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02 27 2024 Forever Faithful to His Covenant · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning.
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  It's Tuesday, February twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is forever Faithful to His Covenant, Forever Faithful
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  to His Covenant. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  I like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to
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  please please let us know where you are in the world. This is
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  one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship at your daily
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  portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and
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  for the privilege we have to open your word again. Please teach us to
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  be faithful to you. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again,
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  forever faithful to His Covenant. Now, I know that there are some
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  of you who are like Bible scholars, and if I say something about covenant,
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  You're going to wonder, well, which one. And then if I
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  say something that seems to be related to a covenant related to Noah or the
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  New Covenant or the Davidic Covenant or some other covenant in the cloud because of
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  the rainbow after the flood where Noah and so forth right, and you'll want
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  to be like detailed and say, well, no, that's not which one
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  we were talking about. Okay, So I'm going to use the covenantal concept
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  as a principle today. Okay, So don't worry texts me or anything like
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  that and say, Dave, you missed the detail, because the principle of
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  these covenants and God's response and how this thing all works out is the same,
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  Okay, the same. So the fact is that God makes covenant with
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  humans. God makes covenant with humans, and the thing about it is humans
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  are faulty. Man, say that again, Humans are faulty. We make
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  a covenant with God, we make promises and vows to God and then fall
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  short, not always because we intend to fall short, but because our humanity
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  is limited. It's not an excuse, it's a reason. I'll come back
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  to that. So where David failed, we'll go to this Davidic covenant.
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  Where David failed, the son of David more than succeeded. I'm going to
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  come back to that principle in just a moment, Okay, let me read
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  from the lesson and then we'll get into the word. Although the human component
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  of the covenant failed, the people could rest in the promise of God's unchanging
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  promises through the Messiah. So you see where this is going. The humans
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  failed in the covenant, but the promises are kept through Messiah, who embodies
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  all righteousness and salvation of Israel and of the whole world. That is,
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  in the end, God will prevail and his eternal Kingdom will be established forever,
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  but only because Jesus, not because of God's people keep the covenant.
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  So Jesus is the son of David the Messiah according to Matthew chapter one and
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  verse one and Hebrews chapter one and verse eight. So I think we have
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  a base line here. The fact is, brothers and sisters, that covenants
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  have two sides. Now, God makes covenant with us that he will establish
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  relationships so that we can live eternally. That's an understatement. And then he
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  says, through what we call the New Covenant, that he makes with the
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  House of Israel. And we understand in the New Testament, these are anyone
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  who are baptized into Christ and now become Abraham's seed. So once we yield
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  our will to God, that means that we are recipients of this covenant,
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  even though he used the imagery of Israel, you see. And so he
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  makes this covenant between us and him, that he will write his laws in
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  our hearts and on our minds so that we can be His people, so
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  that we can keep covenant. You're like, but Dave, we fail so
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  much. We broke the covenant. That is true. So there is the
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  God side and the human side, the God side of the covenant and the
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  human side. Because God knows you, brothers and sisters, because he knows
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  me, he took care of both sides. Let me say that again.
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  He took care of both sides. And so let's get to the human side.
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  We understand that God keeps his covenant good on the human side. Now,
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  in the fullness of time, the Bible writer said, God sent forth
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  his son, made of a woman, made under the law, so that
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  he could fulfill what is in the law, and we could be adopted as
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  his children. We shall receive the adoption of sons. We were condemned to
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  eternal death, but because of Jesus coming and the fullness of time threw Mary
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  miraculously by the Holy Spirit. Now Jesus being the ultimate human, the ultimate
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  representation of what humanity was intended to be when God created Adam. Now that
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  second atom, this representative now of the human race, the son of David.
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  In Air quotes, he keeps the human side where Adam failed, the
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  second atom wins. Where David, the king, who was after God's own
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  heart, where he failed, and all of the kings that came after him,
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  where they technically failed. Some of them in an abysmal way, but
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  because of their humanity they failed. Where the throne was vacated by Zedekiah,
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  like no more earthly kings on David's throne, Jesus Christ, the son of
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  David, succeeded. I think we're getting the picture now. So God keeps
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  the covenant from the God side, and then when Jesus Christ comes through as
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  Messiah, he keeps the human side, so that by faith we can become
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  covenant keepers. This is good. This is good, It's more than good.
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  And so the Bible actually begins this has a discussion of this in the
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  Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and thirty two, verses ten through twelve.
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  And by the way, this is why we should be praying. God,
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  Please keep your promises through me. Lord, when I want to do
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  right, please teach me to do right in your strength. Abide in me.
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  So when I am living and moving and breathing, I am living and
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  moving and breathing according to the power that you put in my life. The
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  Bible reads here in verse ten. For the sake of David, your servant,
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  do not reject your chosen king. The Lord made a reliable promise to
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  David. He would not go back on his word. He said, I
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  will place one of your descendants on the throne. Now do you understand how
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  this works? We know now that the Davidic line had ended, at least
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  according to the normal human kingly succession, Zedekiah was the last one. Now
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  who was going to ascend the throne? God? Is it gonna be?
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  Well? I won't get into that. I think I'm gonna get on a
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  soapbox if I if I go off here, let me not do this.
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  Ah, But who is it going to be? God? It will not
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  be an emperor coming out of Ethiopia. It will not be some guy on
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  the internet who says that he is a descendant of the throne of David.
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  He is not. It says here in verse twelve. If your sons keep
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  my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on
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  your throne forever. Well, we know that they did not keep the covenant.
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  We know that they failed miserably. And so now enter g Jesus the
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  first born. According to Isaiah Psalm chapter eighty nine, at verse one,
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  I will appoint him to be my first born son, the most exalted of
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  the Earth's kings. I will always extend my loyal love to him, and
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  my covenant in him is secure. I will give him an eternal dynasty and
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  make his throne as enduring as the sky above. And so, Jesus is
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  a fulfillment of that covenant where David's descendants failed. And I'm so thankful.
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  Why because when I make a promise to God, now I can keep it.
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  Why because God empowers me to keep my promise to God. Do you
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  see how that works. It's a circle of love, forever faithful to his
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  covenant. Thank you God, Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,