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11 12 2025 Written on Stones · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, November twelve,
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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 written on Stones, Written on Stone. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to please go over to
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray and get into our written on stones discussion today. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for keeping keeping us aware and in
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  Speaker 2: remembrance of the greatness of your power. Please, Father, help
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  Speaker 2: us to serve you with everything we are, and help
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  Speaker 2: us to teach others your way. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again written on stones, written on stones.
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  Speaker 2: So let me first read from Joshua chapter eight Versus
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  Speaker 2: thirty two through thirty five, and the Bible reads, and
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  Speaker 2: there in the presence of the children of Israel, he
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  Speaker 2: wrote on the stones a copy of the Love Moses
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, which he had written. So we're revisiting
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  Speaker 2: the time when God inscribed upon the table of stones
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  Speaker 2: those ten words yes, okay, and okay. So he had
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  Speaker 2: written the copy the same way. Then all Israel, with
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  Speaker 2: their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side
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  Speaker 2: of the ark before the priests, the Levites who bore
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  Speaker 2: the ark of the Covenant of the Lord and the Stranger,
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  Speaker 2: as well as he who was born among them. Half
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  Speaker 2: of them were from Mount Jerzim, and half of them
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  Speaker 2: were from Mount Ebel, as Moses, the servant of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: had commanded before and they should bless the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: And afterward he read all the words of the law,
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  Speaker 2: the blessings and the cursings, according to all that was
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  Speaker 2: written in the Book of the Law. Oversimplified a little
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  Speaker 2: bit earlier, but you understood what I meant. There was
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  Speaker 2: not a word of that that Moses had commanded which
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  Speaker 2: Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: with the women and the little ones and the strangers
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  Speaker 2: who were living among them. So I'm not suggesting that
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  Speaker 2: he inscribed just the ten Commandments law. But what I
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  Speaker 2: am saying is in the same way that God showed
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  Speaker 2: those ten words on those sapphire stones to get the
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  Speaker 2: people of God started on what is this covenant, this
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  Speaker 2: connection with God. And then later, of course, we see
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  Speaker 2: that Moses, that Moses had the law, the law that
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  Speaker 2: you heard him speak in the book of Deuteronomy, as
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  Speaker 2: he taught the people of God before his own death.
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  Speaker 2: We see this happening again. So what did that act
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  Speaker 2: mean and what does it say to us today? What
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  Speaker 2: does it say to us today? And so when Joshua
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  Speaker 2: wrote the Law on stones, he wasn't just doing some
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  Speaker 2: ritualistic stuff. It was about the relationship with God. It
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  Speaker 2: declared publicly that God's word was the unchanging foundation of
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  Speaker 2: the people of God's identity. You know, sort of like
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  Speaker 2: a contract. Wait a minute, contract, covenant, covenant, contract. You
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  Speaker 2: see where we're going with this governance and worship. Every Israelite,
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  Speaker 2: from the elders to the youngest child, could see the
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  Speaker 2: law written before them as a visible reminder of his will.
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  Speaker 2: In writing in the presence of all the people, Joshua
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  Speaker 2: made sure that the Covenant was not hidden in scrolls
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  Speaker 2: or left for the priests alone. You may have heard
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  Speaker 2: in history of some religious entities where the the Word
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  Speaker 2: was bound was chained to a desk, and some priests
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  Speaker 2: or some other people were supposedly the ones who were
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  Speaker 2: able to interpret for the people. Well, this is not
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  Speaker 2: what God was doing. It was a national declaration that
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  Speaker 2: the Lord was their king. And in Deuteronomy, chapter six
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  Speaker 2: and verse twelve we read, then, be where lest thou
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  Speaker 2: forget the Lord which brought thee forth out of the
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  Speaker 2: land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage.
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  Speaker 2: This act of inscribing the law on stone was a
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  Speaker 2: safeguard against forgetfulness. It proclaimed that God's truth was not
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  Speaker 2: to fade with the memory or with the generations. It
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  Speaker 2: was to be preserved, It was to be recited, and
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  Speaker 2: it was to be obeyed. So the question really is,
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  Speaker 2: are you inscribing God's words on the lives of the
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  Speaker 2: people in your household, brothers and sisters. Is there a
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  Speaker 2: core value system in your household where you can say,
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  Speaker 2: where with me, but for me and my house, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna serve the Lord. Y'all can decide you choose this
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  Speaker 2: day whom you will serve. But I'm telling you, I'm
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  Speaker 2: choosing to serve the Lord. My house and I we
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  Speaker 2: are choosing to serve the Lord. And so another lesson
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  Speaker 2: is that God is still writing today. He's still writing today.
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  Speaker 2: We see under the New Covenant in Jeremiah chapter thirty one,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll just read verse thirty three, and I will
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  Speaker 2: put my law in their inward parts and write them
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  Speaker 2: on their hearts. And so Joshua, just as he engrave
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  Speaker 2: the Covenant into stone, God desires tongrave his truth within
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  Speaker 2: our lives. He promised that he would take out from
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  Speaker 2: us a heart of stone and instill within us a pliable,
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  Speaker 2: receptive heart of flesh when we surrender to him. The
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  Speaker 2: same spirit who inspired Moses now writes upon the human
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  Speaker 2: heart through faith in Jesus Christ. In fact, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says in the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred nineteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse eleven, thy word have I hid in mine heart?
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  Speaker 2: There it is again that I might not sin against thee.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we allow God's word to take root
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, it becomes something that's beyond Bible teaching.
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  Speaker 2: It's the teaching that becomes our direction. It becomes, like
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  Speaker 2: my pastor used to say, a part of the warp
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  Speaker 2: and wolf, of who we are not even sure how
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  Speaker 2: to say that in modern language. Right, his word guides
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  Speaker 2: our decisions, guards our motives, and grounds our faith in
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  Speaker 2: the chaos of life. You can agree that life is
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  Speaker 2: chaotic these days. Every time you switch on the news,
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  Speaker 2: there's something really weird going on in the news, and
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  Speaker 2: weird is really an understatement. There's some stuff that just
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  Speaker 2: should literally never happen, and we're seeing this stuff happen
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  Speaker 2: more rapidly, more frequently, and it's detestable. Some of the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we can't even mention on this program. If
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  Speaker 2: we say all of the words, even the YouTube channel
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  Speaker 2: could get into a problem. Wherefore we'll get an infraction
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  Speaker 2: for even saying words related to some of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that we see happening in real life these days. And
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  Speaker 2: so today I want you to invest some time and
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  Speaker 2: write down, write down a verse. I mean really, actually
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  Speaker 2: write down a verse or a promise that God has
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  Speaker 2: impressed upon your heart. You see, I'm going through this
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  Speaker 2: study of wisdom throughout the scriptures because I pray to
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  Speaker 2: God to ask him for wisdom. So one day it
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  Speaker 2: occurred to me that I need to be studying wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Really is what is it that makes us closer to God?
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  Speaker 2: What is understanding it? Etc. So write it down, Write
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  Speaker 2: it down, write it down, and then keep it visible.
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  Speaker 2: Let it be your stone in air quotes of remembrance,
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  Speaker 2: a constant reminder that God's word still stands even when
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  Speaker 2: everything else shifts. When everything else shifts, I'll say, very
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  Speaker 2: quickly from Great Controversy four thirty four, the law of
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  Speaker 2: God being a revelation of his will, is a transcript
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  Speaker 2: of his character, and it must and will forever endure.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day. 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,