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10 08 2025 Conflicting Values · 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 Wednesday, October eight,
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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 through the Book of Joshua. It's Lessons of
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  Speaker 2: Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is Conflicting Values.
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  Speaker 2: Conflicting Values. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: and then you can apply apply what we are studying
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  Speaker 2: in the lesson to four key areas of your life.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then get underway. Father, Thank you, Thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the privilege of being called by your name. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to never have conflicting values with you. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to follow you with everything we have and everything
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  Speaker 2: we are in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: So this is very interesting. We are going to make
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  Speaker 2: a comparison between the way rayhab the Bible says she
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  Speaker 2: suffered from harlowtry like she was a harlot at a
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  Speaker 2: certain point in her life, and the gibbea knights and
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  Speaker 2: how that whole relationship and covenantal situation happened. And the
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer has us reading Joshua chapter nine, verses one
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  Speaker 2: through twenty, Hopefully you will have already done that. You're
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  Speaker 2: not coming here completely fresh. You will have already studied
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  Speaker 2: your lesson and read this passage. And the question is
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  Speaker 2: what are the similarities and differences between the story of
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  Speaker 2: Rahab and of the Gibea knights. Why are they so meaningful? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson already gave us a perspective, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to share some more perspective. And so the
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  Speaker 2: similarity that I'm seeing here from Joshua chapter to and
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  Speaker 2: verse eleven. For the Lord your God, he is the
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  Speaker 2: God in heaven above and in the earth beneath is
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  Speaker 2: Both sought mercy because they quote recognize the power of God.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name. Can I say it again? Both
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  Speaker 2: of them sought mercy because they quote recognized God's power.
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  Speaker 2: But the step for me, though, the step for me
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  Speaker 2: is when I recognize, and I'm saying this to you,
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  Speaker 2: it's a challenge for you. When you recognize God at work,
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  Speaker 2: respond in faith and humility rather than rebellion or resistance.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the Gibeon Night's story is complicated because they
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  Speaker 2: did some stuff by deception, but we'll get to that
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  Speaker 2: at the appropriate time. But whenever you see God at work,
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  Speaker 2: even if you have gone the wrong way, even if
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  Speaker 2: you find yourself having to repent, it doesn't matter. Come
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  Speaker 2: to the point now where you humble yourself before God.
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell that to myself. There are times
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  Speaker 2: that I made mistakes and some things that I jumped
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  Speaker 2: into sin that fell. I jumped into sin. I knew
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  Speaker 2: exactly what I was doing, and now I have to
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  Speaker 2: go to God and say, God, now I knew exactly
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  Speaker 2: what I was doing. I knew what your guidance was,
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  Speaker 2: what your directions were, I knew what your will was,
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  Speaker 2: but I went down the wrong pathway. Can you please
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  Speaker 2: forgive me and show me how to live righteously? Give
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  Speaker 2: me a new mind, a clean heart, and a right spirit, Father,
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  Speaker 2: so that I can, through the power of your holy gooes,
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  Speaker 2: do exactly what you say. Don't rebel because God checks you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't resist because God sends someone to you with his word.
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  Speaker 2: The word of the Lord came unto to David through
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  Speaker 2: the prophet Nathan, and David had a choice to make.
