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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, December three,

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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 the True Joshua, the anti type. So

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we've been talking about the symbols of Christ, but now

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we're going to talk about Christ himself and not just

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talk about him. Our goal is to be transformed by

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by Christ. 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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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you, thank you

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for not leaving us in the dark. Thank you for

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opening us up to the brightness of Jesus, the Son

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of Righteousness. Please please give us your wisdom and help

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us not to be satisfied with the symbols anymore. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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Before before we get into the details here, I would

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like for you, I would like for you to please

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just go over and think about what your real goal

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is when you're learning these truths. When you're learning these truths,

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are you are you focusing on just the details of

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what you can learn, like in a classroom setting, or

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are you actually yielding your will to God because you

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are focusing on God himself? You see what I mean? Like,

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sometimes we can become so detail oriented, and I am

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extremely detail oriented. We that we are are focusing on

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the wrong things. We're to see some things, but not

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to focus. Okay, So let's run our minds forward, run

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our minds forward to see what God really has for us.

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And so from reviewing Harold June twenty three, eighteen sixty eight,

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we read that's a year, yeah, way back then, something

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really sweet. Christ, our anti typical Joshua has gone before

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us and conquered. He leads his followers to victory and

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rest if they but keep their eyes on him. And

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so our focus. Now we've seen the symbol. We've seen

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how God led his people through Moses. We've seen how

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God led his people through Joshua. But now our focus is, oh,

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wait a minute, Jesus is leading us through victory to

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victory by keeping our eyes on him. There are sins

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that we are conquering by the grace of God. There

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are proclivities towards sin that we are conquering. There are

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broken mindsets and limiting thoughts and beliefs that we are

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overcome by God's grace. We are overcoming the drive to

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be in relationships we should not have, overcoming addictions to

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illicit drugs and alcohol abuse and all of these things

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because of Christ, and so let's get our minds forward

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forward into those truths. And then also from the book

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The Desire of Ages, page three hundred and thirty one,

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it reads, the rest that remains for the people of

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God is not merely freedom from toil. It is freedom

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from sin. The Savior's rest is the rest of victory

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over sin. I remember, I remember the preacher and Bible

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worker that I came in under when I got baptized

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in nineteen ninety six, Pastor will Smith. I know, I know,

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I'm sure he gets it all the time. But anyway,

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Pastor will Smith used to say, brother, I noticed that

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when people give testimonies, they're always giving testimony. He's about

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filling the blank. I won't go into the details of

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what he said. But then he said, why don't people

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testify about victory over sin? Pastor Smith. I don't know

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if you're if you're watching like or anybody who knows you,

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but I remember that from way back then, brother, why

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don't people talk about God giving them victory over sin

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when we testify? And I agree, I agree. And so

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we see now that Jesus leads us into true rest,

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which is victory over sin. And so what I want

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you to do is take an intentional or invest intentional

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time today to rest in Christ's work, a victory over

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sin in all of its forms. Stop striving to earn

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favor if that's your thing, where you're ticking off a list,

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if you're you're feeling accomplished, if you if you did

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something right, and then you feel defeated if you did

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something wrong, like get that tech, that that checklist thing

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out of there. Stop striving to earn favor, but give

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thanks instead, give thanks to God for the peace he

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already has secured for you. Give thanks for the peace

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that He has already secured for you. Now, the Bible

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reads in First John, chapter three, as we go to

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our second lesson, First John chapter three and verse eight four,

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for this purpose the son of God was manifest. Well,

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what was that purpose, John? That he might destroy the

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works of the devil? All right, So, a lot of

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times Christianize speaking people are comfortable and confident when we

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are able to identify problems, identify problems. I'm no longer

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interested in simply identifying problems. Now we need to neutralize

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or address the actual problem, or or execute on the

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goal of destroying the problem. Itself like identify it. Yes,

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now let's resolve it. Let's be solution based or solution oriented.

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What did he come to do not just reveal the

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enemy's ploys or plots, but to destroy the works of

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the devil. Now the Greek word, the Greek word lu

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o meaning means to loosen or break up or to dissolve.

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Joshua fought literal enemies. Jesus destroyed spiritual bondage. What did

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he do loosen, break up, or dissolve literal spiritual bondage.

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His victory over Satan at Calvary ended sins dominion and

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opened the way for believers to walk in freedom and authority.

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And we know that Jesus also moved into the ministry

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of forgiveness in a special way and cleansing from all

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unrighteousness in a special way. And so what I want

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you to do is speak victory out loud today. God

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is intentional, never changing. Yeah you remember that song. Yeah,

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So since he is intentional, I want you to speak

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in the way that Jesus would speak. Don't keep speaking

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about the problems that you have, the difficulty you have.

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I struggle with this, I struggle with that You're going

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to continue to struggle. As long as you put that

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up as what you say and do say and focus

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on all the time, then you're going to continue to struggle.

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But if you speak the victory of Christ, I can

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do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Hm. That's

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the word of God. There hath no temptation taken me,

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but such as it's common to man. But God is faithful,

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who will with the temptation provide a way of escape

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that I may be able to bear it. So what

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I want you to do is remind yourself that Christ

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has already broken sins power and walk in the confidence

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of his triumph. I'm talking about beginning at this moment.

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Number three. God gives Jesus gives excuse me, the inheritance

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of the redeemed, and the Bible teaches us this in

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Hebrews chapter nine and verse fifteen, that he's the mediator

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of this covenant to give us this possession of the

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eternal inheritance. So I want you to live each day

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beginning now, beginning now or rebeginning now? Is that a word?

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As an heir of God's promises? Let gratitude for your

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spiritual inheritance motivate you to serve others with joy. Make

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it a great day. Peace, Make it a great day.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,