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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 Wednesday, November twelve,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for today is written on Stones, Written on Stone. Before

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we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome

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to you and ask you to please go over to

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and

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at your Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's pray and get into our written on stones discussion today. Father,

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we thank you for keeping keeping us aware and in

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remembrance of the greatness of your power. Please, Father, help

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us to serve you with everything we are, and help

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us to teach others your way. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again written on stones, written on stones.

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So let me first read from Joshua chapter eight Versus

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thirty two through thirty five, and the Bible reads, and

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there in the presence of the children of Israel, he

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wrote on the stones a copy of the Love Moses

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Wait a minute, which he had written. So we're revisiting

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the time when God inscribed upon the table of stones

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those ten words yes, okay, and okay. So he had

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written the copy the same way. Then all Israel, with

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their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side

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of the ark before the priests, the Levites who bore

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the ark of the Covenant of the Lord and the Stranger,

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as well as he who was born among them. Half

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of them were from Mount Jerzim, and half of them

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were from Mount Ebel, as Moses, the servant of the Lord,

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had commanded before and they should bless the people of Israel.

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And afterward he read all the words of the law,

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the blessings and the cursings, according to all that was

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written in the Book of the Law. Oversimplified a little

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bit earlier, but you understood what I meant. There was

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not a word of that that Moses had commanded which

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Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel,

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with the women and the little ones and the strangers

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who were living among them. So I'm not suggesting that

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he inscribed just the ten Commandments law. But what I

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am saying is in the same way that God showed

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those ten words on those sapphire stones to get the

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people of God started on what is this covenant, this

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connection with God. And then later, of course, we see

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that Moses, that Moses had the law, the law that

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you heard him speak in the book of Deuteronomy, as

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he taught the people of God before his own death.

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We see this happening again. So what did that act

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mean and what does it say to us today? What

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does it say to us today? And so when Joshua

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wrote the Law on stones, he wasn't just doing some

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ritualistic stuff. It was about the relationship with God. It

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declared publicly that God's word was the unchanging foundation of

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the people of God's identity. You know, sort of like

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a contract. Wait a minute, contract, covenant, covenant, contract. You

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see where we're going with this governance and worship. Every Israelite,

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from the elders to the youngest child, could see the

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law written before them as a visible reminder of his will.

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In writing in the presence of all the people, Joshua

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made sure that the Covenant was not hidden in scrolls

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or left for the priests alone. You may have heard

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in history of some religious entities where the the Word

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was bound was chained to a desk, and some priests

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or some other people were supposedly the ones who were

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able to interpret for the people. Well, this is not

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what God was doing. It was a national declaration that

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the Lord was their king. And in Deuteronomy, chapter six

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and verse twelve we read, then, be where lest thou

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forget the Lord which brought thee forth out of the

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land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage.

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This act of inscribing the law on stone was a

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safeguard against forgetfulness. It proclaimed that God's truth was not

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to fade with the memory or with the generations. It

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was to be preserved, It was to be recited, and

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it was to be obeyed. So the question really is,

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are you inscribing God's words on the lives of the

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people in your household, brothers and sisters. Is there a

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core value system in your household where you can say,

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where with me, but for me and my house, we're

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gonna serve the Lord. Y'all can decide you choose this

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day whom you will serve. But I'm telling you, I'm

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choosing to serve the Lord. My house and I we

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are choosing to serve the Lord. And so another lesson

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is that God is still writing today. He's still writing today.

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We see under the New Covenant in Jeremiah chapter thirty one,

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and I'll just read verse thirty three, and I will

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put my law in their inward parts and write them

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on their hearts. And so Joshua, just as he engrave

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the Covenant into stone, God desires tongrave his truth within

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our lives. He promised that he would take out from

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us a heart of stone and instill within us a pliable,

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receptive heart of flesh when we surrender to him. The

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same spirit who inspired Moses now writes upon the human

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heart through faith in Jesus Christ. In fact, the Bible

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says in the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred nineteen

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and verse eleven, thy word have I hid in mine heart?

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There it is again that I might not sin against thee.

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And so when we allow God's word to take root

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in our lives, it becomes something that's beyond Bible teaching.

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It's the teaching that becomes our direction. It becomes, like

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my pastor used to say, a part of the warp

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and wolf, of who we are not even sure how

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to say that in modern language. Right, his word guides

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our decisions, guards our motives, and grounds our faith in

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the chaos of life. You can agree that life is

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chaotic these days. Every time you switch on the news,

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there's something really weird going on in the news, and

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weird is really an understatement. There's some stuff that just

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should literally never happen, and we're seeing this stuff happen

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more rapidly, more frequently, and it's detestable. Some of the

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stuff that we can't even mention on this program. If

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we say all of the words, even the YouTube channel

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could get into a problem. Wherefore we'll get an infraction

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for even saying words related to some of the stuff

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that we see happening in real life these days. And

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so today I want you to invest some time and

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write down, write down a verse. I mean really, actually

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write down a verse or a promise that God has

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impressed upon your heart. You see, I'm going through this

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study of wisdom throughout the scriptures because I pray to

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God to ask him for wisdom. So one day it

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occurred to me that I need to be studying wisdom.

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Really is what is it that makes us closer to God?

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What is understanding it? Etc. So write it down, Write

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it down, write it down, and then keep it visible.

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Let it be your stone in air quotes of remembrance,

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a constant reminder that God's word still stands even when

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everything else shifts. When everything else shifts, I'll say, very

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quickly from Great Controversy four thirty four, the law of

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God being a revelation of his will, is a transcript

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of his character, and it must and will forever endure.

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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,