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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. It's

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October seven, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and

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our caption for today is New Allegiance. New Allegiance we

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get into that. I'd like to just say welcome to

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you and ask you to go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please pick

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up your Daily Portion Life application guide. Let us know

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where you are in the world at your Daily Portion

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dot Com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father, we thank you

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for this day. Please please help us to serve you today.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. New allegiance,

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new allegiance to whom or what do you pledge your allegiance?

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I remember when I was in school, back in the

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early eighties and late late seventies and early eighties, when

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we got to school, there was a time before we

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went to classes where the whole school would line up

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and we would have to pledge allegiance to the flag

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of the States of America and to the Republic, for

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which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty

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and justice for all. But we also pledged allegiance to

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the flag, I think, to God's Holy Word. We pledged

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allegiance to God's Holy Word. And I can't remember how

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we would do that. And so the question again is

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not what do you recite or just say out loud,

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but what is your real allegiance? To what or whom

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are you pledging your allegiance? And so the Bible, the

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Bible teaches us that in the story of Rehab, she

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learned to pledge her allegiance to God. Okay, and so

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in Exodus chapter twelve, beginning at verse thirteen, the Bible reads,

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and the blood shall be for you a token. Do

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you remember that way back at the passover time? Shall

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be a token upon your or houses where you are.

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And when I see the blood, that's your allegiance. When

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I see the blood. See, God had given them guidance like,

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this is the way that you will distinguish yourself from

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people who don't love me, from people who have decided

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to worship other gods. You will distinguish yourself by the

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blood from people who don't care about love, who don't

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care about connection with Me. And so you will pledge

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your allegiance by showing the blood in the certain way

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that God had prescribed. And then I will pass over you,

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meaning the death Angel will pass over you. And so

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the blood in Egypt and the scarlet cord in Jericho.

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Because some of you are like, well, why are we

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going back there? Yeah, because the same way that God

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showed in Egypt his people to pledge their allegiance, he

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showed Rahab, I want you to hang a scarlet chord

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and when the marauders, when the people come through, maybe

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that's not the word, but when the men of war

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come through, they will not destroy. They in fact will

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save because they see the scarlet or red chord. And

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so the blood in Egypt and the scarlet chord in

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Jericho both point to Christ's sacrifice. That's what it's really about.

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They prefigured this deliverance always comes through His blood and

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not our own works. And so the action step because

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knowing stuff is cool, but doing what God says is

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what we're really after. Trust daily in the covering of

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the blood of Jesus for your salvation, not your own goodness,

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not the things that you do in obedience to God.

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Even when you do the right thing, don't expect like

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I did the right thing, so you owe me something

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That is not how this works. God empowers us to

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do his will because we are saved. The people who

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are not saved cannot do his will. Can I just

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say that I would had the time to deal with this,

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But people who are not saved cannot actually in heart

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do his will. There are actions that they may manifest,

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but that's not the same as doing it from the heart. Yeah,

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lesson number two coming in from Joshua, chapter two and

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verse twenty one. And she did it like she bound

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the scarlet line in the window. She did exactly what

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the people had told her. God's people told her the

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sign of her faith would be. And so faith must

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be expressed in obedience, not just knowing, not just knowing.

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Even when I was a child, there was a cartoon

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Gi Joe, and I remember they said knowing is half

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the battle, and then they would go into the song

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that was attached the anthem attached to the program knowing

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is only half the battle. But once we are empowered

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by God and know to do his will and then

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actually do it, now we see the manifestation of our faith.

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And Rehab's faith was visible. Just as the people of

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God obeyed by applying the blood of the lamb, Rahab

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obeyed by tying the scarlet cord. Both acts show that

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true faith is demonstrated or manifest or seen in action.

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Each says execution is worship. When we execute, when we

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do what we have promised, what we do, when we

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do what God has said, that is a manifestation of worship.

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And then the action for this is let your faith

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leave a visible mark, whether through service or witness or

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obedience in another way to God's word. And then final

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from Hebrews chapter eleven and verse thirty one, the Bible reads,

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by faith, Harlot rahab perish not with them that believed not.

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She didn't perish with the people that she had been

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with probably her whole life, if not most of it.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: She had been with them and even sinned with them,

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and probably worshiped other gods alongside them. But in this moment,

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the seminal moment in her life, when the people of

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God were coming through, and she said, you know what,

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my life before is not the way I want to continue.

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This is not the way I want to see this end.

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And I don't want my family to lose our connection

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because of the way that we have been living. And

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so she seized the moment. What moment are you in,

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brothers and sisters, right now, almost eight minutes into the broadcast,

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what moment are you in? Has God given you the

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opportunity to turn away, to turn away from your former

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life and turn toward him? Grace reaches even people who

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have been living against God. You're in entire lives, our

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entire lives. Grace God's grace is greater than all our sin.

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And so make sure you see the moment a Canaanite

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woman under the ban was grafted in to God's people

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because of her faith. The gospel message that good news

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of God transforming our lives through Christ. That message is

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that no one, no one is so far gone if

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they are willing to submit their will to God, too

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far gone if they cling to God's promise. And so

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the action step is to see yourself and others through

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the lens of grace. Invite someone who feels disqualified to

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trust in Christ to do it beginning today. How many

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times have you heard from people, or maybe you were

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one of them, and said, no, but you don't know

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how I am. You don't know how far gone I am.

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You don't know all that I have done. And the

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reality is God does know. That's the whole point. That's

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the old point. That's the whole point. One of my

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favorite authors says that when the devil comes to you

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and presents your rap sheet basically the things that you

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have done wrong, right, and then presents to you that

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you are a sinner, you are to say, yes, I

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am a sinner, but Jesus came to save sinners. I

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think this is a good place for us to land

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this plane new allegiance. Pledge your allegiance to God in

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this moment today and yesterday is gone, Tomorrow is not

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yet here. In this moment you pledge your allegiance to God,

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and you will be saved. Make 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.