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12 19 2025 The Certainty of God’s Word · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, December nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series just a little longer, lessons of Faith from Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the certain of God's Word.
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  Speaker 2: The certainty of God's Word. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: this time of preparation. Help us to prepare our hearts
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  Speaker 2: and not just our stuff. Please give us holiness in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. I neglected
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  Speaker 2: You'll see it there already listed and ready for you
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  Speaker 2: to get the notification. So let's go ahead and jump
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  Speaker 2: right in, and as per usual, I will go back
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  Speaker 2: into the eighteen hundreds, dig into the crates and see
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  Speaker 2: if there's anything that can be useful to us for today,
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  Speaker 2: And I did find one in the review in Herald
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  Speaker 2: August twenty, eighteen seventy four. You'iah Smith is the author.
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  Speaker 2: The Law reveals sin, Justice reveals it's penalty. Heard that, clearly,
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  Speaker 2: all that's good. The law reveals sin, Justice reveals its penalty. Well, now, what, God,
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  Speaker 2: are you going to just leave us here? No? Here?
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  Speaker 2: It continues. The Gospel reveals the one who bears that penalty.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not just identifying the problem. I think the problem.
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  Speaker 2: One of the problems with Christian E speaking people, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I call us sometimes it's a language, right, is
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  Speaker 2: we're able to identify problems, problems, problems, we know what
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  Speaker 2: they are. We have complaints, complaints, we know what those
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  Speaker 2: are and what we should be doing. We know what
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  Speaker 2: that is. But do we actually live the gospel? That's
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  Speaker 2: the question. The Gospel of Jesus Christ reveals the one
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  Speaker 2: who bears that penalty. In this harmony, the certainty of
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  Speaker 2: God's word stands unshaken. So we see what the problem
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  Speaker 2: is sin. We see what the other problem is. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm a sin, then I'm going to be what condemned?
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  Speaker 2: Oh but I need a remedy. What's the remedy Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ bearing the penalty for me? And all I need
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  Speaker 2: to do is consistently surrender my will to God and
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  Speaker 2: He will deal with all of that problem in my life,
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  Speaker 2: not just in the universe. The universe the way the
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  Speaker 2: universe getting a lot of pub these days. Anyway, let
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  Speaker 2: me continue before I get sidetracked from the book Patriarchs
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  Speaker 2: and Prophets, page five hundred and twenty two. God has
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  Speaker 2: faithfully pointed out the results of sin fast forwarding. If
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  Speaker 2: his warnings were not true, how could we be sure
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  Speaker 2: his promises would be fulfilled? So we can really actually
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  Speaker 2: see that what God says about the hardness hard the
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  Speaker 2: way of the wicked is hard. And when God says,
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  Speaker 2: if you do this, then this is the outcome. If
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  Speaker 2: you do that, then that is the outcome. If you
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  Speaker 2: do this, this is the outcome. And since he has
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent accuracy rate over all of the millennia
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  Speaker 2: since humans first heard that if you eat of the
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  Speaker 2: fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  Speaker 2: you shall surely die. Well, we're Adam and Eve now,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, where's Adam and Eve right now? They're dead
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  Speaker 2: like they're dead, and spiritually they began to die. But God, ha,
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  Speaker 2: But God, through what Euriahs said a little while ago,
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  Speaker 2: we read what he had written through the Gospel, he
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  Speaker 2: bore the penalty so they didn't have to die eternally.
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  Speaker 2: So presumably they're resting in the grave awaiting the command
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  Speaker 2: of God for them to come up, for the earth
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  Speaker 2: to give up, and then he will take his people
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  Speaker 2: to heaven for a thousand years and then inherit the
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  Speaker 2: earth for the rest of eternity. Okay, so I know
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  Speaker 2: I said a lot. Let's go to our lesson number
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  Speaker 2: one for today. It is God's warnings are as certain
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  Speaker 2: as his promises. From the Book Number of Numbers, chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty three and verse nineteen, we read God is not
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  Speaker 2: a man that he should lie, he has said, and
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  Speaker 2: shall he not do it? Let me read it from
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  Speaker 2: another translation, New English translation. God is not a human
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  Speaker 2: being that he should lie, has he said, and will
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  Speaker 2: he not do it? So when God says something, we
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  Speaker 2: can take that to the bank, because he's one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent right, one hundred percent of the time, and he's
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  Speaker 2: always telling the truth. And so the word for lie
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  Speaker 2: here we see God is not lying. He's not lying.
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  Speaker 2: He's not like humans who do lie. He's not like
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  Speaker 2: the devil who's the father of lie. So the word
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  Speaker 2: for lie kazav it means to deceive, but it also
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  Speaker 2: means to fail. God doesn't fail. We know he doesn't deceive.
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  Speaker 2: And to prove false, well, God's always true. He's always right.
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  Speaker 2: God's warnings and promises flow from the same unchanging character.
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  Speaker 2: Just as God fulfilled every good word to his people,
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  Speaker 2: according to Joshua, chapter twenty one and verse forty five,
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  Speaker 2: he will fulfill every warning regarding sin. Nothing to see here, folks,
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  Speaker 2: like people think that we can over Sometimes humans believe
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  Speaker 2: that we can. It's almost like when people are ready
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  Speaker 2: to commit a crime, they feel like they're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: do the time. Humans feel like if they can escape
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  Speaker 2: the reality of the law, Like what's supposed to happen,
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  Speaker 2: if I God forbid rob a bank, We think we
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  Speaker 2: can do that with impunity, because maybe one time he
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  Speaker 2: robbed a bank, two times he robbed a bank. But
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  Speaker 2: eventually I wanted to say it a certain way, but
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  Speaker 2: I won't because we're on the air. You're gonna get caught.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a matter of time. But whether
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  Speaker 2: or not humans catch you, you know, God is always watching.
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  Speaker 2: God is not mocked what a human will sow. That's
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  Speaker 2: what humans will also reap. And so real talk like
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  Speaker 2: divine justice. Isn't God trying to get at us, Like
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  Speaker 2: He's not looking for a way to just be punitive.
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  Speaker 2: It is necessary. It is an expression of his holiness
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  Speaker 2: and his reliability. He is committed to restoring love as
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  Speaker 2: the overarching principle and pervasive principle everywhere in the universe.
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  Speaker 2: And sin is in the way. He has to destroy
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  Speaker 2: sin full stop. And so your actions step forward today
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  Speaker 2: and mind is to reflect on one biblical warning that
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  Speaker 2: God speaks to your life. Lets its certainty lead you
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  Speaker 2: to deeper surrender and obedience. I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 2: the other two lessons quickly. Lesson number two is sin
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  Speaker 2: cannot be excused. Its consequences are real. God doesn't turn
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  Speaker 2: a blind eye. He doesn't say, because I love you,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to act like you didn't. Because he loves you,
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  Speaker 2: he gave you, he gave me Jesus Christ. Jesus died
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  Speaker 2: the death that we deserve so we can live the
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  Speaker 2: life that he deserves. So God is not excusing sin.
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  Speaker 2: He's not sweeping it under the rug like some church
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  Speaker 2: people do in committee meetings and acting like so that
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  Speaker 2: it can become some political football to kick around. No.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number three. As we close, God's justice and love
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  Speaker 2: meet fully in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day. 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.