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02 12 2024 Create in Me a Clean Heart · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's 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 to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Monday, February twelve, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is create in me a clean heart,
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  Create in me a clean heart. And I am so grateful that God has
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  given us the opportunity to open His word again today. And before we get
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  into our details that are life changing, I promise you this is a transformational
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  day, not informational. I would like to just say, welcome to you,
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  and thank you for those who come in day in and day out,
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  and who have been sharing sharing this program with other people. Because again,
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  this is not just about me speaking to you as if I have nothing better
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  to do early in the morning every single day. It's been years, you
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  know, thousands of consecutive days. It is really simply because God wants his
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  word to reach into the farthest throes of the earth so that one day Jesus
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  Christ can come. And so you are really contributing to the gospel by simply
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  clicking that share button, and many of you are doing it so faithfully,
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  and God sees that I am grateful that we can work together to continue to
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  build the Kingdom. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father
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  and Heaven, thank you for this day and for loving us so much that
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  you have given us mercy. You have given us a glimpse of your justice
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  and righteousness and the fact that you are able to cleanse us from all of
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  our unrighteousness. Please help us to come into that deep well of your love
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  and live according to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
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  and Amen again. What an incredible passage of scripture is the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter fifty one. The Book of Psalms, chapter fifty one incredible.
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  And I say it's incredible because we see a story of a man whom if
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  you were to read the account of God like in twenty twenty four, God
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  would say that this is a man after his heart, This is a man
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  that was the measure of righteousness for kings. Yes, he said of Josiah.
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  God said of Josiah that Josiah was righteous in all of his ways.
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  He turned neither to the left, neither to the right, but was holy.
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  He was righteous, just like his father or his forebearer, his ancestor
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  David. And it's like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait
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  a minute, wait a minute. And I'm not trying to be sacrilegious,
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  but it's almost like you're saying, like, but God, did you not
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  see David's life? How could you use him as a measure of righteousness?
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  Like he was the one that could not build the temple, and King Solomon
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  needed to build the temple. When God said, it was good that it
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  was within thine heart that you wanted to do this, to erect and to
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  build restore this this temple, this monument to who I am on planet Earth.
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  But there's too much blood on your hands. David, the same one
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  that huh, well, yeah, took a man's wife, killed them and
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  then was a conspira and then and set other people up for conspiracy to commit
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  murder and more and worse. Yeah, but God says that he is the
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  standard. He was the standard of kings. Was Jesus ascended the throne of
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  David. Yeah, when Zedekiah vacated the throne, there was no more king
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  Ah and coming out of the tribe of Judah until Jesus now the king of
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  kings and Lord of lords. And I don't want to get too far afield,
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  but Jesus Christ comes through that line, and it's amazing because of his
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  story, and so I've already given allusion to it, and you basically know
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  the story. King David was not doing what he should have been doing while
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  while God's people were at war. And he's there at home at the palace
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  and he looks down and he sees he sees a woman bathing, and instead
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  of just seeing the woman bathing, he begins to gaze instead of instead of
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  breaking his gaze, he begins to lust, and instead of repenting of his
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  life lust and confessing to God that he was being lustful, he went and
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  he got her, and then they had sex, and then they had a
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  child, and then he tried to cover up everything before the child was born
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  to you know, get your yah to come and to have intercourse with his
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  wife. And then and that was Bathsheba's husband. Yeah, and then that
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  didn't work out, and so basically he killed him. He sent he sent
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  his men with a message to your to the people at the front and said,
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  hey, put Uriyah forward, now, yeah, put him forward,
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  and then move back from him so that the enemies of God can destroy him.
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  And then now we know that that is like the rest is history.
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  And then for a year, for a year, history and inspiration tells us,
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  for a year King David did not repent. He struggled. It was
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  just a mess. He struggled against his conscience. The Holy Ghost was was
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  on him to let him know, like this is not right. Need to
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  repent of all of the evil that you have done in this regard. And
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  after that year was finished, of course, there came a time also in
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  the meantime that Nathan came to him and showed him clearly where he had gone
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  wrong, not that he didn't know, but he needed he needed a kickstart,
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  like he needed an Adam, where are you? Like? He needed
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  God to show him himself. And thankfully it put inside of David's bosom,
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  or awakened in him this contrite spirit, as in the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter fifty one, one of the most beautiful things you can read when you
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  have found yourself on the wrong side of righteousness. And so the Bible reads,
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  beginning at verse one, so much to say, and no time.
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  Have mercy upon me, Oh God, according to thy loving kindness. Notice
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  that he is calling upon God's loving kindness and his tender mercies, not upon
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  his ability to turn away from sin, not from his ability to to be
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  sorry for sin or some other reason. Because David now he wants to be
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  righteous. No, he said, because of your character. Please, and
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  thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions, wash me throughly from mine iniquity.
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  Do you realize that iniquity is doing sin knowing God is watching and not really
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  caring. Hmm, iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. So he wants
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  to be delivered from transgressions and iniquity and sin. So every kind of way
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  you look at unrighteousness, he wants to be delivered from hm hmm. For
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  I acknowledge verse three, my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.
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  May I just say right here that confession is agreement with God. So when
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  we speak to God, we confess our sins. We are saying, yes,
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  God, this is what I did, this is what I didn't do,
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  these things that are not pleasing in your sight. And I agree with
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  you. I agree with what you say about these things. I agree with
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  what you say about what needs to be done. That is confession mm hm
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  Verse four against THEE and THEE only have I sinned and done this evil in
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  thy sight? Thou mightest be justified. That means holy and righteous. You
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  are correct when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest, behold, I
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  was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me? So he
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  is admitting that as a human being, he is faulty before he ever did
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  or did not do anything. Just the human nature is a problem until or
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  unless we are what we are redeemed, until or unless we are born again
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  that's not an excuse, that's just the reason. Verse six. Behold,
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  thou desirest truth in the inward parts and the hidden part. Thou shalt make
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  me to know wisdom. Purge me with hissop, and I shall be clean.
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  Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. So if God can
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  purge and cleanse and clear a person of guilt for murder, for adultery,
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  for being the king, and turning away from his responsibility, remember to whom
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  much is given, much is to be required. If he can do that
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  for David, what can he do for me? If he can do that
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  for David, what could he do for you? Hide thy face from my
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  sins and blood out mine iniquities. Create a clean heart within me, Oh
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  God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from
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  Thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me. And once you
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  have done that, God, I promise I will teach transgressors your way God
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  has cleansed you. Teach others how to have a right relationship. Thanks for
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  joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  your daily portion with El David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,