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

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

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

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, it is Monday. It's

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September twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our Lesson study series about Joshua, the Lessons of

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Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is Cross, Take,

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Divide and Serve. Cross, Take, Divide and Serve. Before we

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get into that, I'd like to just say welcome to

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everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Portion life application guide and let us know where you

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,

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we thank you for this day and for another day.

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We can do your work and other servile labor. Lord,

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we can work and eat and serve other people. Please, now, God,

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help us to cross and to take, and to divide

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and serve according to your will. In twenty twenty five

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in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. What

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is it that God is commanding you to do? What

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is God commanding you to do? And I know that

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most Christianese speaking people I made that language up, I

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invented it. But I think you understand what I'm saying.

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People who are attached to the people of God are

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often thinking when you say command, they're thinking of maybe

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the commandments, or thinking of one of the ways that

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God has said go from this point in your life

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and go into this other point of your life. And

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so what I'm saying to you is God has another

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way of commanding. There are times that He gives us

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success principles, cross, divide, take and serve, and so we

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look at the Book of Joshua chapter one and see

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that God is giving commands that have to do with

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trusting him and reaping the reward. Trusting him and reaping

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the reward, like wherever your feet shall be, that will

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be your land. God has made a promise. He made

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it to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and now the people

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of God are able to live in aspects of the promise.

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And so there are some highlights I'd like to underscore

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from the Book of Joshua chapter one. You can read

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in the lesson study the ones that the lesson writer highlighted.

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But I'll give you some more, okay, Verses one and two.

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The Bible teaches a transition of leadership from Moses to Joshua. Duh.

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Like you already knew that, But it's important because God

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is showing us the blueprint of continuity. I told you

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that yesterday, a continuity, a continual reality of leadership where

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God does not slumber. He does not sleep. He is

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the one who sets up leaders and he's the one

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that brings them down. He will not leave his people

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leader less as long as they are his people Verses

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three to six. The Bible teaches us that God promises

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the land and presence and success of God. So the

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land the Bible says that the cattle on a thousand

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hills are his, all of the lands of this earth.

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The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and

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even the people that dwell therein. So God has given us.

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God has given us the privilege of coming together in

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a way where he promises us some of the land

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that he has created. He's promised us all of his presence,

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and he has given us godly success as a promise. Okay,

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And then verses seven through nine, are you listening for

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the blueprint for your own life? Are you listening for

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how God is commanding you and that he will make

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promises to you well. Versus seven through nine teach us

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that there is a call to courage and obedience to Terah,

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the law right call to courage and obedience to the law.

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This is the reality for the people of God. If

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you are looking for the land, you are looking for

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God's presence, you are looking for godly success and leadership

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under God. Then He's saying submit your will to him, surrender,

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surrender yourself minimally to the law, but more than that

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the law of God is a microquasm of real relationship

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with him. Verses ten to fifteen, Joshua commands the officers

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preparing the people. So God has his people on the march.

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Are you marching? Are you marching into the promised land? Now?

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Are you on your way marching to Zion? Beautiful, beautiful Zion.

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Are you marching to Zion? Then? If you are, then

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God has set up the blueprint and the way marks,

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the milestones that let you know that you are marching

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in the right direction under his leadership. And then, of

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course verses sixteen to eighteen, the people confirm their loyalty

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to Joshua. Because remember this is a continuity plan. God

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is putting Moses obviously out of the picture, and he's

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bringing Joshua to the forefront of the picture so that

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they can, under God and his leadership, learn how to

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serve God. Because they're going to the Promise. They're not

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going to the promise to continue with their enslaved mentality,

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going into the promise to murmur. They are going into

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the promise so that they can continue to be God's people.

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And so they're affirming their loyalty to God's continuity plan

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under Joshua pledging obedience. Now, what I want you to

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do is give keen attention to Joshua's name. Look at

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what Joshua's name, the way we say it in English means,

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it's not a coincidence that God would use that person

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with that name to quote save the people. And Joshua's

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name is Yahost Shuah. May I just say yah Showah

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blessed be his name, because the term actually means in Hebrew,

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Yahweh saves. Yahost Shia blessed be. His name is a

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central figure in our plan of salvation. May I say

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it another way, Yahoshua blessed be. His name is the

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name that we should be using to identify who Jesus is.

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In the Hebrew culture, Yahos Shoah and Jesus synonymous, and

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so Joshua the one whom God chose to replace Moses.

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In this case, the central figure is a prefigurement of

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Jesus Christ himself, the one who promised and pledged that

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he would lay down his life that we may take it.

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He may take it again so that we can actually

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march in to heavenly Zion. And then the earth made

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new and So God showed us through human instrumentality, what

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it is like to serve God and have His presence

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with us. So much more we could say, But let

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me just read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page

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four hundred eighty two, and it reads, Joshua was now

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the acknowledged leader of God's people. He was full of

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faith in the promises of God. His courage and perseverance

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and leadership were not the result of natural ability. There

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are times that God calls his people and the first

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thing we do is give our resume that says, this

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is what qualifies us for the calling. But in fact

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and indeed, yes, God will use those things. But it

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is in fact and indeed God using them. God equips

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the called. He does not necessarily call the equipped. I know,

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I know, I know. If you are a medical doctor

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and you went through the training necessary to perfect your

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craft in that field to practice medicine, God is not

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nullifying that. But that is not what qualifies you to

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be His servant. You understand, Okay, let me just keep going.

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But his connection with God. Connection with God is the

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key to us being able to cross over the Jordan River,

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take the land that God has given us divided among

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the people of God, and to serve God throughout the

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ceaseless ages of eternity. Follow God and you cannot lose 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,