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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 Marning, Good morning. It's Wednesday at October

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twenty nine and 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 lessons of Faith from Joshua,

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and our caption for today is free Choice. Free Choice.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, Please

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pick up your Daily Portion Life Application Guide, and if

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you want the songs that we use in our worship,

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these are all original. They cannot be attained anywhere else

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except at your daily portion dot com. Somebody please type

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that in the chat for the elders who are not

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really aware of how to get to a web address.

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Please type that in the chat for somebody at the

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wwwpart please, and yeah, this is one of the ways

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,

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thank you for getting us to this moment, the moment

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where we need to choose, choose this day whom we

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will serve. Let it be that as for we, all

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of us, in our homes, our houses, that we will

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serve the Lord in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. We all have the privilege to choose the

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right pathway. I just want to start right there. All

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of us have the privilege to choose the right direction.

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Love gives us that privilege. Now now, now we can

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also God forbid, choose to go the wrong direction. That's

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our choice. That's our almost said, that's our choice. We

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can do that. That's our prerogative. See there are words

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in a dictionary for this stuff. It's our prerogative. Like

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we can go whichever way we desire. But I remember

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God saying of his people when they were going down

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the wrong path. I remember him saying, like, God hath

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no pleasure in the death of those who who die.

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Therefore take heed lest she fall. Like take heed, turn

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yourselves and live. I mix the Old Testament in the

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New Testament text, but they were along the same lines. Yes,

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it was seen, and I think it's Ezekiel chapter eighteen,

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where God said turn yourselves and live. Please. He's begging

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us to live. And for those who don't know God,

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he is saying the very same thing. There is no

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reason for any human being to turn our way against

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God and ultimately miss out on eternity with Him. And

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so today may be your day. You see what happened

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yesterday when I abandoned my notes completely, Because it's like

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God is giving us these moments of time to be

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transformed by the renewing of our minds. And so we

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begin now with our first question, our first lesson. Excuse me,

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coming in from Deuteronomy chapter twenty and verse seventeen. Deuteronomy

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chapter twenty and verse seventeen. And we're still taking that

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trek from Egypt to Canaan. We're in the second generation. Now,

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we're under Joshua, his leadership, and we are getting close

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to actually getting into the promised lamp. But there's some

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people who were just choosing not to surrender their will

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to God. And so the Bible reads here, even though

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we're back in Deuteronomy, but thou shalt utterly destroy them,

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namely the Hittites and the Amorites, and the Canaanites and

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the Perizites, and the divine wars of God's people. God

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allowed no middle ground. There was no middle ground. Every

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nation had to choose either we're going to align with

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God or we're going to reject him. And I admit

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because when you hear me pause like this, it's because

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I'm fighting against myself under the Holy Ghost to just

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simply tell the truth. I feel like I want to

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be diplomatic, because there is a part of my behavior

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style that has diplomacy built and etched into it. There

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were times I want to pull it back and nullify

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some of the heaviness of it. But I should not

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allow my behavior style to resist what in the world

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God said in his word. He said these very things.

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He said, these very things. We don't need to reject God.

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We don't need to be on the wrong side of justice,

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and so the Hebrew word, the Hebrew word that is

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in the discussion for today, refers to what is devoted

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to destruction or set apart for judgment. It symbolized complete

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surrender to God's authority, whether for mercy or for God's wrath.

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And so when those ancient Canaanites persisted in rebellion, their

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destruction revealed the consequences of rejecting divine truth. Do you

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hide the truth when you're sharing with people? Do you

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make up your own truth? People talk about my truth,

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my own truth. God was giving them very clearly the

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pathway to spiritual success and prosperity even on planet Earth.

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Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, verses one through fourteen show what

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God's people the blueprint for God's people to prosper and

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of course, anybody who had joined themselves according to Isaiah

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chapter fifty six, verses one through five, and kept covenant

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with God and kept the Holy seventh day Sabbath together,

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those individuals would receive that covenantal blessings. The promise is

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that they would be more than of more than sons

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and of daughters. They would be they would they would

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have names that would remain forevern, the forever, the name

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of God inscribed upon their actual character on their foreheads,

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in their foreheads, And so we need to remember God's

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mercy is wide but requires a response that means, don't

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take God's mercy for granted. You get stopped by law

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enforcement over and over because you, in fact and indeed

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have been speeding. Don't take that stuff for granted. Eventually

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they gone impound your car and lock you up, like

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if that is your habit, and you get enough points

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on your license and then you're in your license gets suspended.

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You continue to drive on a suspended license. Eventually that

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thing is going to get too hot for you to handle,

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and it would be unnecessary because even in that system

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there is a level of correction and mercy. They don't

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take your license immediately. You understand where I'm going with this.

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So God's mercy is wide, but it requires a response.

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Every choice to resist His will leads to leads further

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from his protection. God help us our lessen. Number two

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comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter thirteen and verse fourteen. Then

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shout thou inquire and make search, and ask diligently, and behold,

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if it be truth and the thing certain, and that

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such abomination is wrought among you that we really basically

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need to listen to God. That's the bottom line of this.

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The law of warfare in the Book of Deuteronomy shows

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that total destruction was never the default approach. Even the

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command to destroy the idolatrous towns came only after do

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inquiry and proof of consistent, unrepentant rebellion. This reveals that

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God's justice was measured, It was deliberate and morally grounded.

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There are some things we see in society today that

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are not morally grounded. There are some things that happened

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suddenly where the crime and the judgment do not match up.

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I wish I had the time. And so what God

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is showing us is that those who turned toward Him,

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like Rayhab the Gibbian knights, even though the Gibbia Knights were,

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you know, they were shifty, but they did turn toward

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God in their own way, they found mercy. But those

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who persisted against God they found condemnation. It's always a

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deep breath for me, because I don't take pleasure in

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this either. And I'm reading now from the book Desire

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of Ages, page twenty two, the exercise of force is

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contrary to the principles of God's government. He desires only

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the service of love, and love cannot be commanded, It

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cannot be won by force or authority HM. And so

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one question for your reflection is in what areas of

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your life do you need to choose life more intentionally?

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Make it a great day.

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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,