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03 12 2025 Christ’s Parable of the Vineyard · 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 Wednesday, March twelve,
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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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is Christ's Parable of the Vineyard, Christ's Parable of
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  Speaker 2: the Vineyard. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot com this is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for loving us so far beyond our belief. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for the privilege of being called your children.
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  Speaker 2: Please teach us to be receptive to your voice. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray a men and a men again.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to preempt myself. Pardon me, pardon me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to preempt myself by saying that I am
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  Speaker 2: going to give you the pathway or the blueprint for repentance,
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  Speaker 2: especially for those of you who are running from God.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's odd for me to come on to
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  Speaker 2: this program at this moment and just say that there's
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  Speaker 2: somebody running from God. Listen, Statistically, it's easy to predict.
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  Speaker 2: There are always a set of people who are being
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  Speaker 2: brought to a platform, brought to a radio program, brought
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  Speaker 2: to something where God is speaking through his words. There
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  Speaker 2: are always people who need the pathway, and so I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to give it to you. But in the interim,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read from Matthew Chapter twenty one as
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  Speaker 2: you're praying. You're praying if you are already one of
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  Speaker 2: God's children and you are in good stead. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to say with him, then pray for the other
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  Speaker 2: ones who are going to need the pathway. I'm about
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  Speaker 2: to give. Okay, but first let me read from Matthew
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty one, and I'll read beginning at verse twenty three. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted
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  Speaker 2: his vineyard. He put a fence around it. That sounds familiar.
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  Speaker 2: He dug a pit for its wine press, and built
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  Speaker 2: a watch tower. Then he leased to the tenant farmers
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  Speaker 2: and went on a journey. When the harvest time was near,
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  Speaker 2: he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his
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  Speaker 2: portion of the crops. But the tenants seized the servants,
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  Speaker 2: beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: what And he sent verse thirty six other servants, more
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  Speaker 2: than the first, and they treated them the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Finally he sent his son. They said to themselves, this
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  Speaker 2: is the air. Come, let us kill him and get
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  Speaker 2: his inheritance. So verse thirty nine seized him, threw him
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  Speaker 2: out of the vineyard, and they killed him. Now, hold on,
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  Speaker 2: hold on, hold, on, hold on, hold on. So we
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  Speaker 2: read in Isaiah chapter five a very similar story, but
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  Speaker 2: now we see more details. We see that the landowner
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  Speaker 2: in the end after the people that he sent, He
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  Speaker 2: sent people time after time, time after time, with his authority,
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  Speaker 2: with his intent, like they represented him, they worked for him.
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  Speaker 2: He sent them, and they were mistreated and killed. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: this is an image of God sending his messages through
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  Speaker 2: his profits, throughout the ages, to his people first, to
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  Speaker 2: his people first, because really repentance begins with the House
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  Speaker 2: of God, like we need to learn how to connect
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  Speaker 2: with God before anybody else real talk. And then we
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  Speaker 2: go out and we share the same messages with others.
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  Speaker 2: But the let the story continues to say that when
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  Speaker 2: they had done all of that, he sent his best messenger.
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  Speaker 2: I think many of you your lights are turning on,
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  Speaker 2: like your minds aren't grasping this. He sent his son
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  Speaker 2: for God so loved the world. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: he sent his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in
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  Speaker 2: him would not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't
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  Speaker 2: send his son into the world to condemn the world,
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  Speaker 2: but that the world through him might be saved. This
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  Speaker 2: is what the Bible is teaching. God sent all of
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  Speaker 2: heaven in one gift. But the Bible also teaches that
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  Speaker 2: he was betrayed. Jesus was betrayed into the hands of
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  Speaker 2: his accusers. The Bible says that he came to his own,
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  Speaker 2: and his own received him. Not but thankfully he said,
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  Speaker 2: to as many as receive him. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that receiving God pardon a moment, but to as
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  Speaker 2: many as received him, to them gave he the power
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  Speaker 2: to become his children. And so it's very interesting that
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  Speaker 2: the connection between the two passages, the one I just
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  Speaker 2: read in one in Isaiah chapter five, is that he
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  Speaker 2: sent the prophets, he sent more prophets, finally he sent
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  Speaker 2: his son. Then his son was killed, and of course
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  Speaker 2: the question at the end in the Isaiah text is
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  Speaker 2: what more could I do? And of course, unfortunately, the
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  Speaker 2: resounding and reverberating answer is you couldn't do any more
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  Speaker 2: because you sent your best in the person and work
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  Speaker 2: of your dear son. And so, you know, it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: that the story continues in Matthew chapter twenty one, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, the people he was speaking to right after that,
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  Speaker 2: they were trying to find a way to take Jesus's life.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's speaking this parable, and just like the parable said,
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  Speaker 2: like he gave them the option. He said, yay, what
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  Speaker 2: what what should the landowner do in this scenario? And
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  Speaker 2: they were like, we need you need to deal with
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  Speaker 2: those people, the people who would do that, they need
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  Speaker 2: to be judged like they need to be dealt harsh
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  Speaker 2: with heart, dealt with harshly. And then the Bible says that, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they really were about to try to destroy Jesus. So
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  Speaker 2: they were a fulfillment of that prophecy. They basically called
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  Speaker 2: judgment down on themselves, on themselves. Yes, it's a deliberate pause.
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  Speaker 2: I promised you that we would talk about a pathway
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  Speaker 2: to repentance because true, indeed, sometimes we find ourselves separated
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  Speaker 2: from God at times. And so the Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: to acknowledge sin. In reality, I'm talking about own it,
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  Speaker 2: not just identify it, but own it. The Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: in first John chapter one, beginning at verse eight, if
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  Speaker 2: we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves
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  Speaker 2: and the truth is not in us. But God doesn't
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  Speaker 2: leave us there. Okay, He wants us to be able
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  Speaker 2: to identify it. He wants us to be able to
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  Speaker 2: own it. And then the Bible says, if we confess
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  Speaker 2: our sins, that means that we're agreeing with God his
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  Speaker 2: perspective about what actually happened. We are telling him the
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  Speaker 2: truth about what we have done or not done that
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  Speaker 2: has offended him and broken his law. If we confess
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  Speaker 2: our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
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  Speaker 2: our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Number two,
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  Speaker 2: we are to allow God to help us to feel
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  Speaker 2: godly sorrow or sinse godly sorrow for sin. In tewod Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seven and verse ten, the Bible reads, for godly sorrow,
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  Speaker 2: see he gives us. This produces a repentance, that is
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  Speaker 2: a turning away, a turning away from sin that brings
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  Speaker 2: no regret like you don't regret. Turning away from sin.
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  Speaker 2: Worldly sorrow brings about death. And so we accept the
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  Speaker 2: godly sorrow that God gives us for sinning. And then
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  Speaker 2: we turn from our sins. That's clear in the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Turn away from our sins number four, Turn toward God,
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  Speaker 2: turn away number three from our sins, turn forward toward God. Really,
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  Speaker 2: I should have turned it the other way. Four should
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  Speaker 2: be turn away from sin. Three should be turned toward God.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course look for the fruits of repentance.
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  Speaker 2: Bear fruit, bring forth therefore fruits that prove our repentance.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God, he has given us a pathway to connect
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  Speaker 2: with Him. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris, make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,