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11 11 2025 Altars of Renewal · 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 Tuesday, November eleven,
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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 Alters of Renewal, Alters of Renewal. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: are in the world. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then get underway. Father, We thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day. Thank you for giving us a
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  Speaker 2: way to renew our commitment to you. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to do it in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again alters of renewal. Okay, So the lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: asks a very important question at the very top of
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  Speaker 2: the lesson, what was Joshua's motivation for building an altar
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  Speaker 2: to the Lord? And of course we have a few
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  Speaker 2: passages to consider, so let's super simplify the question again.
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  Speaker 2: What was Joshua's motivation for building an alter to the Lord?
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  Speaker 2: The first passage we'll read is coming in from Joshua
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  Speaker 2: chapter eight and verse thirty Joshua chapter eight, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: just read verse thirty and the Bible reads, then Joshua
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  Speaker 2: built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in
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  Speaker 2: Mount Ebel. He did that in Mount Eball. Now let
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  Speaker 2: me read from Deuteronomy, chapter twenty seven, verses six and seven.
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  Speaker 2: And see if we can make a connection. Thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: build the altar of the Lord, thy God of holestones,
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  Speaker 2: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings there ron unto the
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  Speaker 2: Lord thy God, and thou shalt sacrifice peace offerings, and
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  Speaker 2: shall eat there and rejoice before the Lord your God.
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  Speaker 2: And so Joshua's motivation, very simply for building an altar
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  Speaker 2: was simple, but it was profound. So let's not get
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  Speaker 2: lost in the simplicity. It was simple, but profound. It
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  Speaker 2: was just. It was obedience and remembrance. God said so,
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  Speaker 2: I love it. God said so, and he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be obedient. And of course part of that God saying
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  Speaker 2: so was to say, wait a minute, this is how
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  Speaker 2: the Lord has led us. God had commanded through Moses
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  Speaker 2: that once God's people entered into the Promised Land, they
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  Speaker 2: were to build an altar on Mount Ebel and reaffirm
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  Speaker 2: the covenant. Joshua was determined to do exactly that. Before
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  Speaker 2: moving forward in conquest, he made sure the people moved
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  Speaker 2: forward in worship. You see the people of God in
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  Speaker 2: the past, that first generation that all died in the
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  Speaker 2: wildern with the exception of Joshua and Caleb. Those individuals
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  Speaker 2: had forgotten so much about God. Yeah, they murmured and
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  Speaker 2: complained when God had been so good to lead them
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  Speaker 2: by pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of
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  Speaker 2: fire by night. They had forgotten. Remember the quote that
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  Speaker 2: I shared with you multiple times over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: There was no fear for the future, except you forget
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  Speaker 2: or we forget, how God has led us in the past.
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  Speaker 2: You see. So Joshua was determined. He was one of
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  Speaker 2: only two people above the age of twenty who left
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  Speaker 2: Egypt who were now entering into the land of Promise.
