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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 Tuesday, November eleven,

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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 Alters of Renewal, Alters of Renewal. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those

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joining us for the very first time. Please go over

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are in the world. 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 get underway. Father, We thank

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you for this day. Thank you for giving us a

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way to renew our commitment to you. Please help us

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to do it in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again alters of renewal. Okay, So the lesson writer

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asks a very important question at the very top of

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the lesson, what was Joshua's motivation for building an altar

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to the Lord? And of course we have a few

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passages to consider, so let's super simplify the question again.

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What was Joshua's motivation for building an alter to the Lord?

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The first passage we'll read is coming in from Joshua

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chapter eight and verse thirty Joshua chapter eight, and I'll

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just read verse thirty and the Bible reads, then Joshua

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built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in

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Mount Ebel. He did that in Mount Eball. Now let

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me read from Deuteronomy, chapter twenty seven, verses six and seven.

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And see if we can make a connection. Thou shalt

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build the altar of the Lord, thy God of holestones,

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and thou shalt offer burnt offerings there ron unto the

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Lord thy God, and thou shalt sacrifice peace offerings, and

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shall eat there and rejoice before the Lord your God.

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And so Joshua's motivation, very simply for building an altar

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was simple, but it was profound. So let's not get

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lost in the simplicity. It was simple, but profound. It

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was just. It was obedience and remembrance. God said so,

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I love it. God said so, and he wanted to

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be obedient. And of course part of that God saying

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so was to say, wait a minute, this is how

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the Lord has led us. God had commanded through Moses

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that once God's people entered into the Promised Land, they

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were to build an altar on Mount Ebel and reaffirm

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the covenant. Joshua was determined to do exactly that. Before

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moving forward in conquest, he made sure the people moved

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forward in worship. You see the people of God in

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the past, that first generation that all died in the

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wildern with the exception of Joshua and Caleb. Those individuals

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had forgotten so much about God. Yeah, they murmured and

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complained when God had been so good to lead them

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by pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of

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fire by night. They had forgotten. Remember the quote that

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I shared with you multiple times over the last few weeks.

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There was no fear for the future, except you forget

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or we forget, how God has led us in the past.

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You see. So Joshua was determined. He was one of

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only two people above the age of twenty who left

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Egypt who were now entering into the land of Promise.

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And He's like, listen, those guys did not enter because

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of unbelief. Those guys did not enter because they kept

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breaking their vow and not mending with God or coming

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back to Him in order to show repentance, you see.

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And so I'm not going to do that. The altar

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was not built after every enemy was defeated. It was

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built in the middle of the conflict. Remember I keep

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alluding to that gospel song don't wait till the battle

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is over. You can shout now hah, don't wait till

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the end You're gonna win. Remember that. So Joshua wanted

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his people, God's people to understand that their success was

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not secured by their weapons. I said it many times,

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the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they are spiritual,

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but by their submission to God's word. The altar was

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a visible symbol. Now they could look at it of

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their dependence upon the Lord and a public declaration that

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every victory belonged to God. So Joshua knew that worship

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was not negotiable. It was a non negotiable. It was

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a core value. We are going to worship the Lord

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in the beauty of holiness, and the altar stood as

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both both a testimony and a teaching tool that God's

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covenant must be renewed, his commands must be obeyed, and

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his faithfulness remembered, his faithfulness remembered. Let's go to the

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Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and three, verses seventeen

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through seventeen and eighteen. And if I'm running along too quickly,

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please come back to the program, press pause, get your

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Bible out, your note taking tablet and apps, or whatever

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way you do it, write it on a slip of

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paper and pray over it, because I'm going to have

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to run. Right From the Book of Psalms, Chapter one

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O three, verses seventeen and eighteen, the Bible reads, but

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the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting onto everlasting.

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That means any generation in the past, anybody who were

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your ancestors experienced the mercy of the Lord. Anybody all

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the way back to the line of Noah, those individuals

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experienced the mercy of the Lord. Anybody all the way

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back to Adam, the first human being ever created. Everybody

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has experienced the mercy of God, all the way back

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to those angels who may have been deceived in heaven

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and then repented.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: Not all of the angels. Not all of the angels

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who had ever even considered to follow Lucifer actually followed Lucifer.

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Some of them were convinced and then decided to go

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back to God. Those individuals, they had experienced the mercy

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of the Lord. And if there were some other beings

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that God didn't reveal to us that had to, you know,

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some kind of way amend their ways. I'm not saying

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they existed. Do not quote me on this. I'm just saying,

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if there's something God has not revealed about some people

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or other beings in the past. God's mercy was from

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everlasting and will continue to be into every life for

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those who respect him, worship and revere Him to such

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as keep covenant and to those that remember His commandments

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and to do them. And so we need to set

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aside time, Yeah, invest time to renew covenant with God.

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We talked about that a little bit earlier, didn't we

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recommit your heart to obedience to God, not out of fear,

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because that's not really obedience anyway. I'm really tired of

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people talking about whether you can keep the Sabbath and

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be a fill in the blank some kind of other

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sinner at the same time, Like, can I be a

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racist and be a sabbath keeper? Knows the answer. Can

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I be a wife beater and part of me if

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that's jarring to you? But can I be abusive to

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my wife and be a Sabbath keeper? No. I can

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say that the Sabbath is the seventh day of the Lord,

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my God, I can quote the Bible text, but that

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does not make me a keeper. Only covenant keepers can

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receive the promise of God that He will work out

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through them his laws, you understand, And so we're talking

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about covenant keepers who are careful to obey the commandments.

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Now we know we can't actually obey the commandments out

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of fear. We can look like it, we can act

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like it, but not really do it, but out of

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the love of God, who always keeps his promises. And

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I'm grateful. Now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, as

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we come to a swift closed page five hundred, as

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Joshua read the blessings and the curses, the people stood

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reverently before the Lord, accepting the conditions of the Covenant

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of life. I'm grateful. Are you willing to keep the

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covenant or renew your vow with God? Today? 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,