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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 Monday, November 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 from the Faith of Joshua, and our

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caption for today is the sin of Akin. The sin

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of Akin. For those of you who are watching me,

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You're like, what in the world was he doing. I

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was trying to find the end of my headphone because

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I'm not hearing anything, and I know the broadcast is up,

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but I can't hear anything. Well, I had to plug

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it in you see, so now you know, and if

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you're on the radio, then I guess you can't see

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me struggling like what is going on here? Before we

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get into it, I'd like to just say welcome to

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everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community and pick up the Your

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Daily Portion Life Application Guide. And let me tell you

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the music that I originally created so that we could

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have worship together and teach the Bible lessons through music.

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They are there on your Daily Portion dot com as well.

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So this is one of the ways that we continue

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to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray

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and then get underway. Father, we thank you for this day.

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Thank you for loving us so much that you have

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given us a freething that we possibly could need or desire.

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And I just pray God that you will fill us

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with your Holy spirit and teach us your way everlasting.

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In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and amen again the

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sin of Achen. Oh my yes. So we're going to

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begin begin by reading from Jeremiah, I mean Joshua. Why

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do I say Jeremiah from Joshua? Chapter seven. That's the

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Book of Joshua, chapter seven, and I will begin reading

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at verse sixteen. That's the Book of Joshua, chapter seven,

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and I will read beginning at verse sixteen. And the

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Bible reads, So Joshua rose early in the morning and

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brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah

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was taken. He brought the clan of Judah, and he

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took the family of the Czar Heights. And he brought

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the family of the Czar Heights man by Man, and

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Abdi was taken. Then he brought his household man by Man,

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and Aiken, the son of Kamri, the son of Zabdi,

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and the son of Zira, the son of Zira, and

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the tribe of Judah was taken. I find it interesting

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that he was from the tribe of Judah. Now Joshua

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said to Aiken, my son, I beg you give glory

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to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession to him,

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and tell me now what you have done. Do not

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hide it from me. Now. Listen, listen, listen, listen. We

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should never have gotten to this point where God is saying,

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let's get them, let's smoke them out like let's find out. Well,

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I know, meaning God, but now I'm giving you a

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process to find out, to discover, slowly but surely, who

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indeed and in fact did this thing that is causing

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the trouble in the camp. And so rather than admitting

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early in the process and talking to God about it

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and repenting, this dude, Aichen decides he wants it the

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hard way. And that's where we begin our discussion today.

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We begin with the difficult way. And so in the

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book The Desire of Ages, page three hundred and fifty three,

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we see we see that Joshua has addressed Aken as

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my son. This expression shows not only the age and

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leadership role of Joshua, but also reveals the spirit in

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which this great warrior approached justice. Now let me go down,

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Let me go down, Joshua was again foreshadowing the sensitivity

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and kindness and love of the one who, according to

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this passage, was never rude. I quote, never needlessly spoke

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a severe word. That's Jesus never gave a need needless

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pain to a sensitive soul. He fearlessly denounced hypocrisy, unbelief,

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and iniquity, but tears were in his voice as he

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uttered his scathing rebukes, and so Joshua having to live

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up to the model that Jesus would have shown us. Eventually,

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he is now in the position where he's just like, why,

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why are you putting yourself in this situation? aChn, what

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in the world it's going on? And the Bible says

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in Jeremiah chapter seventeen and verse seven, if the Lord

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searched the heart, I try the reins, even to give

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every person according to his ways and according to the

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fruit of his doings. Like when God probes into people's minds,

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he's only revealing what is there. It's not a gotcha moment.

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It's not something where God is trying to entrap us

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or make us do something wrong and then charging us

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with the crime. You know, the Bible is teaching us

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that God gives us soul many many things to avoid

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the evil that can come upon us. The Lord is

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not slack concerning his promise. He's long suffering toward us,

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thinking about what Jesus is doing while he's waiting to

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come back to get us. He's long suffering, like patient

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with us. He's not willing that any should perish, but

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that all should come to repentance. He's always been like that,

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even back in the days of Joshua and Achan. And

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so before exposing Achan's sin, God gave space for confession.

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He's not willing for Achin to perish. He all he

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wanted was for Achan to come to repentance. He could

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have revealed the guilty man immediately. That's what God could

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have done, but his investigative process moved deliberately from tribe

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to family to household to individual, from tribe to family

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to household to individual. God smoked him out. This pause

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was mercy in motion. At any point along the journey

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while well, while God was saying go to the tribes,

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Acin could have said, you know what, I don't want

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to put the people of God through this. When he

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got down to the family, Akeen could have said, you know,

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I don't really want to go. The people of God

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don't need to go down through this. When he got

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down to the household, he could have said, you know what,

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I pause, like, let me just go and confess my sin.

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I don't need the people of God going through this.

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And now it's down to you, Achen, and it's too late,

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and it's too late, so use every delay This is

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the action for all of us. Use every delay of

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God's discipline as an opportunity to repent. Is God coming

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down your lane? Is he in your tribe now? Is

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he in your family? Is he in your household? Is

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He now coming down your lane directly to you. Use

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it as an opportunity to repent, not as permission to

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remain silent. Mercy delayed is mercy extended. God is not

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trying to get you. He wants you to be saved.

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He wants to save you. He wants to save you.

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The Bible says in Psalm chapter one hundred and thirty nine,

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verses one and two, Oh Lord, thou hast searched me

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and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,

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and understandest my thought afar off. Let me read it

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in another version. Oh Lord, you examine me and know

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You know when I sit down and when I get up,

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even from far away, you understand my motives. So God

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wants us to live transparent lives. That's our second lesson

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for today. Live transparently before God, not because he can't see,

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Like when He went to Adam and said, where are you?

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It wasn't because he didn't know where he was. It

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was because Adam didn't know where Adam was. And so

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live transparently before God. Live, invite his searching eye to

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cleanse once tries to conceal. And then our third and

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final lesson comes in comes in from Ephesians chapter four

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and verse fifteen. And I wish a lot of these

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guys on the internet who have these gotcha ministries with

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think about this. The Bible says, but speaking the truth

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and love may grow up. So practice the truth. Speaking

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the truth and love we will, and all things grow

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up into Christ, who is the head. So when we're

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correcting others, lead with love. Justice without compassion weakens the

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sense of the truth. Both together reveal the character of Christ.

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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,