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09 05 2025 The Sanctuary - God’s Dwelling Among Us · 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: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Friday, September five,
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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 Exodus, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Sanctuary God's dwelling among Us. The
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary God's dwelling among Us. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over to your
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  Speaker 2: up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and let
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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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 get underway. Father. We thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this new morning and this time of preparation. Father, we
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  Speaker 2: ask you to teach us to prepare our hearts for
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  Speaker 2: the divine encounter. Teach us to prepare to see Jesus
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  Speaker 2: face to face. Teach us to prepare to have such
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  Speaker 2: an experience that we want to welcome others into relationship
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  Speaker 2: with you. In Jesus' name, I pray amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So what I'm going to do is begin by reading
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  Speaker 2: in the book Patriarchs and Profits, page three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty nine. And let me just say to those who
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  Speaker 2: study this lesson in a church setting weekly, please don't pass.
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  Speaker 2: I want to give you a heads up, like don't
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  Speaker 2: just run by Fridays. I think sometimes people think it's
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  Speaker 2: an afterthought. The top of the study says, further thought
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  Speaker 2: to help us to continue along the pathway that we've
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  Speaker 2: been on for the beginning of the week. Right, So
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  Speaker 2: it is not an afterthought. Okay, some gems are right
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  Speaker 2: here and it reads the law of God enshrined within
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  Speaker 2: the arc. We're talking about the arc of the Covenant.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about the stones, the tables where God actually
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  Speaker 2: emblazoned on them, those sapphire tables emblazoned on them the
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  Speaker 2: ten words, those ten promises of the Covenant, the ten commandments,
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  Speaker 2: it says, was the great rule of righteousness and judgment.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say, in the scriptures, when you
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  Speaker 2: see justice or judgment, most of the time, that actually
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  Speaker 2: means righteousness. So if you're misjudging people, then that means
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  Speaker 2: that you're holding them to the wrong standard of quote righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: When you want justice, then you want the righteousness of
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  Speaker 2: God to prevail. You understand. Let me continue that law
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  Speaker 2: pronounced death upon the transgressor. Now we have a problem,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. We have a problem because the one
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  Speaker 2: who loves us, the one who loved us so much
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  Speaker 2: that he gave everything that we needed when he created us,
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  Speaker 2: is in a situation now where those whom he loved
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  Speaker 2: that his only intent for was to live eternally in bliss,
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  Speaker 2: never ever experiencing evil, are now experiencing evil by choice.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Eve decided that they wanted to experience the knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of evil. God only wanted them to have the knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of good, but they chose the wrong path. And now
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  Speaker 2: all of us because of Adam's sin, Adam in particular
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  Speaker 2: his sin. Now the Bible says the soul that sinneth,
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  Speaker 2: it shall die. And we're talking about eternal death. We're
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  Speaker 2: not talking about getting God forbid run over by taxi.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking about that. We're saying from the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: that God is in a pickle. And I know that
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  Speaker 2: that offended some people because you're like, no, God cannot
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  Speaker 2: be in a pickle. Okay, you're right. I take it back.
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  Speaker 2: I take it back. So the Bible teaches us that
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  Speaker 2: God is just, that is, he's righteous, and he is
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  Speaker 2: the justifier. He's the one who can make righteous whom
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  Speaker 2: those who surrender our will to him. God, through his
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  Speaker 2: infinite wisdom and love, so loved the world that he
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  Speaker 2: gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him
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  Speaker 2: should not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't send
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  Speaker 2: his son into the world to condemn the world, but
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  Speaker 2: that the world through him might be saved. Well, what
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  Speaker 2: does that mean in the context of what we're saying.
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  Speaker 2: So God's judgment, his law of justice, his law of righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: his standard of holiness is as it is. It is objective.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't care who is who. If you sin against
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  Speaker 2: the law of God, against God himself, then the only
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  Speaker 2: outcome is death. But in this case, the way God
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  Speaker 2: becomes the justifier is that Jesus, taking on human flesh
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  Speaker 2: after four thousand years of degradation, becomes the representative of humanity.
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  Speaker 2: And as the representative of humanity, Jesus demonstrated what it
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  Speaker 2: was like to actually surrender his will in every single
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  Speaker 2: facet of his life to God. And when he did that,
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  Speaker 2: and he did it successfully and then died the death
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  Speaker 2: that we deserve, he was obedient unto death, even the
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  Speaker 2: death of the cross. When he did that, now he
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  Speaker 2: was able to save to the uttermost those who are
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  Speaker 2: called by him, because he, Jesus liveth ever liveth to
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  Speaker 2: make intercession for us. Meaning he can lay his success
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  Speaker 2: bazillions of dollars. I made that word up, his bazillions
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  Speaker 2: of spiritual success dollars in the infinite well of the
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  Speaker 2: bank of God. He now applies that to your account.
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  Speaker 2: If you are his child, if you're surrendering his will,
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  Speaker 2: your will to him. And so now the death that
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  Speaker 2: a transgressor deserves, Jesus has taken that. And all we
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  Speaker 2: need to do is yield our will to God so
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  Speaker 2: that he can apply that to our account. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read the rest of this. The law pronounced death upon
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  Speaker 2: the transgressor. But above the law was the mercy seat.
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  Speaker 2: So I told you the reality, the genuine article. But
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  Speaker 2: now we're reading about the visual standard that we could
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  Speaker 2: see when in the Old Testament we could see that
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  Speaker 2: there was an arc of the covenant where the two
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  Speaker 2: cherubim were on the outside, and that the seat was
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  Speaker 2: representative of the throne of God. But that seat was
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  Speaker 2: mercy seat. It was the mercy seat. And below the
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  Speaker 2: mercy seat were the tables of the law. And so
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  Speaker 2: that means that before we get to the law that
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  Speaker 2: now judgeth me. According to the hymn writer, we get
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  Speaker 2: to the mercy of God, who's looking out for me.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one who's looking out for me so that
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  Speaker 2: I can be saved. And so we see the mercy
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  Speaker 2: seat upon which the presence of God was revealed, and
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  Speaker 2: from which, by virtue of atonement, pardon was granted to
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  Speaker 2: the repentant sinner. So I said all of this already,
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  Speaker 2: But what does it mean to repent? It is that
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  Speaker 2: God gives us godly sorrow for sin, and then he
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  Speaker 2: enables us to make a right about turn, a one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty degree turn, and go in the opposite
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  Speaker 2: direction of our sin, opposite direction of our broken relationship
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  Speaker 2: with God, opposite direction of I'll write a prescription for
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  Speaker 2: God and then tell him how to save me, the
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  Speaker 2: opposite direction of excepting that it's somehow noble to be
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  Speaker 2: poor and broken and needy, God has given us the
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  Speaker 2: ability to turn the shoulder and then come into the
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  Speaker 2: right direction, which is relationship with Him. Let me continue
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  Speaker 2: thus in the work of Christ for our redemption, symbolized
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  Speaker 2: by the sanctuary service. Mercy and truth are met. Hallelujah. Together,
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  Speaker 2: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. According to Psalms,
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  Speaker 2: chapter eighty five and verse ten. So God is so good,
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  Speaker 2: and you want to say, well, how good is he?
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  Speaker 2: He is so good that God has chosen to tabernacle
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  Speaker 2: with us. He said, have them make a sanctuary that
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  Speaker 2: I may dwell among them. The goal of the sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: was to give us a window into the mind of
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  Speaker 2: God about how we are saved. Make it a great days,
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  Speaker 2: joining us listening friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,