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04 21 2025 Abraham’s Call · 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: 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 Monday, April
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series how to Study the Bible, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Abraham's Call. Abraham's Call. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a mine moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day
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  Speaker 2: helping us to hear from you. Otherwise we wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: here together. Please give us the drive to do whatever
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  Speaker 2: you have called us to do. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again Abraham's call. This is a very
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  Speaker 2: interesting subject because a lot of us like to wax
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  Speaker 2: eloquently about things in the Bible. And we'll go back
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  Speaker 2: all of those thousands of years and analyze every detail
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  Speaker 2: and then take ourselves right into the same area where
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  Speaker 2: Abraham was called and from where he was called. And
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  Speaker 2: then once that is all done, most of us will
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  Speaker 2: have drawn some lessons based on his story and not
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  Speaker 2: even begin to apply it to ourselves. And so let
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  Speaker 2: me just begin here with a very simple question, in
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  Speaker 2: what specific way can you be a light in your
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  Speaker 2: community this week while maintaining your distinct connection with God.
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  Speaker 2: You're to be a light. I am to be a
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  Speaker 2: light in my community. Whatever that means, it's specific, it's
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  Speaker 2: this week, it's personal, it's me. It requires balance because
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  Speaker 2: it's the light of God in my life and in
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  Speaker 2: my community. But it's balanced between that light and my
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  Speaker 2: values in my connection with God. Sing for you, and
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  Speaker 2: then it demands choose an action. What is it that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do to be a light? How will
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  Speaker 2: we be a light this week in our community? And
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  Speaker 2: of course this reflects the mission that God has given
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  Speaker 2: us in the modern era, meaning like now today, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so what we're going to do is just take
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  Speaker 2: a quick take a quick peek to the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Genesis chapter twelve to begin our discussion. Genesis chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one, and now we have some context
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  Speaker 2: to answer the question personally. And the Bible reads, now
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  Speaker 2: the Lord said, unto Abram, I want you to fill
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  Speaker 2: in your name here, Abram, what is your name? Type
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  Speaker 2: it in the chat, like put your name in the story.
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  Speaker 2: Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred
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  Speaker 2: and from thy father's house, unto the land that I
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  Speaker 2: will show you. What is the command of God to you?
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  Speaker 2: What is he calling you to do today? Verse two?
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  Speaker 2: And I will make of THEE a great nation. What
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  Speaker 2: is God's promise to you? And I will bless THEE
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  Speaker 2: and make thy name great, And thou shalt be a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: So a part of God's answer his call, etc. With
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  Speaker 2: you the action that He has required of you. What
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  Speaker 2: will be the result, What will be the outcome? Is
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  Speaker 2: that to be determined. Let's keep going verse three. And
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  Speaker 2: I will bless them that bless THEE, and curse them
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  Speaker 2: that curseth THEE. And in THEE shall all families of
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  Speaker 2: the earth be blessed. And so Abraham departed, what will
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  Speaker 2: you your response be? Brothers and sisters. You've typed your
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  Speaker 2: names in the chat. You have heard the call. You
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  Speaker 2: have determined that God is calling you to be a
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  Speaker 2: light in your community, beginning today for this week. And
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  Speaker 2: now as He has given you your marching orders, what
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  Speaker 2: is your response? Verse four. Let's see what Abraham's response
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  Speaker 2: was when he was still Abram. So Abram departed, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord had spoke, as the Lord had spoken unto him,
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  Speaker 2: and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy and
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  Speaker 2: five years old when he departed out of Haran. How
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  Speaker 2: old are you? I don't need you to necessarily type
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  Speaker 2: it in the chat unless you desire hah. When he
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  Speaker 2: departed out of Haran, he was seventy five years of
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  Speaker 2: age verse five. And Abraham or Abram took Sarah his wife,
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  Speaker 2: and Lot, his brother's son, and all of their substance.
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  Speaker 2: And they gathered and their souls that they had gotten
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  Speaker 2: in Haran. And they went forth to go into the
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  Speaker 2: land of Canaan. And into the land of Canaan they came.
