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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 Friday, November fourteenth,

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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 the Atonement on Mount Eball Atonement on

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Mount Ebol. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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for the very first time. Please go over to your

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the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank

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you for the Atonement. Thank you for making us so

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we are at one with you through Christ. Help us

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to live that way until Jesus comes in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again the Atonement on Mount Ebo.

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Now I'm going to read from Joshua chapter eight, beginning

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at verse thirty to set the stay the stage almost

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at standard the stage, and it reads, then Joshua built

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an altar unto the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebol,

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as Moses, the servant of God commanded the children of Israel,

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as it is written in the Book of the Law

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of Moses. So I love how all of this time

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later that Joshua is using the Book of the Law

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um Torah to say, okay, well, what is our next step? See,

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God had already inspired the man of God Moses. He

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had already inspired him and given him instructions for many

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of the things that the children of God were to do.

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And so thank God, Joshua didn't turn his back on

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those truths. He returned to the scriptures and said, this

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is what God has commanded. Do you return to the scriptures,

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no matter how many years later from whatever point you

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marked a spot in your life, ten fifteen years later,

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and it's like, okay, now God is reminding you of something,

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and you're like, oh, where did those instructions go? Where

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where did the guidance go? Wait, let me go to

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the word of God. What do you have to say

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about this? God? Are you doing that? Are you living

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that reality? As it was written in the Law of Moses,

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an alter of whole stones. They weren't to be cut

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or chiseled or formed, because that would drag them back

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into idolatry over which no man had lift any iron.

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And they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and

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sacrificed peace offerings. Aren't you glad that God has made

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provision for your salvation so that when you have had

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that forgiveness of sins, have the cleansing of God in

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your life, that you can live at peace with God.

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You can offer yourself in a peaceful situation, not always

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in this moment having to apologize, because you've resolved that

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between you and God already, You've already agreed with God

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in confession. You've already received by faith the sorrow for sin,

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godly sorrow for sin, as Paul called it. And you

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have also received the ability, the will and to do

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like to turn the shoulder, to go the opposite direction

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from your sin and move toward holiness. Aren't you glad

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that we can do this? And so the Bible is

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teaching us we can be at peace with God, but

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we must do so by faith. And so our first lesson,

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our first lesson, grace meets justice on the mountain of

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the curse. First, let's read from Galatians chapter three. If

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you notice, we go between Old and New Testaments when

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we're teaching this, because we live in the New Testament

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era and verse thirteen, Christ hath redeemed us from the

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curse of the law being made a curse for us.

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You see at Mount Ebel, justice and mercy met. Justice

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and mercy met The judgment was deserved, but God's grace

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was offered. Every stroke of the sacrificial blade pointed forward

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to Calvary, where Jesus gave his life for us, where

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Jesus became both the altar and the offering. See, Mount

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Ebel was not chosen randomly. It was the mountain of

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the curse, the place symbolizing the consequence of breaking God's law.

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Aren't you glad that God goes into that place where

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everything went wrong, into that place where you broke your

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covenant with God, into that place, that secret place, the

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skeletons in the closet, place like up under the bed

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where nobody knows you're hiding those sins place those places.

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God goes into those places with his spiritually holy broom

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and mop and bucket and cleansing wave to destroy the

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yoke that are hiding in those places. That was the

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symbol of the consequence of breaking God's law. And yet

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right there the man of God, y Joshua Yeshua I

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wish I had the time, built an altar and offered sacrifices.

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It is the place where we fail that God needs

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to cleanse. Isn't that so this act revealed a profound truth.

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Even in judgment, God provides mercy. Let me just say this.

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By setting up the altar on Ebel, God's people declared

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that forgiveness and restoration could be found only through atonement.

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That is where God makes us, so that we are

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at one with Him, at one mint with Him. Where

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we were first hostile toward God, we were first enemies

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of God, but now we are at one. We are

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one with God. The blood on that altar prefigured, or

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was a shadow of, or a type of, the sacrifice

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of Christ, the blood of Christ who bore these of

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sin so that humanity might receive the blessing of life.

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Armorn't you glad? I'm gonna keep asking you. Aren't you

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glad that God made provision for you? Hmm? Aren't you

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glad that God has made provision for you? Our second

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lesson is the Cross turns sorrow into celebration. Reading from

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Hebrews Chapter ten, verses nineteen through twenty two, I will

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paraphrase or leave out a few of the words, having therefore,

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brethren boldness, boldness to enter into the holiest by the

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blood of Jesus. Let us draw near with a true heart,

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in full assurance of faith. Thank God, in full assurance

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of faith. Ellen White reminds us that at the communion table,

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believers are not to stand in the shadow of the cross,

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but in its saving light. Did you get the difference?

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Speaker 1: I know?

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Speaker 2: People say hide us under the shadow of the cross.

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We say that a lot. Well I don't say that,

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but a lot of people God's people say that in

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prayer at the communion table, at the place where we

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are to commune and connect with God and to become

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one with God. We're not standing in the shadow of

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the cross, not anymore. We're having our sin. We've had

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our sin record forgiven. We are in the process of

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being cleansed from all unrighteousness and having that reality now

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we can stand in the saving light of the Cross.

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The altar in Mount Ebo was not a memorial of sin.

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That wasn't the goal a memorial of sin to constantly

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put in your face like, boy, maybe I shouldn't say

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it this way, but really, like, there are some okay,

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some paradigms where people are recovering from alcoholism, right, they

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say they're recovering alcoholics. Well, I would say recovering from alcoholism.

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And they may introduce themselves like, hello, my name is

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ld my name is LDH. My name is El David Harris,

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and I am a recovering alcoholic. I have been cleaned

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for this number of days, weeks, months, or years. And

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it's like, ah, well, that's a memorial, no disrespect, but

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that's a memorial that's constantly reminding us of the thing

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that defeated us. So in this moment, God is saying,

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it's not that I want to make a memorial of

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your sin, but a proclamation of the victory. So our

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focus shifts from the things that we have done and

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failed at, and it shifts to the victory that Jesus

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has given us. I thank God for his victory. Make

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it a great day, 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,