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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 Sunday, October

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twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle

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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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Lessons study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our

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caption for today is the cana knits Iniquity. The Canaan

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nits Iniquity. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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just say welcome to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com listen when

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we have our Friday evening worship experience and I'm teaching

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the lesson through music. Many of you keep asking where

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can I get this music? You can get it right

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at your Daily Portion dot com www dot your Daily

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Portion dot com. And this is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, and then we will get under ray.

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Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this privilege

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to come into your presence. Now, please help us to

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invest the time well be transformed by you. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. And so we begin.

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We begin with the Bible Book of Genesis Genesis chapter

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fifteen and verse verse sixteen, as we get our discussion started.

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And then I'll give you at least three lessons that

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you can you can use as you continue to study

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God's word for today. Okay, and so the Bible reads,

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but in the fourth generation they shall come hither again,

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for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

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Is not yet full. Now the lesson is going to

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come in from this text and Leviticus chapter eighteen and

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verse twenty five, where it reads and the land is defiled.

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Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and

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the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. And so what

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we're going to do is is look at the concept

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of how God's mercy always comes before his condemnation or

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what we would call judgment, okay in this case, because

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in judgment there are two possible outcomes. There's one where

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the people are seen as not guilty or I should say,

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actually innocent, as if we had never sinned. And then

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there is the other option, which God forbid anybody listening

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to me this morning should choose, which is condemnation. And

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so we're talking about God's mercy coming before condemnation, like

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there is no reason for any human being to be

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condemned because God has made every provision through Christ for

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us to be seen as if we had never sinned.

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We can confess our sins because God is faithful and

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just to forgive those that confess and cleanse us from

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all unrighteousness. But sometimes people just really are hard headed.

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And so the lesson is also that God waited for generations,

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you know how long that is, especially back in the

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Old Testament times, before allowing the condemnation to come upon Canaan.

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The delay was mercy. I think the Bible writer says

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that God's long suffering is salvation. The fact that Jesus

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has not yet come is and people who are scoffing,

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people who are supposedly God's people are saying, ah, what

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is the delay for? What is the delay for? Like

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the same stuff that we see now is what's been

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happening since our fathers fell asleep. And God told us

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through the Bible writer that no, no, no, no, no no,

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God is not slack concerning his promise, and his long

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suffering is salvation. When you see God waiting and pausing

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and then eventually you see condemnation, now you know it

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was because he was holding out the hand of mercy.

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The Lord gave the Canaanites, even the Canaanites ample time

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to repent through the witness of Abraham Isaac Jacob, when

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they persisted in rebellion. We're not talking about missteps, we're

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not talking about in oops. We're talking about iniquity and rebellion.

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That means they knew that God was watching. They knew

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that God was exercising patience, but did not care. God's

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justice acted to protect future generations from their corruption. That's

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the whole point. When God has to meet out judgment.

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A lot of times it's related to the fact that

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if he doesn't, then others will suffer. Others will suffer,

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people will become emboldened in their sin, and others will suffer.

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And so for me, the action step is to view

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every delay in divine condemnation HM as mercy. When God waits,

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he's giving space for repentance. God is not slack. Let's

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move to lesson number two. False worship breeds moral collapse.

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Let me just say that it's not necessary for us

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to worship other gods. And I know in twenty twenty five,

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for most of you, I would say probably about seventy

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percent of you listening to me, maybe thinking, but yeah,

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we don't bow to other gods. But I would say

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the remaining portion live in cultures where people are visibly

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still bowing to other gods. Regardless of any of that.

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There is a modern day way of people putting other

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things other gods before God. Some people put our paychecks

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or lack thereof, before God, making our problems bigger than

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our God, worshiping what we hope to be one day,

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rather than putting that into God's hands and asking him

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how do we get from step one to step two

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to step three and onward. Sometimes we worship people that

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we wish we had good relationships with. We worship sometimes

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God forbid the aspirations we have in our job to

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get to that next promotion. Sometimes we worship our political

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parties God forbid. Sometimes we worship our own intellect and

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think that nobody else can be can be as wise

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as us, as intelligent as us, like our answers always right.

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There are so many ways that we can put other

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gods before God. And in Deuteronomy, chapter eighteen and verse ten,

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the Bible reads, there shall not be found among you

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anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass

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through the fire. This had to do with, you know,

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sacrificing God forbid children to other gods. There are people

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who were sacrificing our children to television, sacrificing our children

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to well, we just can't bother take our children where

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they need to go. So we just, you know, let

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them do things on their own, and we sacrifice them

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to the streets. And when they get themselves in trouble,

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then we tied them because well you knew better. And

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it's like, yeah, but you didn't cover your child. Yeah,

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sometimes people are sacrificing our children to all kinds of

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strange paradigms in society, helping them to keep up with

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the modern the modern things that are happening, as if

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our children are not called by God to be peculiar

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people too. And so the Canaanites gods were mirrors of

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their corruption, LUs, greed and cruelty. Is that the reality

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for you, God forbid? If it is today's your day

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to repent, I promise you now is the moment their

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religion justified immorality, even child sacrifice worship shape's character, and

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by adoring evil spirits disguised as deities, they became just

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like them. When nations lose the knowledge of the true God,

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moral decay follows. I wish I had the time, but

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I do not want to get on a soapbox. There

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are times that people say that they are in Christian nations,

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but they are behaving as heathens. People who say that

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they are living in Christian nations, but they are behaving

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like people who couldn't care less what God thinks. But

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let me move on before I go on a soapbox.

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Guard your worship. What you honor will shape who you become,

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stay rooted in the word of God to protect you

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from cultural idols. And our final one is that judgment

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protects the promise. There are times that God has to

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do what he has to do, and he roots wickedness

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out by root and branch, and then he has now

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given us the privilege of living at peace with Him

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and peace within our societies. I'm looking forward to the

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ultimate one 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,