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11 10 2024 Harking Back to Abraham · 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: 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 ten,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion.
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  Speaker 2: We give you God's Word every single day and today
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  Speaker 2: is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study
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  Speaker 2: series Themes and the Gospel of John, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is HARKing back to Abraham, HARKing back to Abraham,
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  Speaker 2: making a look back at Father Abraham, as the songwriter
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  Speaker 2: would have said, had many sons. Yeah, we'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and for this new work week, and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: we have to look at the life of Abraham. And
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  Speaker 2: there's so many things that you want us to understand
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  Speaker 2: and to do and to live and experience from you. Please, Father,
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  Speaker 2: open up our mind today, make us receptive to your will,
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  Speaker 2: bear bear our burdens under test and trials in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. HARKing back to Abraham. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we're going to the Bible Book of Romans, Romans
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  Speaker 2: chapter four, pardon me, Romans, chapter four, and we will
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  Speaker 2: read beginning verse one the Book of Romans chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: and we will read beginning at verse one, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, what shall we say then that Abraham, our father,
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  Speaker 2: as pertaining to the flesh, had found. Let me say
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  Speaker 2: it again, what then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor,
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  Speaker 2: according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter Verse two.
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  Speaker 2: For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of
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  Speaker 2: the law, he has something to boast about, but not
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  Speaker 2: before God. For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed
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  Speaker 2: God and it was credit to him as righteousness. So
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  Speaker 2: what did the scriptures say that Abraham believed? We talked
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  Speaker 2: about believing yesterday, the kind of belief that is transformative
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  Speaker 2: in nature. Abraham believed, and it was accounted to him
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  Speaker 2: or credited to him as righteousness. Now to the one
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  Speaker 2: who works, his pay is not credited due to grace,
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  Speaker 2: but due to obligation. So when you go to work,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, you work your forty hours or however
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  Speaker 2: many hours you work. Or if you're on a contract
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  Speaker 2: or you're a consultant or a coach or whatever, people
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  Speaker 2: pay you based on your delivery of products and or services.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they pay you, not because they like you,
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  Speaker 2: not because they feel like, you know what, I don't
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  Speaker 2: have anything better to do with this money. So let
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  Speaker 2: me just pour it into their coffers. No, so when
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  Speaker 2: you get paid at work or in exchange for goods
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  Speaker 2: or services, it is because of your work that you
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  Speaker 2: get paid. But what the Bible is telling us right
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  Speaker 2: now is is no. The reason why Abraham was paid,
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  Speaker 2: or it was credited to his spiritual bank account that
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  Speaker 2: he was righteous, was because he believed God. God did
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  Speaker 2: know him anything. It was the grace of God, unmerited favor.
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  Speaker 2: So nothing he earned, nothing in his own strength that
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  Speaker 2: he did notice the qualifier here in his own strength,
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  Speaker 2: Nothing that in his own strength he did. God said,
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  Speaker 2: because you believed with the power that I have invested
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  Speaker 2: in you, the power that I have put into your bosom,
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  Speaker 2: to believe me that measure of faith that I have
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  Speaker 2: given you that Jesus is the author and finisher of.
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  Speaker 2: Because you now act with the saying strength that I
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  Speaker 2: give you to act upon that faith, I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to flood your spiritual bank account with righteousness. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna see you as if you have never sinned. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: But verse five, to the one who does not work
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  Speaker 2: but believes, and the one who declares the ungodly righteous,
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  Speaker 2: his faith is credited as righteousness I love it. Peter
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  Speaker 2: said that Paul when he's preaching and teaching like sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we don't know what he's talking about. It's so heavy
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that we need to really just pause and pray
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  Speaker 2: and think and say, Okay, God, what is it that
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  Speaker 2: you want me to get from what brother Paul was teaching?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thankful that in this case we could walk
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  Speaker 2: slowly and say, Okay, I get it God. Whenever we
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  Speaker 2: have righteousness in the banks of heaven, it is because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus deserves it. Can I say it one more time?
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  Speaker 2: Whenever we have righteousness accounted in our bank accounts, in
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  Speaker 2: spiritual bank accounts in heaven, it's because Jesus is worthy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thankful. I'm thankful because that takes the stress load
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  Speaker 2: off of me. I can actually take Jesus's yoke upon
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  Speaker 2: me and learn of him because his yoke is easy,
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  Speaker 2: his burdens are light, and I can find rest unto
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  Speaker 2: my soul. That doesn't mean I take him for granted,
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  Speaker 2: because that's not belief. We said yesterday that true belief
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  Speaker 2: when we love him we actually keep his commandments. True
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  Speaker 2: belief is about holiness and righteousness, living in the way
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  Speaker 2: that pleases God. But if we choose to take up
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  Speaker 2: our own burdens, if we choose to try our best
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  Speaker 2: to be holy, rather than submitting our will to God
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  Speaker 2: and Him making us holy, that's where we fall off.
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  Speaker 2: So Abraham gave us the good and great example. In
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  Speaker 2: the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page one hundred and fifty four,
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  Speaker 2: we read through type and promise God preached before before
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel unto Abraham, and the patriarch's faith was fixed
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  Speaker 2: upon the Redeemer to come, said Christ to the people
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  Speaker 2: of God. Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see
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  Speaker 2: my day, and he saw it and was glad. So
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was saying, I was there when Abraham was there.
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  Speaker 2: In Abraham, Father, Abraham, your spiritual father is actually my son.
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  Speaker 2: Your spiritual father is my son. And if you believe
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  Speaker 2: in me, then I will give you the I will
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  Speaker 2: give you the airship. I will give you the inheritance
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  Speaker 2: that I promised to your father Abraham. Now let me
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  Speaker 2: continue reading the ram offered in the place of Isaac
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  Speaker 2: resented the Son of God who was to be sacrificed
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  Speaker 2: in our stead when man was doomed to death by
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  Speaker 2: transgression of the love of God. The Father, looking upon
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  Speaker 2: his son, said to the sinner, live or I have
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  Speaker 2: found a ransom? Can I say it just a little
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  Speaker 2: bit simpler? Thank God for the scriptures. Abraham's story was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Abraham didn't do everything the way God wanted him to
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  Speaker 2: do it. This is, in fact, why this whole story
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  Speaker 2: of Abraham being called to sacrifice his son, why that
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  Speaker 2: happened because he and Sarah tried to manufacture and answer
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  Speaker 2: to prayer by going into Hagar and having a child
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  Speaker 2: with you with another woman when he's married to Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: First do you understand? And so now the test, go
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  Speaker 2: and sacrifice your son, Isaac, go in sacrifice your son
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  Speaker 2: to me. And the Bible says that right before, even
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  Speaker 2: though Isaac he he bears his cross, he has the wood,
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  Speaker 2: even though Isaac he sees the fire, and he says,
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  Speaker 2: this is for the sacrifice, even though he now is asking,
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  Speaker 2: but Father, we see the wood, we have the fire,
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  Speaker 2: the altar is prepared, but we don't have a sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: As Abraham says, God will provide himself a ram. God
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  Speaker 2: will provide himself a sacrifice. God will provide himself as
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  Speaker 2: a sacrifice through Christ hallelujah. When this happens and he's
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  Speaker 2: about to do the deed, the Bible says that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and symbol replaces him as the sacrifice and shows us
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  Speaker 2: what salvation really is about.
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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,