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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 Tuesday, November four,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for today is Fate Full Choices. Fate full meaning fate

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full choices. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray. Father, We thank you for this day. Help

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us to make the right decisions all day long. In

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Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again fate full choices.

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I'm going to read from Joshua chapter nine, I mean seven.

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Please excuse me Joshua chapter seven, and I'll read beginning

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of verse nineteen and the Bible. Reason. Now, Joshua said

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to Aiken, my son, I beg you give God the glory,

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the Lord God of Israel, and make confession to him,

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and tell me now what you have done. Do not

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hide it from me. And Aiken answered Joshua and said, indeed,

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I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel. And

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this is what I have done. When I saw among

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the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment two hundred shekels of

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silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I

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coveted them and took them, and there they are hidden

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in the earth in the midst of my tent, with

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the silver under it. Listen, if Aiken had done this

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in the beginning, before all of that inquiry, everything I

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described yesterday, he would have been in a perfect position,

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perfect position with God. God said, if you confess your sins,

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he is faithful and just to forgive and to cleanse

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us from all unrighteousness. He said that the person who

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who hides our sins will not prosper. But who's so

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confesseth and forsaketh, those are the individuals who are going

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to have life. But now Achin is coming in and

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it sounds noble, like if we read this in a vacuum,

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we would say, wow, praise the Lord, like this is

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the way it should be. But alas like we're in

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a position now where we're seeing it was basically forced

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from him in the sense of now he don't have

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no choice because he can tell like the inquisitor is

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right in front of me. I don't know if that's

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the right word. Maybe I should have looked it up

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before I used it. But everything is sitting right in

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front of me, all of the evidence is stacked, and

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clearly there's a reason why the man of God is

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standing in front of me. Okay, And so we need

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to learn a few lessons today from this. And the

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first one comes in from again first Job, chapter one

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and verse nine. I'll read it from another translation. If

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we confess our sins, he God is faithful and righteous

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forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

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So Joshua's request for Aikin to give God the glory

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reminds us that confession itself honors God. Because remember, confession

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is to say what God has said. That means to

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agree with God. That's what true confession is. When we

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hide sin, we deny his truth. We're trying to make

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it seem as if God is lying. When we confess it,

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we affirm God's righteousness. Achin was invited to glorify God,

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not by just words of praise as usual, but by

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telling the truth. Are you giving glory to God by

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telling the truth? And I don't mean when it's pressed

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upon you, I mean just on an every day like,

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are you willing to tell the truth? Confession is about restoration,

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a declaration that God is right, we are wrong. And

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this is where Aiken made the mistake. He didn't do

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it at the stage where he was willing to be transformed.

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Now he's pressured. But anyway, regardless of how he did it,

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confess quickly. That's the action step for all of us.

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Quickly and honestly. Every hidden sin delays healing. But confession

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to God, I'm saying, gives glory to him who has

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the ability and power to restore us. Let's go in

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now to the obvious one in Exodus, chapter twenty and

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verse seventeen, where the Bible says, thou shalt not covet

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thy neighbor's house. And of course I'm leaving the rest out,

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nor anything that is thy neighbors, don't covet. It's simple.

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What God gives us is for us. If we have

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a desire for something, if we clear it with God

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and God makes a way for us to have it,

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then praise God. We give God the glory. But if not,

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don't cove it, don't covet. Achin Sin began with seeing okay, okay, okay,

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we can see then desiring, Okay, we can desire. But

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then he started to take hm, No, we can't see

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desire and then steal. That's what Eve did. God told

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Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of

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the tree in the garden, in the midst of the garden,

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from the day that thou eatest thereof God said, you

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shall surely die. Well, Eve and then Adam after her,

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they did the same thing. They saw they desired, and

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they took what God had forbidden. God forbade Achin or

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everybody else in the community to go the path that

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Achin had taken. Convirighteousness is the root of unbelief, whispering

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that God is withholding something good from us. Remember what

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the serpent, who really was the devil, said to Eve.

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When we crave what God has not given, we declare

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that his provision is not enough. Coveteousness poisons gratitude, replacing

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contentment with suspicion toward God's goodness. Yeah, we have to

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let that settle in. If we were only on YouTube

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or Facebook, then I would have paused for even longer.

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But the people on the radio, we can't let them

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stay there like that in silence. But the fact is

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that we have the privilege to replace covichous thoughts with

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thanksgiving every time we're willing to see then desire and

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then go over to the next thing like King David

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did and take Bathsheba, take Achin took the the spoils,

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and of course Adam and Eve took the fruit. Yeah,

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whenever we're having the feeling or the sense or the

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desire to go down that path, then we can choose thanksgiving.

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Gratitude closes the door that greed tries to pry open.

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Let me say it one more time. Gratitude closes the

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door that greed tries to pride open, pry open. Yeah,

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God is giving us the privilege to say thank you

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for what He has given to us and trust him

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for whatever else we need. And so really, in Patriarchs

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and Profits, page four hundred and ninety six, we read

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that the deadly sin that led to Aiken's ruin had

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its root in covetousness. All of all sins, one of

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the most common and one of the most lightly regarded

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is this. This is why on social media when people

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are posting all of their stuff, it's like it's almost

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like Hezekiah, what have they seen in your house? And

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he's showing all of the stuff and not giving God glory.

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Showing all of the stuff and not giving God glory.

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Social media is often about showing all of the stuff

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and not giving God the glory. And so here are

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a few reflection questions as we come to a swift close.

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Why does confession glorify God more than hiding sin? How

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does coveteousness distort our view of God's character? And I'll

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just pause right there, and you work on that and

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share in our community your answers. Make it a great day, 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,