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10 04 2025 Surprised by Grace · 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 Sabbath, August four,
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  Speaker 2: two thousand, not August October four, twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series Lessons of
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  Speaker 2: Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is prized
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  Speaker 2: by grace, Surprised by Grace. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over to your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please
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  Speaker 2: please let us know where you are in the world
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and for giving us
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to experience your grace, your power to do
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  Speaker 2: your will. Please help us to be amazed by You,
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  Speaker 2: but not surprised. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. I just have to tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe in surprises. And when I say that,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying when it comes to God's people, we must
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  Speaker 2: get to a point where we are so oh accustomed.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean where we rest on our laurels, but
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  Speaker 2: we become so accustomed to God being great that we're
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  Speaker 2: not like, oh, my goodness, he's great again. Now we
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  Speaker 2: should be amazed by God. We should be blown away
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  Speaker 2: because we have not even begun to get to the
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  Speaker 2: depths of His riches and his grace. But we shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be surprised when God is good. Okay, I know what
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  Speaker 2: the caption is for today, but I just needed to
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  Speaker 2: say that. And so from the Book of Hebrews Hebrews,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter eleven and verse thirty one reads by faith, the
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  Speaker 2: harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe.
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  Speaker 2: So can we just start right here, like, one of
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  Speaker 2: the lessons that we must learn is that the power
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  Speaker 2: to live eternally is faith, or maybe I should say
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  Speaker 2: it this way. In order for us to receive the power,
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  Speaker 2: we need to live with God eternally. We need faith,
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  Speaker 2: faith from God. Jesus is the author and finisher of
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  Speaker 2: our faith. And so this woman that the Bible describes
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  Speaker 2: by what she had done until she received faith from
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  Speaker 2: God or the faith of God, harlot Rahab. Now she's
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  Speaker 2: transformed by faith and she lays hold upon the power
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  Speaker 2: of God and she's saved. So it says by faith,
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  Speaker 2: the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did
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  Speaker 2: not believe when she had received the spies with peace.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to drill that some more in the coming days,
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  Speaker 2: if the Lord spears life. But let me just begin here.
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  Speaker 2: God's people stood again at the border of Canaan the
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  Speaker 2: first time at Kadesh Barnia. Fear and rebellion closed the
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  Speaker 2: door to the Promised Land. And we can read that
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  Speaker 2: story in Numbers chapter fourteen. May I just say very
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  Speaker 2: quickly this is in a sense. But yeah, the people
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  Speaker 2: of God wandered in the wilderness for forty years, and
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  Speaker 2: the entire first generation of freed slaves, with the exception
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  Speaker 2: of Joshua and Caleb, were destroyed. They died in the
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  Speaker 2: wilderness because of their lack of faith, full stop. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: from age twenty and above plus Joshua and Caleb eventually
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  Speaker 2: goes into the promised land. That God, that God, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he forecasted, he promised to Abraham, and then of course
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  Speaker 2: Isaac and Jacob. Okay, but that should have taken eleven days.
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  Speaker 2: So the distance going I forgot the direction, but from
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  Speaker 2: Horeb or Sinai all the way to Kadash Barnea, that's
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  Speaker 2: eleven days journey. If they had gone a certain route.
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  Speaker 2: I need to go back and remember what the root is.
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  Speaker 2: And I think in Deuteronomy chapter one, verse two, you
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  Speaker 2: see that in real words. And so now they are
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  Speaker 2: forty years later at Kadash Barnia. How in the world
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  Speaker 2: did it take so long? I'm still blown away by this,
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, they're there under Joshua's leadership. They had another chance.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that God gives not just second chances,
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  Speaker 2: but he gives chances. We don't take his grace for granted,
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  Speaker 2: we don't take it lightly and continue to jump into
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  Speaker 2: sin because he gives all of these chances. But they
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  Speaker 2: have another chance. And Joshua sent out two spies, not
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  Speaker 2: because God's promise was uncertain. That first one didn't go right.
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  Speaker 2: They saw giants and they had the wrong perspective of
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  Speaker 2: themselves and all not not that style again, but because
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  Speaker 2: faith never cancels responsibility. We have to be responsible. God
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  Speaker 2: would give the land, but as people would still need
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  Speaker 2: to move forward in obedience. There is so much more
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  Speaker 2: I could say, but let me just say very quickly
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  Speaker 2: lesson number one. That first one was a bonus. The
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  Speaker 2: real lesson number one is grace reaches the unlikely. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads in Joshua chapter two and verse nine, I
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  Speaker 2: know that the Lord hath given you the land. I
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  Speaker 2: know that the Lord hath given you the land. Yes
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  Speaker 2: it's forty years later. Yes there are only two that
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  Speaker 2: are alive from that first generation. Yes, the people had
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  Speaker 2: been stiff necked and hard hearted, and so many things
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  Speaker 2: that we could say about them. And it's true. And
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  Speaker 2: God does not take that lightly, which is why he
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  Speaker 2: judged the people. He doesn't take it lightly. But he
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  Speaker 2: had a promise to keep. Man, just say that again,
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  Speaker 2: like he had a promise to keep. He told Abraham
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  Speaker 2: that this is what would happen with God's people. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action step in this reality about God's grace
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  Speaker 2: reaching the unlikely, just like rayhab just like you like
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  Speaker 2: fill in the name here, my name, ld like that
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  Speaker 2: is the reality. So stop disqualifying yourselves or others. Stop
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  Speaker 2: disqualifying yourselves or others. God's grace is not hindered or
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  Speaker 2: shackled somehow, fettered, ti strapped, zip tied, handcuffed behind his
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  Speaker 2: back somehow because of your past. It is magnified. Because
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  Speaker 2: of your past, the grace of God is magnified. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: if we had not made all of those blunders and errors, mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: unforced errors, if we had not done all of those things,
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  Speaker 2: then there would be no need for grace. You see,
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  Speaker 2: grace's unmerited favor. That is the mercy of God. And
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing we can do to earn the mercy of God.
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  Speaker 2: But then grace also is the power of God to
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  Speaker 2: do his will. Stop disqualifying yourselves and others. Number two
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Exodus chapter twelve and verse thirteen. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, when I see the blood, of course, this
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  Speaker 2: takes us way back many years before I will pass
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  Speaker 2: over you. I think Rayhab had the same experience. She
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  Speaker 2: had a tie of red ribbon. That would also cause
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  Speaker 2: God's people to say, you know what, there's faith in
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  Speaker 2: that place, and so we are not going to destroy it.
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  Speaker 2: There is faith in that place, so we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to destroy it. So when God sees your home, is
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  Speaker 2: there faith in that place? When God sees your cell
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  Speaker 2: phone history when you are calling, texting, dming using certain apps,
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  Speaker 2: the history within those certain apps, When God sees that,
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  Speaker 2: is he seeing your faith? Like is he seeing connection
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  Speaker 2: with him so that he passes over? Yeah. And this
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  Speaker 2: action step like Rayhab tying the scarlet cord put your
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  Speaker 2: faith into visible action today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to go back to those things that you
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  Speaker 2: did in the past that were blunders where your spirituality
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  Speaker 2: is concerned. And number three in final comes in from
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  Speaker 2: Namiya chapter nine and verse thirty one. Nevertheless, for thy
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  Speaker 2: great mercies sake, thou didst not utterly consume them, nor
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  Speaker 2: forsake them. The action today with this one is to
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  Speaker 2: thank God for another chance. Thank God for another chance.
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  Speaker 2: Live as though you have been rescued. Because you have.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to be amazed by God and his grace,
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  Speaker 2: but come on, not surprised. Make it a great Sabbath peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,