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  Speaker 2: What is the impact What is the impact on those
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  Speaker 2: who are a part of your quote Kindred, your family,
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  Speaker 2: your wife, your your daughter, your son, your husband, your nephews,
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  Speaker 2: your nieces, the people who look up to you. What
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  Speaker 2: impact is it having on them? You answering the call
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  Speaker 2: of God? Verse seven. And the Lord appeared unto Abram
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  Speaker 2: and said, unto the seed, will I give thee this land?
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  Speaker 2: And there he builded an altar unto the Lord who
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  Speaker 2: appeared unto him. Does God's call his response to your
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  Speaker 2: obedience put you in a position of worship? Like does
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  Speaker 2: your mind immediately say, God, you have called, You have
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  Speaker 2: empowered me to answer. Now I'm living in an experience
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  Speaker 2: of worship with you. Hmm. We see it did with
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  Speaker 2: Abram verse eight. And he removed from thence unto a
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  Speaker 2: mountain on the east of Bethel that means house of God,
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  Speaker 2: the House of God, and pitched his tent, having Bethel
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  Speaker 2: on the west and a on the east. And there
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  Speaker 2: he builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon
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  Speaker 2: the name of the Lord. Are you calling upon the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord today? H As God is calling
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  Speaker 2: you out of something into something, as he is expanding
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  Speaker 2: your territory, as you are having an impact on your
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  Speaker 2: community and on your own kindred the people who hold
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  Speaker 2: you dear, and you hold them dear? Are you calling
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  Speaker 2: upon the name of the Lord? Verse nine? And Abram journeyed,
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  Speaker 2: going on still toward the south. And so there are
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  Speaker 2: reasons for this call of Abram, though one is to
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  Speaker 2: separate from idolatry. I wish I had the time. But
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  Speaker 2: in Joshua chapter twenty four and verse two we see
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  Speaker 2: we see that God's people had a habit of serving
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  Speaker 2: other gods. Number two, he established God's people through Abram.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he said, I will make of thee a great nation.
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  Speaker 2: What is God establishing through you? To your faith and obedience,
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  Speaker 2: the connection you have with God? And doing what God
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  Speaker 2: has called you to do. What is God establishing In
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  Speaker 2: this case, he was establishing a great nation Ah. And
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  Speaker 2: then of course the promise, the Messianic promise in thee
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  Speaker 2: shall all of the families of the earth be blessed.
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  Speaker 2: This kind of faith through what Abraham had done, and
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  Speaker 2: a demonstration of what we can do by serving God
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  Speaker 2: in submission to him, we see now how salvation works.
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  Speaker 2: We see now if we have the same kind of
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  Speaker 2: faith that Abraham had, that it will be accounted unto
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  Speaker 2: us as righteousness. And it means also that we become
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  Speaker 2: heirs according to the promise that God has made to him.
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  Speaker 2: And then we see, of course, there is a development
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  Speaker 2: of his faith by faith. Hebrews chapter eleven and verse
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  Speaker 2: eight says by faith Abraham when he was called he obaye,
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  Speaker 2: he was building trust in God. It was a test
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  Speaker 2: of obedience. His faith was continuing to grow, and his
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  Speaker 2: character was developing. And so this call and the response
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  Speaker 2: to the call, and all that God had done as
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  Speaker 2: a result of this call, it shows God's initiative. God
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  Speaker 2: is the one who into your life, and he's the
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  Speaker 2: one that gives the command. He is the one that
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  Speaker 2: supplies the faith. He is the one who gives the result,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and then there is God's divine purpose and
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  Speaker 2: the blessing in the promise, And of course, always at
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  Speaker 2: the center of these discussions and the reality of our
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  Speaker 2: lives is God's redemptive purpose. What is He doing on
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  Speaker 2: the landscape of the plan of redemption in your life?
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  Speaker 2: And the people who are closest to you, and the
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  Speaker 2: people that you will reach, the people who will see you,
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  Speaker 2: those who will respond to God by faith because they
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  Speaker 2: saw you do the same Abraham's call. That's a very
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  Speaker 2: interesting subject. But what is the call for you?
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  Speaker 1: Peace? Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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: it a great day. Yeah,