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10 07 2025 New Allegiance · 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 Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: October seven, 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is New Allegiance. New Allegiance we
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  Speaker 2: get into that. I'd like to just say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: dot Com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day. Please please help us to serve you today.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. New allegiance,
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  Speaker 2: new allegiance to whom or what do you pledge your allegiance?
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  Speaker 2: I remember when I was in school, back in the
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  Speaker 2: early eighties and late late seventies and early eighties, when
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  Speaker 2: we got to school, there was a time before we
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  Speaker 2: went to classes where the whole school would line up
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  Speaker 2: and we would have to pledge allegiance to the flag
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  Speaker 2: of the States of America and to the Republic, for
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  Speaker 2: which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty
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  Speaker 2: and justice for all. But we also pledged allegiance to
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  Speaker 2: the flag, I think, to God's Holy Word. We pledged
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  Speaker 2: allegiance to God's Holy Word. And I can't remember how
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  Speaker 2: we would do that. And so the question again is
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  Speaker 2: not what do you recite or just say out loud,
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  Speaker 2: but what is your real allegiance? To what or whom
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  Speaker 2: are you pledging your allegiance? And so the Bible, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible teaches us that in the story of Rehab, she
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  Speaker 2: learned to pledge her allegiance to God. Okay, and so
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  Speaker 2: in Exodus chapter twelve, beginning at verse thirteen, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and the blood shall be for you a token. Do
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  Speaker 2: you remember that way back at the passover time? Shall
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  Speaker 2: be a token upon your or houses where you are.
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  Speaker 2: And when I see the blood, that's your allegiance. When
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  Speaker 2: I see the blood. See, God had given them guidance like,
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  Speaker 2: this is the way that you will distinguish yourself from
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  Speaker 2: people who don't love me, from people who have decided
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  Speaker 2: to worship other gods. You will distinguish yourself by the
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  Speaker 2: blood from people who don't care about love, who don't
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  Speaker 2: care about connection with Me. And so you will pledge
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  Speaker 2: your allegiance by showing the blood in the certain way
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  Speaker 2: that God had prescribed. And then I will pass over you,
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  Speaker 2: meaning the death Angel will pass over you. And so
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  Speaker 2: the blood in Egypt and the scarlet cord in Jericho.
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  Speaker 2: Because some of you are like, well, why are we
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  Speaker 2: going back there? Yeah, because the same way that God
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  Speaker 2: showed in Egypt his people to pledge their allegiance, he
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  Speaker 2: showed Rahab, I want you to hang a scarlet chord
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  Speaker 2: and when the marauders, when the people come through, maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's not the word, but when the men of war
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  Speaker 2: come through, they will not destroy. They in fact will
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  Speaker 2: save because they see the scarlet or red chord. And
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  Speaker 2: so the blood in Egypt and the scarlet chord in
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  Speaker 2: Jericho both point to Christ's sacrifice. That's what it's really about.
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  Speaker 2: They prefigured this deliverance always comes through His blood and
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  Speaker 2: not our own works. And so the action step because
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  Speaker 2: knowing stuff is cool, but doing what God says is
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  Speaker 2: what we're really after. Trust daily in the covering of
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  Speaker 2: the blood of Jesus for your salvation, not your own goodness,
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  Speaker 2: not the things that you do in obedience to God.
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  Speaker 2: Even when you do the right thing, don't expect like
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  Speaker 2: I did the right thing, so you owe me something
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  Speaker 2: That is not how this works. God empowers us to
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  Speaker 2: do his will because we are saved. The people who
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  Speaker 2: are not saved cannot do his will. Can I just
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  Speaker 2: say that I would had the time to deal with this,
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  Speaker 2: But people who are not saved cannot actually in heart
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  Speaker 2: do his will. There are actions that they may manifest,
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  Speaker 2: but that's not the same as doing it from the heart. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: lesson number two coming in from Joshua, chapter two and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty one. And she did it like she bound
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  Speaker 2: the scarlet line in the window. She did exactly what
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  Speaker 2: the people had told her. God's people told her the
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  Speaker 2: sign of her faith would be. And so faith must
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  Speaker 2: be expressed in obedience, not just knowing, not just knowing.
