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01 11 2025 To Be Pleasing to God · 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 Sabbath, January eleven,
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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, God's Love and Justice with lesson number three
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  Speaker 2: under the caption to be pleasing to God hah, to
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  Speaker 2: be pleasing to God. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of the ways that we continue
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and our God, Please thank you for this Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: morning and for the privilege to be able to have
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of your Holy Spirit, to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be covered with the life of Jesus. I pray that
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  Speaker 2: we will not try to please you, but that we
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  Speaker 2: will embody the reality of pleasing you. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. So this is an
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  Speaker 2: interesting subject to me, and not just interesting. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it because the thought that we can be
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  Speaker 2: pleasing in God's sight makes me want to just jump
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  Speaker 2: up and say thank God. Because because there are so
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  Speaker 2: many of us that are struggling with the voices of
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  Speaker 2: our past when parents did not approve of us. Ah, well,
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't do anything right, didn't, I tell you, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: And then we wonder, like what did we do? Like
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  Speaker 2: every time they say our names, whether it was our teachers,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was our parents, whether it was somebody on
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  Speaker 2: the street, it seemed as if and I said, seemed
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  Speaker 2: it seemed as if we just couldn't do things right.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm here to say today that even if your boss,
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  Speaker 2: your supervisor, your manager, ah, even if the officials that
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  Speaker 2: you meet on the road at times, even if the
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  Speaker 2: mindset that you derived from your past when teachers and
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  Speaker 2: parents and guardians were speaking to you, or if God
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  Speaker 2: forbid you had brushes with the law as a juvenile,
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  Speaker 2: even if you felt like you couldn't do anything right,
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  Speaker 2: God is saying that you can be pleasing in his sight.
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  Speaker 2: You can be pleasing in His sight. And the way
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  Speaker 2: or the pathway to being pleasing to God is submitting
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  Speaker 2: to him, not performing. Hm. I said, submitting to him,
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  Speaker 2: not performing. And I know that there are some extreme
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  Speaker 2: minded people who are like But Dave, are you saying
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  Speaker 2: that we don't have to keep the law of God?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I am not saying that. What I am
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  Speaker 2: saying is that those who attempt to do God's will
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  Speaker 2: without submitting first to God are no better than the
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  Speaker 2: Pharisees that were against Jesus during his day. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we have Nicodemus and others who were for Jesus, But
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying the ones who were his enemy, the ones
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  Speaker 2: who were saying that he was not to heal on
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  Speaker 2: the sabbath, like those individuals who dragged the woman who
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  Speaker 2: was caught in air quotes in the very act of adultery,
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  Speaker 2: and dragged her in front of Jesus. Those people, those
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  Speaker 2: people who fasted for long periods of time and tithed
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  Speaker 2: even their herbs, but would not set the captives free.
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  Speaker 2: That would oppress people. Those who did not care for
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  Speaker 2: the laying, the main, the blind, the halt. Those individuals,
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  Speaker 2: but they would wear the Bible scriptures on their bodies.
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  Speaker 2: Those individuals. Yeah, those individuals didn't submit to God, which
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  Speaker 2: is why they would argue with God about what it
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  Speaker 2: meant to be pleasing in his sight. You see where
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  Speaker 2: I'm going with this. They were blind GUIDs, they were hypocrites.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm saying that submission to God's will first now
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  Speaker 2: becomes the breeding ground in a good way of God
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  Speaker 2: keeping his promise that those who love him he will
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  Speaker 2: cause to keep his commandments, all ten of them. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he wanted me to say that. You're listening for that word.
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  Speaker 2: It's a clarion call. Yes, in the last days in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, we are still responsible to God to
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  Speaker 2: keep holy all of his ten commandments because He's written
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  Speaker 2: them in our hearts and on our minds that law
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  Speaker 2: of liberty. Okay, so we're clear on that, but we
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  Speaker 2: still have this reality to deal with. See at Jesus's baptism.
