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10 09 2025 Surprising Grace · 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 Thursday, October nine,
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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 from Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is Surprising Grace, Surprise Grace. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come back in a second and talk about that,
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  Speaker 2: but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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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 then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, We thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the privilege of coming together and being so far
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  Speaker 2: off into the week and getting closer to the time
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  Speaker 2: of preparation and Sabbath. Please please help us to be
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  Speaker 2: amazed by You. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. So let me just say this. And I
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  Speaker 2: know sometimes I'm a little bit petty when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to the use of speech and language. Right, surprising Grace.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really have a problem with it, but I
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  Speaker 2: did coin a new concept for me. It was new
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  Speaker 2: for me that we should be amazed by God but
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  Speaker 2: not surprised. And I know they some people think that
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  Speaker 2: those are synonyms of each other. Amazed by God but
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  Speaker 2: not surprised, So we should be in awe of God.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazement as far as I'm concerned. Okay, I'll keep
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  Speaker 2: it simple, but to be surprised, it's like you would
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  Speaker 2: do that for me. I can't believe you did that
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  Speaker 2: for me. Well, God promised that he would. He would
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  Speaker 2: save sinners. Yes, he promised that he would. He would.
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  Speaker 2: He would give us new hearts and clean spirits. He
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  Speaker 2: promised that he would take from us the heart of
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  Speaker 2: stone and put in us the heart of flesh. He
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  Speaker 2: told us that he would write his laws on our
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  Speaker 2: hearts and in our minds so we can be true worshipers.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm amazed, I'm in awe of God. Like, Wow, God,
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  Speaker 2: you are so faithful. I cannot even imagine how you
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  Speaker 2: have been so good to me. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: I should not be surprised, like like I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: that he would do exactly what he said he would do.
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  Speaker 2: And so okay, that is my rant for now. That's
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  Speaker 2: my rant for now. Please don't call me or text me.
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  Speaker 2: And I know, I know, I know, I know. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I'm a bit picky with the use of words. But
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  Speaker 2: in any case, amazement or surprise, we see that God's
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  Speaker 2: grace is far beyond our capability of appreciating. Sometimes, twas
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  Speaker 2: grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my
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  Speaker 2: fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear? The hour
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  Speaker 2: I first believed, and so we're surprised or amazed, as
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  Speaker 2: the case may be. So lesson number one in this regard.
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  Speaker 2: From the Book of Psalms, chapter fifteen and verse four,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, he that swearth to his own hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it from the New English translation, he
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  Speaker 2: makes firm commitments and does not renege on his promise.
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  Speaker 2: So people who keep covenant God God honors that, even
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  Speaker 2: when it's costly. When we make a vow, we make
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  Speaker 2: covenant with God and keep it. God honors this, and
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  Speaker 2: so God wants us to keep our commitments. That's an
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  Speaker 2: action step for me, keep my commitment before God and
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  Speaker 2: before people, even when it costs you. Because integrity is
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  Speaker 2: part of true worship. So the people of God couldn't
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  Speaker 2: break their oath even though it was secured by deception.
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  Speaker 2: So the people of God now make an oath with
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  Speaker 2: the Gibbian Knights. And the Gibbian Knights used subterfuge and
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  Speaker 2: deception to get them to acquiesce or whatever. But the
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  Speaker 2: people of God made a covenant, and so the leaders
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  Speaker 2: upheld integrity, showing God's name and covenant are sacred. Keep
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  Speaker 2: your covenants. Here's my second lesson from the Book of Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: chapter nine and verse twenty three. Now, therefore ye are cursed,
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  Speaker 2: and there shall none of you be freed from being
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  Speaker 2: bond men and hewers of wood and drawers of water
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  Speaker 2: for the House of God. Now that's very interesting that
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  Speaker 2: they are bound the people who deceived in order to
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  Speaker 2: get a covenantal experience.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're they're bond men, but they're also servants in
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  Speaker 2: the sanctuary. So God can transform a curse into a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking about being bound to God, bound
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  Speaker 2: to the service of God, bound to illustrating the plan
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  Speaker 2: of salvation in the in the Old Testament, like bound
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  Speaker 2: to ushering people into worship in their in their you know,
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  Speaker 2: in their special way. Let me not overstate it, but
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  Speaker 2: the fact is that instead of God's wrath through his
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  Speaker 2: people destroying the Gibeon nights, they were drawn into service
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  Speaker 2: at the sanctuary. What looked like humiliation became participation in worship.
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  Speaker 2: When you humble yourself before God, you are a worshiper.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand? Submission to God is worship, and so
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  Speaker 2: the action is to submit to God's purposes, even when
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  Speaker 2: it looks like loss, he can turn low positions into
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  Speaker 2: platforms of blessing. Here is our third lesson, and it
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Ezekiel, chapter thirty three and verse eleven.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, as I Live, said the Lord God.
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  Speaker 2: I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked,
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  Speaker 2: but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
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  Speaker 2: Are you one of those people that right now your record,
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  Speaker 2: your sin record, as the case may be, is not
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  Speaker 2: clear with God. There's something that you have not confessed
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  Speaker 2: to him. There is a sin that you have not
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  Speaker 2: yet turned from. And seven minutes into our broadcast today,
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  Speaker 2: God is now knocking on your heart's door and saying, turn, turn, live, live,
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  Speaker 2: yield yourself to me. And that thing that you want
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  Speaker 2: to keep a secret, that boy, if you continue on
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  Speaker 2: that pathway, then God's going to blow the doors off
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  Speaker 2: of that thing and You'll be exposed, but not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: to your detriment. It's up to you how this works out.
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  Speaker 2: Is there something that you have to resolve in a
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  Speaker 2: relationship that you have breached. Is there something you have
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  Speaker 2: to resolve in your workplace or in some other key
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  Speaker 2: area of life. God is saying that all you need
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  Speaker 2: to do is surrender your will. Though their method, meaning
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  Speaker 2: the Gibbian Knights, I'll say it again, was flawed. The
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  Speaker 2: Gibbeian Knights showed a desire to renounce idolatry and seek
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  Speaker 2: peace under Yahweh, blessed be his name his rule. God
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  Speaker 2: honored even perfect, imperfect part of me faith. He honored
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.
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  Speaker 2: He can grow our faith. We grow in grace and
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  Speaker 2: in the knowledge of God. Yes, and so this is
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  Speaker 2: what He's doing. God honored even their imperfect faith. And
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  Speaker 2: so the step for me is to not despise small
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  Speaker 2: beginnings of faith. So I could look back at the
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  Speaker 2: story and snub my nose and make it seem as if, well, look,
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  Speaker 2: God should have destroyed these dudes because they did what
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  Speaker 2: they did by deception. But well, I don't get into
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  Speaker 2: what God should have done, because judgment belongs to God.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say that I'm blessed to know that
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  Speaker 2: God was willing to accept Rahab. I'm blessed to know
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  Speaker 2: that God was willing to accept the Gibbean Nights because
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  Speaker 2: because the small beginnings of faith in her, in her
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  Speaker 2: lying and saying that the people of the men of
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  Speaker 2: God were not there, and these guys in deceiving God's people,
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  Speaker 2: specifically the small beginnings. But what God is doing is
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  Speaker 2: transforming our lives step by step, encourage and nurture people
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  Speaker 2: in those situations because God values even the first spark
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  Speaker 2: of surrender. God's grace is amazing. God's grace is surprising
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  Speaker 2: to some of us, but in any case, the grace
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  Speaker 2: of God through his Holy ghosts will transform our lives.
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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,