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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 Wednesday, October eight,

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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 through the Book of Joshua. It's Lessons of

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Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is Conflicting Values.

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Conflicting Values. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining

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us for the very first time. Please go over to

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

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Pick up your Daily Portion Life application guide for Joshua.

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It's a big old picture right there. Just click on

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the picture or the link below it or button below it,

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and then you can apply apply what we are studying

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in the lesson to four key areas of your life.

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This 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 get underway. Father, Thank you, Thank you for giving

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us the privilege of being called by your name. Please

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help us to never have conflicting values with you. Help

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us to follow you with everything we have and everything

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we are in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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So this is very interesting. We are going to make

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a comparison between the way rayhab the Bible says she

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suffered from harlowtry like she was a harlot at a

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certain point in her life, and the gibbea knights and

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how that whole relationship and covenantal situation happened. And the

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lesson writer has us reading Joshua chapter nine, verses one

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through twenty, Hopefully you will have already done that. You're

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not coming here completely fresh. You will have already studied

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your lesson and read this passage. And the question is

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what are the similarities and differences between the story of

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Rahab and of the Gibea knights. Why are they so meaningful? Okay?

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And so the lesson already gave us a perspective, but

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I'm going to share some more perspective. And so the

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similarity that I'm seeing here from Joshua chapter to and

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verse eleven. For the Lord your God, he is the

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God in heaven above and in the earth beneath is

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Both sought mercy because they quote recognize the power of God.

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Blessed be his name. Can I say it again? Both

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of them sought mercy because they quote recognized God's power.

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But the step for me, though, the step for me

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is when I recognize, and I'm saying this to you,

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it's a challenge for you. When you recognize God at work,

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respond in faith and humility rather than rebellion or resistance.

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Of course, the Gibeon Night's story is complicated because they

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did some stuff by deception, but we'll get to that

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at the appropriate time. But whenever you see God at work,

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even if you have gone the wrong way, even if

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you find yourself having to repent, it doesn't matter. Come

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to the point now where you humble yourself before God.

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I have to tell that to myself. There are times

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that I made mistakes and some things that I jumped

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into sin that fell. I jumped into sin. I knew

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exactly what I was doing, and now I have to

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go to God and say, God, now I knew exactly

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what I was doing. I knew what your guidance was,

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what your directions were, I knew what your will was,

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but I went down the wrong pathway. Can you please

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forgive me and show me how to live righteously? Give

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me a new mind, a clean heart, and a right spirit, Father,

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so that I can, through the power of your holy gooes,

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do exactly what you say. Don't rebel because God checks you.

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Don't resist because God sends someone to you with his word.

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The word of the Lord came unto to David through

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the prophet Nathan, and David had a choice to make.

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Am I going to do what God says? Or am

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I going to be upset because God checked me? Okay,

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let's go to similarity number two from Hebrews, chapter eleven

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and verse thirty one. You probably weren't expecting that by

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faith the harlot rahab the harlot Rahab perished not with

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them that believed not see both of them, Rahab and

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the Gibbean Nights both were outsiders. They didn't come from

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among the people of God. They were outsiders, and they

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were spared by the grace of God. And so if

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I need to make that an action step for me,

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I need to remember that God's mercy can reach anyone,

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even me. I remember a preacher saying, I have seen

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God do so much with so little. I now believe

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and I want you to type in the chat if

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you know who I'm talking about, I'll tell you in

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a second. I now believe that he can do anything

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with nothing, meaning me. I have seen God do so

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much with so little. I now believe he can do

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anything with nothing meaning me. That was the late Ee Cleveland,

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pastor Ee Cleveland. So remember that God's mercy can reach anyone,

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including me. Hmmm, I want you to say that to yourself,

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including me. God's grace can reach anyone at any point

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in our experience as long as we're willing to surrender

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to God, even those with flawed methods or imperfect motives.

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You've made mistakes based on broken mindset, based on things

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that you saw your parents do, or you did an

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experience in terms of growth from your family line, or

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you just for whatever reason, had chosen the wrong pathway.

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God can deal with those flawed methods and imperfect motives.

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That's why it's called grace like That's why the songwriter

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was right when they penned amazing grace. How swiet the

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sound to save a wretch like me. It didn't say

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save a saint like me, didn't say save somebody with

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promise like me. It said, saved a wretch like me.

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I once was laws, but now I'm found. And of

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course the Bible teaches us that God has a way

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of perfecting us. And of course there are differences. There

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are differences in the Book of Joshua, chapter two and

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verse nine. I know that the Lord hath given you

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the land. So the difference here is Rahab confessed the truth.

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She confessed the truth. I know the Lord has done this.

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But the Gibbea Knights relied on deception. They chose a

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little crafty way to get into the good graces of

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God through his people. At least that's what they were

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attempting to do. So God honors truth spoken in faith

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more than these clever little schemes. We make up ways

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of getting what we desire. Right, they seek His will

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before making binding decisions, and so in Patriarchs and Prophets,

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page five hundred and six, it reads the Gibbea knights

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had resorted to deception. Can I just pause right here

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and say, don't do that? How can you resort to

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deception when you are coming into the presence of God

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in this case through his people, they resorted to deception.

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They resorted to deception. But but wait a minute. They

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had renounced their idolatry. Okay, we're going we're trending in

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the right direction, and they accepted the worship of Jehovah,

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Blessed be his name, and God in his infinite mercy.

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I need you to say, mercy found me. Type it

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in the chat Mercy found me. That's called unmerited favor.

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God is not going to give people the punishment and

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condemnation we deserve once we are surrendering our will to God.

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And so it says here God in his infinite mercy

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spared them, thus showing that He desired all who would

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forsake the service of Satan to enter into his service.

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Aren't you glad that even though Rahab so called, was

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a harlot, even and she had a direct faith in

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God and learned the lesson that way. And aren't you

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glad that the Gibbeonites who did resort to deception but

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found their way to God. That God is willing to

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accept you in the beloved once you surrender your will

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to God. So really, just like, surrender your will to

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God and he'll accept you.

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Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,