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11 07 2025 The Danger of a Late Confession · 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 Friday, November seven,
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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 under the caption
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  Speaker 2: the Danger of a late Confession, The Danger of a
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  Speaker 2: late Confession. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you in a happy preparation day. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining us. Please go over to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide. This is going
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  Speaker 2: to help you to apply the truths that we study
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  Speaker 2: from God's Word in four key developmental areas. And also
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  Speaker 2: also if the Lord spear's life, I need you to
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  Speaker 2: come through this evening, this evening at seven pm for
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  Speaker 2: our worship experience that comes through learning the Bible through music.
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  Speaker 2: At seven pm Jamaica time. I guess the time with
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  Speaker 2: us and with the east of the United States is
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  Speaker 2: the same which many of you are coming from. I
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  Speaker 2: know many are on the continent of Africa and of
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  Speaker 2: course in different parts of Asia and other parts of
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  Speaker 2: the world in Europe, but I know that there is
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  Speaker 2: a lion's share of us on the same time zone.
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  Speaker 2: Now seven pm. If the Lord spaars life and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day of preparation, help us to keep our accounts
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  Speaker 2: clear with you. In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. Yeah, there is danger, there's danger in confessing late.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just start there. So I'm going to read from
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  Speaker 2: the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page beginning at page four
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  Speaker 2: hundred and ninety six, and it reads the deadly sin
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  Speaker 2: that led to Aiken's ruin had its root in coveteousness,
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  Speaker 2: for of all sins, one of the most common and
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  Speaker 2: the most lightly regarded. Yeah, social media is rife with
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  Speaker 2: that coveteous spirit, which is why some people all they
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  Speaker 2: do is post content of the stuff that they have
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  Speaker 2: because they want to inspire people to end to envy
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  Speaker 2: or they want to brag themselves. And really, yeah, coveteousness
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  Speaker 2: comes as a result of not being happy that God
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  Speaker 2: is making provision for me as me, I sometimes may
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  Speaker 2: God forbid look and see what He's doing for you,
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  Speaker 2: and desire what He's doing for you instead of what
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  Speaker 2: he's doing for me. You see, it's not a thing
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  Speaker 2: like if we do what God says that we have
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  Speaker 2: to become complacent. That is not it that we should
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  Speaker 2: be satisfied with the status quo. No, that is not it.
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  Speaker 2: We must be satisfied with whatever God does or gives
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  Speaker 2: to us, does for us to us, or provides for us.
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  Speaker 2: Not to be thinking about what He's doing for others. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so we begin. We begin with that concept of
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  Speaker 2: late confession from a text that I have quoted multiple times. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's read it from the Bible in Proverbs, chapter twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight and verse thirteen. That's the Bible Book of Proverbs,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty eight. And I will read at verse thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, he that covers his sins shall
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  Speaker 2: not prosper. Let me read it in another translation. The
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  Speaker 2: one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, But whoever
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  Speaker 2: confesses them and forsakes them will have mercy. Can we
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  Speaker 2: just begin with confession is agreement with God. That's the
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  Speaker 2: basic guideline. Where we confess our sins, we are agreeing
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  Speaker 2: with God. Which you say, what your perspective on the
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  Speaker 2: thing is, what you have given is the truth God,
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  Speaker 2: and I agree with you. That's only half of the discussion.
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  Speaker 2: But the Bible says whoever confesses and forsakes them shall
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  Speaker 2: have mercy. So forsaking the sin is a gift from God,
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  Speaker 2: having godly sorrow for sin, as the Bible writer Paul
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  Speaker 2: would have pointed out, having godly sorrow for sin and
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  Speaker 2: then turning the shoulder, making a right about turn, turning
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  Speaker 2: our backs to our sin and our faces toward God,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals will have mercy. So agree with God, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and also turn away from sin by His grace face
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  Speaker 2: toward Godliness. That individual will find mercy. But whoever covers
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  Speaker 2: our transgressions God forbid, will not prosper. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what in the world you do to attempt to prosper,
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  Speaker 2: And even if it looks like you're prospering, it has
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  Speaker 2: a limit on it. Our first lesson is delayed confession
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  Speaker 2: is not true to confession or repentance. See Achin's downfall
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  Speaker 2: wasn't only that he sinned, which all have sinned and
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  Speaker 2: comes short of the glory of God. It was that
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  Speaker 2: he delayed confess confessing until he was forced. I talked
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  Speaker 2: about it the other day. Was like down through multiple
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  Speaker 2: different layers to get down to him, and now he's
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  Speaker 2: flushed out into the open. That was so unnecessary. He
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  Speaker 2: really literally could have just confessed his sin and it
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  Speaker 2: would have been all over if he turned from his
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  Speaker 2: wicked ways. His silence revealed that fear and not sorrow
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  Speaker 2: motivated his words when he started to tell the truth
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  Speaker 2: about what he did. God desires repentance that springs from conviction,
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  Speaker 2: not cohersion. Achin's story warns us that waiting too long
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  Speaker 2: to admit our wrongs can harden our hearts to the
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  Speaker 2: point of no return, and so the action step The
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  Speaker 2: action step, as I said in my prayer, is for
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  Speaker 2: us to keep our accounts right with you with God.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was praying, my bad keep our accounts
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  Speaker 2: up to date with God. Don't wait until circumstances pose
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  Speaker 2: your sin. Bring it to God willingly, while his mercy
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  Speaker 2: still calls confession delayed is grace denied? Oh Lord, Oh Lord,
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  Speaker 2: for that delayed obedience, that is really disobedience. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember reading of David King, David's story of I guess
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  Speaker 2: it was about a year that he held on to
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  Speaker 2: that murder, that conspiracy, that that lust, and all the
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  Speaker 2: rest that he did concerning Bethsheba and her poor husband
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  Speaker 2: e're Yah the Hittite. He held onto those things until
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  Speaker 2: it consumed as he set his bones, for about a year.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally he went to God because the prophet
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  Speaker 2: was God was so kind to give him the prophet,
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  Speaker 2: to show him his error, the error of his ways,
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  Speaker 2: to confront him with that and now and now of
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  Speaker 2: course he he's like, God, if you do this special thing,
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  Speaker 2: like you deliver me, like you give me your holy spirit,
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  Speaker 2: I will then teach transgressors your way. Well, that was
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  Speaker 2: not Aikin's attitude. In fact, his sin began with desire
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  Speaker 2: and longing for what God had forbidden. Covideousness still drives
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  Speaker 2: people to betray trust, compromise integrity, and trade peace for possessions. Lord.
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  Speaker 2: In a world consumed by consumerism, coveteousness often hides behind
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  Speaker 2: the guise of wanting more, and yet Scripture calls it
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  Speaker 2: idolatry because it replaces trust in God with love for things.
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  Speaker 2: Thou shalt not covet your neighbors anything, according to Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty and verse seventeen. And so the action step
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  Speaker 2: is before every purchase or pursuit, ask this question. Be
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  Speaker 2: honest with yourself. It's nobody's business. Is this a need
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  Speaker 2: or am I feeding discontent? Is it a need? Or
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  Speaker 2: am I feeding discontent? Gratitude guards the heart where greed grows.
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  Speaker 2: Gratitude guards the heart where greed grows. Hmm, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: confession our final final lesson. Confession restores our witness as
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  Speaker 2: being the children of God in good standing with him.
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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,