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10 28 2025 Dispossession or Annihilation · 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: 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 Tuesday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today, I have to say it slowly
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  Speaker 2: is dispossession or annihilation? Dispossession or annihilation. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: this evening for our evening meditations through the Word, where
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  Speaker 2: we go through what we're doing in the morning, but
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  Speaker 2: in more of a devotional reflective sense, right before it's
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day. Please take complete control of our lives in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name. I pray Amen and Amen again. So the
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer said on today's subject that God's original purpose
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  Speaker 2: for the Canaanites was not annihilation, but instead dispossession and
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  Speaker 2: examination of the passages that describe the way that God's
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  Speaker 2: people had been involved in the battles of conquest used
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  Speaker 2: terms that speak about dispossession, ejection, and dissipation carried out
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  Speaker 2: against the inhabitants of the promised land. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say this simply. Those are a lot of big words,
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  Speaker 2: just to simply say. God was saying that the people
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  Speaker 2: who were no were who were not his people who
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  Speaker 2: resisted him really should have has been moved out of
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  Speaker 2: the land like they should be. They should move somewhere
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  Speaker 2: else because God gave the promise that his people would
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  Speaker 2: inhabit that place. But instead they chose to war against God,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore they were annihilated. So get out the way,
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  Speaker 2: like that's all God wanted. He wanted them really to
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  Speaker 2: repent and then and then of course make way for
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  Speaker 2: the for the people of God to receive the promise.
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  Speaker 2: But they chose, they chose the hard route. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: does say that the way of the wicked is hard,
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  Speaker 2: is hard unnecessarily. So may I just say that I've
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  Speaker 2: gone through some things unnecessarily more difficult than they should
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  Speaker 2: have been, even living on planet Earth, because of the
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  Speaker 2: times that I did not choose to go God's route. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so our first lesson for today officially is God's
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  Speaker 2: goal was cleansing. That was his goal. That was his goal,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible says here in Deuteronomy, chapter seven and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty. Moreover, the Lord thy God will send the
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  Speaker 2: hornet among them until they that are left, until they
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  Speaker 2: that are left and hide themselves from thee be destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: my God. So his purpose in this whole Canaanite situation
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  Speaker 2: was about purification. Really, his command was to move the
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  Speaker 2: people out. It wasn't for them to be destroyed. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the goal. The goal was to remove the corruption,
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  Speaker 2: but not to destroy the creation. That's the reality for
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  Speaker 2: all of us. Like there is some corruption in the
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  Speaker 2: lives of people who continue to sin, and God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: I want to destroy that, not the person. I have
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  Speaker 2: no intention, well, have no desire to destroy the human.
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  Speaker 2: But if you have some things that you're holding on
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  Speaker 2: to that separates you from God, God forbid that. He
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  Speaker 2: wants to burn that up, not the human. Like hell
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  Speaker 2: fire was prepared for the devil and his evil angels,
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  Speaker 2: not for human beings. It was never intended for us
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  Speaker 2: to be separated from God. That's the reality. And the
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  Speaker 2: Canaanites' destruction came only after centuries of them hardening their hearts,
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  Speaker 2: making them inseparable from their idolatry. So the thing in
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  Speaker 2: their character that God wanted to destroy was so much
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  Speaker 2: interwoven in their actual the fiber of their mindset, the
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  Speaker 2: fiber of their activity, the fiber of their being. Since
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  Speaker 2: that was inseparable, than when the condemnation came, it became
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  Speaker 2: that it was against the human now because the human
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  Speaker 2: held on to the sin. God wanted to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of the sin, but the human wanted the sin. So
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  Speaker 2: both have to go. I don't know how else to say.
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  Speaker 2: That helped me, Holy Ghost, And so our actions still
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  Speaker 2: really is before our thinking or thought processes, before judging
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  Speaker 2: God's justice. I know what I just said, Remember his patience.
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  Speaker 2: He always gives space for repentance before he brings correction.
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  Speaker 2: So God is saying, take the step of examining yourself, Dave,
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  Speaker 2: examining yourself, all the people who are listening, all of
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  Speaker 2: you right now, and saying, okay, God is just and
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  Speaker 2: every human is a liar. Our second lesson, our second
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  Speaker 2: lesson comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter twelve and verse three,
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  Speaker 2: and ye shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars,
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  Speaker 2: and burn their groves with fire. So God commanded his
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  Speaker 2: people to destroy the altars, the idols, the shrines. It
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  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with the culture. Can I just
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  Speaker 2: say that has nothing to do with the culture. It
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  Speaker 2: was because these symbolized rebellion. This's the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: the devil had in heaven, like he really erected a
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  Speaker 2: shrine to himself. We see Nepkadnezzar erecting in Daniel chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: It's recorded a shrine unto himself that had to be destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: All of the human systems that are not really connected
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  Speaker 2: to God have to come down. It's better if we
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  Speaker 2: just relinquish them. But if we don't, in order for
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  Speaker 2: God to establish order throughout the universe, then we know
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  Speaker 2: that these things will be destroyed and so and so
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  Speaker 2: idolatry must be completely removed. Ask the Holy Ghost today,
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  Speaker 2: Ask God, please, through the Holy Ghost, to reveal what
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  Speaker 2: alters there are in your life? Are they habits? Are
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  Speaker 2: they desires? Are they influences? Like I just said yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: this is not one of those jump up and shout situations.
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  Speaker 2: This is reflective time. This is for us to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with God. In fact, let's act like it really is,
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  Speaker 2: Like This is a moment. This is not a program.
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  Speaker 2: This is a moment where we have to say, God,
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  Speaker 2: what is it inside of me? Like King David when
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  Speaker 2: he was confronted with his own sin by the prophet
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  Speaker 2: Nathan under the Holy Ghost, and he said, God, please
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  Speaker 2: don't let your Holy spirit come move from me. Please
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  Speaker 2: search me, wash me, make me clean? Will you please?
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  Speaker 2: Will you please? And if you do, I will teach
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  Speaker 2: transgressors your way. So let this moment be one of
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  Speaker 2: those moments as he reveals what it is. It's a
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  Speaker 2: habit is a desire? Is it an influence? Those have
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  Speaker 2: to be destroyed. So God alone reigns in your heart.
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  Speaker 2: My heart, I'm with you. I'm reflecting while i'm speaking,
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  Speaker 2: which is why I'm abandoning whatever else I have to say,
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  Speaker 2: just to capture this moment where we go to God,
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  Speaker 2: just us and God, with nobody watching, no lights, no camera,
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  Speaker 2: no action. This has become an altar call, even to me.
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  Speaker 2: If there's any wicked way within my own heart, God,
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  Speaker 2: please remove it, because you have done so much so
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  Speaker 2: that I can live with you eternally. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to write it down somewhere secret. It's not anybody else's
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  Speaker 2: business and say God, I surrender these things, these habits,
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  Speaker 2: these desires, these influences, so I can one day live
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  Speaker 2: begin living with you forever. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If the Lord spars life, we will see you this evening.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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