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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 Sabbath, January 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, God's Love and Justice with lesson number three

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under the caption to be pleasing to God hah, to

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be pleasing to God. Before we get into that, I'd

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like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first time. Please go

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And this is one of the ways that we continue

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father and our God, Please thank you for this Sabbath

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morning and for the privilege to be able to have

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the fullness of your Holy Spirit, to be able to

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be covered with the life of Jesus. I pray that

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we will not try to please you, but that we

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will embody the reality of pleasing you. In Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again. So this is an

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interesting subject to me, and not just interesting. I love it.

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I love it because the thought that we can be

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pleasing in God's sight makes me want to just jump

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up and say thank God. Because because there are so

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many of us that are struggling with the voices of

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our past when parents did not approve of us. Ah, well,

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we couldn't do anything right, didn't, I tell you, Tom,

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And then we wonder, like what did we do? Like

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every time they say our names, whether it was our teachers,

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whether it was our parents, whether it was somebody on

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the street, it seemed as if and I said, seemed

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it seemed as if we just couldn't do things right.

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But I'm here to say today that even if your boss,

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your supervisor, your manager, ah, even if the officials that

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you meet on the road at times, even if the

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mindset that you derived from your past when teachers and

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parents and guardians were speaking to you, or if God

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forbid you had brushes with the law as a juvenile,

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even if you felt like you couldn't do anything right,

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God is saying that you can be pleasing in his sight.

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You can be pleasing in His sight. And the way

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or the pathway to being pleasing to God is submitting

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to him, not performing. Hm. I said, submitting to him,

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not performing. And I know that there are some extreme

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minded people who are like But Dave, are you saying

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that we don't have to keep the law of God?

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Absolutely not. I am not saying that. What I am

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saying is that those who attempt to do God's will

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without submitting first to God are no better than the

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Pharisees that were against Jesus during his day. Of course,

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we have Nicodemus and others who were for Jesus, But

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I'm saying the ones who were his enemy, the ones

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who were saying that he was not to heal on

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the sabbath, like those individuals who dragged the woman who

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was caught in air quotes in the very act of adultery,

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and dragged her in front of Jesus. Those people, those

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people who fasted for long periods of time and tithed

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even their herbs, but would not set the captives free.

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That would oppress people. Those who did not care for

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the laying, the main, the blind, the halt. Those individuals,

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but they would wear the Bible scriptures on their bodies.

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Those individuals. Yeah, those individuals didn't submit to God, which

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is why they would argue with God about what it

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meant to be pleasing in his sight. You see where

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I'm going with this. They were blind GUIDs, they were hypocrites.

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So I'm saying that submission to God's will first now

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becomes the breeding ground in a good way of God

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keeping his promise that those who love him he will

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cause to keep his commandments, all ten of them. Yes,

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he wanted me to say that. You're listening for that word.

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It's a clarion call. Yes, in the last days in

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twenty twenty four, we are still responsible to God to

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keep holy all of his ten commandments because He's written

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them in our hearts and on our minds that law

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of liberty. Okay, so we're clear on that, but we

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still have this reality to deal with. See at Jesus's baptism.

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At his baptism full of the Holy Ghost, Jesus heard

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his stamp of approval from God, our Father. This is

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my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, and

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so to be pleasing to God as a covenantal reality.

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Adam and Eve when they were created, it was good, good,

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and very good. Right Enoch, he walked with God. Noah

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found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Moses said,

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if we have found favor in your sight, then please

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show me your glory. And then we see that we

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are the anointed ones. We are anointed, We are anointed,

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and we are as God's people submitted to him the

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apple of his eye. Now there are times that God's

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people will make mistakes, not because we have to, but

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because we do. We choose that way, and if we

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are still submissive to God's will, then we will make

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a rite about turn. We will yield our will to God.

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We will say that we are sorry and mean it,

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and we will turn away from our sins. You understand

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and accept the power that God puts in our lives

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to do the right thing next time. And so now

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I read from the Bible Book of Zephaniah Zephaniah Chapter three,

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and I will read three verses from the amplified version

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of the Bible. And the Bible reads verse five. The

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Lord in the midst of her meaning God's people, is

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uncompromisingly righteous. He will do no iniquity. Every morning he

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brings his justice to light. That's righteousness. He fails not.

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But the unjust person knows no shame. That means that

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the unjust person doesn't really care what God thinks Verse fifteen.

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For then it will be that the Lord has taken

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away the judgments against you. You see, God's people had

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gone astray. God's people had made promises, and those promises

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were like ropes of sand. They had done what they

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said they wouldn't do, and what they said they wouldn't

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do they did. And they were sinful, and they were

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full of iniquity, knowing that God is watching, and they

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still went the wrong way. However, let me continue. He

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has cast out your enemy. Who's your enemy? Brothers and sisters,

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we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities

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and hours, and the rulers of the darkness of this world,

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and spiritual wickedness in high places. That's the devil and

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his evil angels. He has cast out your enemy, the

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King of Israel, even the Lord himself, is in the

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midst of you. And after he has come to you,

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you shall not experience or fear evil anymore. You're not

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worried about your past. You're not worried if you're going

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to do the wrong thing again, because all you're thinking

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about is submitting yourself to God. Hallelujah. All you're thinking

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about this Sabbath morning is yielding your will to God,

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and that he covers you in his life and gives

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you the strength to do his will. He in the

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Bible says, and he after he has come to you,

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you shall not fear or experience evil anymore. Verse sixteen.

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In that day I said three, but I meant four.

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In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, fear not,

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oh Zion, let not your hand and sink down. That means,

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don't be discouraged. Hah, don't be discouraged. Let not your

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hands sink down, or be slow and listen less seventeen

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and final. The Lord, your God is in the midst

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of you. Aren't you glad that God is in the

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midst of you, the Mighty One and Savior who saves.

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He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest

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in silent satisfaction and in his love. He will be

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silent and make no mention of past sins or even

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recall them. He will exult over you with singing. You see,

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God has invested everything in you so that you can

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be pleasing to God and you can be 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,