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12 21 2025 You Were There! · 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 Sunday, December
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host den This is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: final week in our lesson study series, Lessons of Faith
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  Speaker 2: from Joshua, and our caption for today is you were There,
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  Speaker 2: You were There. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: it up? For the coming quarter, We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about things from Paul's letters to the Philippians and Colossians.
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  Speaker 2: Have you picked up I'm talking about the Companion Guide,
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  Speaker 2: the Life Application Guide. Have you done that. I know
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  Speaker 2: get it in hard copy. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day, for this beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the work week, and I'm asking you to please open
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  Speaker 2: up our understanding, help us to take response ability for
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  Speaker 2: our actions and to be responsible enough to yield our
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  Speaker 2: will to you because you're so good to us. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again you were there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, So let's go ahead and begin
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  Speaker 2: with a quote. Here. I'm going to begin with a
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  Speaker 2: quote from the review in Harold March one h eighteen sixty.
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  Speaker 2: You can see that I'm going back into the archives
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  Speaker 2: of the Pioneers. This is from John Nevin's Andrews. The
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  Speaker 2: church is a living body. No member stands alone. The
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  Speaker 2: strength or weakness of one affects the whole. Therefore, our
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  Speaker 2: duty to God includes duty to one another.
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  Speaker 1: You see.
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  Speaker 2: And so if I am unfaithful, then God forbid. Then
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's going to have an impact on you.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just say that you have seen ministers fall
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  Speaker 2: from what they say, fall from grace, even Moses, even Abraham,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like Moses struck the rock
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  Speaker 2: the second time. Well, that was a fall from grace
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  Speaker 2: that was disappointing from God's people, God's to God's people
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  Speaker 2: who were to be led by Moses ultimately into the promise.
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  Speaker 2: But Moses had to die, like he had to be
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  Speaker 2: cut off, no matter what grace God led him to
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  Speaker 2: and how he recovered. In that moment, the people were affected.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron fell from grace. He did that stupid plan part
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  Speaker 2: of me, like the stupid plan of taking all of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff, the bouty that they got from Egypt and
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  Speaker 2: then threw it in the fire. And he said, and
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  Speaker 2: out pops out this idol. And it's like, what you know,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't just pop out, brother, like you led the
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  Speaker 2: people into idolatry. When they said whatever they said, you
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  Speaker 2: should have led them and said no, like Joshua and
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  Speaker 2: Caleb would have done, and say no, y'all, be quiet,
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  Speaker 2: we are going to serve God. And who doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to serve God, go ahead and vacate like you make
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  Speaker 2: your decision now. But we're not about to do this
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  Speaker 2: idolatry thing, not as a whole corporate body. That's not
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  Speaker 2: about to happen. And so God forbid. You see, when
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  Speaker 2: people who are among God's people do things that are
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  Speaker 2: uncharacteristic of the will of God, then it has an
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  Speaker 2: impact and all of the rest of us. From the
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  Speaker 2: book Testimonies for Church of the Church, Volume four, page
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  Speaker 2: six hundred and nineteen. In the work of God, every
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  Speaker 2: individual has a part to act, and the failure of
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  Speaker 2: one affects the faithfulness of all. We are one body
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  Speaker 2: in Christ, and each must stand true in his or
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  Speaker 2: her place. That's the end of the quote. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say it like this, and the same way. Conversely, when
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  Speaker 2: God through Christ said to the people, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to go in the first century church, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to go into this upper room. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: go into this place, and I want you to tarry
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  Speaker 2: there until the Holy Ghost comes upon you. You need to
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  Speaker 2: be unified, and watch what I do in the world
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  Speaker 2: because you're unified under the banner of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: And so we see the positive end as well. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still benefiting. You are still benefiting from the unity of
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  Speaker 2: the believers in the first century Church, all those thousands
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  Speaker 2: of years ago, and so Lesson Number one is salvation.
