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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, April fourteen,

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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 how to Study God's Bible Prophecy or how

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to study Bible Prophecy. Before we get into that, I'd

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like to just say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community. You'll see a red button there.

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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 go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this day.

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Thank you for loving us so much that you have

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made us the apple of your eye. Help us to

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live like we are the apple of your eye. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I don't

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recall if I said what our caption was for today,

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but it is the beautiful bride. That's who we are.

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And when you think of a bride and you think

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of your connection with God, do you see yourself as beautiful?

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That's the question, and brothers, don't overprocess like, don't overthink it.

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The question is simply, do you see yourself as a

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beautiful bride in God's eyes? We're talking about the body

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of believers. And if we can't come up with a

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very clear and distinct answer, there may be a challenge.

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And how we believe God forgives us there may be

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a challenge, And how we believe that God is able

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to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. You see, our beauty

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comes from God because God's intention from before there was

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a beginning was for us to live with him forever.

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You see, sometimes when we are talking about our connection

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with God, we forget, we forget how much He has

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done to deliver us from our sins. You see, sometimes

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we think of the thing that we did yesterday or

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just five minutes ago, right before the broadcast, we were

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thinking something that we shouldn't and we're trying to reconcile

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our connection with God and say, well, all of our

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righteousnesses are as filthy rags, or the judgment is coming

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and we think of that as condemnation, or we think

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of all kinds of ways to sort of separate ourselves

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from God and then say things like, well, I'm only human.

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But God has given us the antidote, like he has

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given us his covering. He has spread his banner over us,

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which is love. And we see a story in the

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Book of Ezekiel, chapter sixteen, which we will drill just

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a little bit to understand some aspects of God's love. Okay,

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and so in Ezekiel chapter sixteen, really most of the

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chapter we see the initial state of God's people. We

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see the initial state, and the Bible reads and as

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for your birth, on the day that you were born,

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your cord was not cut or where you were not

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washed with water. So we see our selves as an

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a baby in this situation, as as as despicable as

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it is for someone to abandon their baby. That is

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how we are seen in this story. There is no

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basic care provided. The helpless condition of our humanity is

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seen here. It still says, like the text says, that

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we are covered in blood like we had our mother

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leave us. And this insight will teach us that God

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found us. Okay, I don't want to go just back

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into Israel back in the day, but God found his

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people when no one else saw us as beautiful. She

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was rejected. God's people was rejected as among children. And

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then we see in verses six and seven. And when

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I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood,

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I said, live. You see the abandoned babies left for dead. Ah.

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The abandoned baby is already seen as rejected and cast out.

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But we see God's mercy in this situation, and he

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initiates the rescue. He didn't wait for the baby to say,

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please come help me. He initiates the rescue. He provides

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life and growth, and he shows transforming power. Yes, And

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so then we see the covenant and beautification. We see

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we're abandoned, We see that we are helpless. We see

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that we need a savior, We need someone to love

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us and to give us the ability to live. And

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now we see God's beautification plan in verses eight through fourteen,

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and basically it says, I spread the corner of my

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garment over you, and you became mine. And that spreading

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of the garment means that he covered our nakedness. Remember

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Adam and Eve when they sinned, they were naked and ashamed.

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And so the Bible says Adam said he hid himself,

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who told you were naked? Adam, did you eat from

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the tree that I commanded that you sh shouldn't eat?

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And so when we sin against God, it's like we

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are committing adultery. It's like we have become a harlot.

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And now we are caught red handed in the very

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act of adultery, and we feel bare and naked. And

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God is saying that when he is coming after us

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in covenantal language and beautification, that he is going to

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cover all of our sins. He's going to cover our

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nakedness and shame and establish a covenant with us. Remember,

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I will make a covenant with the House of Israel.

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After those days, I will write my laws in their

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hearts and on their minds, and they will be my people.

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This is what God is telling us, and then he

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gives us royal adornments. The Bible says, her beauty was

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perfect through My splendor, which I bestowed upon her in

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verse fourteen. And so the true source of our beauty

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is God. You see, when I asked you what you

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thought about yourselves as believers, I was really wanting you

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to bring yourself up under His banner and see yourself

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in that covenant, and see yourself in God's beautification plan.

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Because the source of our real and true beauty is God.

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In verse thirteen of Ezekiel chapter sixteen, the Bible says,

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you grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. So God's

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bride is beautiful, not because of anything she has done.

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Nothing that we do is what makes us beautiful, not

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because of anything that we can think of, but because

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God has showered his favor on us. And of course

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there is a danger part. There is a danger part

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in verse fifteen, but you trust it in your own beauty.

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This is how this adulterous reality happens when God's people

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start to do things our own way and lean to

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our own understanding and look for another way to do

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things in a way that is really not what God

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had planned. And so we, in our pride are led

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to spiritual corruption. So when God, God's creation assumed that

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their beauty is their own. Remember Lucifer, he was lifted

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up because of his beauty. He saw his reflection and

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how dazzling and beautiful that he was, and somehow he

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became proud. And so this is a warning, like a

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warning not to go the way of Lucifer, warning not

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to go the way of God's people when they had

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turned from him in the Old Testament in particular. Yes,

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and so we know that God has a purpose for us,

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it says in verse fourteen, perfect through the splendor that

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I had bestowed upon you. We were created to reflect

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the goodness and glory of God. Our purpose is reflection.

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Our purpose as the bride of Christ is reflection of

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his beauty, reflection of his righteousness, not our own good works,

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reflection of His greatness, not our own greatness. And when

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we have that kind of a connection with God. We

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are the beautiful bride that he saw from before he

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put us in our mother's womb, He's womb we saw.

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He saw us. He knew that we would be called

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to the nations to make sure that others could be

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brought into right relationship with Him. Isn't she lovely? When

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God is speaking of you, he says, yes, you are

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the apple of his eye, a beautiful bride. 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,