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09 02 2025 Power to Obey · 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, September two,
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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 power to Obey. I said power to Obey.
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  Speaker 2: God gives us this. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us the power to do your will
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. So
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  Speaker 2: a couple of months ago, I was in a church
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  Speaker 2: in Kingston, Jamaica where we were having the discussion about
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  Speaker 2: and it was coming in from the Book of Romans.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were in chapter ten if I'm correct
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  Speaker 2: about Romans chapter ten, and it was a discussion about
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  Speaker 2: the law and how we can't keep the law in
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  Speaker 2: order to earn salvation. So that is the basic premise.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like a foregone conclusion in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess there are some people who still think
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  Speaker 2: that they can earn their way to salvation, like that
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  Speaker 2: they can earn by being plant based, implant based. Our
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  Speaker 2: family and household we are plant based. We think or
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  Speaker 2: do we think we can earn salvation by doing that,
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  Speaker 2: like we believe in the seventh day Sabbath of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord our God as as a sign between us and
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  Speaker 2: God that he's the one that sanctifies us. But do
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  Speaker 2: I try to keep. It's not possible, But do I
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  Speaker 2: try to keep the Sabbath in order to get brownie
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  Speaker 2: points with God so he can pat me on the
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  Speaker 2: back and say good job, and then say, because you've
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  Speaker 2: done such a good job, I'm going to save you. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's not how this works. We are saved by grace
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  Speaker 2: through faith, and that not of ourselves, like not of works,
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  Speaker 2: lest any one of us should both. So God doesn't
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  Speaker 2: owe us something as if we worked for twenty nine days,
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  Speaker 2: thirty days, thirty one days, and because we worked, then
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  Speaker 2: God owes us a paycheck. No, that's not how this
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  Speaker 2: thing works. But then the discussion turned into something even better,
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  Speaker 2: where we have to resolve whether God is able to
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  Speaker 2: actually keep us from falling. I think in the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Juw chapter in the Book of Jude, verse twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says in the Benediction, now unto him that
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  Speaker 2: is able to keep us from falling and present us
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  Speaker 2: faultless before the presence with exceeding joy like Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Is he able in fact and indeed to give us
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  Speaker 2: the strength to obey him? Yes or no? That is
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  Speaker 2: the question. We can't earn salvation that's resolved. But can
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  Speaker 2: we actually do God's word? Can we actually live in
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  Speaker 2: a position where we are obedient to God in real life? Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says in First John chapter two, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, my little children, these things rite, I unto
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  Speaker 2: you that ye sin not. So God is putting us
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  Speaker 2: in a position where, once we receive the new birth experience,
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  Speaker 2: we are able to live above sin. But I said
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  Speaker 2: able to, But there are times that you may stumble
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  Speaker 2: or fall or jump. God forbid into sin. After you've
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  Speaker 2: been reborn. You started to look at your feet instead
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  Speaker 2: of looking at Christ and the storm of life, and
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  Speaker 2: then began to drown. And so he said, my little children,
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  Speaker 2: these things right, I unto you that ye sin not.
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  Speaker 2: And if any person sins, you have an advocate with
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  Speaker 2: the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous, so he can put
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  Speaker 2: us back on the right pathway. But again, the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we can sin after we are reborn doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that we must. Somebody listened to me this morning under
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. The fact that we can sin until
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  Speaker 2: probation has closed on planet Earth, where the filthy filthy
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  Speaker 2: remain filthy, where the righteous righteous remain righteous. Still in
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  Speaker 2: the words of the prophet John. The fact that we
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  Speaker 2: can sin doesn't mean that we are bound and must sin.
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  Speaker 2: That is not the reality of the believer. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time so power to obey. We learn
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  Speaker 2: a few lessons as we continue in this discussion. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number one comes in from Ezekiel, chapter thirty six. Somebody's
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  Speaker 2: catching up right now and verse twenty six, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads a new heart? Also will I give you?
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  Speaker 2: Is God giving you a new heart?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Or no? What was wrong with the old one? The
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  Speaker 2: old one was after the likeness of Adam in Genesis
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  Speaker 2: chapter five. Chapter five says that his offspring were in
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  Speaker 2: his image. That was the first problem. So God is
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  Speaker 2: giving us a new heart because that which is born
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  Speaker 2: of flesh is flesh. That which is born of spirit
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  Speaker 2: is spirit. Y'all listen to this this morning, and a
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  Speaker 2: new spirit will I put in you? And I will
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  Speaker 2: take away He said, He's gonna take away the old
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  Speaker 2: stony heart out of your flesh, and God will give
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  Speaker 2: you a heart of flesh. God doesn't ask us to
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  Speaker 2: obey with what we don't have. He begins by transforming
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  Speaker 2: the essence of who we are, the core of who
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  Speaker 2: we are the minds that He has given to us
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  Speaker 2: through the new birth experience is a good way to begin.
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  Speaker 2: A responsive heart comes before a consistent walk. A responsive
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  Speaker 2: heart comes before a consistent walk. You're putting God on
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  Speaker 2: trial and saying God forbid that he is not able
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  Speaker 2: to keep us. When you say that no human can
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  Speaker 2: do God's will. The action step is to ask God
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  Speaker 2: in prayer every single morning that you wake, replace your
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  Speaker 2: hardness with His softness. Surrender your motives before your actions.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number two. You're going to have to rewind this
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  Speaker 2: one today. I promise you. It comes in from the
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  Speaker 2: next verse thirty six, verse twenty seven, and I will
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  Speaker 2: put my spirit within you. Is God's spirit within you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes or no? It's a simple question. And cause you
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  Speaker 2: to walk? To do what walk he will do? What
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  Speaker 2: caused you to walk? In my statutes? And you shall
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  Speaker 2: keep my judgments and do them? Is he able? Yes
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  Speaker 2: or no? I want you. I'm going to challenge you
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  Speaker 2: to study Ezekiel chapter thirty six alongside Romans chapter eight. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So the law points the way out like we talked
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  Speaker 2: about that from the Book of James a couple of
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  Speaker 2: several days ago. Right, So it points the way out.
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  Speaker 2: But the Holy Ghost gives us the strength. God does
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  Speaker 2: not expect what he's not already enabled us to do.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, like what he first gives, then he requires. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: If you say that we have to be have faith,
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  Speaker 2: He's the author and finisher of our faith. If you
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  Speaker 2: say that we need to love God, then the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: we love him be cause he first loved us. So
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  Speaker 2: he's the cause of our ability to love. If you
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  Speaker 2: say that we have to be obedient, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that He condemned. Jesus condemned sin in the flesh in
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  Speaker 2: order that the righteousness of the law might be fully
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  Speaker 2: met in us, fulfilled in us who walk not according
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  Speaker 2: to the flesh, but according to the spirit. If you
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  Speaker 2: say that we have to repent, the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: he gives us. He gives us the gift of repentance
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  Speaker 2: in Romans chapter two and verse four. So every little
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  Speaker 2: thing that God requires of us, he first gives us.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally, finally from verse twenty eight, and ye
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  Speaker 2: shall dwell in the land that I give to your fathers,
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  Speaker 2: and ye shall be my people, and I will be
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  Speaker 2: your God. Obedience is not a latter to God. It
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  Speaker 2: is the fruit of walking with him. When he is
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  Speaker 2: truly our God, his priorities become ours. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day. 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.