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  Speaker 2: At his baptism full of the Holy Ghost, Jesus heard
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  Speaker 2: his stamp of approval from God, our Father. This is
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  Speaker 2: my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, and
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  Speaker 2: so to be pleasing to God as a covenantal reality.
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve when they were created, it was good, good,
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  Speaker 2: and very good. Right Enoch, he walked with God. Noah
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  Speaker 2: found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Moses said,
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  Speaker 2: if we have found favor in your sight, then please
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  Speaker 2: show me your glory. And then we see that we
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  Speaker 2: are the anointed ones. We are anointed, We are anointed,
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  Speaker 2: and we are as God's people submitted to him the
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  Speaker 2: apple of his eye. Now there are times that God's
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  Speaker 2: people will make mistakes, not because we have to, but
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  Speaker 2: because we do. We choose that way, and if we
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  Speaker 2: are still submissive to God's will, then we will make
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  Speaker 2: a rite about turn. We will yield our will to God.
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  Speaker 2: We will say that we are sorry and mean it,
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  Speaker 2: and we will turn away from our sins. You understand
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  Speaker 2: and accept the power that God puts in our lives
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  Speaker 2: to do the right thing next time. And so now
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  Speaker 2: I read from the Bible Book of Zephaniah Zephaniah Chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read three verses from the amplified version
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  Speaker 2: of the Bible. And the Bible reads verse five. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord in the midst of her meaning God's people, is
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  Speaker 2: uncompromisingly righteous. He will do no iniquity. Every morning he
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  Speaker 2: brings his justice to light. That's righteousness. He fails not.
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  Speaker 2: But the unjust person knows no shame. That means that
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  Speaker 2: the unjust person doesn't really care what God thinks Verse fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: For then it will be that the Lord has taken
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  Speaker 2: away the judgments against you. You see, God's people had
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  Speaker 2: gone astray. God's people had made promises, and those promises
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  Speaker 2: were like ropes of sand. They had done what they
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  Speaker 2: said they wouldn't do, and what they said they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: do they did. And they were sinful, and they were
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  Speaker 2: full of iniquity, knowing that God is watching, and they
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  Speaker 2: still went the wrong way. However, let me continue. He
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  Speaker 2: has cast out your enemy. Who's your enemy? Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities
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  Speaker 2: and hours, and the rulers of the darkness of this world,
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  Speaker 2: and spiritual wickedness in high places. That's the devil and
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  Speaker 2: his evil angels. He has cast out your enemy, the
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  Speaker 2: King of Israel, even the Lord himself, is in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of you. And after he has come to you,
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  Speaker 2: you shall not experience or fear evil anymore. You're not
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  Speaker 2: worried about your past. You're not worried if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do the wrong thing again, because all you're thinking
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  Speaker 2: about is submitting yourself to God. Hallelujah. All you're thinking
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  Speaker 2: about this Sabbath morning is yielding your will to God,
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  Speaker 2: and that he covers you in his life and gives
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  Speaker 2: you the strength to do his will. He in the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, and he after he has come to you,
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  Speaker 2: you shall not fear or experience evil anymore. Verse sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: In that day I said three, but I meant four.
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  Speaker 2: In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, fear not,
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  Speaker 2: oh Zion, let not your hand and sink down. That means,
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  Speaker 2: don't be discouraged. Hah, don't be discouraged. Let not your
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  Speaker 2: hands sink down, or be slow and listen less seventeen
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  Speaker 2: and final. The Lord, your God is in the midst
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  Speaker 2: of you. Aren't you glad that God is in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of you, the Mighty One and Savior who saves.
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  Speaker 2: He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest
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  Speaker 2: in silent satisfaction and in his love. He will be
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  Speaker 2: silent and make no mention of past sins or even
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  Speaker 2: recall them. He will exult over you with singing. You see,
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  Speaker 2: God has invested everything in you so that you can
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  Speaker 2: be pleasing to God and you can be 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,