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  Speaker 2: History is personal. God includes every generation. Now. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads here in Deuteronomy, chapter five and verse six, I
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  Speaker 2: am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out
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  Speaker 2: of the land of Egypt. The word for brought out
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  Speaker 2: in this case, I want to say some stuff that's
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  Speaker 2: not in this text, but since it's not there, won't.
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  Speaker 2: But it's yatsa. Yatsa it means to cause, to depart,
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  Speaker 2: to bring forth, to deliver. So God delivered his people,
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  Speaker 2: and Joshua reminded God's people that even though they had
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  Speaker 2: not personally crossed the Red Sea all of that time ago,
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  Speaker 2: because now we're talking to the second well, forget it.
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  Speaker 2: Let you understand God's saving acts applied to them as
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  Speaker 2: if they had in covenant. Thinking, God's past actions become
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  Speaker 2: the present identity of his people. Every generation must claim
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  Speaker 2: the history of redemption as what personal. So don't get
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  Speaker 2: to detach myself from the people of God back in
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  Speaker 2: ancient history. I don't get to detach myself from the
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  Speaker 2: people of God in the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get to detach myself from the people of
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  Speaker 2: God in the first century Church, in the Advent or
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  Speaker 2: pre advent Church, we don't get to separate ourselves from
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  Speaker 2: the people of God. In the era of Laodicea, we
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  Speaker 2: are one body and all of the blessings and everything
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  Speaker 2: else come as a package. I wish I had the
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  Speaker 2: time to drill what I just said, but let's continue
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  Speaker 2: the action. The action is to reflect on one biblical
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  Speaker 2: salvation story. Is it the crossing of the Red Sea?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the exodus from Egypt? Is it the Resurrection?
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  Speaker 2: And then pray, Lord, make this my story too. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: now we're on the positive end of things. Make this
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  Speaker 2: my story too. God, help me to cross over the Jordan,
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  Speaker 2: help me to march around the city. That is in
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  Speaker 2: the way that you are saying that when I stand
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  Speaker 2: still and see the salvation of the Lord, that I
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  Speaker 2: will come through victoriously, without war, without the fight. Let
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  Speaker 2: that be my story too. Lesson number two alone is
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  Speaker 2: the author of our history and our identity. In the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Deuteronomy, chapter two and verse seven, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for the Lord, thy God hath blessed thee in all
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  Speaker 2: the works of thy hand. And that word, that word
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  Speaker 2: for blessed. You may have heard it in a gospel song,
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  Speaker 2: Barak barak. It means to enrich. God enriched the people.
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  Speaker 2: He empowered the people to endow with favor. He endowed
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  Speaker 2: his people with favor. And so Joshua, wanting to remind
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  Speaker 2: the people of God, enriched God's people's journey with repeated
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  Speaker 2: I took, I gave, I sent I delivered, I took,
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  Speaker 2: I gave, I sent I delivered. This is what God
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  Speaker 2: has done for his people. And so God was the subject.
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  Speaker 2: God's people were the object. Their identity. Somebody just got
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  Speaker 2: an English lesson English lesson. Yes, their identity, survival, their victories,
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  Speaker 2: and inheritance came solely from his grace. Why because God
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  Speaker 2: is the one that took his people. God is the
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  Speaker 2: one that gave his people. God is the one that
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  Speaker 2: sent his people. God is the one who has delivered
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  Speaker 2: his people. So let me just say it like this.
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  Speaker 2: God is the one who's taking you through your Red
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  Speaker 2: Sea experience right now. He is the one who is
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  Speaker 2: giving you the grace that you need to make it
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  Speaker 2: through these last days. He's the one who has sent
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  Speaker 2: you to the people around the world to lead them
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  Speaker 2: to a relationship with Him, and he is still delivering
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  Speaker 2: you from sin. So your action step is to thank
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  Speaker 2: God for three blessings that the people of God enjoy
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  Speaker 2: today and come from His grace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening with friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,