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11 23 2025 Eden and Canaan · 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 Sunday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, 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 day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Eden and Canaan, Eden and Canaan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually fascinating by that connection. Before we get into this,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this new day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: you have given us to consider how you get us
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  Speaker 2: from what went wrong at the garden and what went
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  Speaker 2: terribly right. If that's a way of saying it, for
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  Speaker 2: us to inherit the promise, please help us to inherit
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  Speaker 2: the promise. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: Eden and Canaan, so Adam and Eve obviously where given
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  Speaker 2: the Garden of Eden as their home. And I think
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  Speaker 2: many times when we read the Bible too quickly, or
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  Speaker 2: we're not paying attention, taking some things for granted, we
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  Speaker 2: make it seem as if Eden is the entire planet. Well,
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  Speaker 2: clearly it's not. And I know you're following with me.
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  Speaker 2: I know clearly it's not. Because they were cast out
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  Speaker 2: of Eden, you know, and they still had somewhere to live, right,
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  Speaker 2: But Eden is a representation of the original time they were.
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  Speaker 2: There was a representation of the closeness of the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God. The Tree of Life was there. God walked
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  Speaker 2: in the cool of the day and came and communed
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  Speaker 2: with them, like talked. I know, we don't say commune
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  Speaker 2: like that for real in our language these days. But
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  Speaker 2: they were able to walk and talk with God, you understand,
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  Speaker 2: Like whatever friends do. They were able to do that
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  Speaker 2: together with him. I don't want you to see this
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  Speaker 2: as like when a dignitary comes into your city or town,
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  Speaker 2: you understand. So they were so close to God that
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  Speaker 2: they were face to face. And of course after they
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  Speaker 2: chose to sin, they were put out of the garden.
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  Speaker 2: Of course God did not destroy them, and He's given
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  Speaker 2: them the blessing of being able to connect with Him.
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  Speaker 2: And now we are on this journey back to that
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  Speaker 2: same kind of connection. And one of the stopping points
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  Speaker 2: or waypoints along the journey was the Earthly Promised Land.
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  Speaker 2: Because everybody who is baptized into Christ are Abraham's seed
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  Speaker 2: and heirs, according to the promise that God made to Abraham,
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  Speaker 2: you understand. And so since that's the case. Since that's
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  Speaker 2: the case, whatever we see along the journey from each
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  Speaker 2: to Canaan is a way to learn how to connect
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  Speaker 2: to God eternally. That's the short version of the story.
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  Speaker 2: And so we come in to the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: story by reading. By reading in Genesis chapter three, in
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty three. Genesis is called the Book of Beginnings,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads Therefore the Lord sent him forth
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  Speaker 2: from the garden of Eden to till the ground from
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  Speaker 2: whence he was taken my word. Let me read one
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  Speaker 2: more thing from Genesis chapter thirteen, verses fourteen and fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: I'll leave out a little bit of it. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads. And the Lord said, unto Abram, all the
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  Speaker 2: land which thou seest, m hm, we have land. We
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  Speaker 2: have God speaking to one of his children, which thou
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  Speaker 2: seest to thee, will I give it and to thy
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  Speaker 2: seed forever. Okay. And so in the beginning, in the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: when God gave humanity a home, gave humanity a home,
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  Speaker 2: it reflected his heart, Eden, which was a place of
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  Speaker 2: abundance and peace and fellowship. The garden was a living
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  Speaker 2: classroom revealing who God is and how life flourishes under
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  Speaker 2: his rule or leadership. But when Adam and Eve chose
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  Speaker 2: to distrust God instead of obeying him, the ground that
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  Speaker 2: once gave freely now resisted them. They lost their territory
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  Speaker 2: because they lost their connection with God. And so this
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  Speaker 2: pattern reappears with God's people through that journey from Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: from Exodus from Egypt to Canaan. Canaan became a symbol
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  Speaker 2: of the restoration. You see where this is going. Distrust
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  Speaker 2: got God's people kicked out of the Garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 2: and learning to trust God and his promises got them
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  Speaker 2: back into the promised Land many years later. So the
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  Speaker 2: question really is am I actually preparing to go into
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  Speaker 2: the earthly promised land? And then the earth make the
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  Speaker 2: heavenly promised land, and then the earth made new after
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  Speaker 2: the thousand years are finished? You see? So the promised
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  Speaker 2: of land like Eden was always about the presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: This is really what we're talking about. If we strip
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  Speaker 2: this down, It's all about getting back into the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God, face to face. And so the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: in Hebrews chapter six and verse twelve, be not slothful,
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  Speaker 2: but followers of them through faith and patience to inherit
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  Speaker 2: the promises. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob literally never actually inherited
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  Speaker 2: the promised land, and yet they walked as heirs of
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  Speaker 2: a promise. They could not yet see faith taught them
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  Speaker 2: that ownership was not measured by possession, but by trust.
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  Speaker 2: They trusted that God was going to keep his promise.
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  Speaker 2: The land belonged to God, and living in it required
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  Speaker 2: dependence upon the same God. So if we're nearing home,
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  Speaker 2: if we're nearing the time when Jesus will return, nearing
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  Speaker 2: the time when we will shift from time to eternity
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  Speaker 2: and then ultimately inherit the earth, as according to Matthew
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  Speaker 2: chapter five, where Jesus said the meek will inherit the earth.
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  Speaker 2: If we're nearing that reality, then we need to be
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  Speaker 2: picking up the gleaning from the stories and experiences of
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  Speaker 2: God's people along the pathway. How did they lose connection?
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  Speaker 2: How did they regain connection? How did they inherit the
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  Speaker 2: promise on earthly Canaan? How did the ones who who
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  Speaker 2: missed the bus and not gotten it? How did that happen?
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  Speaker 2: And then when again God gives us the ultimate promise,
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  Speaker 2: we will have been prepared, and so we too are
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  Speaker 2: heirs not of Canaan's soil, but of Christ's kingdom. Our
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  Speaker 2: hope is rooted in God's grace. Every blessing we hold
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  Speaker 2: is unearned, sustained only by God's grace and our continual
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  Speaker 2: surrender to His will. Now, let me just read one
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  Speaker 2: more passage before I let you go. From Deuteronomy, chapter
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  Speaker 2: nine and verse six. Understand therefore that the Lord Thy
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  Speaker 2: God giveth thee not this good land to possess it
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  Speaker 2: because of your righteousness. This is where you get to
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  Speaker 2: praise God with me. Wherever you're watching on planet Earth
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  Speaker 2: right now, you get to praise God with me. That
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  Speaker 2: God did not give the people what he gave them
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  Speaker 2: because they earned it. They didn't work, and then God
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  Speaker 2: gave them a paycheck based on their work. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, from Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred and sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: it reads, the inheritance of the saints is not earned,
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  Speaker 2: but given. It is the free gift of God through Christ.
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  Speaker 2: You see, since I can't earn it, since I cannot
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  Speaker 2: merit it, since I don't deserve it. In fact, I
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  Speaker 2: deserve the extreme opposite. I stand on all of my
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  Speaker 2: whole two feet and my ten tolls, and I stand
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  Speaker 2: up and I say, thank God, Thank God for what,
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  Speaker 2: Thank God for not giving me what I deserve, but
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  Speaker 2: giving me, in fact, what Jesus deserve. Eden and Canaan
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  Speaker 2: now I can see some parallels. 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,