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01 24 2024 Defender and Deliverer · 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
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Wednesday, January twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is Defender and Deliverer. Defender and Deliverer
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  Is God your defender? Is He your deliverer? I know he wishes to
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  be and it's really up to you to accept it. We'll get into it
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  in just a moment, but first I like to say welcome to everyone joining
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  us, especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking you
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  to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online
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  community and pick up the Your Daily Portion book. Let us also know where
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  you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is our
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  way of continuing to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us
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  this new day and for the privilege that you have entrusted to us to come
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  into your presence with thanksgiving. Father, please help us to accept you as
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  our defender and our deliverer. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  a man again. Okay, So the question again is do you accepite God
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  as your defender and your deliverer? Yeah? There are times that we take
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  in hand aspects of our own lives that really are in God's hands, you
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  see. Okay, So vengeance is mine Seth the Lord. Do you remember
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  hearing anything like that before? I will repay. There are times that people
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  seek reprisals and vengeance and revenge because maybe they feel like there was some injustice
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  that happened to their family. Somebody did something to you, and maybe you
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  want to go back and do something to them. Somebody did something to a
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  family member, you want to go back and do something to them or their
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  family member. Or you understand where I'm going, Yeah, tit for tat
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  Well, God is saying I'm the one that defends you. There are times
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  that you're having arguments and discussions unfortunately, or people come to you with things
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  that happen not to be true in regard to your character. Is it at
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  work, is it at church? Is it at play somewhere else? And
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  some other relationship that you have and you feel like I need to defend myself.
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  Well, maybe there are times that you need to speak up no disrespect
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  like there may be times, but there are times that we go into full
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  defense mode and God said, I am your defender. Yeah, I wish
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  I had the time. Let's go to an extreme example. I'm calling it
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  that. Maybe it's not an extreme example of God being a defender and a
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  deliverer for his people. So we're going into the Book of Psalms, chapter
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  one hundred and fourteen. Have you ever read that chapter before? Something to
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  think about. We're going to begin at verse one the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter one hundred and fourteen and verse one. The Bible reads, when Israel
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  went out of Egypt the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language.
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  Judah was his sanctuary and Israel was his dominion. The sea saw it
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  and fled. Jordan was driven back. So clearly we're talking about Joshua is
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  the one who is leading God's people by this time, and God is showing,
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  just like he did that first generation of freed slaves out of Egypt,
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  that he is still on their side, he is able to deliver them,
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  and as he parted the Red Sea, he is parting the Jordan. Okay,
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  the Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the
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  little hills like lambs? What ailed thee Oh, thou see that thou Fledtest
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  thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains that ye skipped like
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  rams, and ye little hills like lambs, tremble thou earth at the presence
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  of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. What which
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  turned the rock into standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters?
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  And so it's really interesting that God would use this imagery. The Jordan was
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  driven back. I'm reading now from the Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume
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  three. The miraculous providences were seen at both the beginning and the ending of
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  God's people's journey from Egypt to Canaan. When I was young, we did
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  play this game on Sabbath evenings Friday nights, called Egypt to Canaan. We
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  can take courage in the fact that the same God who let us out of
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  Egypt or Egyptian bondage of sin, will conduct us safely through Jordan's stormy billows
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  to the land of Promise on the farther shore. And so the writer here
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  is saying that in the same way that God delivered his people from Egypt originally
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  passed through the Red Sea on dry ground, the same way at the time
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  that they were entering earthly Canaan, and the Jordan River and all other obstacles
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  stood in their way, and he parted the Jordan River, he had Jericho's
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  walls come down. He took down those walls in the same way that He
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  delivered his people in that way. In the end, at the end of
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  time, God will ultimately deliver his people so that we will enter into the
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  heavenly Promise. And then, of course the earth made new. I'm thankful
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  that God has given us these these small bites throughout scripture to show that He
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  listens to and then delivers his people. Now, Paul had something to say
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  about this under inspiration in the book of First Corinthians, chapter ten, And
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  so we're going to read First Corinthians chapter ten and begin at verse one.
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  The Bible reads, moreover, brethren, moreover, brethren, I would not
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  that ye be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud and
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  passed through the sea, and we're all baptized into Moses in the cloud and
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  in the sea. So now we're seeing that there is a spiritual implication not
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  only that God is a deliverer, not only is God our defender, but
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  he is the one that transforms our lives. You see, Baptism is not
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  just that we go into the water, wet a water and get wet and
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  then come back out of the water wet, like go into the water as
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  a wet sinner, come back out as a wet sinner. No, no,
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  no, no, no no. What God is saying is that when
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  we enter into right relationship with God and we are baptized, it is that
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  we have already made a decision to serve God. We've already made the decision
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  that God indeed is our defender, He is indeed our deliverer, and that
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  we agree with him, and that we are yielding our will to God.
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  And then we signify that by going down into the water. Now we are
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  going down into the water signifying our death to sin. Yes, And then
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  coming out of the water, not as if the water transforms us. Ah,
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  But now in symbol we are saying we are dead to sin, and
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  now coming out of the water, alive to God, dead to sin,
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  alive to God. No longer a sinner, but now a sinner saved by
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  grace, better known as a sink. Okay. And then the Bible continues
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  verse two, And we're all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the
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  sea. And did all eat the same spiritual meat, so the manna was
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  more their daily portion? Did you hear that their daily portion was more than
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  what went down in their belly? And did all drink the same spiritual drink?
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  Some of you will catch up in a second here, Ah, For
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  they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.
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  And so God is giving us another view from Paul's perspective in the New
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  Testament era, to say that the manner that they got in the wilderness was
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  really Jesus being provided to them as their daily bread. And then being in
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  the waters, passing through the waters and coming out on the other shore without
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  it being wet at all, passing through on dry land was God giving them
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  deliverance into right relationship with Him. And so we see all throughout God's people's
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  history that He has never left them, he has never forsaken them. And
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  in all times, in all places, the pathway to Jerusalem was fraught with
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  trials, but God always wins. A wonderful day, Peace. Thanks for
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  joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,