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  Speaker 2: And He's like, listen, those guys did not enter because
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  Speaker 2: of unbelief. Those guys did not enter because they kept
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  Speaker 2: breaking their vow and not mending with God or coming
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  Speaker 2: back to Him in order to show repentance, you see.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm not going to do that. The altar
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  Speaker 2: was not built after every enemy was defeated. It was
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  Speaker 2: built in the middle of the conflict. Remember I keep
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  Speaker 2: alluding to that gospel song don't wait till the battle
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  Speaker 2: is over. You can shout now hah, don't wait till
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  Speaker 2: the end You're gonna win. Remember that. So Joshua wanted
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  Speaker 2: his people, God's people to understand that their success was
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  Speaker 2: not secured by their weapons. I said it many times,
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  Speaker 2: the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they are spiritual,
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  Speaker 2: but by their submission to God's word. The altar was
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  Speaker 2: a visible symbol. Now they could look at it of
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  Speaker 2: their dependence upon the Lord and a public declaration that
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  Speaker 2: every victory belonged to God. So Joshua knew that worship
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  Speaker 2: was not negotiable. It was a non negotiable. It was
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  Speaker 2: a core value. We are going to worship the Lord
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  Speaker 2: in the beauty of holiness, and the altar stood as
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  Speaker 2: both both a testimony and a teaching tool that God's
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  Speaker 2: covenant must be renewed, his commands must be obeyed, and
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  Speaker 2: his faithfulness remembered, his faithfulness remembered. Let's go to the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and three, verses seventeen
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  Speaker 2: through seventeen and eighteen. And if I'm running along too quickly,
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  Speaker 2: please come back to the program, press pause, get your
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  Speaker 2: Bible out, your note taking tablet and apps, or whatever
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  Speaker 2: way you do it, write it on a slip of
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  Speaker 2: paper and pray over it, because I'm going to have
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  Speaker 2: to run. Right From the Book of Psalms, Chapter one
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  Speaker 2: O three, verses seventeen and eighteen, the Bible reads, but
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  Speaker 2: the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting onto everlasting.
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  Speaker 2: That means any generation in the past, anybody who were
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  Speaker 2: your ancestors experienced the mercy of the Lord. Anybody all
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  Speaker 2: the way back to the line of Noah, those individuals
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  Speaker 2: experienced the mercy of the Lord. Anybody all the way
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  Speaker 2: back to Adam, the first human being ever created. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: has experienced the mercy of God, all the way back
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  Speaker 2: to those angels who may have been deceived in heaven
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  Speaker 2: and then repented.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Not all of the angels. Not all of the angels
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  Speaker 2: who had ever even considered to follow Lucifer actually followed Lucifer.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them were convinced and then decided to go
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  Speaker 2: back to God. Those individuals, they had experienced the mercy
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. And if there were some other beings
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  Speaker 2: that God didn't reveal to us that had to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some kind of way amend their ways. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: they existed. Do not quote me on this. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 2: if there's something God has not revealed about some people
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  Speaker 2: or other beings in the past. God's mercy was from
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  Speaker 2: everlasting and will continue to be into every life for
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  Speaker 2: those who respect him, worship and revere Him to such
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  Speaker 2: as keep covenant and to those that remember His commandments
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  Speaker 2: and to do them. And so we need to set
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  Speaker 2: aside time, Yeah, invest time to renew covenant with God.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about that a little bit earlier, didn't we
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  Speaker 2: recommit your heart to obedience to God, not out of fear,
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  Speaker 2: because that's not really obedience anyway. I'm really tired of
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  Speaker 2: people talking about whether you can keep the Sabbath and
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  Speaker 2: be a fill in the blank some kind of other
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  Speaker 2: sinner at the same time, Like, can I be a
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  Speaker 2: racist and be a sabbath keeper? Knows the answer. Can
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  Speaker 2: I be a wife beater and part of me if
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  Speaker 2: that's jarring to you? But can I be abusive to
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  Speaker 2: my wife and be a Sabbath keeper? No. I can
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  Speaker 2: say that the Sabbath is the seventh day of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: my God, I can quote the Bible text, but that
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  Speaker 2: does not make me a keeper. Only covenant keepers can
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  Speaker 2: receive the promise of God that He will work out
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  Speaker 2: through them his laws, you understand, And so we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about covenant keepers who are careful to obey the commandments.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know we can't actually obey the commandments out
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  Speaker 2: of fear. We can look like it, we can act
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  Speaker 2: like it, but not really do it, but out of
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  Speaker 2: the love of God, who always keeps his promises. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful. Now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, as
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  Speaker 2: we come to a swift closed page five hundred, as
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  Speaker 2: Joshua read the blessings and the curses, the people stood
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  Speaker 2: reverently before the Lord, accepting the conditions of the Covenant
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  Speaker 2: of life. I'm grateful. Are you willing to keep the
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  Speaker 2: covenant or renew your vow with God? Today? 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,