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  Speaker 2: Even when I was a child, there was a cartoon
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  Speaker 2: Gi Joe, and I remember they said knowing is half
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  Speaker 2: the battle, and then they would go into the song
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  Speaker 2: that was attached the anthem attached to the program knowing
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  Speaker 2: is only half the battle. But once we are empowered
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  Speaker 2: by God and know to do his will and then
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  Speaker 2: actually do it, now we see the manifestation of our faith.
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  Speaker 2: And Rehab's faith was visible. Just as the people of
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  Speaker 2: God obeyed by applying the blood of the lamb, Rahab
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  Speaker 2: obeyed by tying the scarlet cord. Both acts show that
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  Speaker 2: true faith is demonstrated or manifest or seen in action.
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  Speaker 2: Each says execution is worship. When we execute, when we
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  Speaker 2: do what we have promised, what we do, when we
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  Speaker 2: do what God has said, that is a manifestation of worship.
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  Speaker 2: And then the action for this is let your faith
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  Speaker 2: leave a visible mark, whether through service or witness or
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  Speaker 2: obedience in another way to God's word. And then final
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  Speaker 2: from Hebrews chapter eleven and verse thirty one, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: by faith, Harlot rahab perish not with them that believed not.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't perish with the people that she had been
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  Speaker 2: with probably her whole life, if not most of it.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: She had been with them and even sinned with them,
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  Speaker 2: and probably worshiped other gods alongside them. But in this moment,
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  Speaker 2: the seminal moment in her life, when the people of
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  Speaker 2: God were coming through, and she said, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: my life before is not the way I want to continue.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the way I want to see this end.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't want my family to lose our connection
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  Speaker 2: because of the way that we have been living. And
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  Speaker 2: so she seized the moment. What moment are you in,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, right now, almost eight minutes into the broadcast,
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  Speaker 2: what moment are you in? Has God given you the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to turn away, to turn away from your former
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  Speaker 2: life and turn toward him? Grace reaches even people who
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  Speaker 2: have been living against God. You're in entire lives, our
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  Speaker 2: entire lives. Grace God's grace is greater than all our sin.
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  Speaker 2: And so make sure you see the moment a Canaanite
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  Speaker 2: woman under the ban was grafted in to God's people
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  Speaker 2: because of her faith. The gospel message that good news
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  Speaker 2: of God transforming our lives through Christ. That message is
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  Speaker 2: that no one, no one is so far gone if
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  Speaker 2: they are willing to submit their will to God, too
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  Speaker 2: far gone if they cling to God's promise. And so
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  Speaker 2: the action step is to see yourself and others through
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  Speaker 2: the lens of grace. Invite someone who feels disqualified to
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  Speaker 2: trust in Christ to do it beginning today. How many
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  Speaker 2: times have you heard from people, or maybe you were
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  Speaker 2: one of them, and said, no, but you don't know
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  Speaker 2: how I am. You don't know how far gone I am.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know all that I have done. And the
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  Speaker 2: reality is God does know. That's the whole point. That's
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  Speaker 2: the old point. That's the whole point. One of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite authors says that when the devil comes to you
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  Speaker 2: and presents your rap sheet basically the things that you
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  Speaker 2: have done wrong, right, and then presents to you that
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  Speaker 2: you are a sinner, you are to say, yes, I
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  Speaker 2: am a sinner, but Jesus came to save sinners. I
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  Speaker 2: think this is a good place for us to land
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  Speaker 2: this plane new allegiance. Pledge your allegiance to God in
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  Speaker 2: this moment today and yesterday is gone, Tomorrow is not
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  Speaker 2: yet here. In this moment you pledge your allegiance to God,
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  Speaker 2: and you will be saved. 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.