destroy them, and He's given

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them the blessing of being able to connect with Him.

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And now we are on this journey back to that

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same kind of connection. And one of the stopping points

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or waypoints along the journey was the Earthly Promised Land.

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Because everybody who is baptized into Christ are Abraham's seed

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and heirs, according to the promise that God made to Abraham,

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you understand. And so since that's the case. Since that's

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the case, whatever we see along the journey from each

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to Canaan is a way to learn how to connect

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to God eternally. That's the short version of the story.

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And so we come in to the rest of the

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story by reading. By reading in Genesis chapter three, in

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verse twenty three. Genesis is called the Book of Beginnings,

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and the Bible reads Therefore the Lord sent him forth

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from the garden of Eden to till the ground from

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whence he was taken my word. Let me read one

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more thing from Genesis chapter thirteen, verses fourteen and fifteen.

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I'll leave out a little bit of it. And the

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Bible reads. And the Lord said, unto Abram, all the

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land which thou seest, m hm, we have land. We

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have God speaking to one of his children, which thou

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seest to thee, will I give it and to thy

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seed forever. Okay. And so in the beginning, in the beginning,

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when God gave humanity a home, gave humanity a home,

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it reflected his heart, Eden, which was a place of

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abundance and peace and fellowship. The garden was a living

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classroom revealing who God is and how life flourishes under

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his rule or leadership. But when Adam and Eve chose

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to distrust God instead of obeying him, the ground that

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once gave freely now resisted them. They lost their territory

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because they lost their connection with God. And so this

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pattern reappears with God's people through that journey from Exodus,

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from Exodus from Egypt to Canaan. Canaan became a symbol

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of the restoration. You see where this is going. Distrust

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got God's people kicked out of the Garden of Eden,

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and learning to trust God and his promises got them

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back into the promised Land many years later. So the

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question really is am I actually preparing to go into

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the earthly promised land? And then the earth make the

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heavenly promised land, and then the earth made new after

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the thousand years are finished? You see? So the promised

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of land like Eden was always about the presence of God.

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This is really what we're talking about. If we strip

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this down, It's all about getting back into the presence

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of God, face to face. And so the Bible reads

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in Hebrews chapter six and verse twelve, be not slothful,

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but followers of them through faith and patience to inherit

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the promises. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob literally never actually inherited

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the promised land, and yet they walked as heirs of

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a promise. They could not yet see faith taught them

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that ownership was not measured by possession, but by trust.

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They trusted that God was going to keep his promise.

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The land belonged to God, and living in it required

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dependence upon the same God. So if we're nearing home,

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if we're nearing the time when Jesus will return, nearing

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the time when we will shift from time to eternity

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and then ultimately inherit the earth, as according to Matthew

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chapter five, where Jesus said the meek will inherit the earth.

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If we're nearing that reality, then we need to be

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picking up the gleaning from the stories and experiences of

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God's people along the pathway. How did they lose connection?

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How did they regain connection? How did they inherit the

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promise on earthly Canaan? How did the ones who who

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missed the bus and not gotten it? How did that happen?

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And then when again God gives us the ultimate promise,

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we will have been prepared, and so we too are

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heirs not of Canaan's soil, but of Christ's kingdom. Our

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hope is rooted in God's grace. Every blessing we hold

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is unearned, sustained only by God's grace and our continual

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surrender to His will. Now, let me just read one

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more passage before I let you go. From Deuteronomy, chapter

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nine and verse six. Understand therefore that the Lord Thy

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God giveth thee not this good land to possess it

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because of your righteousness. This is where you get to

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praise God with me. Wherever you're watching on planet Earth

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right now, you get to praise God with me. That

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God did not give the people what he gave them

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because they earned it. They didn't work, and then God

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gave them a paycheck based on their work. In fact,

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in fact, from Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred and sixteen,

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it reads, the inheritance of the saints is not earned,

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but given. It is the free gift of God through Christ.

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You see, since I can't earn it, since I cannot

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merit it, since I don't deserve it. In fact, I

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deserve the extreme opposite. I stand on all of my

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whole two feet and my ten tolls, and I stand

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up and I say, thank God, Thank God for what,

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Thank God for not giving me what I deserve, but

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giving me, in fact, what Jesus deserve. Eden and Canaan

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now I can see some parallels. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,