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02 17 2024 Wisdom for Righteous Living · 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 Sabbath, February seventeen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is Wisdom for Righteous Living. That's wisdom for
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  righteous living. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say welcome to you, and again, great big happy Sabbath to
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  everyone joining us, especially those who've never been here before. We are delighted
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  that you are here. And if you're watching on YouTube, then you can
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  see the chat lighting up with comments and encouragement from all of the online platforms.
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  And if you're on Facebook, then you'll only be able to see the
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  channel that you're on. But in the case that you are curious, we
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  are really pushing the gospel into all the world. There are many of you
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  listening on television and radio and podcast. It's a privilege because Jesus said He's
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  going to come. When is he going to come? When this gospel of
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  the Kingdom is preached into all the world for a witness? And so we
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  do our part in your daily portion. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us another day,
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  especially the Sabbath day. We are grateful. Please teach us to love you
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  and to serve you. Teach us not to give up our hope. Teach
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  us that you have given wisdom in these last days for a reason. In
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  Jesus' name, I pray Amen and amen again wisdom for righteous living. May
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  I just say I have been reading through the Bible chronologically, and when I
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  say chronologically, there are two ways that you can see that I mean in
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  the order of the events, not in the order of the writing of the
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  books. Okay, and so I'm going through, or I went through last
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  month, the Book of Job, the Book of Job, and Job chapter
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  thirty one is in particular, it's particularly intriguing to me. If you will
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  read that, you will see the heart of a righteous person who has searched
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  himself for anything that is disagreement with God, and is standing on principle to
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  say, I know that I am connected to God. I don't understand what's
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  happening in my life, but I know that I have nothing between my soul
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  and my Savior. What an interesting story. I won't get off into that,
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  because that's not the nature of our discussion this sabbath. But I just
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  want you to go with me now to the Book of Psalms, the Book
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  of Psalms, chapter ninety, and we will read verse twelve. The Book
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  of Psalms, chapter ninety, and will read verse twelve. Job was a
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  stellar experience, a stellar example of someone who was full of God's wisdom.
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  Okay, and so the Bible reads, so teach us to number our days,
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  why that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Let me read it
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  again, So teach us to number our days. My question here is why.
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  And then the Bible writer answers it that we may gain a heart of
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  wisdom. Well, what does that mean the text actually means? Or that
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  gain a heart of wisdom actually means get a heart of wisdom, get a
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  heart of wisdom. Do you have a heart of wisdom? Remember the Bible
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  says if anybody lacks wisdom, we need to ask of God, and He
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  will give to everyone who does so liberally and will not hold back anything.
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  Right, So, if we are after God's wisdom, we are after the
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  heart of God. God wants to give us a heart of wisdom. We
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  are after the heart of God. Well what does that mean? That sounds
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  real poetic, Dave. Well, truly, if you study the Book of
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  Proverbs chapter eight, especially the closing verses, several closing verses, and then
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  First Corinthians Chapter one, Versus thirty and thirty one, you will see that
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  Jesus Christ himself is wisdom. And so, as the Bible writer penned in
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  the Book of Proverbs chapter two, if we search for wisdom as for silver,
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  and seek for it as for hidden treasure, then we will have the
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  knowledge of God. And so forth, we will receive Jesus Christ into our
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  lives. Now, there are many examples of people in the scriptures, because
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  I wanted to see in living color what it looked like for people in scriptures
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  to be wise. Here are some examples, and I went through the whole
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  Bible, but just ten examples. Here is the woman of Proverbs chapter thirty
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  one. This woman is an arch type of wisdom, showing skill in management,
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  care of her household, entrepreneurship, and strength of character. And that's
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  from the Book of Psalms chapter thirty one, especially verses ten through thirty one.
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  Okay, what about Abigail. Abigail if you read the story in First
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  Samuel, chapter twenty five, there are multiple verses, but I'll just say
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  read the entire chapter. You'll see that Abigail displayed remarkable wisdom when dealing with
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  her husband. That dude was evil. Let me just say, charlish is
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  what the Bible called her husband. But when dealing with David presenting preventing excuse
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  me, bloodshed by her understanding and timely intervention. It wasn't just that Abigail
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  was brilliant, because she was, but she also knew how to apply the
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  wisdom that God had placed in her life and mind, and she prevented a
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  lot of death. There were a lot of people that could have been hurt
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  as a result of her husband's ridiculous behavior. Deborah a prophetess and judge of
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  Israel, known for her wisdom and leading Israel, providing guidance, and her
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  role in victory over the Canaanite forces in the Book of Judges chapters four and
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  five, and then the ones like Solomon. You know Solomon the King.
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  He was famous for wisdom granted by God. He is best known for his
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  judicious ruling and the wealth of wise sayings in the Book of Proverbs. These
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  are attributed to him. Then, of course you know Joseph. You know
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  Joseph who was given unusual wisdom concerning how he should deal with being a captive
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  by the Ishmaelites, and then moved over to Potiphar. He became a big
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  man, if you want to say, in Potiphar's household, but of course
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  he ran into some challenges with Potaphar's wife, and then coming out of that
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  household, he's in jail. And even in jail he becomes like the prisoner,
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  if you want to say, and wisdom of God is given to him.
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  And at the point appointed by God, somehow, some way, miraculously,
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  God put into the mind of one of the men that was once locked
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  up with Joseph and put him into a situation where he could influence a good
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  pharaoh, may I say, a good pharaoh in Egypt, and then impact
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  the lives of people around the then known world, because famine was a really
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  deadly foe at the time, and so God used the wisdom that he placed
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  into Joseph to save a lot of lives. And then we have Daniel,
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  we have Moses, Paul, the Apostle, King David, Queen Esther,
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  just to name a few. And so the outcome of numbering our days,
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  or the reason I should say for numbering our days, is that we may
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  gain our heart of wisdom. These ten individuals demonstrate what a heart of wisdom
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  looks like. And so what do we need to actually do? Number one?
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  We seek God with all of our hearts and follow what we find when
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  we seek him, Like when He gives us understanding. He said, if
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  you seek with you, if you seek me with all your heart, you
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  will find me when you find him. Brothers and sisters, do what he
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  says, Meditate on God's word, find joy and delight in his statutes,
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  Strive to live a blameless life like job lived, be vigilant against temptation,
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  and then, of course, regularly reflect on the fact that we're here for
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  just a moment, so invest the time in making a difference in this world.
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,