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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 Wednesday, December

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twenty four, 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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lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua. We just

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have a couple more days left, but our caption for

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today is the Dangers of the Dangers of Idolatry. Before

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

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everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. I'm asking you to please go over to

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your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community

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pick up your Daily Portion Life Application guide for Q

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one twenty twenty six. We're going into Philippians and Colossians

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and hopefully you've already gotten that. You can either download

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it or of course, you can get the physical copy

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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, we thank you for giving us the

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opportunity to study and serve. Please help us to live

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according to your principles. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Let me ask you. I know those

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of you on the rate won't be able to respond

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unless you go over to the YouTube channel for your

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Daily Portion, but just hold that until you can have

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an opportunity to do that. What is the problem with idolatry?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: What is the problem with that? And I mean putting

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anything above God. It may be that some people actually

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bow to images or something like that, and there are

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others who simply replace God like put things and people

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over God in our lives. What is the problem with that? Now,

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let me just say very quickly, I want to oversimplify.

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If we idolize anything or anyone and we put them

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above God, then that means we're saying we don't need

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God and we're not responsible to the creator who created us.

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We're not responsible. This is what we're saying. We're saying

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that we're not responsible to the one who gave every

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thing so we could be recreated and made holy. So

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really we're disrespecting the relationship that God intended for us

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to have from before there was a beginning. He created

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us for a relationship with him, and we're really just

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turning our backs. If God forbid we put anything above him,

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then we're turning our backs on him and saying you

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do not matter. And I don't even want to say, like,

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I don't even want to call his name now because

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it sounds like I'm saying that. But that's what we're saying,

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and so I'm oversimplifying, But that is what comes to

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mind immediately. Okay, And so let's go to Signs of

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the Times article from eighteen eighty eight E. J. Wagoner,

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Idols of the heart are the hardest to detect. So

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you notice he's not even messing around with the ones

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that we can physically see, Like Mullick, you feel me,

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like bayl ASTROI you know what I mean? Like He's

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saying that the ones that are in our minds are

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the hardest to detect. Yet this is the good news.

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The grace of Christ alone can dislodge them and restore

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the soul to loyalty. Idols of the heart are the

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hardest to detect, and yet the grace of Christ alone

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can dislodge them and restore the soul to loyalty. All

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right from the Booksteps to Christ, page forty nine, God

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does not ask us to overcome in our own strength.

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He calls us to put away sin, and then he

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promises us the power to obey. This is the end

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of the quote. Have you ever heard his biddings or

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enablings whenever he bids us to come, whenever he commands

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or asks us to do anything within the command within

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him reasoning with us the power to actually do what

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he said. You understand. So when he asked or bade

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Peter come onto the water and walk with him on

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the water, which is impossible according to the laws of nature.

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When he bade him come in the bidding was the enablement,

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if that's the right word, for Peter to actually defy

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the laws of nature because he had the power of

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God in him. So we have in God's biddings and

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his enablement, his enablings, we have the ability to defy

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the laws of our broken human nature and to assume

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the nature that God gives us through the Holy Ghost.

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And so our lesson number one for today is that

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idle survive when we refuse to confront them. This is

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what it says in the Book of Joshua, chapter twenty

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four and verse twenty three. Now, therefore, put away, say

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he the strange gods which are among you, and incline

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your heart unto the Lord God of Israel. So Joshua

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had to repeat the same command Moses gave because the

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danger was not theoretical. Idols were already among them. The

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Hebrew word for incline natah natah, meaning to bend, to

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stretch toward, or to direct oneself. That's what that means.

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Like that that being a person who is inclining toward that.

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God's people needed to bend their desires toward God, because

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the human heart not naturally bends away from God. Idols

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persist when they are tolerated. They lose power only when

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confronted and removed. And so the action step is for

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you to name your idol. Don't type it in the chat.

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It's none of our business. Name your idol that may

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be that is competing with your loyalty to God today.

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Now listen, maybe you have put away your idols. I'm

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not going to say that everybody has an idol. I

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really don't like the way that sometimes Christianese speaking people

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say that, like they make it seem as if everybody

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is still bound, like they are literally people who are

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yielding our will to God, like Enoch did yielding our

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will to God, like Elisha yielding our will to God,

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like Abigail demonstrated, like Hulda Anna. How the Bible shows

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us that who is the person that I really really like?

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How Job yielded his will to God, How Joseph yielded

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his will to God. So I'm not going to give

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you a complex, But if in fact there is still

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something competing that, I want you to write it down,

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name it, and then confess to God and ask him

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to bend your heart toward him. Our lesson number two

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is obedience is relationship. Obedience is really relationship. And from

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the next verse Joshua, chapter twenty four and verse twenty four,

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it reads, and the people said unto Joshua, the Lord,

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our God, will we serve and his voice will we obey?

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And we talked about this the other day, where you know,

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God's people, even in this generation, made high profession. But

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Joshua was like, listen, the people back in the day

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said the same thing. Your parents said the same thing.

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But what we need to do is solidify a relationship

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with God. So God's people's answer in this case, it

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shows the heart of true obedience. Covenant was never about

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rule keeping. It never was. The phrase we will listen

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to his voice reveals their relationship and Hebrew thought listening

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and obeying are one action. I told you that for

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many years that we've been together, Shamah, to hear, to hear,

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and to do are the same thing. The heart inclines

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toward the one it loves. Obedience that flows only from

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fear never lasts. Obedience that flows from relationship in yours.

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So just ask God, really, Lord, can you help me

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to live my profession? 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,