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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.

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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: 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 Wednesday, January one,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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. Happy New Year. By

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the way, it's going to take me a few days

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to get used to the new year. Like the date,

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I will mix it up and mix it up again.

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Likely I'm gonna do my best not to. But if

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I say twenty twenty four or some other year, like

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don't type in the chat, like don't send me a message,

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I understand, like it happens to me. Think about it.

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Every day I announce the date, and it's not only

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on your Daily Portion, it's somewhere else too, and sometimes

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it kind of gets locked in, like the year from before,

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it gets locked in. Okay, so yeah, I'll be okay.

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But it's January one, Happy new year to you, and

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our caption for today is many are called, but few

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are chosen. This is right out of Jesus's mouth. Many

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are called, but few are chosen. We'll get into that

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in just a moment, but first I'd like to say

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welcome to you and ask you to go over to

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your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.

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Make sure you get your Daily Portion Life Application companion

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book for this quarter's lesson, because again we make reference

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to it sometimes and definitely when you come into the

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community we can build there. We're applying spiritually, personally, from

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a relationship perspective, and professionally every single day, So go

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ahead and get that at your Daily Portion dot com.

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This is the way that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Father, we do thank you for this day,

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for this new year. I know it's an artificial measure

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as we are humans down here, but to many. It

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represents a new beginning. So please teach us to number

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our days and to be grateful for this moment of

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this day, and to live in a holy way, live

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connected to you and doing your will in Jesus name.

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Many are called, but

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few are chosen. And what I want you to focus

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on today in the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide, pages

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sixteen and seventeen, whichever one you choose. But the one

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that's on my mind is relationship application. I'll circle back

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if I do have the time, Okay, And so I

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just want to say that relationship with God. Relationship with

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God is not an exclusive club. I'd like to say

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it again. I know that we have set up because

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God showed us the blueprint. We have set up our

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worship centers, our churches, etc. The concept of congregating for

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the purpose of worship, right and praise and thanksgiving, etc.

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Right edifying the people of God with the truths of

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God in all key areas of our lives. This is

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the ideal at least right, but some people have mistreated

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it and politicized the space, the experience, the pavilion, the sanctuary,

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the place where God is meeting with his people in

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a special way when we come together like two or

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three gather together in his name style, and he is

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in the midst like That's what I'm talking about. Some

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people have turned it away from being a house of

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prayer for all people into an exclusive clique or a club,

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some kind of country club, like some kind of spiritual

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country club, and only the certain kinds of people, the elite,

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or those who bow in a certain way and scuffle

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and do what some people who have bad mind and

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disrespectful thoughts will command them to do. But God said

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you for the people who are are like that have

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turned my father's house into a dent of fees. And

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eventually he said, let your house has left them to

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unto you desolate. So we don't treat the House of

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God as an exclusive club. It is. It is a

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house of prayer for all people. So if we quote

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choose God by his grace he gives us the strength

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and grace to do so, then He has chosen us.

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When you have an opportunity, I want you to read

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from Matthew chapter twenty two, verses one through fourteen, so

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you can get the context of what I'm saying. Okay,

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and so I'm going to summarize. I'm going to summarize

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the passage. It's one of my favorite places in scripture.

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I know, I repeat that. I say that about a

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lot of places in scripture, but yeah, it is what

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it is, right and from the lesson writer of his

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own free will. God not only loves people of his

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own free will, but he also invites them to love

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him and return. We said that yesterday, okay. And so

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in this parable in Matthew chapter twenty two, there are

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two applications. I'm going to focus on the second one, right.

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The second one has to do with judgment. It has

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to do with God welcoming us into a relationship with him.

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And when we have the righteousness of Christ, he is

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celebrating because he is looking for people to be saved.

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He is welcoming us into relationship with him. And so

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the invitation goes out to the people. And I know

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there is another application that's about the Gospel call, and

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then the call goes out to people that were considered gentiles.

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And so that is historically and it's right in every way.

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But I'm focusing now on when God invites you into

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relationship and then he is proverbially. Now he's celebrating the

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connection that you are to have I am to have

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with his son. And then he discovers that some people

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said yes to him when others rejected him and said,

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now I don't want this relationship. So he's not even

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looking at them at that moment. Ah, But these people

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who said yes to God, yes to a relationship with him,

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some people turn back. Some people decide that, you know what,

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I'm not interested in this relationship with God anymore. I

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know that you are giving, You're loving, your kind, you

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provide the garment of salvation. You have given me everything

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so I can be supported in my relationship with you.

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You've made the invitation I have accepted, But God forbid

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now needlessly. Some people, having accepted God into their lives,

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reject him and say, you know what, I don't need

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this righteousness. And Paul talked about it. He was like, listen,

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how is it that you have chosen to accept God

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by faith, but then try to continue a relationship with

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him through your own works. Many are called, but few

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are chosen. And so now the King is seen as

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going around in this place where he made all provisions,

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all of the sacrifices necessary, everything that is related to

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the righteousness. Now we're just applying it very quickly of

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the people who are now present in this relationship experience

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with God and the folks. The person of honor is

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Jesus Christ, and we're celebrating. And then he sees somebody

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that is not properly attired with the righteousness that he provided,

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and he's like, but hold on, friend, how camest thou

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in hither not having on the garment, the garment of

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righteousness the when you accept it? Otherwise you wouldn't have

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been here in the first place. How is it that

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you have now taken this off?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Why are you now in the flesh? When I brought

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you in here in the holy ghost? Like, how is

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it that you were covered in the righteousness of Christ

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and now you're in the flesh? And the Bible says

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that the man was speechless. He was speechless then, and

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then the command from the from the king says, bind

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him hand and foot and take him out. And of

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course he's destroyed because he's trying to have he's trying

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to recommend himself like king, like he's trying to recommend

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himself for the Kingdom, but he is clad in his

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own righteousness, instead of being covered in the righteousness that

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God so freely givens. Many are given, many are called like.

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Everybody is called into this both bad and good like

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people are called into this experience. But the Bible says

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that if we God forbid, take off his righteousness. If

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God forbid, we reject him. The Bible says, many are called,

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but the few are chosen. See. The chosen are people

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who simply continue to accept the righteousness of Christ and

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submit our will to him, Come what may. Many are called,

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but few are chosen. Are you chosen?

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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,