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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 Sabbath, November

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twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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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 this Sabbath

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morning in our Lessons study series, Lessons of Faith from Joshua.

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This is lesson number ten of thirteen under the caption

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the True Joshua, The True Joshua. We'll get into that

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

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welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for

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the very first time. I'm asking you to please go

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over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our

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online community. Also, please let us know where you are

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in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father.

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We thank you for this day, this good Sabbath morning,

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for us to reconnect with you in a special way. Father,

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thank you for the experience that we had last night

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on our musical worship experience. Father, and I pray that

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this Sabbath we will really in fact and indeed rest

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in You. There is so much destruction, so much tragedy,

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so many trials, But Father, you have called us not

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to focus there, but to focus our minds on on You,

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focus on the true Joshua, Jesus Christ, and please help

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us to do it in Jesus name. I pray, Amen

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and Amen again, the true Joshua. So I gave it away.

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I gave it away. Yeah, Jesus Christ is the true deliverer.

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The true deliverer is Jesus Christ. And I'm very excited

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about this because sometimes we mix our focus up, we

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mix our focus up. We see these images that are

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supposedly Jesus even in the Sabbath school quarterly or the

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adults study guide that are supposedly representing Jesus. But the

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fact is that Jesus is high and above all of

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these representations. Joshua, even as the faithful man of God,

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was a symbol or a shadow of Jesus Christ himself,

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the ultimate warrior, commander of the heavenly hosts, the ultimate deliverer,

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the ultimate God. Blessed be his name in the flesh,

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Jesus Christ the Righteous. And so the Bible says in

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First Corinthians, Chapter ten and verse eleven. Now these things

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happened unto them, for in samples that they are written

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for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world

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are come. And if you read the next couple of verses,

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you see that there are people that Paul is speaking

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to that you know what, You might become proud and say,

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how could they, pointing back into history, and say, how

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could they have missed all of those signs that God

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had given? How could they have dropped the ball so

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many different ways in their spiritual health? How could they

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have just disrespected God in the way that they did.

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And he said, if anybody thinks they stand take heed,

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let's g fall, But God didn't leave us there. He

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didn't leave us there. In the next passage, it says

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in verse thirteen that God, there hath no temptation taken us,

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but such as is common to men. Like we are

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all in the same bus. We're all in the same boat,

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like humans all go through very similar mind and spirituality trials.

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And God is saying that that is not unusual. There

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is no temptation taken you, but such as is common

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to all humanity. But God is faithful. See, this is

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the thing we focus on God. We don't focus on

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all of the mistakes that the people of God made.

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We don't focus on well, I wouldn't make that mistake.

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We don't focus on well I come from a resilient people,

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and we always rise from the ashes. No, our focus

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is for God is faithful, who will, with the temptation

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take make a way of escape that we may be

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able to bear it. So God is the one who

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gives us the ability to overcome any trial, any temptation,

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and march right through to the fullness of the promise.

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Jesus is greater than Joshua. That's an understatement. The name

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Joshua in Hebrew is Yahoshua pronounced of course yahos Shua,

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meaning Yahweh blessed be his name saves. This is the

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same root of Joshua or Yeshua, the Hebrew form of Jesus.

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Just as Joshua led God's people into the promised land,

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Jesus leads his people into heaven and then the earth

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made new. Both call for faith and obedience, but only

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Jesus Christ himself. Only he completes the victory over sin

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and death. And so the action in this regard is

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to invite Jesus, the real Jesus, well, the real Jesus,

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stand up, and all of these images and pictures and

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all kinds of relics and representation and shadows they need

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to sit down. Let the real Jesus lead you daily

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as your captain. Surrender your will in each battle to

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him before you take your first step. Lesson number two

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comes in from Hebrews Chapter four, verses eight and nine.

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For Joshua had given them rest. For if part of

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me scratch that, don't quote me here. Let's go again.

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For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not

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have spoken afterward about another day. Consequently, a sabbath. Rest

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remains for the people of God. And so Joshua did

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what Joshua was supposed to do. God was with him

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like he was with Moses, just like God had promised.

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Joshua led the people of God into a mindset of

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promise and physical Canaan. That second generation of God's people

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who had left Egypt went into the promise praise God.

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But that was not the end of the story. You see,

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God shows us in the Seventh Day Sabbath the kind

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of rest that we can have in Christ. See in

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the Seventh Day Sabbath. The Bible says in the Old

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Testament Bible Book of Ezekiel that the Sabbath is a

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sign or a signal that he God is the one

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which sanctifies us. God is the one that makes us holy.

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He's the one that sets us aside for a holy use.

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He's the one that is leading us to Zion, beautiful,

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beautiful Zion. And I'm grateful because if in fact Joshua

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was it, then that means that we're cooked, like we

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wouldn't be able to get in because Joshua's been dead

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and every other Holy leader been dead I'm talking about

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from that ear. And so we have Jesus Christ leading us,

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and the Greek word for rest in this particular text

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meaning ceasing or a settling into peace. It shows that

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Joshua's leadership could not produce the final version of that

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because it is only found in Christ. The call to

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enter God's rest is not limited to a location, but

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extended into relationship. We trust in Jesus's finished work. Jesus

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he gave his life on the cross to save us

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from our sins. Jesus he came through the tomb and

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woke up with his own power, unborrowed underrived on that

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wonderful Sunday morning. And after he did that, he went

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into heaven. Ultimately went in heaven, and he effected our forgiveness.

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And all of those years later, eighteen hundred plus years later,

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exactly eighteen hundred and ten years later, now Jesus enters

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into what his ministry, his high priestly ministry, so that

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we can be cleansed from all unrighteousness. And one day

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Jesus Christ will return for a people who are cleansed.

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And so today today our action step in this regard

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is to pause, take a pause, and rest in the

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assurance of salvation through Christ. Let your obedience flow from peace,

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from the peace of God, and yield your will every

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single day as a lord your strength. Make it a

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great sabbath 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.