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11 14 2025 The Atonement on Mount Ebal · 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: 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 fourteenth,
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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, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Atonement on Mount Eball Atonement on
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  Speaker 2: Mount Ebol. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the Atonement. Thank you for making us so
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  Speaker 2: we are at one with you through Christ. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to live that way until Jesus comes in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again the Atonement on Mount Ebo.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm going to read from Joshua chapter eight, beginning
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  Speaker 2: at verse thirty to set the stay the stage almost
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  Speaker 2: at standard the stage, and it reads, then Joshua built
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  Speaker 2: an altar unto the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebol,
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  Speaker 2: as Moses, the servant of God commanded the children of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: as it is written in the Book of the Law
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  Speaker 2: of Moses. So I love how all of this time
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  Speaker 2: later that Joshua is using the Book of the Law
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  Speaker 2: um Torah to say, okay, well, what is our next step? See,
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  Speaker 2: God had already inspired the man of God Moses. He
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  Speaker 2: had already inspired him and given him instructions for many
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  Speaker 2: of the things that the children of God were to do.
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  Speaker 2: And so thank God, Joshua didn't turn his back on
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  Speaker 2: those truths. He returned to the scriptures and said, this
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  Speaker 2: is what God has commanded. Do you return to the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how many years later from whatever point you
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  Speaker 2: marked a spot in your life, ten fifteen years later,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, now God is reminding you of something,
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, where did those instructions go? Where
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  Speaker 2: where did the guidance go? Wait, let me go to
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  Speaker 2: the word of God. What do you have to say
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  Speaker 2: about this? God? Are you doing that? Are you living
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  Speaker 2: that reality? As it was written in the Law of Moses,
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  Speaker 2: an alter of whole stones. They weren't to be cut
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  Speaker 2: or chiseled or formed, because that would drag them back
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  Speaker 2: into idolatry over which no man had lift any iron.
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  Speaker 2: And they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and
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  Speaker 2: sacrificed peace offerings. Aren't you glad that God has made
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  Speaker 2: provision for your salvation so that when you have had
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  Speaker 2: that forgiveness of sins, have the cleansing of God in
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  Speaker 2: your life, that you can live at peace with God.
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  Speaker 2: You can offer yourself in a peaceful situation, not always
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  Speaker 2: in this moment having to apologize, because you've resolved that
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  Speaker 2: between you and God already, You've already agreed with God
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  Speaker 2: in confession. You've already received by faith the sorrow for sin,
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  Speaker 2: godly sorrow for sin, as Paul called it. And you
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  Speaker 2: have also received the ability, the will and to do
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  Speaker 2: like to turn the shoulder, to go the opposite direction
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  Speaker 2: from your sin and move toward holiness. Aren't you glad
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  Speaker 2: that we can do this? And so the Bible is
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  Speaker 2: teaching us we can be at peace with God, but
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  Speaker 2: we must do so by faith. And so our first lesson,
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson, grace meets justice on the mountain of
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  Speaker 2: the curse. First, let's read from Galatians chapter three. If
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  Speaker 2: you notice, we go between Old and New Testaments when
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  Speaker 2: we're teaching this, because we live in the New Testament
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  Speaker 2: era and verse thirteen, Christ hath redeemed us from the
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  Speaker 2: curse of the law being made a curse for us.
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  Speaker 2: You see at Mount Ebel, justice and mercy met. Justice
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  Speaker 2: and mercy met The judgment was deserved, but God's grace
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  Speaker 2: was offered. Every stroke of the sacrificial blade pointed forward
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  Speaker 2: to Calvary, where Jesus gave his life for us, where
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  Speaker 2: Jesus became both the altar and the offering. See, Mount
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  Speaker 2: Ebel was not chosen randomly. It was the mountain of
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  Speaker 2: the curse, the place symbolizing the consequence of breaking God's law.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that God goes into that place where
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  Speaker 2: everything went wrong, into that place where you broke your
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  Speaker 2: covenant with God, into that place, that secret place, the
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  Speaker 2: skeletons in the closet, place like up under the bed
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  Speaker 2: where nobody knows you're hiding those sins place those places.
