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10 26 2025 The Canaanites’ Iniquity · 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: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lessons study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the cana knits Iniquity. The Canaan
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  Speaker 2: nits Iniquity. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this privilege
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. And so we begin.
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  Speaker 2: We begin with the Bible Book of Genesis Genesis chapter
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and verse verse sixteen, as we get our discussion started.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'll give you at least three lessons that
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  Speaker 2: you can you can use as you continue to study
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  Speaker 2: God's word for today. Okay, and so the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but in the fourth generation they shall come hither again,
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  Speaker 2: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
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  Speaker 2: Is not yet full. Now the lesson is going to
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  Speaker 2: come in from this text and Leviticus chapter eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty five, where it reads and the land is defiled.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and
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  Speaker 2: the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. And so what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do is is look at the concept
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  Speaker 2: of how God's mercy always comes before his condemnation or
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  Speaker 2: what we would call judgment, okay in this case, because
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  Speaker 2: in judgment there are two possible outcomes. There's one where
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  Speaker 2: the people are seen as not guilty or I should say,
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  Speaker 2: actually innocent, as if we had never sinned. And then
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  Speaker 2: there is the other option, which God forbid anybody listening
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  Speaker 2: to me this morning should choose, which is condemnation. And
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  Speaker 2: so we're talking about God's mercy coming before condemnation, like
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  Speaker 2: there is no reason for any human being to be
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  Speaker 2: condemned because God has made every provision through Christ for
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  Speaker 2: us to be seen as if we had never sinned.
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  Speaker 2: We can confess our sins because God is faithful and
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  Speaker 2: just to forgive those that confess and cleanse us from
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  Speaker 2: all unrighteousness. But sometimes people just really are hard headed.
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson is also that God waited for generations,
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  Speaker 2: you know how long that is, especially back in the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament times, before allowing the condemnation to come upon Canaan.
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  Speaker 2: The delay was mercy. I think the Bible writer says
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  Speaker 2: that God's long suffering is salvation. The fact that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: has not yet come is and people who are scoffing,
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  Speaker 2: people who are supposedly God's people are saying, ah, what
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  Speaker 2: is the delay for? What is the delay for? Like
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  Speaker 2: the same stuff that we see now is what's been
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  Speaker 2: happening since our fathers fell asleep. And God told us
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  Speaker 2: through the Bible writer that no, no, no, no, no no,
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  Speaker 2: God is not slack concerning his promise, and his long
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  Speaker 2: suffering is salvation. When you see God waiting and pausing
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  Speaker 2: and then eventually you see condemnation, now you know it
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  Speaker 2: was because he was holding out the hand of mercy.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord gave the Canaanites, even the Canaanites ample time
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  Speaker 2: to repent through the witness of Abraham Isaac Jacob, when
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  Speaker 2: they persisted in rebellion. We're not talking about missteps, we're
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  Speaker 2: not talking about in oops. We're talking about iniquity and rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: That means they knew that God was watching. They knew
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  Speaker 2: that God was exercising patience, but did not care. God's
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  Speaker 2: justice acted to protect future generations from their corruption. That's
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  Speaker 2: the whole point. When God has to meet out judgment.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of times it's related to the fact that
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  Speaker 2: if he doesn't, then others will suffer. Others will suffer,
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  Speaker 2: people will become emboldened in their sin, and others will suffer.
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  Speaker 2: And so for me, the action step is to view
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  Speaker 2: every delay in divine condemnation HM as mercy. When God waits,
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  Speaker 2: he's giving space for repentance. God is not slack. Let's
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  Speaker 2: move to lesson number two. False worship breeds moral collapse.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say that it's not necessary for us
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  Speaker 2: to worship other gods. And I know in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: for most of you, I would say probably about seventy
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  Speaker 2: percent of you listening to me, maybe thinking, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we don't bow to other gods. But I would say
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  Speaker 2: the remaining portion live in cultures where people are visibly
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  Speaker 2: still bowing to other gods. Regardless of any of that.
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  Speaker 2: There is a modern day way of people putting other
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  Speaker 2: things other gods before God. Some people put our paychecks
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  Speaker 2: or lack thereof, before God, making our problems bigger than
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  Speaker 2: our God, worshiping what we hope to be one day,
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  Speaker 2: rather than putting that into God's hands and asking him
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  Speaker 2: how do we get from step one to step two
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  Speaker 2: to step three and onward. Sometimes we worship people that
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  Speaker 2: we wish we had good relationships with. We worship sometimes
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  Speaker 2: God forbid the aspirations we have in our job to
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  Speaker 2: get to that next promotion. Sometimes we worship our political
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  Speaker 2: parties God forbid. Sometimes we worship our own intellect and
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  Speaker 2: think that nobody else can be can be as wise
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  Speaker 2: as us, as intelligent as us, like our answers always right.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many ways that we can put other
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  Speaker 2: gods before God. And in Deuteronomy, chapter eighteen and verse ten,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, there shall not be found among you
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  Speaker 2: anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass
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  Speaker 2: through the fire. This had to do with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sacrificing God forbid children to other gods. There are people
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  Speaker 2: who were sacrificing our children to television, sacrificing our children
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  Speaker 2: to well, we just can't bother take our children where
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  Speaker 2: they need to go. So we just, you know, let
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  Speaker 2: them do things on their own, and we sacrifice them
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  Speaker 2: to the streets. And when they get themselves in trouble,
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  Speaker 2: then we tied them because well you knew better. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, but you didn't cover your child. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people are sacrificing our children to all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: strange paradigms in society, helping them to keep up with
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  Speaker 2: the modern the modern things that are happening, as if
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  Speaker 2: our children are not called by God to be peculiar
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  Speaker 2: people too. And so the Canaanites gods were mirrors of
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  Speaker 2: their corruption, LUs, greed and cruelty. Is that the reality
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  Speaker 2: for you, God forbid? If it is today's your day
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  Speaker 2: to repent, I promise you now is the moment their
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  Speaker 2: religion justified immorality, even child sacrifice worship shape's character, and
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  Speaker 2: by adoring evil spirits disguised as deities, they became just
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  Speaker 2: like them. When nations lose the knowledge of the true God,
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  Speaker 2: moral decay follows. I wish I had the time, but
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  Speaker 2: I do not want to get on a soapbox. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that people say that they are in Christian nations,
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  Speaker 2: but they are behaving as heathens. People who say that
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  Speaker 2: they are living in Christian nations, but they are behaving
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  Speaker 2: like people who couldn't care less what God thinks. But
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  Speaker 2: let me move on before I go on a soapbox.
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  Speaker 2: Guard your worship. What you honor will shape who you become,
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  Speaker 2: stay rooted in the word of God to protect you
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  Speaker 2: from cultural idols. And our final one is that judgment
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  Speaker 2: protects the promise. There are times that God has to
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  Speaker 2: do what he has to do, and he roots wickedness
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  Speaker 2: out by root and branch, and then he has now
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  Speaker 2: given us the privilege of living at peace with Him
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  Speaker 2: and peace within our societies. I'm looking forward to the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate one peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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