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03 06 2024 The Parable of the Lord's Vine · 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, March six, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is the Parable of the Lord's Vine.
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  The Parable of the Lord's Vine. We'll get into that in just a month
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  moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  please go over to your Daily Portion dot com, please join our online community,
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  life, like in person and through the Internet. That is letting me know
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  that this is gospel. God's gospel through this particular program is being spread into
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  the world literally, and I'm thankful that we have our small part to play
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  in that regard. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to open
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  your word today. Please fill us with your holy spirit. Teach us to
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  serve you. Please, Lord, help us to be connected to you and
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  not let go. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  You know Jesus said, I am the vine. You are the branches,
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  and everybody who stays connected to me. Let me just read it.
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  Actually, let me not mess it up here John chapter fifteen. Let's go
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  to the book of John chapter fifteen. I am the true vine, beginning
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  at verse one. And my father is the vine dresser or the husbandman.
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  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away, and every
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  branch that beareth fruit he prunes it. So it can be better, yep,
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  that it may bring forth more fruit. Okay, Now ye are clean
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  through the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I
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  in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in
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  the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in the vine. I
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  am the vine. You are the branches. He that abide in me and
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  I in him. So now we know what the cheatk code is. Now
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  we know what we need in order to win here. So he that abideth
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  in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For
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  without me you can do nothing. If a person abide not in me,
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  he is cast forth as a branch, and that is withered, and people
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  gather them and cast them in the fire and are burned verse seven. In
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  final, if ye abide in me, now we have some clarity, and
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  my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
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  shall be done unto you. Isn't it a privilege for us to be in
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  the vine, which is Jesus Christ. Isn't it a privilege to be called
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  by him? This is the parable of the Lord's vine. Now we're going
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  back to the Book of Psalms. It is it. It is clear now
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  that it's about abiding in God through Christ. In twenty twenty four. We
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  don't have to look only into the past, but we can see now what
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  this looks like in our day through Christ. Okay, and so we go
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  to the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty, just to see the imagery now.
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  And first, let me sorry read some of what the lesson writer said.
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  Israel is portrayed, or God's people is portrayed as a vineyard that God
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  uprooted from Egypt, the land of oppression, and transported into the promised land
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  for abundance. The image of the vineyard conveys God's selection or election of God's
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  people Israel, and his providential care. However, however, God's vineyard is
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  under the wrath of God. The prophets announced the vineyard's destruction as a sign
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  of God's judgment because the vine has turned bad. The vine has turned bad.
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  Remember what I read from the Book of John gave us the key to
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  this, that we need to be abiding in Him and God abiding in us,
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  so we do bear much fruit. If not, then we are separated,
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  we wither. And then men come and gather together gather these together,
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  and they are are burned. And so this is why we need to focus
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  on what happened to the people in the past, the decisions they have made.
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  Okay, and so verse eight of the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty
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  reads, thus you uprooted a vine from Egypt, and you drove out nations
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  and transplanted it. So now we see that God, because he's good,
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  not because we're good, but God, because he's good, elected his people
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  and took care of them, not because of anything that they had done.
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  But then in verse twelve we see this interesting contrast. Why have you broken
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  down its walls so that all who pass by pluck its fruits? So this
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  symbolizes God's displeasure and his corrective judgment. So God is equal, like he's
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  not just turning a blind eye, Like he's not turning a blind eye and
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  saying like, no matter what to his people, whatever happens, it doesn't
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  matter, I'm going to live. I'm gonna do this for you. No,
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  there are times that God's judgment comes because God's people refuse to repent.
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  You understand, And I'm not talking about only God's people in this context.
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  I am speaking of God's people. So if we don't repent, then God
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  has given us a clear cut reality. The wrath of God does come.
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  We can't shy away from it. We cannot act like this is not part
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  of also the character of God. Because ultimately God's purpose in the earth is
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  to adjoin it to heavenly places like the holiness and the righteousness that exists throughout
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  other areas of the universe. He needs the earth to come into line so
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  that one day sin and sinfulness will be completely gone. Sin and sinners will
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  be gone, the devil and all of his evil angels will have been destroyed.
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  And so God has to do what he has to do. But guess
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  what. God is so good and you want to say, well, how
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  good is he? Dad? He's so good that this does not have to
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  be our plight, Like we can actually serve and follow God so that this
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  does not have to be our outcome. And so there is a tension between
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  God's wrath and his grace right and we see it clearly in verse nineteen.
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  God of Heaven's armies restore us, smile on us, then we will be
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  delivered. Isn't it good that God still can smile on his people. Isn't
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  it good that when we call on him he will answer? Ah? Isn't
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  it good that we can turn away from our sins and turn away from our
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  unrighteousness and be delivered so that we can be holy? Yes? And so
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  this Psalmist grapples with the coexistence of God's wrath and his grace. Grace is
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  power of God to do in our lives what he wants us to do,
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  fearing total consumption by God's anger. So this portrays the hope of redemption despite
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  God's judgment. There is hope that we can be holy. There is hope
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  that our relationship can be restored and not have to be fearful. We don't
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  have to be be fearful of God's wrath. We just need to turn toward
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  God. And in that vein we go to the Book of Jeremiah, chapter
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  twenty four and verse seven. I want you to see yourselves in this regard
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  and verse seven, I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am
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  the Lord. You realize that God is giving us his desires, like there
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  are people who don't desire God, and God is saying, I'm going to
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  instill it into the bosom of these people right to acknowledge that I am the
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  Lord. They will be my people and I will be their God, for
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  they will hoolleheartedly return to me. Of course, he's speaking in a particular
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  context, but it gives us the heart and mind of God, repentance as
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  returning to God. The concept of being restored is linked to repentance and returning
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  to God. This indicates that there is transformation and renewal that can happen when
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  we are committed to God. I'm thankful that there is this parable of the
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  vibe. But God has given us the promise that we can live eternally with
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  Him. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
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  of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  it a great day. Yeah,