Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, October
twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
our lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
our caption for today, I have to say it slowly
is dispossession or annihilation? Dispossession or annihilation. Before we get
into that, I'd like to just say welcome to you
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for
this day. Please take complete control of our lives in
Jesus' name. I pray Amen and Amen again. So the
lesson writer said on today's subject that God's original purpose
for the Canaanites was not annihilation, but instead dispossession and
examination of the passages that describe the way that God's
people had been involved in the battles of conquest used
terms that speak about dispossession, ejection, and dissipation carried out
against the inhabitants of the promised land. Let me just
say this simply. Those are a lot of big words,
just to simply say. God was saying that the people
who were no were who were not his people who
resisted him really should have has been moved out of
the land like they should be. They should move somewhere
else because God gave the promise that his people would
inhabit that place. But instead they chose to war against God,
and therefore they were annihilated. So get out the way,
like that's all God wanted. He wanted them really to
repent and then and then of course make way for
the for the people of God to receive the promise.
But they chose, they chose the hard route. The Bible
does say that the way of the wicked is hard,
is hard unnecessarily. So may I just say that I've
gone through some things unnecessarily more difficult than they should
have been, even living on planet Earth, because of the
times that I did not choose to go God's route. Okay,
and so our first lesson for today officially is God's
goal was cleansing. That was his goal. That was his goal,
and the Bible says here in Deuteronomy, chapter seven and
verse twenty. Moreover, the Lord thy God will send the
hornet among them until they that are left, until they
that are left and hide themselves from thee be destroyed,
my God. So his purpose in this whole Canaanite situation
was about purification. Really, his command was to move the
people out. It wasn't for them to be destroyed. That
wasn't the goal. The goal was to remove the corruption,
but not to destroy the creation. That's the reality for
all of us. Like there is some corruption in the
lives of people who continue to sin, and God is saying,
I want to destroy that, not the person. I have
no intention, well, have no desire to destroy the human.
But if you have some things that you're holding on
to that separates you from God, God forbid that. He
wants to burn that up, not the human. Like hell
fire was prepared for the devil and his evil angels,
not for human beings. It was never intended for us
to be separated from God. That's the reality. And the
Canaanites' destruction came only after centuries of them hardening their hearts,
making them inseparable from their idolatry. So the thing in
their character that God wanted to destroy was so much
interwoven in their actual the fiber of their mindset, the
fiber of their activity, the fiber of their being. Since
that was inseparable, than when the condemnation came, it became
that it was against the human now because the human
held on to the sin. God wanted to get rid
of the sin, but the human wanted the sin. So
both have to go. I don't know how else to say.
That helped me, Holy Ghost, And so our actions still
really is before our thinking or thought processes, before judging
God's justice. I know what I just said, Remember his patience.
He always gives space for repentance before he brings correction.
So God is saying, take the step of examining yourself, Dave,
examining yourself, all the people who are listening, all of
you right now, and saying, okay, God is just and
every human is a liar. Our second lesson, our second
lesson comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter twelve and verse three,
and ye shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars,
and burn their groves with fire. So God commanded his
people to destroy the altars, the idols, the shrines. It
had nothing to do with the culture. Can I just
say that has nothing to do with the culture. It
was because these symbolized rebellion. This's the same thing that
the devil had in heaven, like he really erected a
shrine to himself. We see Nepkadnezzar erecting in Daniel chapter two.
It's recorded a shrine unto himself that had to be destroyed.
All of the human systems that are not really connected
to God have to come down. It's better if we
just relinquish them. But if we don't, in order for
God to establish order throughout the universe, then we know
that these things will be destroyed and so and so
idolatry must be completely removed. Ask the Holy Ghost today,
Ask God, please, through the Holy Ghost, to reveal what
alters there are in your life? Are they habits? Are
they desires? Are they influences? Like I just said yesterday,
this is not one of those jump up and shout situations.
This is reflective time. This is for us to be
honest with God. In fact, let's act like it really is,
Like This is a moment. This is not a program.
This is a moment where we have to say, God,
what is it inside of me? Like King David when
he was confronted with his own sin by the prophet
Nathan under the Holy Ghost, and he said, God, please
don't let your Holy spirit come move from me. Please
search me, wash me, make me clean? Will you please?
Will you please? And if you do, I will teach
transgressors your way. So let this moment be one of
those moments as he reveals what it is. It's a
habit is a desire? Is it an influence? Those have
to be destroyed. So God alone reigns in your heart.
My heart, I'm with you. I'm reflecting while i'm speaking,
which is why I'm abandoning whatever else I have to say,
just to capture this moment where we go to God,
just us and God, with nobody watching, no lights, no camera,
no action. This has become an altar call, even to me.
If there's any wicked way within my own heart, God,
please remove it, because you have done so much so
that I can live with you eternally. I want you
to write it down somewhere secret. It's not anybody else's
business and say God, I surrender these things, these habits,
these desires, these influences, so I can one day live
begin living with you forever. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
If the Lord spars life, we will see you this evening.
Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,