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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, January 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, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today

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is rejoicing with gladness. Rejoicing with Gladness. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.

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Pick up the Your Daily Portion companion guide for this

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quarter's lesson. It goes with the quarterly. It is not

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the quarterly. We put them together so that you can

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apply each of these principles in four key areas. We'll

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get into that in a second. And also, please go

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behind that number seven. Click that number seven. I need

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ten thousand of you to click that number seven, and

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that is one of the ways that we continue to

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

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then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you

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for giving us this new day and for the opportunity

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to rejoice. Thank you for putting us in a position

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where we can turn away from our sins, that we

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can yield our will to you, and that we can

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rejoice with you and live eternally in Jesus name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Sometimes people feel guilty about the

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idea of rejoicing, because of course we're living in the

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last days. You understand this is a time where we

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should be. We should be afflicting our souls before God

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and asking Him to search us and see if there

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be any wicked way in us. And that is true.

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We should be searching our souls. We should have the

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holy ghosts in our minds so that He can shine

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the light on the reality of who we are. But

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let me just say this that as we are being

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reconciled to God, it's almost like when we are in

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the ordinance of humility during the communion service. In those moments,

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in those moments, in that service, we are to be

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afflicting our souls. In those moments, we are to be

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honest with God and to yield everything to him and

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then and then to be forgiven and cleansed from our unrighteousness.

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But after the ordinance of humiliation or humility, excuse me,

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then we go to the Lord's Supper with rejoicing. You

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understand where I'm going with this. So it is not

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always afflicting of our souls, but it is afflicting of

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our souls. It is not always bewilderment. But there are

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times that we when we're being honest with ourselves and

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with God, we are bewildered because we see the distance

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between our souls and our Savior. But once that gap,

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that bridge is divide, that divide is bridged, then there

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is rejoicing. And so the Bible reads in Zechariah chapter three,

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We're going back to that, and I'm reading from verses

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five fifteen through seventeen. Okay, verse five. The Lord in

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the midst of her is uncomfortab misingly righteous. He will

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not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light.

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He fails not. But the unjust person knows no shame. So,

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by show of hands, how many of you are unjust?

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Put your hands down. Unless you are not willing to

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yield your will to God, don't put your hands up

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unless you are holding on to your sin. If you

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are holding onto your sin, then go ahead and put

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your hands up. If you're holding onto your sin and

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you don't know how to let those sins go, then

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put your hand up. And today is the day that

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you turn away from those sins. You allow God through

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the Holy Ghost, to teach you the truth about yourself

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and the truth about God. The truth about God is

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that he's holy and just and good at all times.

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He's one hundred percent righteous. And the truth about self

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is that we are unholy. We are sold under sin

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until or unless we allow the King of Kings to

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redeem us. You understand where we're going with this, And

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so the unjust person knows no shame. That person couldn't

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care less what God thinks verse fifteen four. Then it

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will be that the Lord has taken away the judgments

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against you. Okay, he has cast out your enemy, the

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king of Israel. Even the Lord himself is in the

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midst of you. And after he has come to you,

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you shall not experience experience or fear evil anymore. You

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see those who are perfected in love, that fear is gone.

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Cast out fear, fear hath torment. But those who are

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perfected in love, according to John, those who are perfected

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in love, those individuals stand boldly in the day of judgment.

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Let me continue right here in verse sixteen. In that

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day it shall be said of God's people or Jerusalem,

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fear not o Zion, let your let not your hands

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sink down, or be slow and listless. I said this

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the other day. That means to be a shamed. Don't

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be ashamed, don't be dejected, don't feel rejected, okay. Verse seventeen.

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The Lord your God is in the midst of you,

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and the Mighty One, the Savior who saves. He will

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rejoice over you with joy. If God is rejoicing over

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you with joy, how can you be discouraged? Hah. If

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the Lord of hosts, the one who is righteous all

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of the time, and his judgments are just. The one

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who sees and knows all is rejoicing over you. Then

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who are you to be bewildered? If you are yielding

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your will to him? Do you understand where this conversation

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is going. We're looking at it from God's lens, from

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his perspective, not silly praise. We're not looking at our

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own way to kind of positive think ourselves into a frenzy. No,

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this says that the Lord who's in the midst of me,

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the Lord who is our sin, in the midst of us,

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he will rejoice over you with joy. That is, when

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you yield your will to him, he will rest in

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silent satisfaction and in his love. He will be silent

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and make no mention of past sins or even recall them.

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He will exalt over you with singing. So in my

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mind I hear the word restoration. But really and truly,

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that word is not enough. I wrote it in my notes,

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but it's because I am at a loss for words,

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like I cannot really generate the concept that is sufficient.

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But I hear the word restoration. But it's better than restoration.

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If it were restoration, it would be back to the

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way that it was with Adam and Eve, like back then.

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But that's not good enough. See, it has to be

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better than that. It has to be better than that.

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The new heavens and the new Earth have to be

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better than that. Ah, there will be no more affliction.

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Affliction shall not rise a second time. See that's better

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than that. Like now are we the sons of God?

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And it does not yet appear what we shall be.

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You see what we shall be. It will be better

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than that what we shall be. But we know that

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when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for

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we shall see him as he is. Let those who

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have this hope in yourselves, Please, would you purify yourself

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even as he is pure? And so this restoration, this

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rejoicing and singing, is like the story of the prodigal

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when he comes home after exhausting everything on riotous living.

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He is there to the point that he is basically

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congregating with pigs. This boy, who is supposed to be clean,

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is now congregating with pigs. He's already burnt everything with

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Harlot's He's already lost all of his soul called friends,

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and now He is going to his father, and his

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father does not accept as a servant. His father doesn't

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simply restore him. His father exalts over him. He is

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with joy and singing and smiling and asking people come

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rejoice with me, for my son who was lost is found.

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The one who was dead is now alive again. Now

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let me ask you a question. Do you want God

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to rejoice over you? Do you want him to rejoice

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over you? This is all you need to do. Surrender

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your will to him. Today's the day that you cooperate

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with him, that you allow him to write his laws

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in your heart and on your mind, so that you

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can live according to his principles.

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Speaker 1: And the joy of the Lord will be Thanks for

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joining us, listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live

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by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

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the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion

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with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,