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  Speaker 2: Am I going to do what God says? Or am
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  Speaker 2: I going to be upset because God checked me? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's go to similarity number two from Hebrews, chapter eleven
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  Speaker 2: and verse thirty one. You probably weren't expecting that by
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  Speaker 2: faith the harlot rahab the harlot Rahab perished not with
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  Speaker 2: them that believed not see both of them, Rahab and
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  Speaker 2: the Gibbean Nights both were outsiders. They didn't come from
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  Speaker 2: among the people of God. They were outsiders, and they
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  Speaker 2: were spared by the grace of God. And so if
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  Speaker 2: I need to make that an action step for me,
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  Speaker 2: I need to remember that God's mercy can reach anyone,
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  Speaker 2: even me. I remember a preacher saying, I have seen
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  Speaker 2: God do so much with so little. I now believe
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to type in the chat if
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  Speaker 2: you know who I'm talking about, I'll tell you in
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  Speaker 2: a second. I now believe that he can do anything
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  Speaker 2: with nothing, meaning me. I have seen God do so
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  Speaker 2: much with so little. I now believe he can do
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  Speaker 2: anything with nothing meaning me. That was the late Ee Cleveland,
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  Speaker 2: pastor Ee Cleveland. So remember that God's mercy can reach anyone,
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  Speaker 2: including me. Hmmm, I want you to say that to yourself,
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  Speaker 2: including me. God's grace can reach anyone at any point
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  Speaker 2: in our experience as long as we're willing to surrender
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  Speaker 2: to God, even those with flawed methods or imperfect motives.
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  Speaker 2: You've made mistakes based on broken mindset, based on things
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  Speaker 2: that you saw your parents do, or you did an
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  Speaker 2: experience in terms of growth from your family line, or
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  Speaker 2: you just for whatever reason, had chosen the wrong pathway.
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  Speaker 2: God can deal with those flawed methods and imperfect motives.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's called grace like That's why the songwriter
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  Speaker 2: was right when they penned amazing grace. How swiet the
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  Speaker 2: sound to save a wretch like me. It didn't say
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  Speaker 2: save a saint like me, didn't say save somebody with
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  Speaker 2: promise like me. It said, saved a wretch like me.
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  Speaker 2: I once was laws, but now I'm found. And of
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  Speaker 2: course the Bible teaches us that God has a way
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  Speaker 2: of perfecting us. And of course there are differences. There
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  Speaker 2: are differences in the Book of Joshua, chapter two and
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  Speaker 2: verse nine. I know that the Lord hath given you
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  Speaker 2: the land. So the difference here is Rahab confessed the truth.
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  Speaker 2: She confessed the truth. I know the Lord has done this.
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  Speaker 2: But the Gibbea Knights relied on deception. They chose a
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  Speaker 2: little crafty way to get into the good graces of
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  Speaker 2: God through his people. At least that's what they were
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  Speaker 2: attempting to do. So God honors truth spoken in faith
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  Speaker 2: more than these clever little schemes. We make up ways
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  Speaker 2: of getting what we desire. Right, they seek His will
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  Speaker 2: before making binding decisions, and so in Patriarchs and Prophets,
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  Speaker 2: page five hundred and six, it reads the Gibbea knights
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  Speaker 2: had resorted to deception. Can I just pause right here
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  Speaker 2: and say, don't do that? How can you resort to
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  Speaker 2: deception when you are coming into the presence of God
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  Speaker 2: in this case through his people, they resorted to deception.
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  Speaker 2: They resorted to deception. But but wait a minute. They
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  Speaker 2: had renounced their idolatry. Okay, we're going we're trending in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction, and they accepted the worship of Jehovah,
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name, and God in his infinite mercy.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to say, mercy found me. Type it
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  Speaker 2: in the chat Mercy found me. That's called unmerited favor.
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  Speaker 2: God is not going to give people the punishment and
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  Speaker 2: condemnation we deserve once we are surrendering our will to God.
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  Speaker 2: And so it says here God in his infinite mercy
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  Speaker 2: spared them, thus showing that He desired all who would
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  Speaker 2: forsake the service of Satan to enter into his service.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that even though Rahab so called, was
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  Speaker 2: a harlot, even and she had a direct faith in
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  Speaker 2: God and learned the lesson that way. And aren't you
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  Speaker 2: glad that the Gibbeonites who did resort to deception but
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  Speaker 2: found their way to God. That God is willing to
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  Speaker 2: accept you in the beloved once you surrender your will
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  Speaker 2: to God. So really, just like, surrender your will to
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  Speaker 2: God and he'll accept you.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,