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02 13 2024 If You, LORD, Should Mark Iniquities · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Tuesday, February thirteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is if you Lord should mark iniquities. We'll
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  get into that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd like
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  to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com please pick up your Daily Portion book. Also, please let us
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  know where you are in the world. And finally, please please join the
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  community. This is a resource for you if you are asking questions or making
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  comments in the community regarding this lesson study, then we continue to build faith
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  and fellowship. Remember I am the one that's proactive in the mornings, right,
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  I'm speaking to you on radio, television, on apps now and on
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  the internet and podcasts. And you now can respond not only in the chat
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  in social media and YouTube, but come into the community, make a contribution,
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  ask your questions and we can have a lively discussion there. And like
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  I said, to continue to build faith and fellowship. Otherwise then you'll just
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  listen to me or watch me, and that's not enough. Right, Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  thank thank you for giving us this privilege to open your word again. And
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  I pray God that we will recognize and live according to the principles of confession
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  and repentance and keeping a good connection with you. Please teach us to love
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  you because you loved us first. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen,
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  and a man again. So we have spoken in a few days past
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  about God and his judgment. Right, we have spoken about God and his
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  judgment and The blessing about that is that there are more than one outcome,
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  right, potential outcomes, And the judgment one is that one that most people
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  are concerned about, which is that foreboding condemnation that says I am guilty before
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  God and his righteous bar and therefore I am deserving of eternal death. Yes,
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  that's the one that a lot of people are afraid of. But the
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  fact is that God has given us such a privilege, and you want to
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  know, well, what is that privilege. The privilege is to be able
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  in twenty twenty four to connect with Him by the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ,
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  so that that passage that we now hold so dear. That really was
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  a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus when he said, when the Bible says,
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  for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that
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  whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God did
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  not send his son into the world to condemn the world a but he came
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  in order for us to be saved. And so if God should mark as
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  the lesson writer is focusing here our iniquities, or of God should hold our
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  iniquities, our sins against us, Then what kind of hope would there be?
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  See, God has positioned us so that those sins can come before us
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  through His strength in the reality that they are, and we can confess,
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  we can agree with God and say, Lord, you are right. You're
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  right about this situation in my life. How I related to the person who
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  did bad things to me? Right, how I related to the individuals that
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  I was doing business with and I was doing dirty dealing. Like I can
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  agree with you God, that I should have been kinder in a situation with
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  my parent who was ailing, who did not do right by me when I
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  was a young child. Like, Lord, there are so many things in
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  my life and I am now falling at the hand of your mercy, and
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  I'm asking you, would you please forgive me. I agree with everything that
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  you said. There are people that I should have assisted and I neglected to
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  because I was so narrowly focused on me, and on and on we can
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  go. And so I I'm thankful that that privilege and opportunity is available to
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  all of us. And so we go into the Book of Psalms, chapter
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  one hundred and thirty, and I will read beginning at verse one, and
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  the Bible reads for from the deep water, I cry out to you,
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  oh Lord. So now we have this conversation with God. Lord, listen
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  to me, pay attention to my plea for mercy. Do we understand and
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  believe that God is mercyful. His mercy endureth unto all generations, His mercy
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  is everlasting? Yes? Verse three. If you, oh Lord, were
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  to keep track of sins, oh Lord, who could stand before you?
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  It's not that God. Let me pause right here. It's not that God
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  does not have an accurate record of our sins. It's not that God is
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  into sweeping things under the rug like some humans are for their selfish gain.
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  No, God sees and knows all. But I think it was David who
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  said, and then Paul said again, blessed is the person to whom God
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  does not hold our sins against us or impute iniquity. So God is not
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  looking for a way to condemn us and audit our sin record and put us
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  into prison huh, spiritual prison, or to destroy us. His goal is
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  to save us. That's what we're talking about here. It says here verse
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  four. Now we understand he's not sweeping it under the rug. He's not
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  changing the law of liberty. He's not changing the transcript of his character in
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  order to accommodate people who are not willing to yield our will to him.
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  Verse four teaches us something. But you are willing to forgive so that you
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  might be honored. And so for God's name's sake, he is going to
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  demonstrate into the lives of everyone who will yield our will to him that he
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  is able, indeed, to keep us from falling. Jesus is able to
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  present us faultless before the Father or before the Presence with exceeding joy. God
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  is able, and I need you to keep that perspective. It's not about
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  our abilities, because really we are born in sin, shaping in iniquity,
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  because really there is nothing good in us, and all of our righteousnesses are
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  like filthy rags. And so when we yield all of that reality, we
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  confess that and we are now being honest, then we can have the blessing
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  of this forgiveness, and God's name will be glorified. Verse five. I
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  rely on the Lord. I rely on him with my whole being. I
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  wait for his assuring word. Do you realize that when God is on your
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  side. He does come to you in this voice that says, this is
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  the way walking in it. Have you ever recognizes that he is the one
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  who says, I am the one who comes to you with an everlasting love.
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  Therefore, with loving kindness? Have I drawn you like as a hen
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  gathereth her chicks. This is what God is saying to his people. So
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  have I gathered you. Now we have a decision to make. We make
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  the bad choice that some leaders in the past have made, as according to
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  Matthew chapter twenty three. Or will we say yes, Lord, yes to
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  your will and to your way, and then accept that love I yearn verse
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  six, O Lord, more than watchmen to do in the morning. Yes,
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  more than watchmen do for the morning. People are looking forward to coming
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  out of the darkness. Yes. Have you ever driven through the night and
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  started to nod off to sleep? In the road seemed everlasting? And you
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  started even maybe hallucinating a little bit and wondering when will this trip end?
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  And then in the eastern sky you saw a glimmer of hope, like a
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  glimpse of the sun about to rise, and you said, you know what,
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  I can continue this trip. I have the energy to continue until I
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  get to the end. And so when we are buried in the darkness of
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  sin, we can know and look to God, the eternal Son of Righteousness,
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  and say I have hope and I can be victorious by his grace.
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  Verse seven. Oh, Israel, hope in the Lord. But the Lord
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  exhibits loyal love and is more than willing to deliver. He will deliver his
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  people Israel from their sins. I'm thankful that God does not keep a record
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  of my sins to hold against me. But we can agree with God and
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  have that record expunge. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,