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11 03 2025 The Sin of Achan · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. It is Monday, November three,
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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 from the Faith of Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the sin of Akin. The sin
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  Speaker 2: of Akin. For those of you who are watching me,
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  Speaker 2: You're like, what in the world was he doing. I
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  Speaker 2: was trying to find the end of my headphone because
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  Speaker 2: I'm not hearing anything, and I know the broadcast is up,
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  Speaker 2: but I can't hear anything. Well, I had to plug
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  Speaker 2: it in you see, so now you know, and if
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  Speaker 2: you're on the radio, then I guess you can't see
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  Speaker 2: me struggling like what is going on here? Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into it, I'd like to just say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: So this is one of the ways that we continue
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 2: and then get underway. Father, we thank you for this day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for loving us so much that you have
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  Speaker 2: given us a freething that we possibly could need or desire.
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  Speaker 2: And I just pray God that you will fill us
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  Speaker 2: with your Holy spirit and teach us your way everlasting.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and amen again the
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  Speaker 2: sin of Achen. Oh my yes. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: begin begin by reading from Jeremiah, I mean Joshua. Why
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  Speaker 2: do I say Jeremiah from Joshua? Chapter seven. That's the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Joshua, chapter seven, and I will begin reading
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  Speaker 2: at verse sixteen. That's the Book of Joshua, chapter seven,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read beginning at verse sixteen. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, So Joshua rose early in the morning and
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  Speaker 2: brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah
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  Speaker 2: was taken. He brought the clan of Judah, and he
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  Speaker 2: took the family of the Czar Heights. And he brought
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  Speaker 2: the family of the Czar Heights man by Man, and
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  Speaker 2: Abdi was taken. Then he brought his household man by Man,
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  Speaker 2: and Aiken, the son of Kamri, the son of Zabdi,
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  Speaker 2: and the son of Zira, the son of Zira, and
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  Speaker 2: the tribe of Judah was taken. I find it interesting
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  Speaker 2: that he was from the tribe of Judah. Now Joshua
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  Speaker 2: said to Aiken, my son, I beg you give glory
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  Speaker 2: to 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. Now. Listen, listen, listen, listen. We
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  Speaker 2: should never have gotten to this point where God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: let's get them, let's smoke them out like let's find out. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I know, meaning God, but now I'm giving you a
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  Speaker 2: process to find out, to discover, slowly but surely, who
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  Speaker 2: indeed and in fact did this thing that is causing
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  Speaker 2: the trouble in the camp. And so rather than admitting
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  Speaker 2: early in the process and talking to God about it
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  Speaker 2: and repenting, this dude, Aichen decides he wants it the
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  Speaker 2: hard way. And that's where we begin our discussion today.
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  Speaker 2: We begin with the difficult way. And so in the
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  Speaker 2: book The Desire of Ages, page three hundred and fifty three,
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  Speaker 2: we see we see that Joshua has addressed Aken as
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  Speaker 2: my son. This expression shows not only the age and
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  Speaker 2: leadership role of Joshua, but also reveals the spirit in
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  Speaker 2: which this great warrior approached justice. Now let me go down,
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  Speaker 2: Let me go down, Joshua was again foreshadowing the sensitivity
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  Speaker 2: and kindness and love of the one who, according to
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  Speaker 2: this passage, was never rude. I quote, never needlessly spoke
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  Speaker 2: a severe word. That's Jesus never gave a need needless
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  Speaker 2: pain to a sensitive soul. He fearlessly denounced hypocrisy, unbelief,
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  Speaker 2: and iniquity, but tears were in his voice as he
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  Speaker 2: uttered his scathing rebukes, and so Joshua having to live
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  Speaker 2: up to the model that Jesus would have shown us. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: he is now in the position where he's just like, why,
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  Speaker 2: why are you putting yourself in this situation? aChn, what
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  Speaker 2: in the world it's going on? And the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: in Jeremiah chapter seventeen and verse seven, if the Lord
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  Speaker 2: searched the heart, I try the reins, even to give
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  Speaker 2: every person according to his ways and according to the
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  Speaker 2: fruit of his doings. Like when God probes into people's minds,
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  Speaker 2: he's only revealing what is there. It's not a gotcha moment.
