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03 21 2024 When God Does Not Delight in Sacrifices · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It
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  is Thursday, March twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is when God does not delight in sacrifices, when
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  God does not deal light in sacrifices. Before we get into that, I'd
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  just like to welcome you to the Your Daily Portion dot com site where you
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  can click join and get into our online community. That is where we can
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  continue to ask questions or give our comments concerning these lesson studies. If you
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  don't say anything in the community, then I won't say anything in the community
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  much because I'm speaking to you now. You're on radio, television, on
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  the internet, podcasts, and all kinds of other platforms, even those even
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  those digital devices that you can call out the name in the air. I
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  won't do it now because I might activate yours and we are there. So
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  now it's your turn to speak back at the your Daily Portion dot com community
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  online community, and we can have our discussions there. Let's go ahead and
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  for giving us this day and for the opportunity that you have in trut did
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  to us to open up your word and to live according to those principles.
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  Please help us to live principled lives, to be of service to others,
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  and to glorify You and all that we say, do and think in Jesus
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  name, I pray, Amen and a man again. Okay, when does
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  God not delight in sacrifices? That's a question. Now, when is it
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  that God does not delight in sacrifices? Now you might be saying, but
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  Dave, it's twenty twenty four. So this is a moot point, like
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  it's irrelevant. Okay, let's make an application. First, Let's look at
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  what the sacrifices were that he was referencing. God was referencing. So,
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  of course, before Jesus came miraculously through Mary, by the Holy Spirit,
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  before then, and then by the before he gave his life. He gave
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  his life as the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
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  world. Yes, before that, we had to give sacrifices. Before Jesus
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  gave his life, we had to give sacrifices. This is a part of
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  the plan of salvation, if you will, where God through this sacrificial system,
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  or some would call it sacradotal system. Through this system we see that
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  an innocent victim would be in the place of the sinner. We can go
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  to Leviticus chapters one through seven and see the details of the sacrifices, but
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  we won't. But the bottom line is, because all have sinned and come
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  short of the glory of God, God gave us a kindergarten view, if
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  you will, He gave us a way through this system of sacrifices and the
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  priesthood and the high priestly ministry to see like what is the the what is
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  the cycle of sin? Like how do we become forgiven? Like what does
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  it take to become unified again with God once we have sinned? That is
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  the long story short but anyway, God prescribed how this system of sacrifices should
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  be done and what it would take in order to symbolically be in a position
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  where we are forgiven of our sins and then cleansed from all unrighteousness. Again
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  Leviticus chapters one through seven give those details. And if you want another view,
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  it's from the book of Hebrews. So good, Okay. So the
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  people knew that they were in air quotes doing what God would say for the
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  particular sacrifices. They gave what the prescribed sacrifices were, and God was like,
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  yeah, I don't need those now. It wasn't a wholesale discussion.
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  He was saying, if we are not actually committed to God, keep your
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  sacrifices. God does not light in all of the blood that comes from these
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  sacrifices. Like, God is not like, go kill some more animals to
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  appease me, not bring more blood to appease me. No, this is
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  not what God was after. He was not after what some of the proud
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  people who felt like if they gave these sacrifices in air quotes, if they
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  did that, then God owed them something. They were like Cain, who
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  said, you know, I gave you this and you didn't accept it.
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  What's the problem God? No, God was like, hold on, hold
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  on, hold on, hold on, your brother Abel. He gave the
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  sacrifice that I desire. Not only did he give the correct one, but
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  he gave his heart. His heart was in it, like he yielded himself.
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  But Cain did not. He was proud. Not only was he proud,
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  but he also didn't give what God asked for. And so the question
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  for me in twenty twenty four understanding that we are no longer doing sacrifices because
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  again Jesus Christ is the lamb of God that was sacrificed for us, like
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  he is the one who taketh away the sins of the world. So that
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  is over and done with, and now he stands at as the great high
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  priest right, who is acquainted with the feelings of our infirmities, who is
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  able to succor or to provide what we need and help us in the time
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  of need because he lived in human form, Like he knows what it's like
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  to be human and to struggle through the human predicament of having to eat and
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  to sleep, and to surrender our will to God and to be tempted by
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  the devil. You understand. And so now that we have this, what
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  is the reference point for us? Like, how do we apply it to
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  us? You know, some people fast. My wife just came off a
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  fast last month. Yep. I fasted many times, one time twenty three
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  days. Should I pat myself on the back and say, Lord, look
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  at what I've done? Now you owe me something. There are people who
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  give alms. They give money to the poor and other things. And sometimes
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  we get cameras out and take take pictures like our own private paparazzi like,
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  and we take pictures of all the things and write stories about the things,
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  and then want everybody to congratulate us. And please do not misunderstand what I'm
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  saying here. What I am saying this is not what pleases God. What
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  pleases God is a heart that is yielded to him. And if from a
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  heart that is yielded to him, then we give to the poor that is
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  acceptable. Huh. If through a heart that is yielded to him we do
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  fast, that is accepted to him, acceptable to him. If through a
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  heart that is yielded to him, then we earn our income and share with
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  as many people as possible. This is acceptable to God. But if we
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  are doing it for show, or for a payment from God, or somehow
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  that we might feel like that, we will have merit with God as a
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  result, or favor with people as a result. God is saying, keep
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  that. You can keep that, And so let me read from the Book
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  of Psalms. I think we have made that point sufficiently for this moment.
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  Psalms the Book of Psalms, chapter forty, beginning at verse six, and
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  the Bible reads sacrifice and offering. Thou didst not desires mine ears hast thou
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  opened burnt offering and sin offering Thou hast not required. Then I said that
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  lo I come in the volume of the book. It is written of me.
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  I delight to do Thy will. That's what God is after in our
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  inward parts, brothers and sisters, to where we delight ourselves in the Lord,
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  and then we will have the desires of heart. I delight to do
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  thy will. Oh my God, yay, Thy law is within my heart.
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  That's what God is after. Like He wants our lives, he wants
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  our thoughts, he wants our affections. He wants the energy that comes from
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  our exercising and our energy that comes from a relationship with him. Just talk,
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  not just show. Not flowers for my spouse, my wife after I've
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  abused her, just to make her feel like we're together. God is saying,
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  no, give me your heart. And when you give me your heart,
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  then all that comes as a fruit of that that is acceptable to me.
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  For a wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El
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  David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,