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12 03 2025 The True Joshua, the Antitype · 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, December three,
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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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the True Joshua, the anti type. So
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about the symbols of Christ, but now
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about Christ himself and not just
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  Speaker 2: talk about him. Our goal is to be transformed by
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  Speaker 2: by Christ. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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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 pray, Father, thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for not leaving us in the dark. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: opening us up to the brightness of Jesus, the Son
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  Speaker 2: of Righteousness. Please please give us your wisdom and help
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  Speaker 2: us not to be satisfied with the symbols anymore. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Before before we get into the details here, I would
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  Speaker 2: like for you, I would like for you to please
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  Speaker 2: just go over and think about what your real goal
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  Speaker 2: is when you're learning these truths. When you're learning these truths,
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  Speaker 2: are you are you focusing on just the details of
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  Speaker 2: what you can learn, like in a classroom setting, or
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  Speaker 2: are you actually yielding your will to God because you
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  Speaker 2: are focusing on God himself? You see what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we can become so detail oriented, and I am
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  Speaker 2: extremely detail oriented. We that we are are focusing on
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  Speaker 2: the wrong things. We're to see some things, but not
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  Speaker 2: to focus. Okay, So let's run our minds forward, run
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  Speaker 2: our minds forward to see what God really has for us.
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  Speaker 2: And so from reviewing Harold June twenty three, eighteen sixty eight,
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  Speaker 2: we read that's a year, yeah, way back then, something
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  Speaker 2: really sweet. Christ, our anti typical Joshua has gone before
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  Speaker 2: us and conquered. He leads his followers to victory and
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  Speaker 2: rest if they but keep their eyes on him. And
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  Speaker 2: so our focus. Now we've seen the symbol. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: how God led his people through Moses. We've seen how
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  Speaker 2: God led his people through Joshua. But now our focus is, oh,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, Jesus is leading us through victory to
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  Speaker 2: victory by keeping our eyes on him. There are sins
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  Speaker 2: that we are conquering by the grace of God. There
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  Speaker 2: are proclivities towards sin that we are conquering. There are
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  Speaker 2: broken mindsets and limiting thoughts and beliefs that we are
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  Speaker 2: overcome by God's grace. We are overcoming the drive to
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  Speaker 2: be in relationships we should not have, overcoming addictions to
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  Speaker 2: illicit drugs and alcohol abuse and all of these things
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  Speaker 2: because of Christ, and so let's get our minds forward
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  Speaker 2: forward into those truths. And then also from the book
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  Speaker 2: The Desire of Ages, page three hundred and thirty one,
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  Speaker 2: it reads, the rest that remains for the people of
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  Speaker 2: God is not merely freedom from toil. It is freedom
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  Speaker 2: from sin. The Savior's rest is the rest of victory
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  Speaker 2: over sin. I remember, I remember the preacher and Bible
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  Speaker 2: worker that I came in under when I got baptized
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety six, Pastor will Smith. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he gets it all the time. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Pastor will Smith used to say, brother, I noticed that
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  Speaker 2: when people give testimonies, they're always giving testimony. He's about
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  Speaker 2: filling the blank. I won't go into the details of
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  Speaker 2: what he said. But then he said, why don't people
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  Speaker 2: testify about victory over sin? Pastor Smith. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you're if you're watching like or anybody who knows you,
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  Speaker 2: but I remember that from way back then, brother, why
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  Speaker 2: don't people talk about God giving them victory over sin
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  Speaker 2: when we testify? And I agree, I agree. And so
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  Speaker 2: we see now that Jesus leads us into true rest,
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  Speaker 2: which is victory over sin. And so what I want
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  Speaker 2: you to do is take an intentional or invest intentional
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  Speaker 2: time today to rest in Christ's work, a victory over
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  Speaker 2: sin in all of its forms. Stop striving to earn
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  Speaker 2: favor if that's your thing, where you're ticking off a list,
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  Speaker 2: if you're you're feeling accomplished, if you if you did
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  Speaker 2: something right, and then you feel defeated if you did
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  Speaker 2: something wrong, like get that tech, that that checklist thing
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  Speaker 2: out of there. Stop striving to earn favor, but give
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  Speaker 2: thanks instead, give thanks to God for the peace he
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  Speaker 2: already has secured for you. Give thanks for the peace
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  Speaker 2: that He has already secured for you. Now, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in First John, chapter three, as we go to
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  Speaker 2: our second lesson, First John chapter three and verse eight four,
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  Speaker 2: for this purpose the son of God was manifest. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what was that purpose, John? That he might destroy the
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  Speaker 2: works of the devil? All right, So, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times Christianize speaking people are comfortable and confident when we
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  Speaker 2: are able to identify problems, identify problems. I'm no longer
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  Speaker 2: interested in simply identifying problems. Now we need to neutralize
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  Speaker 2: or address the actual problem, or or execute on the
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  Speaker 2: goal of destroying the problem. Itself like identify it. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: now let's resolve it. Let's be solution based or solution oriented.
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  Speaker 2: What did he come to do not just reveal the
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  Speaker 2: enemy's ploys or plots, but to destroy the works of
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  Speaker 2: the devil. Now the Greek word, the Greek word lu
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  Speaker 2: o meaning means to loosen or break up or to dissolve.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua fought literal enemies. Jesus destroyed spiritual bondage. What did
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  Speaker 2: he do loosen, break up, or dissolve literal spiritual bondage.
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  Speaker 2: His victory over Satan at Calvary ended sins dominion and
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  Speaker 2: opened the way for believers to walk in freedom and authority.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that Jesus also moved into the ministry
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  Speaker 2: of forgiveness in a special way and cleansing from all
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  Speaker 2: unrighteousness in a special way. And so what I want
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  Speaker 2: you to do is speak victory out loud today. God
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  Speaker 2: is intentional, never changing. Yeah you remember that song. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So since he is intentional, I want you to speak
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  Speaker 2: in the way that Jesus would speak. Don't keep speaking
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  Speaker 2: about the problems that you have, the difficulty you have.
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  Speaker 2: I struggle with this, I struggle with that You're going
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  Speaker 2: to continue to struggle. As long as you put that
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  Speaker 2: up as what you say and do say and focus
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  Speaker 2: on all the time, then you're going to continue to struggle.
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  Speaker 2: But if you speak the victory of Christ, I can
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  Speaker 2: do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Hm. That's
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  Speaker 2: the word of God. There hath no temptation taken me,
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  Speaker 2: but such as it's common to man. But God is faithful,
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  Speaker 2: who will with the temptation provide a way of escape
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  Speaker 2: that I may be able to bear it. So what
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do is remind yourself that Christ
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  Speaker 2: has already broken sins power and walk in the confidence
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  Speaker 2: of his triumph. I'm talking about beginning at this moment.
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  Speaker 2: Number three. God gives Jesus gives excuse me, the inheritance
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  Speaker 2: of the redeemed, and the Bible teaches us this in
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews chapter nine and verse fifteen, that he's the mediator
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  Speaker 2: of this covenant to give us this possession of the
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  Speaker 2: eternal inheritance. So I want you to live each day
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  Speaker 2: beginning now, beginning now or rebeginning now? Is that a word?
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  Speaker 2: As an heir of God's promises? Let gratitude for your
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  Speaker 2: spiritual inheritance motivate you to serve others with joy. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day. Peace, Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,