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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 Thursday, November thirteen,

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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 longing for His Presence? Longing for His presence?

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Do you desire to be in the presence of God?

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Right now? I wish I had the time. Let me

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just go ahead and say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. Please

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the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank

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you for this day, and please, will you just bring

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us into your presence, usher us into your presence today

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in Jesus name. I pray Amen and amen again, longing

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for the presence of God. So we're going to begin.

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We're going to begin by simply reading from Joshua chapter eighteen,

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and I will read verse one to get us kickstarted

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before we get into our three less sins for today.

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And it reads, and the whole congregation of the children

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of God assembled together at Shiloh and set up the

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tabernacle of the congregation there, and the land was subdued

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before them. Listen, when we have God with us, the

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presence of God with us, then everything, every trial, every tribulation,

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every difficulty, every enemy has to get out of the way.

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Can I just say that again? When God is with

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his people, we are in the presence of God, then

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we become the tabernacle of God. He said, what know

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ye not that you are the Temple of the Holy Ghost,

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who is with you. You were bought with a price.

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It was in you. You were bought with a price. Therefore,

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glorify God with your bodies and of course everything that

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you are, because they are gods. He has purchased us

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through the blood of Jesus Christ. And so when we

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long for the presence of God and have the presence

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of God, there is nothing that can stand in our way,

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even though we will have trials and tribulations while we

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are on planet Earth. Jesus had those, the apostles had those,

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the patriarchs and prophets of old had those. But ultimately

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Jesus wins. And so our first lesson comes in from

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Exodus chapter twenty five to bolster the point that we

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just made from verse eight. This is what happened even

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before this incident with Joshua in Shiloh. It says, and

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let them, God, speaking to Moses, let them make me

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a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Everything God's

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people's victories, their prosperity, their peace flowed from the reality

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that God was dwelling among them. Aren't you glad that

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worship comes before we work? Worship comes before we work.

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There is no pressure. We're not under pressure trying to

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perform for God, trying to show God that we are

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worthy of anything. We worship God because He's worthy, and

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then in the power of His might, the strength that

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He has given us, then we work. And so before

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the remaining tribes received their land, the Bible teaches us

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that Joshua paused the conquest to do something sacred. He

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set up the Tabernacle of the Lord at Shiloh. It

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was a deliberate reminder of God's presence. We can always

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see that God is among us, just like Jesus's name

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being interpreted Emmanuel being interpreted. God with us. It was

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a constant visual reminder, like the Ark of the Covenant

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as they traversed through through the wilderness. It was a

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constant reminder of God's presence. God's people receive their inheritance

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because of the presence of God, the power of God,

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not because of their own anything fill in the blank.

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I don't care what you put after their own. It

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was all about the fact that God was with them,

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and he kept his promise that he made to Abraham,

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Isaac and Jacob Lessen number two. Lessen number two, of course,

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the tabernacle pointed forward to Christ. At every point in

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the Old Testament, we see that this tabernacle is really

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a reflection of what Christ was trying to teach us

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about himself. Ultimately. Even the Old Testament Bible writers said

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that the Lord is the Lord is our sanctuary. The

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Lord is our sanctuary. And so I'm grateful. I'm grateful.

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The Bible reads in Hebrews Chapter nine, verses eleven and twelve.

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But Christ, being come and high priest of good things

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to come, by his own blood, he entered in once

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into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

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Let me read it again in the New English translation.

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But now Christ has come, as the high priest of

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the good things to come. He entered once for all

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into the most holy Place, not by the blood of

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goats and calves, but by his own blood. See, this

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is the durable sacrifice. Those things pointed forward to Christ.

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They taught us some of what Jesus would represent for us.

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That without the shedding of blood there can be no

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remission of sins. And so we see that in the

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earthly sanctuary. But Jesus is the one ultimately that it represented.

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And so oh he himself, the Bible says, secured eternal redemption.

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You see, there is no amount of humans, There is

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no amount of sacrificing animals on human behalf. Like I

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almost said it wrong, almost really made a booble there

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that can secure our salvation. It's always been about Christ.

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In the Old Testament, we looked forward to Christ. In

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this time we are experiencing Christ and looking back at

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the Cross and knowing that in the most holy placed

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ministry that Jesus is now involved, that he is taking

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care of the cleansing of the people who are placing

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ourselves into his care. And so through Christ we have

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a continual access to the presence of God, not through

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a tent, not through a temple, not through an arc,

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but through his atoning work. We thank God. The earthly

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tabernacle at Shiloh pointed to the heavenly reality that was

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yet to come. Jesus now ministers on our behalf. Our

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third and final lesson is that hope is anchored in

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His presence. In Hebrews, in Hebrews Chapter six, verses nineteen

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and twenty, we read which hope we have as an

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anchor of the soul, both both sure and steadfast, and

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which entereth into that within the veil, whither the forerunner

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is for us entered. Even Christ, Jesus has entered in

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to the place that we want to be. He is

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ministering before the Father, so that since he died the

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death that we deserve now through his ministry in the Sanctuary,

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both Holy and Most Holy Placed ministries. Now in twenty

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twenty five, we have the full experience. Jesus did what

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he needed to do on planet Earth. He is already

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finished with what he was doing. In the Holy Place

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ministry about forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, and in the Most Placed ministry,

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it's all about cleansing those individuals and sealing the individuals

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who are submitting our will to God. So we can

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be seen as if we have never sinned, and we

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thank God. He is there, and he is there listen,

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representing us. He took on human flesh that has not

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gone away. Yes, now it's glorified, but Jesus is in

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there as a representative of those who have faith in him.

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The presence of the Sanctuary in god People's midst reminded

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them of God's faithfulness. Are you longing for the presence

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of God. Well, in this moment you can praise him,

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he said. He inhabits the praises of his people. 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,