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05 04 2025 Futile Sacrifices · 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 Sunday, May fourth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is futile Sacrifices Tile Sacrifices. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd
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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 do thank you this morning for a new week.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to open your
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  Speaker 2: word and to sacrifice, sacrifice ourselves for you. In Jesus's name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Futile sacrifices, Okay, what
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  Speaker 2: really makes a sacrifice acceptable to God? And I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about it from an Old Testament perspective. We don't do
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  Speaker 2: sacrificing like in the traditional sense anymore because Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: has always been the fulfillment of what the Old Testament
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  Speaker 2: system of sacrifices and the ministry of the priests and
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  Speaker 2: the high priests, etc.
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  Speaker 1: Were.
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  Speaker 2: But now this is you know, past tense, like Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the fulfillment of all of that. But what made
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  Speaker 2: sacrifices acceptable, Well, let me just start with we needed
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  Speaker 2: to yield ourselves to God and become sacrifices. We had
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  Speaker 2: to give our entire sels love for God in the
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  Speaker 2: fullest sense of the word. For everything that we have,
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  Speaker 2: everything that we are, is God's. And when we surrender
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  Speaker 2: our will to God, then that was the beginning stage
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  Speaker 2: of what acceptable sacrifices even looked like before we got
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  Speaker 2: to the sacrificing. Now, I'm going to read a quote
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  Speaker 2: straight from the Lesson Patriarchs and Prophets, page seventy two,
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll make some application here the Bible read,
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  Speaker 2: I mean part of me. The Lesson in this quote
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  Speaker 2: reads able grasped the great principle of redemption. He saw
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  Speaker 2: himself a sinner. Do you see yourself as a sinner
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  Speaker 2: who needs salvation? And he saw sin and its penalty
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  Speaker 2: death standing between his soul and communion with God. He
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  Speaker 2: brought the slain victim, talking about the animal sacrifice sacrificist life,
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  Speaker 2: thus acknowledging the claims of the law that had been transgressed.
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  Speaker 2: So Abel knew that he turned himself away from God's law.
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  Speaker 2: He saw that he didn't do what God said, and
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  Speaker 2: in some cases when God told him to told him
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  Speaker 2: not to do a thing, he did those things. So
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  Speaker 2: he knew that he was a sinner who needed a savior.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is why he did exactly what God
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  Speaker 2: said to deal with the sin problem. Let me continue
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  Speaker 2: the quote. Through the shed blood, he looked to the
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  Speaker 2: future sacrifice Christ dying on the cross of Calvary. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about that a lot tomorrow, and trusting
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  Speaker 2: in the atonement that was there to be made. He
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  Speaker 2: had the witness that he was righteous, and his offering
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  Speaker 2: part of me was accepted. Why was it accepted because
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  Speaker 2: he knew he was a sinner. He he needed to
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  Speaker 2: be saved by grace through faith. He also right back here,
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  Speaker 2: he also knew that he was to give this sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: that pointed forward to the ultimate sacrifice because of his
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  Speaker 2: own sin. Yeah, all right, let's make it a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more practical, Okay, So we're gonna go here and
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  Speaker 2: get some lessons now from the Bible. So in Isaiah
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  Speaker 2: chapter one, Isaiah chapter one and verse eleven, the Bible reads.
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  Speaker 2: To what purpose is this multitude of your sacrifices? Unto me,
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  Speaker 2: said the Lord, I am full of burnt offerings of
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  Speaker 2: rams and the fat of fed beasts, And I delight
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  Speaker 2: not in the blood of bullocks or lambs or he'd goats.
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  Speaker 2: So the people of God, many of them, were giving
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  Speaker 2: sacrifices trying to be a recommendation of themselves to God.
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  Speaker 2: They felt like if they would jump through these hoops,
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  Speaker 2: if they would tick the boxes, if they would do
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  Speaker 2: these things outwardly, then somehow it would recommend them to
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  Speaker 2: God and that God would owe them something. But God
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  Speaker 2: really desires sincerity and genuine devotion, not just religious ritual
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing religious rituals in your life that have
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  Speaker 2: no meaning? Like I'm talking about things that we espouse,
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  Speaker 2: like prayer, Like are you praying on a regular basis?
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  Speaker 2: And really it's just talking out loud to the ceiling,
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  Speaker 2: talking out loud to the roof, talking out loud to
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  Speaker 2: the sky. And then once you've ticked that box, go
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  Speaker 2: on to the same sinful life that you had before
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  Speaker 2: the prayer. Have you fasted for days or even weeks,
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  Speaker 2: and after the fast or even during the fast, thinking
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  Speaker 2: that you recommended yourself to God and then somehow continue
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  Speaker 2: to oppress people. And if you are somebody who has
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  Speaker 2: a health, or you have somebody who keeps your land
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  Speaker 2: or cleans up for you somehow, or does anything for you,
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  Speaker 2: but you underpay them, disrespect them. I'm not saying you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying the collective you is that your reality.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, to keep those sacrifices. That is not the
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  Speaker 2: kind of sacrifice, sacrifice or fast that I have taught you.
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  Speaker 2: It's to set the captives free, to relieve the oppressed, etc. Right,
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  Speaker 2: And so God wants our entire hearts, not just our rituals.
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  Speaker 2: And then from Isaiah fifty six and verse seven, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, even to them, will I bring to my
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  Speaker 2: holy mountain and make them a joy, make them joyful
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  Speaker 2: in my house of prayer. They're burnt offerings, and their
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  Speaker 2: sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine alter. For mine house
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  Speaker 2: shall be called a house of prayer for all people.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go back to the who. Okay, so the
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  Speaker 2: people who would have been considered a dry tree, people
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  Speaker 2: who would have been considered separated from God, people who
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  Speaker 2: would have been ceremonially unclean according to the way that
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  Speaker 2: the people of God thought in those days. Those people,
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  Speaker 2: God said, if you keep covenant with me huh, if
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  Speaker 2: you turn away from your sin and keep also the Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: then you will be given a name that is greater,
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  Speaker 2: that is better than of sons and of daughters. It
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  Speaker 2: is a name that will remain forever, and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I will accept you and your sacrifices. So righteousness is
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  Speaker 2: not confined to the people that were originally the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, but to everyone who ultimately learns to keep
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  Speaker 2: covenant with God. I wish I had the time. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. Let's go, Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: my final lesson, because there are just too many here.
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  Speaker 2: In Isaiah, chapter forty nine and verse fifteen, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: can a woman forget her sucking child and that she
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  Speaker 2: should not have compassion on the sun of her won yea,
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  Speaker 2: they may forget, yet I will not forget thee. So
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  Speaker 2: God is compassionate. If God is compassionate toward me, then
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  Speaker 2: I should be compassionate toward others. May I say that
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  Speaker 2: one more time? Since God is compassionate toward me, I
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  Speaker 2: have the privilege of being compassionate toward others. You want
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  Speaker 2: to be acceptable to God, then mirror his lifestyle, mirror
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  Speaker 2: his behavior, Submit your will to God, and live like
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  Speaker 2: Jesus did in all of your sacrifice.
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