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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 Sunday, November ten,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion.

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We give you God's Word every single day and today

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is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study

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series Themes and the Gospel of John, and our caption

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for today is HARKing back to Abraham, HARKing back to Abraham,

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making a look back at Father Abraham, as the songwriter

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would have said, had many sons. Yeah, 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 please go

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over to your Daily Porsche Dot com Please join our

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And also please hit that number seven. I need you

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to hit that number seven. Click the number seven. And

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I need one thousand of you. It's been almost a

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month since I've really been asking one thousand of you

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to subscribe there. 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 underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day

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and for this new work week, and for the privilege

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we have to look at the life of Abraham. And

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there's so many things that you want us to understand

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and to do and to live and experience from you. Please, Father,

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open up our mind today, make us receptive to your will,

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bear bear our burdens under test and trials in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. HARKing back to Abraham. Okay,

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so we're going to the Bible Book of Romans, Romans

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chapter four, pardon me, Romans, chapter four, and we will

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read beginning verse one the Book of Romans chapter four,

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and we will read beginning at verse one, and the

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Bible reads, what shall we say then that Abraham, our father,

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as pertaining to the flesh, had found. Let me say

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it again, what then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor,

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according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter Verse two.

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For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of

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the law, he has something to boast about, but not

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before God. For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed

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God and it was credit to him as righteousness. So

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what did the scriptures say that Abraham believed? We talked

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about believing yesterday, the kind of belief that is transformative

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in nature. Abraham believed, and it was accounted to him

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or credited to him as righteousness. Now to the one

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who works, his pay is not credited due to grace,

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but due to obligation. So when you go to work,

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brothers and sisters, you work your forty hours or however

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many hours you work. Or if you're on a contract

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or you're a consultant or a coach or whatever, people

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pay you based on your delivery of products and or services.

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That's why they pay you, not because they like you,

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not because they feel like, you know what, I don't

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have anything better to do with this money. So let

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me just pour it into their coffers. No, so when

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you get paid at work or in exchange for goods

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or services, it is because of your work that you

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get paid. But what the Bible is telling us right

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now is is no. The reason why Abraham was paid,

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or it was credited to his spiritual bank account that

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he was righteous, was because he believed God. God did

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know him anything. It was the grace of God, unmerited favor.

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So nothing he earned, nothing in his own strength that

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he did notice the qualifier here in his own strength,

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Nothing that in his own strength he did. God said,

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because you believed with the power that I have invested

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in you, the power that I have put into your bosom,

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to believe me that measure of faith that I have

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given you that Jesus is the author and finisher of.

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Because you now act with the saying strength that I

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give you to act upon that faith, I'm gonna I'm

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going to flood your spiritual bank account with righteousness. I'm

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gonna see you as if you have never sinned. Okay,

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But verse five, to the one who does not work

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but believes, and the one who declares the ungodly righteous,

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his faith is credited as righteousness I love it. Peter

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said that Paul when he's preaching and teaching like sometimes

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we don't know what he's talking about. It's so heavy

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sometimes that we need to really just pause and pray

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and think and say, Okay, God, what is it that

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you want me to get from what brother Paul was teaching?

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And I'm thankful that in this case we could walk

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slowly and say, Okay, I get it God. Whenever we

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have righteousness in the banks of heaven, it is because

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Jesus deserves it. Can I say it one more time?

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Whenever we have righteousness accounted in our bank accounts, in

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spiritual bank accounts in heaven, it's because Jesus is worthy.

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I'm thankful. I'm thankful because that takes the stress load

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off of me. I can actually take Jesus's yoke upon

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me and learn of him because his yoke is easy,

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his burdens are light, and I can find rest unto

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my soul. That doesn't mean I take him for granted,

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because that's not belief. We said yesterday that true belief

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when we love him we actually keep his commandments. True

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belief is about holiness and righteousness, living in the way

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that pleases God. But if we choose to take up

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our own burdens, if we choose to try our best

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to be holy, rather than submitting our will to God

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and Him making us holy, that's where we fall off.

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So Abraham gave us the good and great example. In

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the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page one hundred and fifty four,

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we read through type and promise God preached before before

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the Gospel unto Abraham, and the patriarch's faith was fixed

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upon the Redeemer to come, said Christ to the people

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of God. Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see

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my day, and he saw it and was glad. So

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Jesus was saying, I was there when Abraham was there.

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In Abraham, Father, Abraham, your spiritual father is actually my son.

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Your spiritual father is my son. And if you believe

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in me, then I will give you the I will

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give you the airship. I will give you the inheritance

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that I promised to your father Abraham. Now let me

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continue reading the ram offered in the place of Isaac

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resented the Son of God who was to be sacrificed

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in our stead when man was doomed to death by

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transgression of the love of God. The Father, looking upon

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his son, said to the sinner, live or I have

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found a ransom? Can I say it just a little

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bit simpler? Thank God for the scriptures. Abraham's story was incredible.

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Abraham didn't do everything the way God wanted him to

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do it. This is, in fact, why this whole story

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of Abraham being called to sacrifice his son, why that

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happened because he and Sarah tried to manufacture and answer

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to prayer by going into Hagar and having a child

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with you with another woman when he's married to Sarah.

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First do you understand? And so now the test, go

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and sacrifice your son, Isaac, go in sacrifice your son

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to me. And the Bible says that right before, even

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though Isaac he he bears his cross, he has the wood,

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even though Isaac he sees the fire, and he says,

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this is for the sacrifice, even though he now is asking,

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but Father, we see the wood, we have the fire,

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the altar is prepared, but we don't have a sacrifice.

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As Abraham says, God will provide himself a ram. God

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will provide himself a sacrifice. God will provide himself as

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a sacrifice through Christ hallelujah. When this happens and he's

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about to do the deed, the Bible says that Jesus

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and symbol replaces him as the sacrifice and shows us

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what salvation really is about.

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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,