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12 09 2025 Haunted by the Past · 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 Tuesday, December nine,
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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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Haunted by the Past. Haunted by the past.
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  Speaker 2: Get into that in just a moment, But first I'd
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for giving us the privilege and ability
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  Speaker 2: to serve you. Please help us to have the right
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  Speaker 2: perspective of the past and live for you in this moment. God,
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. There
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  Speaker 2: are so many human beings that are suffering in our
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  Speaker 2: present because we are dwelling in the past. I remember
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  Speaker 2: doing a challenge with my son Josiah, and I said
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  Speaker 2: that you cannot walk forward while looking backward, and of
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  Speaker 2: course he wanted to prove me wrong in air quote,
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  Speaker 2: so I put him on a straight line. I said,
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  Speaker 2: now do it. He turned his head. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how many degrees, but you know how far our heads
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  Speaker 2: can turn in real life, like you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: So he tried, and even when his head could not
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  Speaker 2: turn and look all the way backwards, he started to stumble,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, when you do that, you cannot go
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  Speaker 2: forward in the strength that God wants you to. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, we continue to illustrate the point and so
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  Speaker 2: that's the reality when we are looking backward at the
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  Speaker 2: pain of our past, looking backward at some of the
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  Speaker 2: successes of our past as if it were today. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me just read here from the Review in Herald
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  Speaker 2: September twelveth, eighteen seventy eight. The author is Eurias was
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  Speaker 2: Euriah Smith. The past must not govern the present. So
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about forgetting the past. We're saying it
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  Speaker 2: can't govern the present if God has forgiven. Oh wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, now we're talking about things that we didn't do. Right,
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  Speaker 2: there are mistakes that we have made. Now we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about sins, transgressions, and iniquities. If we have yielded our
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  Speaker 2: will to God, then the record of that is not
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  Speaker 2: attached to our name. And I know there are some
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  Speaker 2: technicalities regarding the cleansing work of our lives and the sanctuary,
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  Speaker 2: but you understand where I'm going with this. So if
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  Speaker 2: God has forgiven, let us not resurrect what He has buried. Ooh,
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  Speaker 2: that's a good one. Let's go for one more. From
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  Speaker 2: the book Gospel Workers, page four hundred and ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: God's people should not allow the errors or sins of
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  Speaker 2: the past to harden their hearts against their brethren. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: now we're talking about how we should see other people.
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  Speaker 2: Love and sympathy must take the place of suspicion and
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  Speaker 2: harsh judgment. Love and sympathy must take the place of
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  Speaker 2: suspicion and harsh judgment. Why am I using these quotes? Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's go with our lesson number one and make sense
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  Speaker 2: of it. Now. Past wounds can distort present perception. Coming
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  Speaker 2: in from again Luke chapter six and verse thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged condemned not,
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  Speaker 2: and ye shall not be condemned. Forgive and ye shall
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  Speaker 2: be forgiven. Yes, we're repeating something we've already taught. Yes
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  Speaker 2: we are. And so the Greek word for forgive in
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  Speaker 2: this text actually means to release fully, to release fully,
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  Speaker 2: like to let somebody out of jail like or prison,
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  Speaker 2: like they've paid their debt to society, let them go,
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  Speaker 2: expunge the record. On top of that, to release fully.
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  Speaker 2: God's people remembered belpr so vividly that fear shape their assumptions.
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  Speaker 2: Trauma from the past sin made them suspicious, rigid, and
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  Speaker 2: quick to judge. Fear of repeating history led to miss
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  Speaker 2: reading the present. Let me say that again. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you are seeing mental health professionals because you're stuck here
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  Speaker 2: and they are assisting you in this regard. Fear of
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  Speaker 2: repeating history led to miss reading the present. God's grace,
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  Speaker 2: Somebody go ahead and type in the chat the grace
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  Speaker 2: of God. The grace of God. God's grace, however, releases
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  Speaker 2: us from past pain so we can see others with
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  Speaker 2: clarity in place of suspicion. God deliver us from our
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  Speaker 2: past pain. God deliver us from our traumas. God deliver
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  Speaker 2: us from those adverse childhood experiences. Ah. Here is the
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  Speaker 2: action step God. Ask God to release you from any
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  Speaker 2: past hurt that shapes how you view others. Now, get
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  Speaker 2: your pen, your pencil, write down one memory that still
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  Speaker 2: affects you, and pray for freedom. Ask God, how am
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  Speaker 2: I to be free from this? Is it something He's
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  Speaker 2: going to do by means of miracle? Is he going
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  Speaker 2: to use another human being to assist you, someone who
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  Speaker 2: is godly to guide you back to him? Ask him,
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  Speaker 2: but write that one memory down that still affects you
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  Speaker 2: and pray for freedom. I could write an entire book
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  Speaker 2: on that. I promise you. Lesson number two. Wisdom confronts
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  Speaker 2: with courage and compassion. From the Bible Book of Proverbs,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen and verse one, we read a soft answer
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  Speaker 2: or a gentle response turns away wrath or anger. But
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  Speaker 2: grievous words those are harsh words. Grievous words stir up
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  Speaker 2: wrath or anger. The Hebrew word for wrath in this
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  Speaker 2: case means fierce anger or heat. So Phineas was known
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  Speaker 2: for forceful action at bail payor. Yet in Joshua chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, he leads with measured inquiry instead of violence.
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  Speaker 2: The lesson is clear. In this case. Redeemed experience produces
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  Speaker 2: redeemed response. You have heard it the flip side. You've
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  Speaker 2: heard the flip side. Hurt people, hurt people, people who
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  Speaker 2: are still hurt in their feeling, hurt in their emotions.
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  Speaker 2: Verb now action they hurt, they inflict hurt upon others. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's read this again, because this is better. Redeemed experience
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  Speaker 2: produces redeemed response. God transforms believers so we can confront
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  Speaker 2: sin boldly, but speak with restraint, humility, and compassion. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the ministries that some people are following today ministries
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  Speaker 2: and air quotes, are not they're not compassionate. They're speaking
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  Speaker 2: boldly but with no compassion, no restraint, and very little humility.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. The action step is
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  Speaker 2: when conflict appears, choose a gentle tone. First. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: say always, but first, let your words be guided by
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost, not by old wounds or old fears. Now,
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  Speaker 2: for let's number three. Grace prevents the past from becoming
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  Speaker 2: get ready for it a prison. Faith or grace prevents
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  Speaker 2: the past from becoming a prison my God. Ephesians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: four and verse thirty two. As we come to a
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  Speaker 2: swift close and be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving
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  Speaker 2: one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven
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  Speaker 2: you see nine and a half tribes feared repeating Akin's
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  Speaker 2: sin or bail Por's rebellion, so they reacted from anxiety
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  Speaker 2: instead of grace. Can I just say it, simply, don't
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  Speaker 2: do that. Don't do that. Thanks for 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,