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  Speaker 2: It's not something where God is trying to entrap us
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  Speaker 2: or make us do something wrong and then charging us
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  Speaker 2: with the crime. You know, the Bible is teaching us
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  Speaker 2: that God gives us soul many many things to avoid
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  Speaker 2: the evil that can come upon us. The Lord is
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  Speaker 2: not slack concerning his promise. He's long suffering toward us,
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  Speaker 2: thinking about what Jesus is doing while he's waiting to
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  Speaker 2: come back to get us. He's long suffering, like patient
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  Speaker 2: with us. He's not willing that any should perish, but
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  Speaker 2: that all should come to repentance. He's always been like that,
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  Speaker 2: even back in the days of Joshua and Achan. And
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  Speaker 2: so before exposing Achan's sin, God gave space for confession.
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  Speaker 2: He's not willing for Achin to perish. He all he
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  Speaker 2: wanted was for Achan to come to repentance. He could
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  Speaker 2: have revealed the guilty man immediately. That's what God could
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  Speaker 2: have done, but his investigative process moved deliberately from tribe
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  Speaker 2: to family to household to individual, from tribe to family
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  Speaker 2: to household to individual. God smoked him out. This pause
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  Speaker 2: was mercy in motion. At any point along the journey
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  Speaker 2: while well, while God was saying go to the tribes,
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  Speaker 2: Acin could have said, you know what, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to put the people of God through this. When he
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  Speaker 2: got down to the family, Akeen could have said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really want to go. The people of God
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  Speaker 2: don't need to go down through this. When he got
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  Speaker 2: down to the household, he could have said, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I pause, like, let me just go and confess my sin.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need the people of God going through this.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's down to you, Achen, and it's too late,
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  Speaker 2: and it's too late, so use every delay This is
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  Speaker 2: the action for all of us. Use every delay of
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  Speaker 2: God's discipline as an opportunity to repent. Is God coming
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  Speaker 2: down your lane? Is he in your tribe now? Is
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  Speaker 2: he in your family? Is he in your household? Is
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  Speaker 2: He now coming down your lane directly to you. Use
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  Speaker 2: it as an opportunity to repent, not as permission to
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  Speaker 2: remain silent. Mercy delayed is mercy extended. God is not
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  Speaker 2: trying to get you. He wants you to be saved.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to save you. He wants to save you.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says in Psalm chapter one hundred and thirty nine,
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  Speaker 2: verses one and two, Oh Lord, thou hast searched me
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  Speaker 2: and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,
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  Speaker 2: and understandest my thought afar off. Let me read it
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  Speaker 2: in another version. Oh Lord, you examine me and know
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  Speaker 2: You know when I sit down and when I get up,
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  Speaker 2: even from far away, you understand my motives. So God
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  Speaker 2: wants us to live transparent lives. That's our second lesson
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  Speaker 2: for today. Live transparently before God, not because he can't see,
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  Speaker 2: Like when He went to Adam and said, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't because he didn't know where he was. It
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  Speaker 2: was because Adam didn't know where Adam was. And so
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  Speaker 2: live transparently before God. Live, invite his searching eye to
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  Speaker 2: cleanse once tries to conceal. And then our third and
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  Speaker 2: final lesson comes in comes in from Ephesians chapter four
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  Speaker 2: and verse fifteen. And I wish a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: guys on the internet who have these gotcha ministries with
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  Speaker 2: think about this. The Bible says, but speaking the truth
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  Speaker 2: and love may grow up. So practice the truth. Speaking
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  Speaker 2: the truth and love we will, and all things grow
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  Speaker 2: up into Christ, who is the head. So when we're
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  Speaker 2: correcting others, lead with love. Justice without compassion weakens the
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  Speaker 2: sense of the truth. Both together reveal the character of Christ.
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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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