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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 Monday, December

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twenty two, 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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final week of our lesson study series, Lessons of Faith

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in the Book of Joshua or from Joshua. Yes, and

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our caption for today is in sincerity and truth that

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is coming right out of the Bible. In sincerity and

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in truth. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. Please

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at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's pray, Father, thank you for this Monday morning and

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for the privilege of sincerity. Like we can literally do

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your will as long as you are with us. Help

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us to do it. Please help us to live as

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if we are finally in your presence God. In Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and amen again. Yeah I should have

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said visible, We're in the presence of God. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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So our first lesson is coming in from from the

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Bible Book of Joshua, chapter twenty four, Verses fourteen and fifteen.

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Verses fourteen and fifteen. Let me read that. Now, therefore,

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fear the Lord. Remember that phrase, fear the Lord, serve

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him in sincerity and in truth. That almost sounds like

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the New Testament passage to serve him or in spirit

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and in truth. Those who worship him will worship him

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interesting and put away the gods which your fathers served

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on the other side of the river. And in Egypt,

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serve the Lord. And if it seems evil to you,

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we said this the other day, to serve the Lord.

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Choose for yourselves this day today, right now, whom ye

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will serve. Whether the gods of your fathers that they served,

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that were on the other side of the river, on

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the other side of the river. Do you get that?

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Did you get that there's a line of demarcation, There

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was a line in the sand the other side of

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the river, mint idolatry. The other side of the river

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meant you were not fully delivered in your own mindset.

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On the other side of those tracks, so to speak,

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was your impoverished, enslaved mindset. You're gonna serve that time.

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You're gonna serve that experience or the gods of the

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Amorites and whose land you dwell. But as for me

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and my house, we will serve the Lord. And so

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our first lesson is Reverence for God shapes genuine obedience.

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Reverence for God shapes genuine obedience, and so and so.

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The word for fear I told you please to remember

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the phrase to the fear the Lord. The word for

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fear in this case is yare. It means to stand

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in awe and reguard with reverence. We're in awe of God,

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and we're are regarding with reverence the God of our salvation.

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So Joshua called God's people to live with a conscious

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awareness of God's holiness and his awe authority. True obedience

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grows out of reverence, not dread, you know what I mean, Like,

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we're not running away from God hoping that lightning bolts

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won't strike us. Not in a real relationship with God. No, no,

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no no. When the heart sees God as King and father.

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And I know many of us have father issues. Some

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of you don't, thank God, many of us do. And

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it's like, ah, but my father wasn't there for me.

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My father was there. But when he was there, he

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really and then fill in the negative blank. I'm not

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going to rehearse those those early childhood experiences that maybe

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we're not we're not fruitful or beneficial to you, God,

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our Father. That's different. Obedience comes. Let me say it

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like this, when the heart sees God as King and

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the good Father that we needed ha hah. Obedience becomes

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the natural expression of this devotion. And so the action

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in this regard is begin today by praying Lord, teach

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me to see you as who you really are, so

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I can serve you with a reverent heart Lesson number two,

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sincerity means wholeness of heart before God. The Bible reads

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in Psalm the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and

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one and verse two, I will behave myself wisely in

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a perfect way. In the New English translation it reads,

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I will walk in integrity. So the word for sincerity

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or perfection same word now, yes, is tanine tanine and

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tamim excuse me, and it means whole, complete, undivided. God

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wants us to be whole, complete, and undivided. He said

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that the people who ask Wavering in the Book of

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James should not believe or think that we're going to

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receive anything from God because we are unstable in all

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of our ways. We are like Ruben. I think it

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was Reuben that was unstable as water, but whichever one

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of the sons of Jacob he said, yeah, yeah, because

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you're unstable, then that means, yeah, you don't believe you're

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going to get anything from God. So focus. I want

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you to be taen, whole, complete, and undivided. Joshua's instruction

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was a call to serve God without duplicity or divided loyalties.

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Just as the sacrificial lamb had to be perfect or

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tomim huh, Just as the lamb had to be God

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invited his people to offer themselves. Oh, I'm thinking about

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Paul's writings, to offer myself as a living sacrifice. But

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a living what tomim sacrifice? One that is perfect, one

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that is with sincerity, one is whole, It's complete, it

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is undivided. So God commanded his people to do the same,

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offer ourselves with undivided hearts. God still seeks believers who

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will live with integrity. So our action step is choose

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one area of your life. I want you to write

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this down though. Choose an area of your life where

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your devotion is divided. That's your business between you and God,

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where it's divided, and surrender it to God today, not tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Not.

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Speaker 2: I'm still growing. God is still working with me. I'm trying.

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Not that you're making a decision now, in this very moment,

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in eight minutes after the hour, you are making the

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decision to surrender that thing to God and your life

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to him right now. Lesson number three is coming in

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from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and verse five.

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The Bible reads, for the Lord is good, his mercy

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is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations. Blessed

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be the name of the Lord. And so the Hebrew

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word again for truth and faithfulness, this time is emmet,

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meaning firmness, dependability, reliability. God's loyalty toward his people was constant, reliable, right,

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and steady and unchanging. That resonates with me. One of

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my behavior style dominant styles is is that way steady, steady, steady, unchanging, consistent.

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Joshua called his people, God's people to respond with that

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same unwavering or steady loyalty. Our faithfulness to God is

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a reflection of his own faithfulness toward us. If you

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are unsteady, unstable, then you're saying that God is unsteady

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and unstable. And we know that ain't the truth. And

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so our action for this today is make one choice,

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one decision that reflects loyalty to God rather than ooh,

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ease or commitment my God. Hmm, yeah, I'll leave it

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right there. I'll leave it right there. And if the

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Lord spars life, we will see you in the morning.

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Make it a great day peace. Thanks for joining us

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listening with friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah,