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02 01 2024 Lest the Righteous Be Tempted · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning.
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  It is Thursday, February one, twenty twenty four. Can you believe
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  it. Hello, My name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study
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  series through the Book of Psalms, and our caption for today is less Less
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  the Righteous be tempted, Bless the Righteous be tempted. We'll get into that
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  in just a moment. The first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  ask you to please again go over to your Daily Portion dot com, join
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  our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and also let us
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  know where you are in the world at your daily portion dot com. This
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  is how we build faith and fellowship. All right, Let's go ahead and
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you
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  for giving us your spirit, your presence. Please give us your understanding,
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  teach us how to serve you, and help us not to be yielding to
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  temptation to go another route, to leave you. Because things are difficult and
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  the wicked seem to be prospering. I just pray that you will give us
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  the discipline to yield our will to you at all times. In Jesus' name,
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  I pray Amen and Amen again. All right, So the righteous do
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  get tempted at times, but we have the privilege of what resisting temptation.
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  When I was young, I remember there was a hymn that they used to
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  play in church, yield not to temptation, for yielding his sin, and
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  then and then not the Bible, But then the hymn writer would take us
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  through this journey about connecting ourselves to God and pressing forward regardless of how the
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  devil entreats us and how our inner thoughts and feelings seem to betray us.
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  And the things of the world that seem to drag on our desire to do
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  something different. We are not to yield to temptation. Why because yielding is
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  sin. So temptation is not the problem, it's what happens next. Do
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  you realize that God has promised that even if you are tempted when you are
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  in pain, you are tempted when you have not enough money more than the
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  month that is available to you. Hah, there are difficulties that you experience
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  in relationships. He said, There hath no temptation taken you, but such
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  as is common to man. But God is faithful, who will with the
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  temptation provide a way of escape that ye may be able to bear it.
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  So again, God has not left his people. God has not left his
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  people. But the fact is that we are tempted, right And so there
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  is a quote here I want to find it again. It's from the Reformation
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  Commentary on the Scriptures, page eleven, and it's a very simple concept,
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  but it says these things, reading from the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy
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  three, These things mock those who ignore the first verse of this psalm,
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  which is a summary of the whole Psalm, How good the God of Israel
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  is to those who are upright in heart. We see in the Book of
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  Psalms, chapter seventy three, the lesson writer says that this is focused on
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  the current iniquity of this world. He is unable to see the big picture
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  from God's point of view. The problem that the prosperity of evil posed to
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  his faith is overwhelming. He believed also that his argument about the uselessness of
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  faith was based on reality. He believed that that faith was useless and that
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  that was based on reality. Well, it's not based on reality. It
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  is not useless, you see. And so let's go to the Book of
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  Psalms. We won't read the whole chapter. There are a lot of verses
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  there, but we're going to read from the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy
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  three, a couple of a few verses, and then we'll discuss just a
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  little bit on it. Okay, Oops, I'm back in Psalms chapter seventy
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  seven. I think that was from yesterday, Psalms chapter seventy three, And
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  I will read beginning at verse one. Certainly God is good to Israel and
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  to those whose motives are pure. So God is giving us a heads up
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  to just say straight through the pen of the inspired Bible writer that he is
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  good and that his mercies are everlasting, like no matter what you're going through,
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  his motives are always pure Verse two. But as for me, my
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  feet almost slip, Thank God? Can somebody just say thank God for almost
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  ah almost slipped, My feet almost slid out from under me. For I
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  envied those who are proud and observed the prosperity of the wicked. Have you
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  ever seen those some of them millionaires and billion millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires,
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  that seem to be prospering above you, and you wonder, well, if
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  they're not doing what God says? And I'm not saying that all of these
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  wealth rich or wealth people are not doing God's will, but I'm talking about
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  the ones that you see our living lifestyles contrary to the will of God.
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  Have you ever felt like those individuals are prospering and you're not? Verse four.
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  For they suffer no pain. Their bodies are strong and well fed.
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  They are immune to trouble common to men. They do not suffer as other
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  men do. Arrogance is their necklace, and violence covers them like clothing.
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  Their prosperity causes them to do wrong. Their thoughts are sinful, They mock
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  and say evil things. They proudly threaten violence. They speak as if they
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  rule in heaven and lay claim on the earth, and on and on and
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  on. Verse eleven, they say, how does God know what we do?
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  Is the most high aware of what goes on? Take a good look.
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  This is what the wicked are like. Those who always have it so
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  easy, get richer and richer. I conclude, did surely in vain have
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  I kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle. Now listen, and
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  I need you to listen very carefully. You know, God takes a record.
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  He keeps a record of what we say and our thoughts, what we
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  do. And in Malachi there is this part where God shows that he draws
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  a line in the sand and he says, I am keeping a record of
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  what my people say and the lifestyles of those who don't know me. And
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  what I'm saying is that while you are struggling with this thought that I'm not
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  good, that it is not worth serving me, I'm going to demonstrate the
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  difference between my people and the people who don't love me, and so it
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  is our privilege to borrow God's breath. It is our privilege to have eternal
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  life. It is our privilege that when we do go through trials and tribulations,
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  we do not have to go through them alone. It is our privilege
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  to see the reality and not the deceptive thought that the enemy has put in
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  our minds that people, all people do go through trials and tribulations. Ah,
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  But the difference is the wicked have nowhere to go. Now, the
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  wicked have an opportunity to yield their will to God. But if you are
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  a servant of the most High God, Blessed be his name, banish the
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  thought that God has forgotten you. Banish the thought that He is allowing the
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  wicked to prosper and that you will falter once you when you have an opportunity
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  to read in the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter twenty eight, all of the
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  verses, but especially look at the contrast between verses one through fourteen and the
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  remaining verses of that chapter. And just know that God does not sleep,
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  He does not slumber. His promises are sure. He has not forgotten you.
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  But this earth as it is today is not our final home. He
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  is transforming our characters so that one day, when Jesus does return, that
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  he will be able to take us to heaven for a thousand years and then
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  give us the earth made new after the thousand years are finished. In the
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  meantime, though he does causes people to prosper, he does causes people to
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  become the lender and not the borrower, the head and not the tail.
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  But you have to go into the scriptures and see what it is in his
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  mind that when he does that, what our responsibilities are. Yeah. Have
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  a wonderful day, peace, not difficult too. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,