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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 Sabbath, September twenty,

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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 the final

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week of our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus.

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We were journeying from Exodus straight through to the Promised

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Land under the caption the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle. We'll get

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

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to 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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and also let us know where you are in the

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world at your daily Portion dot com. This is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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

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this Sabbath day and thank you for giving us the

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privilege that you will tabernacle with us. Please help us

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to get the fullness of this experience and live like

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people who are in your presence. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again the tabernacle, the tabernacle, So the

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Bible reads here in Exodus chapter forty Exodus chapter forty,

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Versus thirty four and thirty eight, the cloud covered the

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tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled

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the tabernacle. Do you want the glory of God to

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fill you? Do you want God's brightness and his character

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to fill your life to the point that it overflows

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and leaks from and radiates from your life into the

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lives of others, so that others are transformed because you

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are now something that like it's a hopeful situation when

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they see you, because they're like, Okay, if God can

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do that for him, if God can do that for her,

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then God can do it for me. Is that what

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you want? That's what I desire every day. For the

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cloud of the Lord was above the tabernacle by day,

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and fire was over it by night. Is God leading

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you in the daytime? Is He leading you by night? In?

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And the site of the house of all of Israel

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throughout all their journeys, and so the presence of the

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Lord is here. I think you can hear the song

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as I am saying it. The presence of the Lord

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is here. And are you submitting to God's will so

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that this presence is a welcome scene, a welcome sight,

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something that you're saying, God, live your life within me, please? Yeah. Yeah.

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The principal task, according to the lesson writer, of God's

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people in the Old Testament, as well as for us today,

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was to live in close relationship with the Lord, to

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worship and serve him, and also to present the right

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picture of God to others, as according to Deuteronomy, chapter four,

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verses five through eight. It's our privilege today. So we've

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already read, we've already read from Exodus forty verse thirty four.

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So what do we get there? God's presence dwells among

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his people no, the feed did not break. The broadcast

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is still going on. I'm asking you to let that

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settle in God's presence dwells among his people. So God

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chooses to be near to his people, I said, chooses

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to be near to his people and not distant. You

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see the one who is fully holy one hundred percent

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of the time, in an absolute sense, throughout all eternity,

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in the past and in the future, Blessed be, his

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name has condescended so that we could even visually see

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his presence, a presence, an aspect of his presence that

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still was still transformative or transformational, as the case may be.

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And so every single day it is our privilege to

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go into the space where God has designed for us

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through prayer, speaking to God as to a friend, through

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his whole li word those sixty six blessed books, where

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He speaks to us his thoughts and his hopes for us,

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and his commands to us. And when we are in

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his presence now also going out into the world to

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shine his lights, to be his hands and feet. When

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they were hungry, he said, he wants you to feed them.

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When they were thirsty, he wanted you to give them

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drink and talking to me obviously as well, when people

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needed a hand up or a hand out. I know

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what I just said. Sometimes you don't want to give

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people handouts. Well, sometimes people need handouts. Sometimes if somebody's hungry,

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you have to hand it out to them, hand out

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the food that they need. They need a hand up, Well,

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you want to teach them how to fish, rather than

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giving them to fish. I get it. As God gives

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you grace and understanding for the particular situations, become that, yes,

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become all things to all people, that you may save one.

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This is what Paul said. This is what Paul said.

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So he wants to be near to his people. He's

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chosen to be near to his people, not distant, showing

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that his presence is central to their journey and identity.

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They're not going into the Promised Land without his presence.

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They're not going to do that. And who's the day anyway?

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The only people that are going into the Promised Land

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are God's people, the surrendered people of God are the

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only ones going into the Promised Land. Well, we know

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the end of the story now, so we realize that

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Aaron didn't go in, Moses didn't go in, and the

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people of God that I don't know how many millions,

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was it two million, was it three million, three million adults?

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I don't know, But it was a whole lot of

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people that were of the age above twenty that came

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out of Egypt. All of them died in the wilderness,

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except Joshua and Caleb. So God gave them his presence.

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He showed them that he was with them, and he

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manifests his character and so such a way that they

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could become like him. And yet so few of them

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got in two out of millions of that first generation.

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Where do you stand? Where do you stand?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Make the space in your daily life to be aware

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of God's presence and not just be aware of his presence.

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We've already talked about prayer, We've already spoken of God's Word, etc.

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And worship and obedience so His glory can be seen

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in you. Ask God, really, Lord, will you just be

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be yourself through my life? Can I become a prism

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of yours? And we already know that He is saying yes,

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But please, God, give me the strength to surrender now.

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In Deuteronomy chapter four, verses seven and eight, the Bible reads,

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for what nation is there? So great God is speaking

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about you. Come on, if you're surrendering your will to him,

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who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord

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our God in all things that we call upon Him for.

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And what nation is there so great that hath statutes

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and judgments so righteous as all this law which I

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set before you this day? Now there are people who

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want to declare that there are a nation, a Christian nation,

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or a nation of godly people, but don't adhere to

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the true nature of the law of God, love for

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God and love for humanity. Sometimes people just constantly trumpet

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and announce that we are a nation of holy people,

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of believers, or whatever term people will use, and don't demonstrate.

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Don't demonstrate the brightness of the law that God has

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entrusted to us and the compassion that God has shown

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us through his dear son. And somehow we can still

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feel like we can trumpet that. Well. Well. The actions

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is to live so that your actions, your words, and

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your priorities reveal God's kindness, fairness and love to everyone

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you encounter. Don't talk about it, just be about it.

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Be about it. And then finally, God takes the first

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step to restore broken relationships. I just said something really loud.

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I trumpeted it to you because we trumpet the concept

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of being a holy people sometimes and we're not in reality. Well,

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God doesn't leave us that way, though. He doesn't leave

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us that way. And the same way that He went

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in search of Adam and Eve and he said to Adam,

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where are you? He really wanted Adam to know where

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God was so that Adam could come out of hiding

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and be covered by God.

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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,