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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 Sunday, December

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twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host den This is your

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

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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final week in our lesson study series, Lessons of Faith

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from Joshua, and our caption for today is you were There,

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You were There. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,

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

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asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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it up? For the coming quarter, We're going to talk

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about things from Paul's letters to the Philippians and Colossians.

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Have you picked up I'm talking about the Companion Guide,

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the Life Application Guide. Have you done that. I know

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you have your adult study guides, but what about the

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Companion Guide. Go ahead and type a one in the

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get it in hard copy. This is one of the

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

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We thank you for this day, for this beginning of

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the work week, and I'm asking you to please open

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up our understanding, help us to take response ability for

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our actions and to be responsible enough to yield our

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will to you because you're so good to us. In

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again you were there.

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All right, all right, So let's go ahead and begin

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with a quote. Here. I'm going to begin with a

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quote from the review in Harold March one h eighteen sixty.

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You can see that I'm going back into the archives

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of the Pioneers. This is from John Nevin's Andrews. The

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church is a living body. No member stands alone. The

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strength or weakness of one affects the whole. Therefore, our

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duty to God includes duty to one another.

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Speaker 1: You see.

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Speaker 2: And so if I am unfaithful, then God forbid. Then

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I know that it's going to have an impact on you.

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Can I just say that you have seen ministers fall

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from what they say, fall from grace, even Moses, even Abraham,

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you know what I mean, Like Moses struck the rock

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the second time. Well, that was a fall from grace

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that was disappointing from God's people, God's to God's people

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who were to be led by Moses ultimately into the promise.

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But Moses had to die, like he had to be

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cut off, no matter what grace God led him to

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and how he recovered. In that moment, the people were affected.

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Aaron fell from grace. He did that stupid plan part

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of me, like the stupid plan of taking all of

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the stuff, the bouty that they got from Egypt and

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then threw it in the fire. And he said, and

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out pops out this idol. And it's like, what you know,

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it didn't just pop out, brother, like you led the

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people into idolatry. When they said whatever they said, you

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should have led them and said no, like Joshua and

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Caleb would have done, and say no, y'all, be quiet,

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we are going to serve God. And who doesn't want

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to serve God, go ahead and vacate like you make

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your decision now. But we're not about to do this

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idolatry thing, not as a whole corporate body. That's not

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about to happen. And so God forbid. You see, when

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people who are among God's people do things that are

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uncharacteristic of the will of God, then it has an

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impact and all of the rest of us. From the

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book Testimonies for Church of the Church, Volume four, page

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six hundred and nineteen. In the work of God, every

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individual has a part to act, and the failure of

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one affects the faithfulness of all. We are one body

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in Christ, and each must stand true in his or

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her place. That's the end of the quote. Let me

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say it like this, and the same way. Conversely, when

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God through Christ said to the people, I want you

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to go in the first century church, I want you

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to go into this upper room. I want you to

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go into this place, and I want you to tarry

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there until the Holy Ghost comes upon you. You need to

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be unified, and watch what I do in the world

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because you're unified under the banner of the Holy Ghost.

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And so we see the positive end as well. I'm

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still benefiting. You are still benefiting from the unity of

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the believers in the first century Church, all those thousands

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of years ago, and so Lesson Number one is salvation.

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History is personal. God includes every generation. Now. The Bible

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reads here in Deuteronomy, chapter five and verse six, I

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am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out

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of the land of Egypt. The word for brought out

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in this case, I want to say some stuff that's

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not in this text, but since it's not there, won't.

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But it's yatsa. Yatsa it means to cause, to depart,

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to bring forth, to deliver. So God delivered his people,

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and Joshua reminded God's people that even though they had

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not personally crossed the Red Sea all of that time ago,

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because now we're talking to the second well, forget it.

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Let you understand God's saving acts applied to them as

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if they had in covenant. Thinking, God's past actions become

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the present identity of his people. Every generation must claim

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the history of redemption as what personal. So don't get

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to detach myself from the people of God back in

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ancient history. I don't get to detach myself from the

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people of God in the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve.

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I don't get to detach myself from the people of

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God in the first century Church, in the Advent or

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pre advent Church, we don't get to separate ourselves from

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the people of God. In the era of Laodicea, we

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are one body and all of the blessings and everything

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else come as a package. I wish I had the

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time to drill what I just said, but let's continue

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the action. The action is to reflect on one biblical

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salvation story. Is it the crossing of the Red Sea?

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Is it the exodus from Egypt? Is it the Resurrection?

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And then pray, Lord, make this my story too. Obviously,

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now we're on the positive end of things. Make this

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my story too. God, help me to cross over the Jordan,

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help me to march around the city. That is in

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the way that you are saying that when I stand

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still and see the salvation of the Lord, that I

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will come through victoriously, without war, without the fight. Let

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that be my story too. Lesson number two alone is

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the author of our history and our identity. In the

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Book of Deuteronomy, chapter two and verse seven, the Bible reads,

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for the Lord, thy God hath blessed thee in all

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the works of thy hand. And that word, that word

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for blessed. You may have heard it in a gospel song,

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Barak barak. It means to enrich. God enriched the people.

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He empowered the people to endow with favor. He endowed

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his people with favor. And so Joshua, wanting to remind

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the people of God, enriched God's people's journey with repeated

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I took, I gave, I sent I delivered, I took,

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I gave, I sent I delivered. This is what God

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has done for his people. And so God was the subject.

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God's people were the object. Their identity. Somebody just got

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an English lesson English lesson. Yes, their identity, survival, their victories,

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and inheritance came solely from his grace. Why because God

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is the one that took his people. God is the

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one that gave his people. God is the one that

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sent his people. God is the one who has delivered

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his people. So let me just say it like this.

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God is the one who's taking you through your Red

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Sea experience right now. He is the one who is

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giving you the grace that you need to make it

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through these last days. He's the one who has sent

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you to the people around the world to lead them

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to a relationship with Him, and he is still delivering

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you from sin. So your action step is to thank

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God for three blessings that the people of God enjoy

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today and come from His grace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening with friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,