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03 27 2024 Waiting in God’s Sabbath Rest · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good ahead, morning, Good morning,
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  good morning. It is Wednesday, March twenty seven, twenty twenty four.
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  Hello, my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host,
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  and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  and today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series.
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  This is the final week through the Book of Psalms, and our caption
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  for today is Waiting in God's Sabbath Rest. Waiting in God's Sabbath Rest.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community, pick up the your Daily Portion book and
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  let us know, please and thanks. Where you are in the world,
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  I still have gotten over a thousand responses where that is concerned. It helps
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  me to see, like where are God's people, Where are the people who
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  are also spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ into all the world from your vantage
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  point, and it gives me encouragement. So please, that's all the reason
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  is. I will admit that's all it is, Ah, but please do
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  so at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue
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  to build faith and fellowship. Please let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  day, this new morning, for the privilege that you have entrusted to us
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  to open up your word. And I ask you that we will live this
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  word now in Jesus's name, Amen and Amen again, waiting in Sabbath rest.
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  That's an interesting way of starting the lesson. We're going into the Book
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  of Psalms chapter ninety two in just a moment, but first I want to
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  read from the lesson writer the praise of God for the great works of his
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  hands and the eden like portrayal of the righteous. Clearly point to creation.
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  So we see here really an answer to the question that comes right before this,
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  But I'll get into that in a moment. And then the first aspect
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  of the first aspect that Sabbath commemorates, the Psalm also magnifies the Lord for
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  his victory over enemies as the God of justice, and so reinforces the second
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  Sabbath theme, redemption from evil. Thus, Psalm chapter ninety two extols God
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  for his past creation and present sustaining of the world, and it points to
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  the end time hope in eternal divine peace and order. Are you tired of
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  disorder? I'm talking about disorder in your mind, disorder at work, this
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  ordering your household, disordering your society and community, I want to say,
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  and I don't want to mix it up, but I may make a mistake
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  here. But I was looking at how things are organized in the country,
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  either of Gambia or Namibia, and I was like, I was awe struck.
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  I was like, wait a minute. Wait. When I was watching
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  some videos and I said, wow, this place is orderly. It's one
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  of them. You tell me which one of one of them it is.
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  It's like it's actually awe inspiring it's it's it's it's like I was arrested by
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  the fact that this place was so orderly. It's one of them, one
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  of them. But anyway, most places in society are not orderly. People
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  are disorderly. People's thoughts are disorderly. They're intense. And what they plan
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  to do with people or two people disorderly, what their plans and goals are,
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  and their businesses disorderly, what they plan at work disorderly, just looking
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  for the next best fill in the blank. And it's just like, okay,
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  can we just focus on one thing, disorder and let's not talk about
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  law breaking in our societies, right. Ah, But we have the privilege
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  of seeing the order of God's creation. How he said that everything he had
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  created is good, good, very good. Right, and then sin entered
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  into the world and things change. Society went crazy, people went off spiritually,
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  and even in nature, things went the opposite way of what God had
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  intended when he created us. You see. Ah, But what God is
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  saying to us is when we look at how the Sabbath is, what it
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  commemorates is God's power in creation. It shows us that He is the one
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  who sanctifies us, which is recreation. So we see the power of God
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  in creation and the power of God in transforming our lives to make us holy
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  after everything went awry and the world became disorderly. And so two aspects of
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  the Sabbath highlighted in the book of Psalms chapter ninety two. As I've already
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  said, is creation and also redemption from evil. Let me read verses one
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  and two of Psalm chapter ninety two. Oh Most High, oh wait,
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  I started writing in the middle of the sentence. It is good to give
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  thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your almost High, to declare
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  your loyal love in the morning and your faithfulness during the night. And so
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  this again commemorates his power, his love, and his creation. Okay,
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  and so we should be practicing gratitude. Are you thankful to God? There
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  are times that people receive from God and don't go back and give him thanks.
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  As you are inhaling and exhaling right now, that's a reason to be
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  grateful. Huh. As you do eat your next meal, whether it's what
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  you want or what you need, that's a reason to be thankful for the
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  fact that you are listening here or watching right now. And God is speaking
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  to you through his word. That is a reason to give thanks, because
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  it is good to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to his
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  name. So make a daily habit of expressing gratitude for God's creation and his
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  blessings in our lives. Now. In verse five of the Book of Psalms,
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  chapter ninety five, the Bible reads, how great are your works,
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  Oh Lord, your plans are very intricate, intricate, intrict I always say,
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  Get okay, So invest time in nature. Look around and see what
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  God has done, what his works, the works of his hands, the
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  works of him saying let there be light, And there was light, and
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  saying that the waters should be filled with teams of fish and all kinds of
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  other sea creatures. Yes, think about the great works that God has put
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  into place, and then and then consider the complexity of the beauty of it
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  all, and say, God, you did that for us, because you
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  know what is coming has never been seen or experienced before. He's done so
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  much, so many things that are so beautiful, even after the even at
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  the aftermath of volcanoes. The most beautiful countries of the world, our volcanic
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  countries, where destruction comes, but then all kinds of new life and new
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  growth and beautiful things in nature comes in the aftermath. It's the weirdest thing
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  to me. Maybe I shouldn't say weird, but it's weird because so much
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  destruction and then the recreation is so beautiful. And that's in the world that
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  has fallen. But have not seen, neither hath ear heard, neither have
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  it entered into the heart of humankind, the things that God is preparing for
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  his children. So we reflect on God's works and of course continue to give
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  gratitude. Now on the Sabbath in particular, let's read now from the Book
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  of Psalms, chapter ninety two again round verse twelve. The images of palm
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  trees and ceedars of Lebanon. They portray this is what I'm referencing here.
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  They portray God's people. Grow in faith. Use the Sabbath hours to grow
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  in your understanding of God and to find rest in His creation and redemption.
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  So get out into nature and see what great things God has done there.
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  And think, wait a minute, God is renewing people too. He has
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  the power to create and to renew in nature. Can he create and renew
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  in my human nature to make me more like him. And of course we
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  want to stay or remain remove, remain rooted in faith of God. This
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  is one of the things that we do as we experience the sabbath rests,
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  looking forward to the coming of the Lord Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,