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  Speaker 2: God goes into those places with his spiritually holy broom
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  Speaker 2: and mop and bucket and cleansing wave to destroy the
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  Speaker 2: yoke that are hiding in those places. That was the
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  Speaker 2: symbol of the consequence of breaking God's law. And yet
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  Speaker 2: right there the man of God, y Joshua Yeshua I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time, built an altar and offered sacrifices.
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  Speaker 2: It is the place where we fail that God needs
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  Speaker 2: to cleanse. Isn't that so this act revealed a profound truth.
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  Speaker 2: Even in judgment, God provides mercy. Let me just say this.
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  Speaker 2: By setting up the altar on Ebel, God's people declared
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  Speaker 2: that forgiveness and restoration could be found only through atonement.
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  Speaker 2: That is where God makes us, so that we are
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  Speaker 2: at one with Him, at one mint with Him. Where
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  Speaker 2: we were first hostile toward God, we were first enemies
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  Speaker 2: of God, but now we are at one. We are
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  Speaker 2: one with God. The blood on that altar prefigured, or
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  Speaker 2: was a shadow of, or a type of, the sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: of Christ, the blood of Christ who bore these of
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  Speaker 2: sin so that humanity might receive the blessing of life.
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  Speaker 2: Armorn't you glad? I'm gonna keep asking you. Aren't you
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  Speaker 2: glad that God made provision for you? Hmm? Aren't you
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  Speaker 2: glad that God has made provision for you? Our second
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  Speaker 2: lesson is the Cross turns sorrow into celebration. Reading from
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews Chapter ten, verses nineteen through twenty two, I will
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  Speaker 2: paraphrase or leave out a few of the words, having therefore,
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  Speaker 2: brethren boldness, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
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  Speaker 2: blood of Jesus. Let us draw near with a true heart,
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  Speaker 2: in full assurance of faith. Thank God, in full assurance
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  Speaker 2: of faith. Ellen White reminds us that at the communion table,
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  Speaker 2: believers are not to stand in the shadow of the cross,
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  Speaker 2: but in its saving light. Did you get the difference?
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  Speaker 1: I know?
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  Speaker 2: People say hide us under the shadow of the cross.
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  Speaker 2: We say that a lot. Well I don't say that,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of people God's people say that in
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  Speaker 2: prayer at the communion table, at the place where we
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  Speaker 2: are to commune and connect with God and to become
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  Speaker 2: one with God. We're not standing in the shadow of
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  Speaker 2: the cross, not anymore. We're having our sin. We've had
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  Speaker 2: our sin record forgiven. We are in the process of
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  Speaker 2: being cleansed from all unrighteousness and having that reality now
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  Speaker 2: we can stand in the saving light of the Cross.
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  Speaker 2: The altar in Mount Ebo was not a memorial of sin.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't the goal a memorial of sin to constantly
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  Speaker 2: put in your face like, boy, maybe I shouldn't say
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  Speaker 2: it this way, but really, like, there are some okay,
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  Speaker 2: some paradigms where people are recovering from alcoholism, right, they
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  Speaker 2: say they're recovering alcoholics. Well, I would say recovering from alcoholism.
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  Speaker 2: And they may introduce themselves like, hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: ld my name is LDH. My name is El David Harris,
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  Speaker 2: and I am a recovering alcoholic. I have been cleaned
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  Speaker 2: for this number of days, weeks, months, or years. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, ah, well, that's a memorial, no disrespect, but
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  Speaker 2: that's a memorial that's constantly reminding us of the thing
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  Speaker 2: that defeated us. So in this moment, God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that I want to make a memorial of
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  Speaker 2: your sin, but a proclamation of the victory. So our
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  Speaker 2: focus shifts from the things that we have done and
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  Speaker 2: failed at, and it shifts to the victory that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: has given us. I thank God for his victory. Make
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  Speaker 2: 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,