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04 14 2025 The Beautiful Bride · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Monday, April fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 how to Study God's Bible Prophecy or how
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  Speaker 2: to study Bible Prophecy. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to just say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for loving us so much that you have
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  Speaker 2: made us the apple of your eye. Help us to
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  Speaker 2: live like we are the apple of your eye. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I don't
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  Speaker 2: recall if I said what our caption was for today,
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  Speaker 2: but it is the beautiful bride. That's who we are.
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  Speaker 2: And when you think of a bride and you think
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  Speaker 2: of your connection with God, do you see yourself as beautiful?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question, and brothers, don't overprocess like, don't overthink it.
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  Speaker 2: The question is simply, do you see yourself as a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful bride in God's eyes? We're talking about the body
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  Speaker 2: of believers. And if we can't come up with a
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  Speaker 2: very clear and distinct answer, there may be a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: And how we believe God forgives us there may be
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  Speaker 2: a challenge, And how we believe that God is able
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  Speaker 2: to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. You see, our beauty
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  Speaker 2: comes from God because God's intention from before there was
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  Speaker 2: a beginning was for us to live with him forever.
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  Speaker 2: You see, sometimes when we are talking about our connection
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  Speaker 2: with God, we forget, we forget how much He has
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  Speaker 2: done to deliver us from our sins. You see, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we think of the thing that we did yesterday or
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  Speaker 2: just five minutes ago, right before the broadcast, we were
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  Speaker 2: thinking something that we shouldn't and we're trying to reconcile
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  Speaker 2: our connection with God and say, well, all of our
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  Speaker 2: righteousnesses are as filthy rags, or the judgment is coming
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  Speaker 2: and we think of that as condemnation, or we think
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  Speaker 2: of all kinds of ways to sort of separate ourselves
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  Speaker 2: from God and then say things like, well, I'm only human.
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  Speaker 2: But God has given us the antidote, like he has
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  Speaker 2: given us his covering. He has spread his banner over us,
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  Speaker 2: which is love. And we see a story in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Ezekiel, chapter sixteen, which we will drill just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit to understand some aspects of God's love. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so in Ezekiel chapter sixteen, really most of the
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  Speaker 2: chapter we see the initial state of God's people. We
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  Speaker 2: see the initial state, and the Bible reads and as
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  Speaker 2: for your birth, on the day that you were born,
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  Speaker 2: your cord was not cut or where you were not
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  Speaker 2: washed with water. So we see our selves as an
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  Speaker 2: a baby in this situation, as as as despicable as
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  Speaker 2: it is for someone to abandon their baby. That is
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  Speaker 2: how we are seen in this story. There is no
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  Speaker 2: basic care provided. The helpless condition of our humanity is
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  Speaker 2: seen here. It still says, like the text says, that
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  Speaker 2: we are covered in blood like we had our mother
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  Speaker 2: leave us. And this insight will teach us that God
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  Speaker 2: found us. Okay, I don't want to go just back
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  Speaker 2: into Israel back in the day, but God found his
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  Speaker 2: people when no one else saw us as beautiful. She
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  Speaker 2: was rejected. God's people was rejected as among children. And
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  Speaker 2: then we see in verses six and seven. And when
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  Speaker 2: I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood,
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  Speaker 2: I said, live. You see the abandoned babies left for dead. Ah.
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  Speaker 2: The abandoned baby is already seen as rejected and cast out.
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  Speaker 2: But we see God's mercy in this situation, and he
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  Speaker 2: initiates the rescue. He didn't wait for the baby to say,
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  Speaker 2: please come help me. He initiates the rescue. He provides
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  Speaker 2: life and growth, and he shows transforming power. Yes, And
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  Speaker 2: so then we see the covenant and beautification. We see
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  Speaker 2: we're abandoned, We see that we are helpless. We see
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  Speaker 2: that we need a savior, We need someone to love
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  Speaker 2: us and to give us the ability to live. And
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  Speaker 2: now we see God's beautification plan in verses eight through fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and basically it says, I spread the corner of my
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  Speaker 2: garment over you, and you became mine. And that spreading
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  Speaker 2: of the garment means that he covered our nakedness. Remember
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve when they sinned, they were naked and ashamed.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible says Adam said he hid himself,
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  Speaker 2: who told you were naked? Adam, did you eat from
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  Speaker 2: the tree that I commanded that you sh shouldn't eat?
