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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 Tuesday, December sixteenth,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host in 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 clear Boundaries Boundaries. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking

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please go ahead and click that donation button. 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 this day and for setting a clear boundary

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between us and sin. Help us never to step over

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the line. We don't have the kind of time God. Please,

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in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. One

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of the reasons some of you are having difficulties in

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some of your relationships, the ones that stress you out,

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is because you've not set clear boundary that was free.

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I just figured I would use this opportunity to, you know,

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give you a freebee, give you a freebe. Okay, and

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so let me just begin our lesson number one before

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I go off on a tangent. Somebody just got it.

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Set clear boundaries. Our lesson number one is obedience requires

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distinct spiritual boundaries. Now, the Bible reads in Joshua chapter

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one and verse seven, only be strong and very courageous

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that thou mayst observe to do according to all the law. Okay,

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let me read it again. Only be thou strong and

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courageous that thou mayst observe to do all according to

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the law. Okay. So to guard is a term shamar

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in Hebrew. It means to guard. Okay, I know, to guard,

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to keep watch, to preserve. What are you keeping watch

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over in your relationship with God? What are you preserving?

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What are you guarding or guarding against in your relationship

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with God? Right now? So Joshua repeated these same instructions

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to God's people in Joshua Chapter twenty three. Because obedience

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is never passive. This is one of the reasons why

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there are people getting text messages at the wrong time

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of night. You getting a text message from somebody, Oh,

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and then that text message is trying to get you

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to do something that's not holy. And because some of

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the people of God have not set clear boundaries ahead

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of time to guard their relationship with God, to keep

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watch over their heart and connection with God, to preserve

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a holy attitude and come comportment with God, they fall victim.

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You understand, And so obedience to God is not passive.

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We can't just wait for it to happen and hope

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that it happens. We have to be active in this fight,

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the good fight of faith. It requires guarding the heart

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and mind and habits. God's people's greatest danger had nothing

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to do with military defeat. It was a spiritual creeping compromise.

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The same issue is happening today. So our action step

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in that regard is to identify one boundary. You could

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have anticipated that, right. I'm not just talking to you.

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I'm coaching in a spiritual sense. I want you to

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identify one boundary you need to strengthen your spiritual life.

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Is it how much time you are on social media.

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I'm not making social media the enemy, but it may

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be an enemy for you. Is it the kinds of

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what do you call it, conversations that you will entertain?

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Yes or no. There's some people when they ring your

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phone or they start texting you on WhatsApp or whatever

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app you use, there are some You look at it

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and you're like, Yeah, that brother's gonna gossip, that sister's

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gonna gossip. This person is prone to complaining, and so

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this is going to bring me down spiritually. So I

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have set a boundary to say, Nope, I'm not accepting

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this call, I'm not accepting this text message. Guard it

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with intentional obedience. This week less and number two influence

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is more dangerous oh than opposition. The Bible reads in

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tewod Corinthians, chapter six and verse fourteen, be ye not

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unequally yoked to get there with unbelievers. In another translation,

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it says, do not become partners with those who do

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not believe. This is very important, and I have said

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many times that, like in the case of choosing a spouse,

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in my case choosing a spouse, there is no a wife.

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In my case, there is no person who was more

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influential over you than your spouse. And can you imagine

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being yoked or tied or bound together, supposedly going in

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one direction with somebody who's not interested in God, that's

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not fully connected to God. How are you going to

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pull forward and do the work that God has given

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to both of you and your family by extension, and

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your legacy, by further extension your community. How are you

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going to do that if you are not on the

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same page, unified, yoked equally, and so unequally yoked. There

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is a word I won't try to pronounce it, meaning

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to be mismatched tied together with what pulls in another direction.

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The late Martin Luther King Junior used to talk about

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it's like having two headstrong horses pulling in two different

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directions if they're connected by a rope. Joshua warned that

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Canaanite friendship posed greater risk than Canaanite hostility. It would

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have been better if the Canaanites just ran down on

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the people of God. I don't mean better in real life,

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but really it's less insidious, like it's less a subtle.

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Bible says that the serpent was more subtle than any

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beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

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And then he comes with an insinuation of doubt. Yay

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have God said? And then he exaggerates he missed, he

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miss uh, what do you call?

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Speaker 1: It?

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Speaker 2: Appropriates what God had said, et cetera. And so Joshua

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was warning, like, listen, listen, you co mingle. That's worse

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than them running down on you. Wrong association shape our thinking,

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alter our values. We can conviction and invite idolatry. Can

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I just say there are some things that I just

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literally do not watch. I don't First of all, I

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don't use my TV. But even if I did use it,

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there's some stuff I'm not watching on it. I do

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use YouTube, and well really YouTube, And so when I'm

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on YouTube. If I'm watching something that is not unholy,

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it's benign. Okay, it's just a normal show. Say it's

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a home makeover show. If I notice that in the

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home makeover show there are some things that go against

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my core values in that episode, click it's right off.

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I turn it off because it slowly shapes thinking, alters values,

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weaken conviction, and invite idolatry influence from the quote, world

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works quietly but powerfully altering the believer's spiritual direction. Here

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is the action step. Evaluate your closest influences, Choose one

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relationship or environment where you need healthier boundaries, and adjust

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it prayerfully. Is it in the gym? Is it at

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work by what they call the water cooler, meaning really

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the place where you can just kind of let your

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hair down and people are they gossiping and talking about

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the boss behind her back?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Really? How do we find a healthier space in our

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minds and then live according to those boundaries? And then finally,

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Christians live in a world without becoming like the world.

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And we already know the passage for that. Clear boundaries,

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healthy boundaries, healthy spiritual life. 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,