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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, March 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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption for

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today is Christ's Parable of the Vineyard, Christ's Parable of

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the Vineyard. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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just say welcome to you and ask you to go

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over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our

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online community, pick up this your Daily Portion companion guide,

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and let us know where you are in the world.

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

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Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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day and for loving us so far beyond our belief. Father,

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thank you for the privilege of being called your children.

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Please teach us to be receptive to your voice. In

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Jesus' name, I pray a men and a men again.

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So I'm going to preempt myself. Pardon me, pardon me.

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I'm going to preempt myself by saying that I am

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going to give you the pathway or the blueprint for repentance,

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especially for those of you who are running from God.

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I know it's odd for me to come on to

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this program at this moment and just say that there's

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somebody running from God. Listen, Statistically, it's easy to predict.

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There are always a set of people who are being

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brought to a platform, brought to a radio program, brought

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to something where God is speaking through his words. There

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are always people who need the pathway, and so I'm

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going to give it to you. But in the interim,

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I'm going to read from Matthew Chapter twenty one as

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you're praying. You're praying if you are already one of

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God's children and you are in good stead. If you

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want to say with him, then pray for the other

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ones who are going to need the pathway. I'm about

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to give. Okay, but first let me read from Matthew

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chapter twenty one, and I'll read beginning at verse twenty three. Listen,

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listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted

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his vineyard. He put a fence around it. That sounds familiar.

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He dug a pit for its wine press, and built

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a watch tower. Then he leased to the tenant farmers

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and went on a journey. When the harvest time was near,

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he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his

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portion of the crops. But the tenants seized the servants,

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beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Wait a minute,

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what And he sent verse thirty six other servants, more

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than the first, and they treated them the same way.

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Finally he sent his son. They said to themselves, this

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is the air. Come, let us kill him and get

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his inheritance. So verse thirty nine seized him, threw him

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out of the vineyard, and they killed him. Now, hold on,

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hold on, hold, on, hold on, hold on. So we

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read in Isaiah chapter five a very similar story, but

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now we see more details. We see that the landowner

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in the end after the people that he sent, He

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sent people time after time, time after time, with his authority,

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with his intent, like they represented him, they worked for him.

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He sent them, and they were mistreated and killed. Of course,

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this is an image of God sending his messages through

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his profits, throughout the ages, to his people first, to

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his people first, because really repentance begins with the House

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of God, like we need to learn how to connect

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with God before anybody else real talk. And then we

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go out and we share the same messages with others.

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But the let the story continues to say that when

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they had done all of that, he sent his best messenger.

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I think many of you your lights are turning on,

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like your minds aren't grasping this. He sent his son

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for God so loved the world. The Bible says that

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he sent his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in

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him would not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't

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send his son into the world to condemn the world,

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but that the world through him might be saved. This

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is what the Bible is teaching. God sent all of

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heaven in one gift. But the Bible also teaches that

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he was betrayed. Jesus was betrayed into the hands of

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his accusers. The Bible says that he came to his own,

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and his own received him. Not but thankfully he said,

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to as many as receive him. We're going to talk

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about that receiving God pardon a moment, but to as

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many as received him, to them gave he the power

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to become his children. And so it's very interesting that

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the connection between the two passages, the one I just

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read in one in Isaiah chapter five, is that he

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sent the prophets, he sent more prophets, finally he sent

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his son. Then his son was killed, and of course

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the question at the end in the Isaiah text is

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what more could I do? And of course, unfortunately, the

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resounding and reverberating answer is you couldn't do any more

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because you sent your best in the person and work

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of your dear son. And so, you know, it's interesting

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that the story continues in Matthew chapter twenty one, and

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you know, the people he was speaking to right after that,

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they were trying to find a way to take Jesus's life.

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Jesus's speaking this parable, and just like the parable said,

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like he gave them the option. He said, yay, what

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what what should the landowner do in this scenario? And

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they were like, we need you need to deal with

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those people, the people who would do that, they need

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to be judged like they need to be dealt harsh

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with heart, dealt with harshly. And then the Bible says that, uh, yeah,

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they really were about to try to destroy Jesus. So

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they were a fulfillment of that prophecy. They basically called

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judgment down on themselves, on themselves. Yes, it's a deliberate pause.

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I promised you that we would talk about a pathway

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to repentance because true, indeed, sometimes we find ourselves separated

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from God at times. And so the Bible teaches us

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to acknowledge sin. In reality, I'm talking about own it,

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not just identify it, but own it. The Bible reads

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in first John chapter one, beginning at verse eight, if

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we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves

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and the truth is not in us. But God doesn't

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leave us there. Okay, He wants us to be able

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to identify it. He wants us to be able to

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own it. And then the Bible says, if we confess

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our sins, that means that we're agreeing with God his

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perspective about what actually happened. We are telling him the

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truth about what we have done or not done that

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has offended him and broken his law. If we confess

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our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us

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our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Number two,

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we are to allow God to help us to feel

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godly sorrow or sinse godly sorrow for sin. In tewod Corinthians,

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chapter seven and verse ten, the Bible reads, for godly sorrow,

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see he gives us. This produces a repentance, that is

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a turning away, a turning away from sin that brings

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no regret like you don't regret. Turning away from sin.

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Worldly sorrow brings about death. And so we accept the

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godly sorrow that God gives us for sinning. And then

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we turn from our sins. That's clear in the Bible.

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Turn away from our sins number four, Turn toward God,

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turn away number three from our sins, turn forward toward God. Really,

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I should have turned it the other way. Four should

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be turn away from sin. Three should be turned toward God.

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And then, of course look for the fruits of repentance.

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Bear fruit, bring forth therefore fruits that prove our repentance.

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Thank God, he has given us a pathway to connect

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with Him. Thanks for joining us listening. 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,