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  Speaker 2: And so when we sin against God, it's like we
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  Speaker 2: are committing adultery. It's like we have become a harlot.
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  Speaker 2: And now we are caught red handed in the very
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  Speaker 2: act of adultery, and we feel bare and naked. And
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  Speaker 2: God is saying that when he is coming after us
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  Speaker 2: in covenantal language and beautification, that he is going to
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  Speaker 2: cover all of our sins. He's going to cover our
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  Speaker 2: nakedness and shame and establish a covenant with us. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: I will make a covenant with the House of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: After those days, I will write my laws in their
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  Speaker 2: hearts and on their minds, and they will be my people.
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  Speaker 2: This is what God is telling us, and then he
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  Speaker 2: gives us royal adornments. The Bible says, her beauty was
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  Speaker 2: perfect through My splendor, which I bestowed upon her in
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  Speaker 2: verse fourteen. And so the true source of our beauty
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  Speaker 2: is God. You see, when I asked you what you
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  Speaker 2: thought about yourselves as believers, I was really wanting you
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  Speaker 2: to bring yourself up under His banner and see yourself
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  Speaker 2: in that covenant, and see yourself in God's beautification plan.
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  Speaker 2: Because the source of our real and true beauty is God.
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  Speaker 2: In verse thirteen of Ezekiel chapter sixteen, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: you grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. So God's
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  Speaker 2: bride is beautiful, not because of anything she has done.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing that we do is what makes us beautiful, not
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  Speaker 2: because of anything that we can think of, but because
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  Speaker 2: God has showered his favor on us. And of course
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  Speaker 2: there is a danger part. There is a danger part
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  Speaker 2: in verse fifteen, but you trust it in your own beauty.
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  Speaker 2: This is how this adulterous reality happens when God's people
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  Speaker 2: start to do things our own way and lean to
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  Speaker 2: our own understanding and look for another way to do
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  Speaker 2: things in a way that is really not what God
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  Speaker 2: had planned. And so we, in our pride are led
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  Speaker 2: to spiritual corruption. So when God, God's creation assumed that
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  Speaker 2: their beauty is their own. Remember Lucifer, he was lifted
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  Speaker 2: up because of his beauty. He saw his reflection and
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  Speaker 2: how dazzling and beautiful that he was, and somehow he
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  Speaker 2: became proud. And so this is a warning, like a
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  Speaker 2: warning not to go the way of Lucifer, warning not
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  Speaker 2: to go the way of God's people when they had
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  Speaker 2: turned from him in the Old Testament in particular. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and so we know that God has a purpose for us,
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  Speaker 2: it says in verse fourteen, perfect through the splendor that
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  Speaker 2: I had bestowed upon you. We were created to reflect
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  Speaker 2: the goodness and glory of God. Our purpose is reflection.
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  Speaker 2: Our purpose as the bride of Christ is reflection of
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  Speaker 2: his beauty, reflection of his righteousness, not our own good works,
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  Speaker 2: reflection of His greatness, not our own greatness. And when
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  Speaker 2: we have that kind of a connection with God. We
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  Speaker 2: are the beautiful bride that he saw from before he
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  Speaker 2: put us in our mother's womb, He's womb we saw.
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  Speaker 2: He saw us. He knew that we would be called
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  Speaker 2: to the nations to make sure that others could be
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  Speaker 2: brought into right relationship with Him. Isn't she lovely? When
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  Speaker 2: God is speaking of you, he says, yes, you are
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  Speaker 2: the apple of his eye, a beautiful bride. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,