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11 26 2025 The Jubilee · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Jewbilee. Now I've added a
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  Speaker 2: another part, God's Blueprint for Equality and Renewal, the Jubilee,
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  Speaker 2: God's Blueprint for Equality and Renewal. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you for giving us the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: coming together again. And I'm asking you to please fill
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  Speaker 2: us with your holy spirit. Please teach us to rest,
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  Speaker 2: teach us to rest in you. In Jesus's name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. This is an incredible lesson. This
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  Speaker 2: is an incredible lesson. So what I'm going to do
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  Speaker 2: is read a couple of quotes, one from the book
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  Speaker 2: Desire of Ages, page four hundred and eighty to get
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  Speaker 2: us kicked off here, and it reads, Christ came to
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  Speaker 2: break every chain of slavery. M has God broken the
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  Speaker 2: chain of slavery in your life? Have you been enslaved
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  Speaker 2: to something? Well? It continues to set people free from
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  Speaker 2: sin and selfishness. I want you to be honest, have
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  Speaker 2: you or are you being set free from sin and selfishness,
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  Speaker 2: some things where you were from. We were little babies,
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  Speaker 2: we had our hands tightly closed. Everything as we learned
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  Speaker 2: to speak was mine, mine, mine. Yeah. And as we
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  Speaker 2: grew up, many times even the most generous among us
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  Speaker 2: have some things where we're territorial some of us. And
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  Speaker 2: so what God is teaching us is that he has
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  Speaker 2: come to set us free from sin and selfishness, self focus,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. Let me continue the quote. His mission is
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  Speaker 2: the restoration of the divine image in humankind. That's the
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  Speaker 2: end of the quote. Remember, let this mind be in you,
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  Speaker 2: which was also in Christ, Jesus. And then the Bible
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  Speaker 2: tells us the mindset of Jesus was to give everything
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  Speaker 2: we need in the person and work of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: to the point that he even gave up his life
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  Speaker 2: for us. Okay, let me read from John Nevins Andrews
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  Speaker 2: an interesting quote the Sabbath, and this is speaking of
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  Speaker 2: the seventh day. Sabbath is a great equalizer, bringing all
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  Speaker 2: to one level before the Creator. And so let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Jubilee. The jubilee. Now, there were sabbaths in
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament, and then there was the Seventh Day
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  Speaker 2: sabbath that came at the time of creation, where God
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  Speaker 2: introduced the day Sabbath of the Lord, our God. Right
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  Speaker 2: and so, but this principle of rest, this principle of sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: in the case of the Jewbilee, was God's rhythm of grace. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me share with you what that looks like. Every
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  Speaker 2: cycle of rest, release, and renewal pointed forward to Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: This was an Old Testament concept, but it pointed forward
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  Speaker 2: to Christ, the eternal, the eternal type of rest, who
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  Speaker 2: restores balance, freedom, and equality for all creation. Now, let's
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  Speaker 2: dial it back, dial it back, dial it back, and
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  Speaker 2: say in our lesson number one, God designed rest to
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  Speaker 2: restore dignity and balance. Let's go to Leviticus, chapter twenty
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  Speaker 2: five in verse four. Very interesting. But in the seventh
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  Speaker 2: year shall be a sabbath. This is not the seventh
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  Speaker 2: day holy sabbath of the week. But in the seventh
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  Speaker 2: year shall be a rest unto the land. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: a sabbath for the Lord. Thou shout neither so thy field,
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  Speaker 2: nor prune thy vineyard. And so the Sabbath and Jubilee
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  Speaker 2: reminded God's people that everything belonged to God. Hmhmm. Every
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  Speaker 2: seventh year, even the land rested. So God wanted to
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  Speaker 2: show us a rhythm, a cycle of work work, work, work,
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  Speaker 2: work work. Let me count it out, work work, work, work, work, work, rest,
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  Speaker 2: work work, work, work, work, work rest. And even in
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  Speaker 2: the case of the land, when you counted it by years,
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  Speaker 2: in the seventh year, even the land was to rest,
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  Speaker 2: showing that ownership was stewardship. Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 2: When God gave the people of God the land, it
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  Speaker 2: was stewardship. We were to manage it, not to control it.
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  Speaker 2: God gave us a cycle of rest, even in land. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so what I want you to do, think about it,
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  Speaker 2: is to practice rest by setting the seventh day Sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: Now the seventh day Sabbath aside where you stop striving.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's difficult with all these cell phones.
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  Speaker 2: I actually have a sabbath. I'll pull up one of
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  Speaker 2: my old phones. I have a sabbath. What do you
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  Speaker 2: call it? One of those sabbath folk.
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  Speaker 1: IY.
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  Speaker 2: So focus where you click it and then it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: disturb a certain way during the sabbath hours. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to do that, use that rest to remind yourself
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  Speaker 2: that God not your work, not your bank account, not
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  Speaker 2: the people who are relying upon you, not your job,
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  Speaker 2: not your business. No one of that stuff sustains your life.
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  Speaker 2: It's God that sustains your life. Okay. Lesson number two.
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  Speaker 2: God's justice includes economic and social renewal. Okay, So jubilee
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  Speaker 2: prevented permanent poverty and greed. Wouldn't it be nice if
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  Speaker 2: we had that? In twenty twenty five, every fifty years
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  Speaker 2: debts were canceled. I'm older than fifty years of age,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, type of one in the chat, if
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  Speaker 2: you are more than fifty years of age, Every debt
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  Speaker 2: was canceled, Land was returned, and freedom was restored. It
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  Speaker 2: reminded God's people that God values people over possessions. We
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  Speaker 2: read now in Leviticus, chapter twenty five and verse ten,
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  Speaker 2: and ye shall hollow the fiftieth year. That means to
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  Speaker 2: make it holy and proclaim liberty throughout all the land
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  Speaker 2: unto all the inhabitants thereof. And what I want you
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  Speaker 2: to do is look for ways to live out that
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  Speaker 2: kind of jubilee, that concept of jubilee today by forgiving debts,
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  Speaker 2: are they financial or emotional? Somebody owe you five dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You asked somebody, Oh, you've six thousand dollars Jamaican dollars. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: and you've been hounding them for it. Maybe maybe you
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  Speaker 2: can give them some grace, I don't know, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: a financial or emotional and extend grace to others who
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  Speaker 2: need a fresh start. M something to think about, something
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  Speaker 2: to think about. You're like, what, I didn't expect you
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  Speaker 2: to say that in this lesson. Well, anyway, let's go
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  Speaker 2: to lesson number three. The Gospel is the true jubilee
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  Speaker 2: of the soul, the Bible teaches Jesus now speaking, quoting
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  Speaker 2: from the Old Testament scrolls in Luke, chapter four and
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  Speaker 2: verse eighteen. The spirit of the Lord is upon me
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  Speaker 2: to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of psyche
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  Speaker 2: to the blind. And of course I left some things out,
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  Speaker 2: But the point is that the jubilee foreshadowed or prefigured
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  Speaker 2: the spiritual renewal offered through Christ, who came to restore
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  Speaker 2: what sin destroyed and deliver humanity from bondage. We were
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  Speaker 2: bound to sin, enslaved and indebted because of our sin,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus came to set us free. So I want
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  Speaker 2: you to live the kind of life that expresses forgiveness, freely,
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  Speaker 2: remembering that Jesus's grace has canceled our debt, so why
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  Speaker 2: not cancel the debt of others toward us. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah.