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11 04 2025 Fateful Choices · 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, November four,
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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 Fate Full Choices. Fate full meaning fate
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  Speaker 2: full choices. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray. Father, We thank you for this day. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to make the right decisions all day long. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again fate full choices.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read from Joshua chapter nine, I mean seven.
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  Speaker 2: Please excuse me Joshua chapter seven, and I'll read beginning
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  Speaker 2: of verse nineteen and the Bible. Reason. Now, Joshua said
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  Speaker 2: to Aiken, my son, I beg you give God the glory,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord God of Israel, and make confession to him,
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  Speaker 2: and tell me now what you have done. Do not
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  Speaker 2: hide it from me. And Aiken answered Joshua and said, indeed,
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  Speaker 2: I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel. And
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  Speaker 2: this is what I have done. When I saw among
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  Speaker 2: the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment two hundred shekels of
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  Speaker 2: silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I
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  Speaker 2: coveted them and took them, and there they are hidden
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  Speaker 2: in the earth in the midst of my tent, with
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  Speaker 2: the silver under it. Listen, if Aiken had done this
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning, before all of that inquiry, everything I
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  Speaker 2: described yesterday, he would have been in a perfect position,
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  Speaker 2: perfect position with God. God said, if you confess your sins,
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  Speaker 2: he is faithful and just to forgive and to cleanse
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  Speaker 2: us from all unrighteousness. He said that the person who
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  Speaker 2: who hides our sins will not prosper. But who's so
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  Speaker 2: confesseth and forsaketh, those are the individuals who are going
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  Speaker 2: to have life. But now Achin is coming in and
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  Speaker 2: it sounds noble, like if we read this in a vacuum,
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  Speaker 2: we would say, wow, praise the Lord, like this is
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  Speaker 2: the way it should be. But alas like we're in
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  Speaker 2: a position now where we're seeing it was basically forced
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  Speaker 2: from him in the sense of now he don't have
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  Speaker 2: no choice because he can tell like the inquisitor is
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  Speaker 2: right in front of me. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 2: the right word. Maybe I should have looked it up
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  Speaker 2: before I used it. But everything is sitting right in
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  Speaker 2: front of me, all of the evidence is stacked, and
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  Speaker 2: clearly there's a reason why the man of God is
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  Speaker 2: standing in front of me. Okay, And so we need
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  Speaker 2: to learn a few lessons today from this. And the
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  Speaker 2: first one comes in from again first Job, chapter one
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  Speaker 2: and verse nine. I'll read it from another translation. If
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  Speaker 2: we confess our sins, he God is faithful and righteous
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  Speaker 2: forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
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  Speaker 2: So Joshua's request for Aikin to give God the glory
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  Speaker 2: reminds us that confession itself honors God. Because remember, confession
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  Speaker 2: is to say what God has said. That means to
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  Speaker 2: agree with God. That's what true confession is. When we
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  Speaker 2: hide sin, we deny his truth. We're trying to make
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  Speaker 2: it seem as if God is lying. When we confess it,
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  Speaker 2: we affirm God's righteousness. Achin was invited to glorify God,
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  Speaker 2: not by just words of praise as usual, but by
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  Speaker 2: telling the truth. Are you giving glory to God by
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  Speaker 2: telling the truth? And I don't mean when it's pressed
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  Speaker 2: upon you, I mean just on an every day like,
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  Speaker 2: are you willing to tell the truth? Confession is about restoration,
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  Speaker 2: a declaration that God is right, we are wrong. And
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  Speaker 2: this is where Aiken made the mistake. He didn't do
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  Speaker 2: it at the stage where he was willing to be transformed.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's pressured. But anyway, regardless of how he did it,
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  Speaker 2: confess quickly. That's the action step for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Quickly and honestly. Every hidden sin delays healing. But confession
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  Speaker 2: to God, I'm saying, gives glory to him who has
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  Speaker 2: the ability and power to restore us. Let's go in
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  Speaker 2: now to the obvious one in Exodus, chapter twenty and
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  Speaker 2: verse seventeen, where the Bible says, thou shalt not covet
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  Speaker 2: thy neighbor's house. And of course I'm leaving the rest out,
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  Speaker 2: nor anything that is thy neighbors, don't covet. It's simple.
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  Speaker 2: What God gives us is for us. If we have
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  Speaker 2: a desire for something, if we clear it with God
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  Speaker 2: and God makes a way for us to have it,
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  Speaker 2: then praise God. We give God the glory. But if not,
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  Speaker 2: don't cove it, don't covet. Achin Sin began with seeing okay, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we can see then desiring, Okay, we can desire. But
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  Speaker 2: then he started to take hm, No, we can't see
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  Speaker 2: desire and then steal. That's what Eve did. God told
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: the tree in the garden, in the midst of the garden,
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  Speaker 2: from the day that thou eatest thereof God said, you
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  Speaker 2: shall surely die. Well, Eve and then Adam after her,
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  Speaker 2: they did the same thing. They saw they desired, and
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  Speaker 2: they took what God had forbidden. God forbade Achin or
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  Speaker 2: everybody else in the community to go the path that
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  Speaker 2: Achin had taken. Convirighteousness is the root of unbelief, whispering
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  Speaker 2: that God is withholding something good from us. Remember what
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  Speaker 2: the serpent, who really was the devil, said to Eve.
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  Speaker 2: When we crave what God has not given, we declare
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  Speaker 2: that his provision is not enough. Coveteousness poisons gratitude, replacing
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  Speaker 2: contentment with suspicion toward God's goodness. Yeah, we have to
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  Speaker 2: let that settle in. If we were only on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: or Facebook, then I would have paused for even longer.
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  Speaker 2: But the people on the radio, we can't let them
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  Speaker 2: stay there like that in silence. But the fact is
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  Speaker 2: that we have the privilege to replace covichous thoughts with
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  Speaker 2: thanksgiving every time we're willing to see then desire and
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  Speaker 2: then go over to the next thing like King David
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  Speaker 2: did and take Bathsheba, take Achin took the the spoils,
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  Speaker 2: and of course Adam and Eve took the fruit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: whenever we're having the feeling or the sense or the
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  Speaker 2: desire to go down that path, then we can choose thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Gratitude closes the door that greed tries to pry open.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it one more time. Gratitude closes the
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  Speaker 2: door that greed tries to pride open, pry open. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: God is giving us the privilege to say thank you
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  Speaker 2: for what He has given to us and trust him
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  Speaker 2: for whatever else we need. And so really, in Patriarchs
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  Speaker 2: and Profits, page four hundred and ninety six, we read
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  Speaker 2: that the deadly sin that led to Aiken's ruin had
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  Speaker 2: its root in covetousness. All of all sins, one of
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  Speaker 2: the most common and one of the most lightly regarded
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  Speaker 2: is this. This is why on social media when people
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  Speaker 2: are posting all of their stuff, it's like it's almost
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  Speaker 2: like Hezekiah, what have they seen in your house? And
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  Speaker 2: he's showing all of the stuff and not giving God glory.
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  Speaker 2: Showing all of the stuff and not giving God glory.
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  Speaker 2: Social media is often about showing all of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: and not giving God the glory. And so here are
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  Speaker 2: a few reflection questions as we come to a swift close.
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  Speaker 2: Why does confession glorify God more than hiding sin? How
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  Speaker 2: does coveteousness distort our view of God's character? And I'll
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  Speaker 2: just pause right there, and you work on that and
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  Speaker 2: share in our community your answers. 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,