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12 08 2025 Accusations … · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: It is Monday, December eight, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 3: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 3: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 3: study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 3: for today is accusations, Oh boy, accusations. Before we get
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  Speaker 3: into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 3: faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for the fact that the accuser of the
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  Speaker 3: brethren is cast down who accuses us before you both
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  Speaker 3: day and night. Father, Please please teach us not to
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  Speaker 3: be accusers of our brethren. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 3: Amen and amen. Accusations accusations, boy. Communications are serious situation.
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  Speaker 3: And let me just say that communications a serious situation.
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  Speaker 3: Some of you know that our will communication director for
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  Speaker 3: the Central Jamaica Conference of Some Day Adventists for some time,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, it's serious.
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  Speaker 2: Communication. It's a serious thing.
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  Speaker 3: We had more than two hundred churches, of course, and
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  Speaker 3: we had health centers and and university and educational institutions
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  Speaker 3: and people all around Central Jamaica that we needed to
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  Speaker 3: keep our communication clear for during the pandemic and at
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  Speaker 3: other times. And so I'm like, okay, God, what does
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  Speaker 3: this mean? Like, how can I see the experience that
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  Speaker 3: I had in that regard in this lesson, Well, the
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  Speaker 3: lesson writer actually points out an experience you will have
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  Speaker 3: read through already. In both cases, at the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the lesson, a structure of stones is erected. So we
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  Speaker 3: have two kinds of altars being erected, and one set
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  Speaker 3: of people is trying to figure out, like, what is
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  Speaker 3: the purpose of this these this altar? Like one of
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  Speaker 3: them looks a certain way, the other ones another way.
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  Speaker 3: Like what's going on here? The first served as a memorial,
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  Speaker 3: while the second is perceived to be an impressive altar.
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  Speaker 3: The question that inevitably comes to mind is, as in
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  Speaker 3: the text, what do these stones mean? Now we're looking
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  Speaker 3: for intention. Somebody's trying to judge based on the evidence,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not coming clear right now? Is this altar
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  Speaker 3: built for sacrifices or is it for only a memorial?
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  Speaker 3: Are these tribes already h oh, this is where it's
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  Speaker 3: coming in right here?
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  Speaker 2: Clear? Clear, clear?
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  Speaker 3: Are these other tribes already starting to fall into apostasy?
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  Speaker 3: See when I was in that position, I remember when
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  Speaker 3: church members were judging one another based on something I'm
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  Speaker 3: not bringing up now. You know what the argument was
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  Speaker 3: during the pandemic, And one side said this, and one
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  Speaker 3: side said that, and people were just at each other
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  Speaker 3: surrounding the particular discussion, like what is the meaning of
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  Speaker 3: the way that we are doing whatever it was that
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  Speaker 3: we needed to do or felt that we needed to
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  Speaker 3: do during that really critical time in Earth's history. And
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  Speaker 3: so these tribes are trying to figure out like it
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  Speaker 3: is some people falling into apostasy, Well, how did this happen?
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  Speaker 3: Like how is all of this questioning happening? Because there
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  Speaker 3: was a lack of communication. Look at this lack of
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  Speaker 3: consultation with Joshua, he's the leader, Eliezer or the tribal
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  Speaker 3: leaders creates room for misunderstanding that potentially can lead to
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  Speaker 3: terrible conflict. So we need to be evaluating how we communicate,
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  Speaker 3: if we communicate, what we communicate, especially when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the mission of Christ in the last days, because
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  Speaker 3: we would be subject to the same potential for misunderstanding.
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  Speaker 3: So our first lesson in that case is judging without
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  Speaker 3: understanding leads to false accusations. Judging without understanding leads to
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  Speaker 3: false accusations. Coming in from the Bible, Book of Luke,
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  Speaker 3: chapter thirty Luke chapter six, verse thirty seven, and it reads,
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  Speaker 3: judge not, and ye shall not be judged, condemn not,
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  Speaker 3: and ye shall not be condemned forgive and you will
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  Speaker 3: be forgiven. Now that word, the Greek word for judge,
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  Speaker 3: in this case means to separate, decide, or form an opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Don't do that without all of the information. The West
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  Speaker 3: Georgian tribes in the actual lesson now assumed the altermant rebellion.
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  Speaker 3: But did they say that assuming does to you and me?
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  Speaker 3: They saw stones and concluded apostasy. They saw stones and
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  Speaker 3: concluded apostasy. Sometimes our perceptions are off. Sometimes what we
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  Speaker 3: think we see is not what we actually see. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we are coloring what we see based on experiences. Oh well,
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  Speaker 3: I can't get into all of that. It's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So they saw that and concluded apostasy. Their sudden shift
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  Speaker 3: in language calling the Eastern tribes sons of Ruben and
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  Speaker 3: sons of God, showed suspicion in place of the trust
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  Speaker 3: that they had. Misjudgment flourished because understanding was absent. Before
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  Speaker 3: we rush to judgment, this is our action step pause
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  Speaker 3: before forming conclusions. Ask God, am I seeing the whole picture?
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  Speaker 3: Choose patient inquiry over quick suspicion. As in my behavior style,
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  Speaker 3: I like to ask questions. I don't like rushing to
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  Speaker 3: judgment because I do not like to be inaccurate or wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I need the data. I need the information. I need
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  Speaker 3: the facts in order to make a fair, balanced and
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  Speaker 3: real judgment if necessary. And so this is a good
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  Speaker 3: place for us as believers in the last days. Our
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  Speaker 3: second lesson is righteous judgment looks beyond appearances. In the
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  Speaker 3: Bible Book of John chapter seven and verse twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: it says, judge not according to the appearance, but judge
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  Speaker 3: righteous judgment. Again the Greek word, this time for appearance,
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  Speaker 3: actually means what is seen on the surface. Oh wait,
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  Speaker 3: there's something beneath the surface. There's something beyond the surface.
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  Speaker 3: So appearances created or the surface view, the surface view
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  Speaker 3: created fear. In Joshua chapter twenty two, looking at things
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  Speaker 3: at the surface created fear. What looked like rebellion was
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  Speaker 3: actually a memorial to unity. God calls believers to discern
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  Speaker 3: with spiritual clarity, not assumption, not emotional reaction. True judgment
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  Speaker 3: begins by seeking the facts, listening to others, and allowing
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  Speaker 3: time for truth to emerge. Our action step in that
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  Speaker 3: case is seeking deeper understanding in every difficult situation. Listen
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  Speaker 3: to our long look at Me. If you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: me on YouTube or on Facebook or wherever you're watching.
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  Speaker 3: Just to imagine on the radio, I'm pointing at my
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  Speaker 3: two ears, brothers and sisters. There is a reason why
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  Speaker 3: we have double the number of ears then we do
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  Speaker 3: mouths and tongues. Yeah, we need to listen twice as much,
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  Speaker 3: twice as long as you speak when conflict arises. And
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  Speaker 3: I'll just give you. I'll just give you one last lesson.
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  Speaker 3: You'll drill it later. God alone knows motives and hearts,
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  Speaker 3: and that's coming in from First Corinthians, chapter four and
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  Speaker 3: verse five.
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  Speaker 2: Seek God and he'll teach us what we need to know. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,