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11 29 2025 The True Joshua · 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 Sabbath, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing this Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: morning in our Lessons study series, Lessons of Faith from Joshua.
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  Speaker 2: This is lesson number ten of thirteen under the caption
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  Speaker 2: the True Joshua, The True Joshua. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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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 go ahead and pray and get underway. Father.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day, this good Sabbath morning,
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  Speaker 2: for us to reconnect with you in a special way. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for the experience that we had last night
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  Speaker 2: on our musical worship experience. Father, and I pray that
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  Speaker 2: this Sabbath we will really in fact and indeed rest
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  Speaker 2: in You. There is so much destruction, so much tragedy,
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  Speaker 2: so many trials, But Father, you have called us not
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  Speaker 2: to focus there, but to focus our minds on on You,
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  Speaker 2: focus on the true Joshua, Jesus Christ, and please help
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  Speaker 2: us to do it in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again, the true Joshua. So I gave it away.
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  Speaker 2: I gave it away. Yeah, Jesus Christ is the true deliverer.
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  Speaker 2: The true deliverer is Jesus Christ. And I'm very excited
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  Speaker 2: about this because sometimes we mix our focus up, we
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  Speaker 2: mix our focus up. We see these images that are
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  Speaker 2: supposedly Jesus even in the Sabbath school quarterly or the
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  Speaker 2: adults study guide that are supposedly representing Jesus. But the
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  Speaker 2: fact is that Jesus is high and above all of
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  Speaker 2: these representations. Joshua, even as the faithful man of God,
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  Speaker 2: was a symbol or a shadow of Jesus Christ himself,
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate warrior, commander of the heavenly hosts, the ultimate deliverer,
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate God. Blessed be his name in the flesh,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ the Righteous. And so the Bible says in
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians, Chapter ten and verse eleven. Now these things
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  Speaker 2: happened unto them, for in samples that they are written
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  Speaker 2: for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world
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  Speaker 2: are come. And if you read the next couple of verses,
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  Speaker 2: you see that there are people that Paul is speaking
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  Speaker 2: to that you know what, You might become proud and say,
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  Speaker 2: how could they, pointing back into history, and say, how
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  Speaker 2: could they have missed all of those signs that God
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  Speaker 2: had given? How could they have dropped the ball so
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  Speaker 2: many different ways in their spiritual health? How could they
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  Speaker 2: have just disrespected God in the way that they did.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, if anybody thinks they stand take heed,
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  Speaker 2: let's g fall, But God didn't leave us there. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't leave us there. In the next passage, it says
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  Speaker 2: in verse thirteen that God, there hath no temptation taken us,
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  Speaker 2: but such as is common to men. Like we are
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  Speaker 2: all in the same bus. We're all in the same boat,
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  Speaker 2: like humans all go through very similar mind and spirituality trials.
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying that that is not unusual. There
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  Speaker 2: is no temptation taken you, but such as is common
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  Speaker 2: to all humanity. But God is faithful. See, this is
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  Speaker 2: the thing we focus on God. We don't focus on
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  Speaker 2: all of the mistakes that the people of God made.
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  Speaker 2: We don't focus on well, I wouldn't make that mistake.
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  Speaker 2: We don't focus on well I come from a resilient people,
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  Speaker 2: and we always rise from the ashes. No, our focus
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  Speaker 2: is for God is faithful, who will, with the temptation
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  Speaker 2: take make a way of escape that we may be
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  Speaker 2: able to bear it. So God is the one who
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  Speaker 2: gives us the ability to overcome any trial, any temptation,
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  Speaker 2: and march right through to the fullness of the promise.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is greater than Joshua. That's an understatement. The name
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  Speaker 2: Joshua in Hebrew is Yahoshua pronounced of course yahos Shua,
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  Speaker 2: meaning Yahweh blessed be his name saves. This is the
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  Speaker 2: same root of Joshua or Yeshua, the Hebrew form of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Just as Joshua led God's people into the promised land,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus leads his people into heaven and then the earth
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  Speaker 2: made new. Both call for faith and obedience, but only
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ himself. Only he completes the victory over sin
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  Speaker 2: and death. And so the action in this regard is
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  Speaker 2: to invite Jesus, the real Jesus, well, the real Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: stand up, and all of these images and pictures and
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of relics and representation and shadows they need
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  Speaker 2: to sit down. Let the real Jesus lead you daily
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  Speaker 2: as your captain. Surrender your will in each battle to
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  Speaker 2: him before you take your first step. Lesson number two
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Hebrews Chapter four, verses eight and nine.
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  Speaker 2: For Joshua had given them rest. For if part of
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  Speaker 2: me scratch that, don't quote me here. Let's go again.
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  Speaker 2: For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not
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  Speaker 2: have spoken afterward about another day. Consequently, a sabbath. Rest
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  Speaker 2: remains for the people of God. And so Joshua did
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  Speaker 2: what Joshua was supposed to do. God was with him
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  Speaker 2: like he was with Moses, just like God had promised.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua led the people of God into a mindset of
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  Speaker 2: promise and physical Canaan. That second generation of God's people
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  Speaker 2: who had left Egypt went into the promise praise God.
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  Speaker 2: But that was not the end of the story. You see,
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  Speaker 2: God shows us in the Seventh Day Sabbath the kind
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  Speaker 2: of rest that we can have in Christ. See in
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  Speaker 2: the Seventh Day Sabbath. The Bible says in the Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament Bible Book of Ezekiel that the Sabbath is a
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  Speaker 2: sign or a signal that he God is the one
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  Speaker 2: which sanctifies us. God is the one that makes us holy.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that sets us aside for a holy use.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that is leading us to Zion, beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful Zion. And I'm grateful because if in fact Joshua
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  Speaker 2: was it, then that means that we're cooked, like we
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to get in because Joshua's been dead
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  Speaker 2: and every other Holy leader been dead I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: from that ear. And so we have Jesus Christ leading us,
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  Speaker 2: and the Greek word for rest in this particular text
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  Speaker 2: meaning ceasing or a settling into peace. It shows that
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  Speaker 2: Joshua's leadership could not produce the final version of that
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  Speaker 2: because it is only found in Christ. The call to
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  Speaker 2: enter God's rest is not limited to a location, but
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  Speaker 2: extended into relationship. We trust in Jesus's finished work. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: he gave his life on the cross to save us
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  Speaker 2: from our sins. Jesus he came through the tomb and
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  Speaker 2: woke up with his own power, unborrowed underrived on that
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  Speaker 2: wonderful Sunday morning. And after he did that, he went
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  Speaker 2: into heaven. Ultimately went in heaven, and he effected our forgiveness.
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  Speaker 2: And all of those years later, eighteen hundred plus years later,
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  Speaker 2: exactly eighteen hundred and ten years later, now Jesus enters
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  Speaker 2: into what his ministry, his high priestly ministry, so that
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  Speaker 2: we can be cleansed from all unrighteousness. And one day
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ will return for a people who are cleansed.
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  Speaker 2: And so today today our action step in this regard
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  Speaker 2: is to pause, take a pause, and rest in the
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  Speaker 2: assurance of salvation through Christ. Let your obedience flow from peace,
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  Speaker 2: from the peace of God, and yield your will every
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  Speaker 2: single day as a lord your strength. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great sabbath 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.