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10 06 2026 Isaiah, the Gospel Prophet · 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: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: October 6th, 2026. Hello, my name is L. 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 new
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series, The Gift of Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Isaiah... the gospel prophet. Ooh, yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: get into that. But before we do, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: page as well. Let's go ahead and pray, and I
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, we thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: this new Tuesday. It's not like any other Tuesday in
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  Speaker 2: the past. It's not like any other Tuesday in the
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  Speaker 2: future if you spare our lives. Father, help us to
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  Speaker 2: maximize this moment and learn what Isaiah learned and experience
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  Speaker 2: the gospel and share with as many people as possible.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen, amen, and amen. again.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so we begin now with what I consider
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  Speaker 2: to be the most important thing in today's lesson, which
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  Speaker 2: is Isaiah meets, he has a, is it a confrontation?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the right way? Is it a moment of reckoning?
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  Speaker 2: But he has a moment where he experiences the holiness
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  Speaker 2: of God in a way that just in an earthly experience,
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  Speaker 2: it's very hard to replicate, I promise you. I suppose
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  Speaker 2: that is what Moses experienced at the burning bush, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. This seems like a higher level. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but you'll be the judge of that. But
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  Speaker 2: in that moment of vision where he is seeing and
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  Speaker 2: experiencing worship in heavenly places, he's cleansed, and then he
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  Speaker 2: answers the call of who is going to go for us.
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  Speaker 2: God is speaking, like, who is going to go with
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  Speaker 2: this message that I have for the people of And
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  Speaker 2: then now he's almost jumping up and down, having been cleansed,
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  Speaker 2: having experienced the holiness of God and what real worship
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  Speaker 2: is like. He's like, I am the one. Here I am.
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  Speaker 2: Send me. And more than half a millennium before the cross.
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  Speaker 2: Think about the timing. He wrote Isaiah 53 at that time,
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  Speaker 2: revealing that the Lord laid the iniquity of us all
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  Speaker 2: on his suffering servant who has led like a sheep,
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  Speaker 2: who was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And
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  Speaker 2: so Isaiah was preaching the gospel far before Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: became God with us and lived on planet Earth and
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  Speaker 2: gave his life for us. And so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: look at this encounter that he had, though, Isaiah had
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  Speaker 2: from Isaiah chapter 6. Isaiah chapter 6, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to paraphrase the passage, and I'll read verses 5 and
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  Speaker 2: 6 and paraphrase, okay? Then said I, woe is me.
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  Speaker 2: This is when he had this encounter with God and
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  Speaker 2: knowing that he is like completely unholy and woefully underprepared
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  Speaker 2: to do anything God wanted him to do. He said,
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  Speaker 2: woe is me for I am undone because I am
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  Speaker 2: a man of unclean lips. And then the Bible continues,
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  Speaker 2: then flew one of the seraphims at God's command to me,
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  Speaker 2: having a live coal in his hand. And the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that with that live coal, the angel said, behold,
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  Speaker 2: now you're, or the angel did his job. And then,
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  Speaker 2: and now the announcement is given. Now you are, you
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  Speaker 2: are clean. You're clean now. You're clean. This has touched
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  Speaker 2: your lips and now you are cleansed. That means to
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  Speaker 2: be purified and made pure. And so Isaiah saw God's
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  Speaker 2: holiness and then he saw his own holiness in the
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  Speaker 2: same moment. You see, when the Bible says, how be
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  Speaker 2: it when he, the spirit of truth is come, that
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  Speaker 2: he will guide you into all truth. The Bible is
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  Speaker 2: saying that the all truth is about God and the
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  Speaker 2: all truth about you. The all truth about God is
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  Speaker 2: that he is 100% holy. He is 100% just. He
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  Speaker 2: is 100% good and clean. The all truth about you
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  Speaker 2: is that you're poor as a human being like me. Poor, miserable,
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  Speaker 2: and naked and blind and don't even know it. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm thankful. I'm thankful that God has given us the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of being in his presence so we can see
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  Speaker 2: so we can see his holiness and then see where
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  Speaker 2: we need him in our lives. And of course, we
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  Speaker 2: don't just see it. Now God makes provision. He makes provision, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so the one who exposes our need is the
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  Speaker 2: same one who purifies and sends us. He doesn't leave
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  Speaker 2: us the way he found us. He purifies us, and
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  Speaker 2: then he empowers us to do his will. So this
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  Speaker 2: is what we need to do with this. Come into
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  Speaker 2: his presence honestly today. Come before God honestly and say, God,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with this. I know
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  Speaker 2: that I am unworthy on my own. I know that
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  Speaker 2: I am woefully underprepared to do what you have called
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  Speaker 2: me to do and receive the cleansing he offers before
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  Speaker 2: he sends you out. Receive that by faith and say, God,
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  Speaker 2: I know that you can cleanse me. I know that
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  Speaker 2: you can equip me. And then I know since that's
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  Speaker 2: the case that I can go out and be the
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  Speaker 2: kind of great that you have called me to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's not for my glory. but for yours. Is there
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  Speaker 2: something that you're working on right now in that regard? Like,
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  Speaker 2: is there somewhere that you are seeing that God wants
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  Speaker 2: to transform your life and you are starting to notice,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, I'm having this encounter. God has made
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  Speaker 2: himself available. Get alone with God and then move forward
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  Speaker 2: by faith. Move forward by faith. So the beauty of
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  Speaker 2: this is when you see Isaiah He is coming off
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  Speaker 2: of a disappointment. It's an incredible disappointment in this story
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  Speaker 2: because Azariah and Uzziah, that's the same person, he has died.
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  Speaker 2: And this was an incredible time in the people of
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  Speaker 2: God's history while he was living for most of the
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  Speaker 2: time because there was prosperity, like there was peace, there
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  Speaker 2: was It was really a good time. But then the
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  Speaker 2: king decided that he was good on his own. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, like, when he saw himself in that wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: like his own wisdom, that's when his life went right
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  Speaker 2: down the tubes. And when he died now under the
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  Speaker 2: judgment of God, the people were like, whoa, what just happened?
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  Speaker 2: Now he's dead. And God is giving Isaiah an encounter.
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  Speaker 2: Among many things, God is saying that even though I
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  Speaker 2: set up kings, I also bring them down. Even though
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  Speaker 2: I have allowed you all to be led by other
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  Speaker 2: human beings, I'm the true leader. So if a person
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  Speaker 2: is here or not here, you need to be guided
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  Speaker 2: by my Holy Spirit to be listening for my voice
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  Speaker 2: and to be moving forward in faith based on what
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  Speaker 2: I have called you to do and not dependent upon
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  Speaker 2: any other human being. This is why God removed all
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  Speaker 2: other things from Isaiah's view except an encounter with God
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  Speaker 2: and an encounter with or a reckoning with his own need.
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  Speaker 2: So ask God today, on top of everything we've already said, God,
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  Speaker 2: is there anything in the way right now that's causing
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  Speaker 2: me to miss those moments with you where you are
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  Speaker 2: speaking to me, where I am truly worshiping, where I
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  Speaker 2: have no regard for the things of this life for
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  Speaker 2: this moment, because now I'm in your presence. And if
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  Speaker 2: there's anything distracting me, God, will you show it to
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  Speaker 2: me and then remove it or help me to remove
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  Speaker 2: it as the case may be? Whatever that reality is
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  Speaker 2: for you, I want you to begin praising God for
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  Speaker 2: that now. And as soon as we're done, go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and have that reckoning with God. Y'all make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day.
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