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12 22 2025 In Sincerity and Truth · 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 Monday, December
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and 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 of our lesson study series, Lessons of Faith
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  Speaker 2: in the Book of Joshua or from Joshua. Yes, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is in sincerity and truth that
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  Speaker 2: is coming right out of the Bible. In sincerity and
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  Speaker 2: in truth. 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. Please
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
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  Speaker 2: our online community, pick up your Daily Portion life application guide,
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  Speaker 2: and 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 pray, Father, thank you for this Monday morning and
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  Speaker 2: for the privilege of sincerity. Like we can literally do
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  Speaker 2: your will as long as you are with us. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to do it. Please help us to live as
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  Speaker 2: if we are finally in your presence God. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and amen again. Yeah I should have
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  Speaker 2: said visible, We're in the presence of God. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: So our first lesson is coming in from from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Joshua, chapter twenty four, Verses fourteen and fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Verses fourteen and fifteen. Let me read that. Now, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: fear the Lord. Remember that phrase, fear the Lord, serve
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  Speaker 2: him in sincerity and in truth. That almost sounds like
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  Speaker 2: the New Testament passage to serve him or in spirit
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  Speaker 2: and in truth. Those who worship him will worship him
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  Speaker 2: interesting and put away the gods which your fathers served
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of the river. And in Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: serve the Lord. And if it seems evil to you,
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  Speaker 2: we said this the other day, to serve the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Choose for yourselves this day today, right now, whom ye
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  Speaker 2: will serve. Whether the gods of your fathers that they served,
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  Speaker 2: that were on the other side of the river, on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the river. Do you get that?
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  Speaker 2: Did you get that there's a line of demarcation, There
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  Speaker 2: was a line in the sand the other side of
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  Speaker 2: the river, mint idolatry. The other side of the river
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  Speaker 2: meant you were not fully delivered in your own mindset.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side of those tracks, so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: was your impoverished, enslaved mindset. You're gonna serve that time.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna serve that experience or the gods of the
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  Speaker 2: Amorites and whose land you dwell. But as for me
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  Speaker 2: and my house, we will serve the Lord. And so
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson is Reverence for God shapes genuine obedience.
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  Speaker 2: Reverence for God shapes genuine obedience, and so and so.
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  Speaker 2: The word for fear I told you please to remember
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  Speaker 2: the phrase to the fear the Lord. The word for
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  Speaker 2: fear in this case is yare. It means to stand
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  Speaker 2: in awe and reguard with reverence. We're in awe of God,
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  Speaker 2: and we're are regarding with reverence the God of our salvation.
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  Speaker 2: So Joshua called God's people to live with a conscious
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  Speaker 2: awareness of God's holiness and his awe authority. True obedience
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  Speaker 2: grows out of reverence, not dread, you know what I mean, Like,
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  Speaker 2: we're not running away from God hoping that lightning bolts
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  Speaker 2: won't strike us. Not in a real relationship with God. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no. When the heart sees God as King and father.
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  Speaker 2: And I know many of us have father issues. Some
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  Speaker 2: of you don't, thank God, many of us do. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, ah, but my father wasn't there for me.
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  Speaker 2: My father was there. But when he was there, he
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  Speaker 2: really and then fill in the negative blank. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to rehearse those those early childhood experiences that maybe
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  Speaker 2: we're not we're not fruitful or beneficial to you, God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father. That's different. Obedience comes. Let me say it
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  Speaker 2: like this, when the heart sees God as King and
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  Speaker 2: the good Father that we needed ha hah. Obedience becomes
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  Speaker 2: the natural expression of this devotion. And so the action
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  Speaker 2: in this regard is begin today by praying Lord, teach
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  Speaker 2: me to see you as who you really are, so
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  Speaker 2: I can serve you with a reverent heart Lesson number two,
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  Speaker 2: sincerity means wholeness of heart before God. The Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: in Psalm the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: one and verse two, I will behave myself wisely in
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  Speaker 2: a perfect way. In the New English translation it reads,
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  Speaker 2: I will walk in integrity. So the word for sincerity
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  Speaker 2: or perfection same word now, yes, is tanine tanine and
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  Speaker 2: tamim excuse me, and it means whole, complete, undivided. God
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  Speaker 2: wants us to be whole, complete, and undivided. He said
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  Speaker 2: that the people who ask Wavering in the Book of
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  Speaker 2: James should not believe or think that we're going to
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  Speaker 2: receive anything from God because we are unstable in all
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  Speaker 2: of our ways. We are like Ruben. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was Reuben that was unstable as water, but whichever one
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  Speaker 2: of the sons of Jacob he said, yeah, yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: you're unstable, then that means, yeah, you don't believe you're
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  Speaker 2: going to get anything from God. So focus. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to be taen, whole, complete, and undivided. Joshua's instruction
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  Speaker 2: was a call to serve God without duplicity or divided loyalties.
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  Speaker 2: Just as the sacrificial lamb had to be perfect or
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  Speaker 2: tomim huh, Just as the lamb had to be God
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  Speaker 2: invited his people to offer themselves. Oh, I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 2: Paul's writings, to offer myself as a living sacrifice. But
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  Speaker 2: a living what tomim sacrifice? One that is perfect, one
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  Speaker 2: that is with sincerity, one is whole, It's complete, it
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  Speaker 2: is undivided. So God commanded his people to do the same,
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  Speaker 2: offer ourselves with undivided hearts. God still seeks believers who
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  Speaker 2: will live with integrity. So our action step is choose
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  Speaker 2: one area of your life. I want you to write
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  Speaker 2: this down though. Choose an area of your life where
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  Speaker 2: your devotion is divided. That's your business between you and God,
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  Speaker 2: where it's divided, and surrender it to God today, not tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still growing. God is still working with me. I'm trying.
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  Speaker 2: Not that you're making a decision now, in this very moment,
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  Speaker 2: in eight minutes after the hour, you are making the
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  Speaker 2: decision to surrender that thing to God and your life
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  Speaker 2: to him right now. Lesson number three is coming in
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  Speaker 2: from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and verse five.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, for the Lord is good, his mercy
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  Speaker 2: is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations. Blessed
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  Speaker 2: be the name of the Lord. And so the Hebrew
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  Speaker 2: word again for truth and faithfulness, this time is emmet,
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  Speaker 2: meaning firmness, dependability, reliability. God's loyalty toward his people was constant, reliable, right,
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  Speaker 2: and steady and unchanging. That resonates with me. One of
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  Speaker 2: my behavior style dominant styles is is that way steady, steady, steady, unchanging, consistent.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua called his people, God's people to respond with that
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  Speaker 2: same unwavering or steady loyalty. Our faithfulness to God is
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  Speaker 2: a reflection of his own faithfulness toward us. If you
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  Speaker 2: are unsteady, unstable, then you're saying that God is unsteady
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  Speaker 2: and unstable. And we know that ain't the truth. And
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  Speaker 2: so our action for this today is make one choice,
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  Speaker 2: one decision that reflects loyalty to God rather than ooh,
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  Speaker 2: ease or commitment my God. Hmm, yeah, I'll leave it
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  Speaker 2: right there. I'll leave it right there. And if the
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  Speaker 2: Lord spars life, we will see you in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day peace. Thanks for joining us
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  Speaker 2: listening with friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 2: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 2: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,