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03 17 2024 Lift Up Your Hands in the Sanctuary · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Sunday, March seventeen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is lift up your hands in the Sanctuary.
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  Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary. Get into that in just a moment,
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  But first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go
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  Also, pick up your daily portion book and let us know also where you
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  are in the world. Let's thank God for a new work week. Let's
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  go ahead and pray and then get underwigh bother in heaven. Thank you for
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  this day, for the privilege that you have given us to open up your
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  word again, and for your Holy Spirit who has been faithful to us in
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  every single way. Please now teach us to live a life of surrender to
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  you. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again, yep,
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  lift up your hand in the sanctuary. Now. Yesterday I left out something
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  very important. We read a lot about speaking and praising God in the assembly,
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  and I did not ask you the question why not just worship by your
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  self? Like, why not just worship by yourself? If we can have
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  an experience with God where if we praise him, then he inhabits the praises
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  of his people, then he's with me, Then why do I need to
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  worship in a corporate setting. There are so many reasons. But God has
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  created us to be a part of a body. So when you have an
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  opportunity, I need you to invest time, in particular in the Book of
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  First Corinthians, chapter twelve, beginning at verse twelve. That's the Book of
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  First Corinthians, chapter twelve, beginning at verse twelve. And we will see
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  in language representing a body, in Jesus being the head of the body,
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  how we are to relate. And Paul actually also spoke a lot about us
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  being like a holy building, like almost like a temple, a temple.
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  Remember what is our caption for today, lift up your hands in the sanctuary.
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  So we also represent lively stones that are fitly framed together that make up
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  the habitation of God. You see. And so alone ness, solitary experience
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  with God is only for certain season. But when we have the privilege to
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  come together, especially during the Sabbath hours especially, then that is us representing
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  it. And when we are in worshipful service to make the lives of people
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  in our communities better under the banner of Christ, we are now representing the
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  body and the holy building, the temple, which is God. Okay,
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  and so let me just ask you a question. And this may not be
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  relevant to some of you, but for people my age and people come from
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  places like where I have lived, you have heard rappers often shouting get your
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  hands up, get your hands up, And you're like, well, why
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  every minute throw your hands in the air. You're like, well, why
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  are they always saying put your hands up, throw your hands in the air?
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  Well? Could it be that the devil is counterfeiting what God has given
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  us the privilege to experience, because it says lift up your hands in the
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  sanctuary, and the devil is always wanting people to praise and to worship him.
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  Why am I putting my hands up to say and do? What?
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  Like? What is the purpose of that? Well, let me read from
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  the Seven day Adventists Bible commentary on Psalms chapter one hundred thirty four and verse
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  two. Lift up your hands means it is a gesture of blessing see Leviticus
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  chapter nine and verse twenty two. And it is an attitude of prayer see
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  Psalm chapter one hundred and forty one and verse two. So blessing we're talking
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  about holy blessing and an attitude of prayer. So that means we're submitting ourselves
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  to God. We're speaking to God as to a friend. And wouldn't it
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  make sense that the devil would want to counterfeit that put your hands up for
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  all kinds of foolishness. God is saying that we can lift up our hands
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  in the sanctuary. Okay. And so let me move to a few lessons
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  that I want us to give keen attention to before we go to Psalm one
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  thirty four, number one, number one. Let me read it again,
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  and let me read it this time from Psalm chapter one hundred and forty one
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  and verse two. Let your my prayer be set forth for thee as incense,
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  and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. So this
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  is representing our worship to God, our worship to God, good prayer and
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  intercession. And then the Bible, the Bible says here in verse four of
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  Psalm chapter sixty three, thus will I bless THEE while I live? I
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  lift up my hands in Thy name. So we're we're blessing God. We're
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  blessing God. Okay. And then and then we plead for mercy Psalm chapter
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  one and forty three and verse six, I spread my hands out to you
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  in prayer. My soul thirsts for you in a parched land, and so
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  we're pleading for mercy. And then saw Genesis chapter fourteen, verses twenty two
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  and twenty three, Abraham said to the King of Sodom, I raise my
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  hand to the Lord, the Most High God, creator of heaven and Earth,
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  and vow. So we're making a vow in this case. And then
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  comes confession and repentance. In Neemiah chapter eight and verse six, Ezra bless
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  the Lord, the Great God, and all the people lifted their hands and
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  responded, amen, Amen. Then they bow down and worship the Lord with
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  their faces to the ground. Confession and repentance, worship and submission. From
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  the Book of Psalm chapter one, thirty four and verse two. I said
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  this, lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord, and
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  then we can continue with more. So we have seen that really and truly
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  in the context of this lesson study, when we are in the assembly of
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  the people of God, in the presence of God, we lift up our
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  hands in worship worship to God. And it is our privilege to worship God
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  with our lives, not just hold up our hands. But to hold up
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  our lives to him and say, God, because you're so good, and
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  you have been kind to me, because you created me and your image,
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  and you are restoring me now into your likeness. Because I have sinned and
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  come short of the glory of God. I raise my hand and my life
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  to you, so that I can live worship, not just give, but
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  live worship. So much more that we could say, but isn't it a
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  privilege for us to be his sanctuary? I think the Holy Spirit is the
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  one that leads us and guides us into all truth. Yes, that we
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  were also purchased with a price, that we can glorify God in our bodies,
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  which are the Lords, and that we become the dwelling place of the
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  Holy Spirit. What know ye not, that you are the temple of the
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  Holy Spirit. Therefore, glorify the Lord with your body and everything else that
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  we have, which are gods, you see, which belonged to God.
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  And so when we are offering ourselves and now manifesting this reality by the uplifted
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  hand in God's presence, we're simply saying, God, I surrender. We're
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  coming out with our hands up God, I surrender to you. But I
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  don't surrender to false gods. Very interesting. Lift up your hands in the
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  sanctuary. Thanks for joining us listening. Frenzies, Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,