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09 30 2026 Expelled From the Garden · 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 2: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: September 30, 2026. Hello, my name is L. David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion,
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series, the new one, The Gift of Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is Expelled from the Gardens. expelled
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  Speaker 2: from the garden. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially if you're
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  Speaker 2: viewer supported ministry. Let's pray and get underway. God, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for welcoming us back into your presence. Being expelled
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  Speaker 2: was rough, but thank you for bringing us back into
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  Speaker 2: your presence. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen and
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  Speaker 2: amen again, expelled from the garden. And so now you
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  Speaker 2: know that sin separated Adam and Eve from God and
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  Speaker 2: drove them out of Eden. If you were reading your Bible,
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  Speaker 2: you will know that after God sought Adam and Eve
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  Speaker 2: and where are you and dealt with the devil himself
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  Speaker 2: in the form of a serpent, of course, but God
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  Speaker 2: dealt with his business. After that was over, all sorted out. Now,
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  Speaker 2: God had to do something protective. He put an angel,
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  Speaker 2: he stationed a strong angel with a fiery flaming sword
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  Speaker 2: at the place where the tree of life was. And
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  Speaker 2: he did that not because he was trying to punish them,
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  Speaker 2: which they deserved, by the way, so please don't get
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  Speaker 2: me wrong. But if they had reached forth, like, just
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  Speaker 2: imagine if Adam ate from the tree of life while
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  Speaker 2: he was hiding naked, ashamed, and because he was afraid. Like,
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  Speaker 2: imagine if he ate the tree, ate from the tree
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  Speaker 2: of life in that state. That means he would have
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  Speaker 2: been eternally, uh-oh, eternally naked, blind, hiding from God, sounding
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  Speaker 2: like the Laodicean church. Poor, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,
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  Speaker 2: and don't even know it. That just hit me for
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  Speaker 2: the first time, like Adam was a Laodicean. And if
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  Speaker 2: he had eaten from the tree, if she had eaten
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  Speaker 2: from the tree of life, then they would have been
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  Speaker 2: stuck like that. So God is saying, nope, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to ban you from here. And by the way, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to come out of the garden because
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  Speaker 2: you're tainting the place. You have to come out. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to save you, and I'm already in the process,
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  Speaker 2: which is why you're still alive, which is why now
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  Speaker 2: you do have that covering that makes sense, not that
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  Speaker 2: foolishness that you set up with those fig leaf aprons.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have the revelation of my will for your
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  Speaker 2: life to be transformed through Christ by putting on that
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  Speaker 2: covering representing his sacrifice. Now we are in the right place.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And so the consequences, though, of all of that reached
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  Speaker 2: every part of human life. Yet as soon as sin entered,
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  Speaker 2: God gave the first gospel promise of a coming Redeemer
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  Speaker 2: so that through Jesus, our communion with God would be restored. Okay, now, now, now,
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  Speaker 2: we can fast forward in the Scriptures to a place
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  Speaker 2: where the people may be wondering, like, God, can you
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  Speaker 2: hear me? God, can you hear me? I feel separated
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  Speaker 2: from you. There's something wrong here. And God is saying
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  Speaker 2: in Isaiah chapter 59, verses 1 and 2, firstly, like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a problem hearing. I don't have a
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  Speaker 2: problem answering your prayers. I don't have a problem noticing
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  Speaker 2: when something's not quite right. I don't have a problem
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  Speaker 2: recognizing when you need the Savior. I have no problems
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  Speaker 2: with that. But guess what? The reason you're feeling that
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  Speaker 2: separation is because, verse 2, your iniquities have separated between
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  Speaker 2: you and your God. May I just say that when
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve both sinned, that was iniquity. There's iniquity, transgression,
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  Speaker 2: and there's sin. Iniquity is knowing that God is watching
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  Speaker 2: and don't care. I don't care that God is watching.
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  Speaker 2: There's no ignorance in this. There is no new information
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  Speaker 2: that could have transformed them. It was they knew exactly
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  Speaker 2: what they were doing. They knew what the consequences were
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  Speaker 2: because God stated them clearly and they still decided to sin.
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  Speaker 2: Eve fell into sin, as I say. Adam jumped. Eve
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  Speaker 2: was deceived. Adam knew exactly the details after looking at
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  Speaker 2: Eve and all of that situation. And he still said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm going to join her on this
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  Speaker 2: death journey. And so, those kinds of sins, that iniquity,
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  Speaker 2: those iniquities have separated between you and your God, and
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  Speaker 2: your sins have hid His face from you. So, what
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  Speaker 2: is the remedy? Like, don't hide your sins from God.
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  Speaker 2: Confess and forsake, and you will prosper. You understand? And so,
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  Speaker 2: that separation means, using that term that Isaiah used, to divide,
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  Speaker 2: to separate, to set apart from God. And so sin
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  Speaker 2: is what stands, this kind of sin is what stands
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  Speaker 2: between us and the God who loves us, hiding his
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  Speaker 2: face from his children. The separation is real, and only
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  Speaker 2: God can bridge what your sin has broken. When I
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  Speaker 2: say yours, I'm talking about mine too. Please, let's not
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  Speaker 2: get that mixed up. And so what do we need
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  Speaker 2: to do in response? Bring your sins to God, especially
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  Speaker 2: if you've been hiding. I don't know if like David
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  Speaker 2: for a whole year, you're hiding your Bathsheba moment. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what you might be hiding, if anything. But
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, if you're hiding or holding on to
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  Speaker 2: a sin, I want you to bring it into the
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  Speaker 2: light today through honest confession. God, this is the reality.
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  Speaker 2: I know you can see it, but now I'm agreeing
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  Speaker 2: with you. And let God remove the barrier between the
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  Speaker 2: two of you. between the two of you. Let's read
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  Speaker 2: from Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15 for our next lesson.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible reads, And I will put enmity, that
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  Speaker 2: is hostility, enmity between thee and the woman, between thy
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  Speaker 2: seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and
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  Speaker 2: thou shalt bruise, and thou shalt bruise his heel. And
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  Speaker 2: so this This enmity means hostility and opposition. See, God
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  Speaker 2: put something there so that the humans wouldn't be so
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  Speaker 2: comfortable sinning that they would do it uncontested. He put
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  Speaker 2: in us the ability to say, wait a minute, something's
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  Speaker 2: wrong here. Okay, and so the very moment sin entered,
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  Speaker 2: God spoke the first promise of the Redeemer who would
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  Speaker 2: crush the serpent's head. As soon as there was sin entered,
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  Speaker 2: There was the promise of a Savior. I said God
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  Speaker 2: was not rocked back on his heels. He was not
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  Speaker 2: taken off guard. He didn't pull his hair out and say,
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  Speaker 2: what are we going to do now? He knew exactly
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  Speaker 2: what he was going to do. And now we get
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  Speaker 2: to anchor. Would you just do this with me? Anchor
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  Speaker 2: your hope today in the work of Jesus Christ. in
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  Speaker 2: the work and ministry of Jesus Christ, what he did
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  Speaker 2: then in the redemption, what he is doing still today
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  Speaker 2: in advocating for us and the one who stands and
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  Speaker 2: is ever living to make intercession for us. Please just
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  Speaker 2: give God thanks today and that sin problem has already
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  Speaker 2: been answered in Jesus Christ. Y'all 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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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.