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03 16 2024 Worship That Never Ends · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some 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 Sabbath, March sixteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. This is week
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  number twelve in the Book of Psalms, and our caption for today is Worship
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  that never ends. Worship that never ends. We'll get into that in just
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  a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online
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  put it that way. So please go to your Daily Portion dot com,
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  join the online community, answer the questions, because if you don't answer those
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  two questions, the system is not going to let you in. Okay,
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will
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  get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for this day and for the
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  privilege that we have to open your word. Thank you for your Holy Spirit,
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  who is kind enough to give us everything that we need. From Christ,
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  Father, please teach us to worship you now in Jesus name. I
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  pray, Amen and Amen again. You may recall or remember the hymn that
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  says something like, worship the Lord, Oh, worship the Lord and the
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  beauty of holiness. That is our privilege every single day. And I just
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  say that Tomorrow it will be our privilege. Monday, it will be our
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  privilege. On Wednesday it will be our privilege. During the evening of Wednesday,
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  it'll be our privilege. We worship God every single day. And I
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  know that there are some Sabbath keepers getting a little antsy, like, Elder,
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  where you going with this? Well, it's our privilege, That's where
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  I'm going. I said it clearly. It's our privilege to worship God every
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  single day, not just one day of seven. But there is only one
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  day that is holy. You understand the difference here. A person who does
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  not live a worshipful lifestyle every single day is not a believer in Christ.
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  Every single day we wake up, every single day we have the privilege of
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  laying down and resting. Is a day that we live in the atmosphere of
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  worship. And on the seventh day, of course, we commemorate and memorialize
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  the works of God, and it is a sign between between God and us
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  that we are sanctified by Him. And that is the only day, the
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  seventh day Sabbath is the only day that is holy. Okay, we're not
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  going into a Sabbath seminar today, but I just need you to understand the
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  difference. And so the Bible reads here in the Book of Psalms, the
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  Book of Psalms, Chapter one hundred and four and verse thirty three, I
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  will sing to the Lord as long as I live. So if I'm singing
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  unto the Lord, that means that I'm worshiping God. I will sing praise
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  to my God while I have my being. That means that I am worshiping
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  God while I have my being another place, the Psalmist says that we we
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  need to do that because our dates are numb. Like we may get seventy
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  we make it eighty years. We can't put our trust in princes nor in
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  the sons of men, because really and truly we can be here today and
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  gone today, not even tomorrow. Good So God is giving us a bird's
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  eye view into the mind of one of his children, who was saying,
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  while we are alive, it is our privilege to worship God. And so
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  the lesson writer says, as our experience of God's grace and power increases,
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  we are prompted to ask, with the Psalmist, what shall I render to
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  the Lord for all of his benefits toward me? The inevitable reply is to
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  devote our life to being faithful to God. What shall I render faithfulness?
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  It's not that we are giving God a paycheck of some sort, you know.
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  It's not that we we repay God, and he's like, thank you
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  for repaying me. That is not what we're saying here. What the Bible
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  writer is saying is that it is the least that I can do. Because
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  Jesus came and purchased us with his life, he became a human being,
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  though he continued to be equal to the Father. But when he lived in
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  human flesh, he had to eat like we eat. He had to sleep
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  and rest like we sleep and rest. He had some challenges sometimes with people,
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  just like we have challenges with people. Right, could you not pray
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  for just an hour with me? While Jesus is agonizing in the garden of
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  Gethsemane, his friends left him high and dry. Those three men, Peter,
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  James and John did not stand watch and pray with him, and so
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  he experienced even temptations and trials hard to bear, just like we experience temptations.
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  You know what else he did, He actually relied on God, his
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  Father, and the way that we can rely on God the Father. You
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  see, the Holy Spirit filled Jesus just in the same way that he will
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  fill us if we will surrender our will to him. And so the fact
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  is that when Jesus has done all of this in order to save me.
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  The least I can do, What shall I render for all of His benefits
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  toward me? The least I can do is surrender my will to him.
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  The least I can do is become faithful to God with the strength that he
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  gives me to be faithful. And so how may I bless the Lord by
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  yielding my will to him? That's the short answer, okay. And so
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  the lesson writer also points out that the Lord wants all the world to join
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  his people in worship. So part of this faithfulness living, this living and
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  faith principle, is to welcome other people. We're welcoming people into right relationship
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  with God to say, because God has been good to me, I have
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  chosen to serve Him. And this is the kind of lifestyle that I get
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  to enjoy by serving Him, even when trials come. Even when trials come,
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  now I have somewhere to take my trials. When triumph comes, I
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  have someone to think and say, well, I am so appreciative God for
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  all of the great things that you are doing in my life. And when
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  things are unsure and uncertain, then we can say, you know what God
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  has some really good thoughts toward me, thoughts of peace and not of evil,
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  right thoughts that will lead us, and a lifestyle and intent from God's
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  holy hill that will lead us to an expected end or a hope and a
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  future. Please, will you come into the same kind of relationship with God,
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  just like I have and even better? Yes? And so that is
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  what God wants from me. So when God wakes me up up in the
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  morning, what is my prey mary purpose? And so? The Book of
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  Psalms, The Book of Psalms, chapter twenty two, beginning at verse twenty
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  reads, deliver me from the sword, save my life from the claws of
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  wild dogs, Rescue me from the mouth of the lion, and from the
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  horns of wild oxen. You answered me verse twenty two. I will declare
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  your name to my countrymen in the middle of the assembly, I will praise
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  you. So wherever your feet are planted, brothers and sisters, wherever your
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  influence happens to be in cyberspace. I need you to do what the Bible
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  writer says. I will declare your name no matter where I am. In
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  the middle of the assembly, I will praise you. Verse twenty five.
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  You are the reason I offer praise in the Great Assembly, I will fulfill
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  my promises before the Lord's loyal followers. You know, sometimes we need encouragement
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  among ourselves that God has been good. Yes, Verse sixteen of Psalms,
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  chapter thirty five. When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly and I and
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  tried to bite me. Oh Lord, how long are you going to watch
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  this? Rescue me from the destructive attacks, guard my life from the young
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  lions. Then I will give you thanks in the Great Assembly. I will
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  praise you before the large crowd of people. And so God is so good,
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  and you want to say, well, how good is he? He
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  is so good that when we praise him that we have his presence. The
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  Lord inhabits the praises of his people. So continue to worship him and live
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  in it. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,