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03 12 2024 ZION-The Home of All Nations · 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 Tuesday, March twelve, 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 Zion the Home of all Nations. Zion
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  the Home of all Nations. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  know where you are in the world at your dailyportion dot com. This is
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  one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for giving us the opportunity to open up your word. And I'm asking
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  you to please give us your holy spirit. Please give us your understanding and
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  make us in our minds, in our mindset Zion in Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. Let me just say that Zion, the
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  Home of all nations, is the way that we are focusing our minds,
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  because of course it was a real place is a place. But I need
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  you to adopt Zion as the essence of who you are. Are we Zion,
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  like are we the people of God? You see? Because we want
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  God to dwell in us. I think you understand where I'm going with this,
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  Okay, and so what we're going to do is focus our attention on
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  Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty seven, the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter eighty seven, and I will read verses one and two, and
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  the Bible reads, the Lord's city is in the holy hills. The Lord
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  loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. And
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  so now we see the heart of God regarding Zion. I'm not going to
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  give you a history lesson on Zion. You can go to the lesson study
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  and read through some of that. But let me just say principally, when
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  we are in covenant with God, we're Zion. Yes. When we are
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  in covenant with God and He is our resting place, he is our dwelling
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  place, our refuge, our sanctuary, our tabernacle, then wey are Zion.
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  And I just need to slow it down a little bit. Here,
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  does God dwell in your life? If the answer is yes, then you're
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  Zion. Remember the Bible says in Isaiah chapter fifty six, verses one through
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  seven, that those who are in covenant with God, who keep the Sabbath
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  right and don't consider themselves a dry tree, that was language that the people
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  of God and the gentiles would have understood back then. Right, people who
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  are eunuchs, men who have been modified, if you want to say,
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  because the the kings did not want those men to mess around with the women
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  and the harem, so they would make them eunuchs. Right, they would
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  castraate them. It's weird, right, but that's what it was. And
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  that would have been something that would make someone ceremonially ceremonially unclean. So if
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  you are seen as ceremonially unclean, if you are a stranger, you're not
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  from the people of God, if you want to say, but now you
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  are choosing to keep covenant with God. The Bible says that God will give
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  you a name that is greater, that is better than of sons and of
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  daughters. It is a name that will remain forever. God is saying here
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  in this passage in Isaiah chapter fifty six, that we become Zion, we
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  become more than the children of God, like we become eternal with God at
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  the appropriate time after Jesus returns, of course, and so the Bible is
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  also teaching us that we are among the people that are the house of prayer
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  for all people. God's house is a house of prayer for all people.
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  So many different symbols in scripture to just bring us back to this one point.
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  The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of
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  Jacob. Right, okay, So let me go to a few takeaways that
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  will assist us as we continue to study. So, first of all,
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  Zion as a chosen place of worship. We've already we've already talked about we
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  the people as Zion. But now we see that the people come together and
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  this is Zion. Majestic is the reputation of the Lord, God above all.
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  Okay, So the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the
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  dwelling places of Jacob. Majestic is the reputation of God above all. He
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  wants his reputation to be manifest through his people who do come together and worship
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  Him in the beauty of holiness. And then having done this, we move
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  out into the world and become and become a letter, as Paul would have
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  said, an epistle that can be known and read of all people. Number
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  two, Zion's majesty and divine love. So we're going to versus. Let's
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  see, let's go back to verse one. He founded his city on the
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  holy mountains, and so this is emphasizing the affection the grandeur of Zion,
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  like God's view of Zion. You remember that thing that you purchased that you
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  love so much that you wanted to put it on display. I don't know
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  if it's the if it's the picture of or a portrait that you had painted
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  of your grandmother or your son. I don't know, if it's a new
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  vehicle that you had hoped for for so many years. I don't know what
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  it is. It could be a trophy that you got when you played a
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  certain match in sports when you thought you could never excel in that regard,
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  or you were a spelling bee champion in fourth grade, right grade four.
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  But there are things that we put up, we esteem, and we display
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  because it matters to us. To me, what matters to me is the
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  picture of my wife and I getting getting together and being married on our wedding
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  day. So when I look at that picture, it reminds me of the
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  vow that I made to her, to God and to the family. Right.
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  And so God puts us up, He sets us up a city that
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  is on the hill cannot be hit like it's a light. He wants us
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  to be a light that everyone can see, and of course, then learn
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  to worship God. Then comes inclusivity of all nations. Remember I said the
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  House of God is to be a house of prayer for all people. And
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  so this presents a powerful manage of inclusion. Here we go. The Bible
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  reads in verses four through six. I will mention Rahab and Babylon as among
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  those who acknowledge me. Felicia too entire. I'm along with Kush. This
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  one was born there, they say. And I want you to continue reading
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  in the passage, but let me just say it this way. There are
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  people who see you, Zion, God's people from whatever nations you happen to
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  be, and they are making decisions every day, no matter what the culture
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  and customs, religion, religious practices were. There are people who will see
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  you and say, you know what, I want to serve God like they
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  serve God, like he serves God, like she serves God. I see
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  that she does not allow her temper to get the better of her when she
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  is in what would look like almost the conflict. He does not allow self
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  control to be lost when somebody offers him a deal, a great deal,
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  but there's just a little inkling of dishonesty. Integrity is a premium reality,
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  a core value to him, and I want to be just like him.
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  And that means that wherever we are in the world, we are to brighten
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  that corner and lead people to us. Okay, in verse and versus,
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  let me see before we go, Well, let me just say unit is
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  unity and diversity. In Galatians chapter three and verse twenty eight, there is
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  neither Jew nor Greek, slave, nor free male nor female. We are
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  all one with Christ. That is when we become Zion, When we have
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  covenant with God. We all become one in Christ for one purpose, to
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  manifest His glory into all the world. Of a wonderful day. Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,