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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, the

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sixteenth day of August in twenty twenty five. Hello, my

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name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and

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this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's

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word every single day, and today is no exception. We

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are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book

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of Exodus, and our caption for today is Covenant at Sinai.

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Covenant at Sinai. God is making a covenant with you,

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brothers and sisters. He promised that he would write his

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laws in our hearts and in our minds, and then

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we would be his people. Yeah. Yeah, Before I get

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too far into that, I'd like to just say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community and

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let us know where you are in the world at

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,

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Thank you, Thank you for making a covenant with us

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and through Christ keeping that covenant so we can keep it.

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Please help us to actually keep it. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. God is so good

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and you want to say, well, how good is he?

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How good is he? I know I'm jumping ahead by

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thousands of years, but the truth is that in our day,

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the only reason we can covenant with God is because

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number one, as God, he is the one that came

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our way. We'll talk about that in a second. And

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He made the covenant with us, and then through Christ

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coming and living as a human being who was faithful

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to God. Through Christ as a human being who was

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obedient to God, he also kept the covenant on our behalf,

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so that by faith we can do the same. You see.

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And so not only as God he gave us this covenant,

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he comes to us as the superior but again in

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the person and work of Jesus Christ, when he lived

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as a human being on planet Earth, he was the

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covenant keeper as a human being, so that now we

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are empowered to do the same thing through the new

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birth experience. And then the lesson writer actually says something

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very interesting in the form of a question, where did

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God lead his people after he had liberated them from Egypt.

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I want you to think with me, to the Promised Land?

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Where else? However, geographically correct, that answer is theologically wrong.

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Well what does that mean? God himself answers it. You

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yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how

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I carried you on eagles wings and brought you where

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I want you to read it. It's in Exodus, chapter

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nineteen and verse four. And I carried you on eagles

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wings and brought you to myself. God's goal was not

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to take them to a geographical location. He was not

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trying to simply take them to Canaan. Let me just

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say that the Canaan that the second generation of freed

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slaves and the first generation. Those only two humans that

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were faithful in that first generation, fully Joshua and Caleb.

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That place is gonna burn one day. I'm just saying.

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I'm just saying, the elements will melt with fervent heat,

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and then at the appropriate time, the entire earth and

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all of the works in it will be burned up.

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So that Canaan land that Moses did not get to

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go into he was only able to see that will

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be burnt up. So the goal wasn't that God would

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simply keep the covenant he made with Abraham to take

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the people into that land flowing with milk and honey,

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and that be the end of the story. What would

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be the purpose of all of that? Like you could

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have just really literally just picked them up and stuck

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them in Canaan. What it would be the purpose of

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all of that? It was the spiritual growth that the

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people of God had the privilege to experience, Yeah, and

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to be transformed in their characters if they would obey

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God and surrender to the process. So we're under to

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God through the process, I should say. And in that case,

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now he is bringing them to himself. Is God bringing

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you to himself? Right now? Brothers and sisters, huh? In

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those trials that you're going through, as He is delivering

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you from that job that you thought you loved, and

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then something really weird happened and you're no longer there

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is He carrying you by eagles wings to himself. And

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the answer, if you're honest when you're going through those

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trials and tribulations, if God forbid, you did the wrong

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thing and now you're being penalized for it, if you

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broke the covenant in your marriage, and you're having to

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live under the scrutiny and boundaries that are necessary to

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re earn trust, God is bringing you to himself. If

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you are in some other situation, that is something you

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just can't mention it. You just can't mention it. We

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see some of that stuff on the news, and I

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wish we didn't hear about the transcripts from those particular

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court proceedings. And you're in the same situation. It's unmentionable.

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And now you hear God's calling. He's not calling you

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to anything except to himself. And that's what we're talking

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about today. We're talking about that kind of covenant that

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guides human beings into a relationship with God himself. In Exodus,

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chapter nineteen and verse four, the Bible reads, ye have

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seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I

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bear you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself.

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I'm repeating it. God wasn't rescuing them from a place.

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He was delivering them to an experience with himself. Remember

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remember with Adam and Eve, he was bringing them to himself. Adam,

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where are you not? Because he didn't know where Adam was.

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But Adam didn't know where he was. I was naked,

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I was trembling and hiding. I was ashamed, and I

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hid myself. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Adam?

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Did you eat from the fruit of the tree that

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I commanded that thou shouldest not eat? My wife made

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me do it? Eve? What's good? Like what happened Eve?

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The devil made me do it. See, the humans needed

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to be brought to the self of God like they

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needed to be brought to the self of God because

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they were protecting themselves as humans with some broken construct,

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some faulty covering of the fig leaves. And as God

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brought them to himself, he covered them in the righteousness,

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the symbol of the righteousness of Christ and actually the

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only reason that they continued to live until they repented fully,

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and then you know, etc. Et cetera, is because He

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brought them to himself. So instead of only asking what

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has God set me free from? That's the abstemious part,

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that's the going away from part. Ask daily, what is

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he calling me to come closer to him?

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Speaker 1: For?

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Speaker 2: What is he calling me to come closer to him?

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In him? What is he calling me? Two? Yeah? Verse five. Now, therefore,

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if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,

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then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above

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all the people, for all the earth is mine. Yeah.

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Being God's treasure isn't about being favorited like Joseph was

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in his family. That didn't work out. That wasn't that

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wasn't the goal. That's not the goal of God. But

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it's about his faithfulness. Covenant blessings are tied to obedience.

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So write down one specific command of God you have

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been ignoring, Remember and delayed. Obedience is disobedience that you've

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been ignoring. Choos today to obey it out of love

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and loyalty. And then finally in verse six, and ye

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shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a

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holy nation, ask God where He is calling you to

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be a spiritual representative. Is it in your home where

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you're not already, Is it in your workplace, Is it

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in your community? And then step lively, I said, step

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lively into that place. God's purpose in giving the law

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to his people was to make them his own peculiar

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people and to preserve them as a holy nation. See

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the covenant in our hearts makes us a holy people.

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Make it a great sabbath.

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Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,