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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 Friday, November seven,

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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 under the caption

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the Danger of a late Confession, The Danger of a

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late Confession. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to you in a happy preparation day. Thank

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you for joining us. Please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Pick up

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the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide. This is going

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to help you to apply the truths that we study

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from God's Word in four key developmental areas. And also

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also if the Lord spear's life, I need you to

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come through this evening, this evening at seven pm for

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our worship experience that comes through learning the Bible through music.

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At seven pm Jamaica time. I guess the time with

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us and with the east of the United States is

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the same which many of you are coming from. I

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know many are on the continent of Africa and of

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course in different parts of Asia and other parts of

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the world in Europe, but I know that there is

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a lion's share of us on the same time zone.

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Now seven pm. If the Lord spaars life and yeah,

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let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you for

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this day of preparation, help us to keep our accounts

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clear with you. In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and

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Amen again. Yeah, there is danger, there's danger in confessing late.

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Let's just start there. So I'm going to read from

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the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page beginning at page four

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hundred and ninety six, and it reads the deadly sin

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that led to Aiken's ruin had its root in coveteousness,

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for of all sins, one of the most common and

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the most lightly regarded. Yeah, social media is rife with

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that coveteous spirit, which is why some people all they

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do is post content of the stuff that they have

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because they want to inspire people to end to envy

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or they want to brag themselves. And really, yeah, coveteousness

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comes as a result of not being happy that God

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is making provision for me as me, I sometimes may

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God forbid look and see what He's doing for you,

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and desire what He's doing for you instead of what

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he's doing for me. You see, it's not a thing

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like if we do what God says that we have

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to become complacent. That is not it that we should

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be satisfied with the status quo. No, that is not it.

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We must be satisfied with whatever God does or gives

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to us, does for us to us, or provides for us.

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Not to be thinking about what He's doing for others. Okay,

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and so we begin. We begin with that concept of

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late confession from a text that I have quoted multiple times. Now,

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let's read it from the Bible in Proverbs, chapter twenty

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eight and verse thirteen. That's the Bible Book of Proverbs,

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chapter twenty eight. And I will read at verse thirteen,

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and the Bible reads, he that covers his sins shall

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not prosper. Let me read it in another translation. The

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one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, But whoever

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confesses them and forsakes them will have mercy. Can we

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just begin with confession is agreement with God. That's the

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basic guideline. Where we confess our sins, we are agreeing

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with God. Which you say, what your perspective on the

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thing is, what you have given is the truth God,

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and I agree with you. That's only half of the discussion.

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But the Bible says whoever confesses and forsakes them shall

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have mercy. So forsaking the sin is a gift from God,

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having godly sorrow for sin, as the Bible writer Paul

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would have pointed out, having godly sorrow for sin and

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then turning the shoulder, making a right about turn, turning

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our backs to our sin and our faces toward God,

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those individuals will have mercy. So agree with God, yes,

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and also turn away from sin by His grace face

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toward Godliness. That individual will find mercy. But whoever covers

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our transgressions God forbid, will not prosper. I don't care

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what in the world you do to attempt to prosper,

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And even if it looks like you're prospering, it has

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a limit on it. Our first lesson is delayed confession

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is not true to confession or repentance. See Achin's downfall

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wasn't only that he sinned, which all have sinned and

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comes short of the glory of God. It was that

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he delayed confess confessing until he was forced. I talked

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about it the other day. Was like down through multiple

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different layers to get down to him, and now he's

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flushed out into the open. That was so unnecessary. He

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really literally could have just confessed his sin and it

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would have been all over if he turned from his

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wicked ways. His silence revealed that fear and not sorrow

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motivated his words when he started to tell the truth

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about what he did. God desires repentance that springs from conviction,

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not cohersion. Achin's story warns us that waiting too long

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to admit our wrongs can harden our hearts to the

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point of no return, and so the action step The

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action step, as I said in my prayer, is for

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us to keep our accounts right with you with God.

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I thought I was praying, my bad keep our accounts

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up to date with God. Don't wait until circumstances pose

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your sin. Bring it to God willingly, while his mercy

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still calls confession delayed is grace denied? Oh Lord, Oh Lord,

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for that delayed obedience, that is really disobedience. And I

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remember reading of David King, David's story of I guess

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it was about a year that he held on to

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that murder, that conspiracy, that that lust, and all the

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rest that he did concerning Bethsheba and her poor husband

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e're Yah the Hittite. He held onto those things until

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it consumed as he set his bones, for about a year.

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And then finally he went to God because the prophet

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was God was so kind to give him the prophet,

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to show him his error, the error of his ways,

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to confront him with that and now and now of

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course he he's like, God, if you do this special thing,

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like you deliver me, like you give me your holy spirit,

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I will then teach transgressors your way. Well, that was

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not Aikin's attitude. In fact, his sin began with desire

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and longing for what God had forbidden. Covideousness still drives

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people to betray trust, compromise integrity, and trade peace for possessions. Lord.

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In a world consumed by consumerism, coveteousness often hides behind

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the guise of wanting more, and yet Scripture calls it

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idolatry because it replaces trust in God with love for things.

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Thou shalt not covet your neighbors anything, according to Exodus,

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chapter twenty and verse seventeen. And so the action step

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is before every purchase or pursuit, ask this question. Be

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honest with yourself. It's nobody's business. Is this a need

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or am I feeding discontent? Is it a need? Or

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am I feeding discontent? Gratitude guards the heart where greed grows.

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Gratitude guards the heart where greed grows. Hmm, yeah, well,

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confession our final final lesson. Confession restores our witness as

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being the children of God in good standing with him.

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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,