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09 29 2025 Cross! Take! Divide! Serve! · 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: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, it is Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: September twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series about Joshua, the Lessons of
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  Speaker 2: Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is Cross, Take,
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  Speaker 2: Divide and Serve. Cross, Take, Divide and Serve. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to just say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and for another day.
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  Speaker 2: We can do your work and other servile labor. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: we can work and eat and serve other people. Please, now, God,
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  Speaker 2: help us to cross and to take, and to divide
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  Speaker 2: and serve according to your will. In twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. What
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  Speaker 2: is it that God is commanding you to do? What
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  Speaker 2: is God commanding you to do? And I know that
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  Speaker 2: most Christianese speaking people I made that language up, I
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  Speaker 2: invented it. But I think you understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: People who are attached to the people of God are
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  Speaker 2: often thinking when you say command, they're thinking of maybe
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  Speaker 2: the commandments, or thinking of one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: God has said go from this point in your life
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  Speaker 2: and go into this other point of your life. And
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  Speaker 2: so what I'm saying to you is God has another
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  Speaker 2: way of commanding. There are times that He gives us
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  Speaker 2: success principles, cross, divide, take and serve, and so we
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  Speaker 2: look at the Book of Joshua chapter one and see
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  Speaker 2: that God is giving commands that have to do with
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  Speaker 2: trusting him and reaping the reward. Trusting him and reaping
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  Speaker 2: the reward, like wherever your feet shall be, that will
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  Speaker 2: be your land. God has made a promise. He made
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  Speaker 2: it to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and now the people
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  Speaker 2: of God are able to live in aspects of the promise.
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  Speaker 2: And so there are some highlights I'd like to underscore
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  Speaker 2: from the Book of Joshua chapter one. You can read
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  Speaker 2: in the lesson study the ones that the lesson writer highlighted.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll give you some more, okay, Verses one and two.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible teaches a transition of leadership from Moses to Joshua. Duh.
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  Speaker 2: Like you already knew that, But it's important because God
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  Speaker 2: is showing us the blueprint of continuity. I told you
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday, a continuity, a continual reality of leadership where
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  Speaker 2: God does not slumber. He does not sleep. He is
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  Speaker 2: the one who sets up leaders and he's the one
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  Speaker 2: that brings them down. He will not leave his people
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  Speaker 2: leader less as long as they are his people Verses
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  Speaker 2: three to six. The Bible teaches us that God promises
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  Speaker 2: the land and presence and success of God. So the
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  Speaker 2: land the Bible says that the cattle on a thousand
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  Speaker 2: hills are his, all of the lands of this earth.
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  Speaker 2: The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and
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  Speaker 2: even the people that dwell therein. So God has given us.
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  Speaker 2: God has given us the privilege of coming together in
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  Speaker 2: a way where he promises us some of the land
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  Speaker 2: that he has created. He's promised us all of his presence,
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  Speaker 2: and he has given us godly success as a promise. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And then verses seven through nine, are you listening for
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  Speaker 2: the blueprint for your own life? Are you listening for
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  Speaker 2: how God is commanding you and that he will make
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  Speaker 2: promises to you well. Versus seven through nine teach us
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  Speaker 2: that there is a call to courage and obedience to Terah,
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  Speaker 2: the law right call to courage and obedience to the law.
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  Speaker 2: This is the reality for the people of God. If
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  Speaker 2: you are looking for the land, you are looking for
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  Speaker 2: God's presence, you are looking for godly success and leadership
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  Speaker 2: under God. Then He's saying submit your will to him, surrender,
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  Speaker 2: surrender yourself minimally to the law, but more than that
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  Speaker 2: the law of God is a microquasm of real relationship
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  Speaker 2: with him. Verses ten to fifteen, Joshua commands the officers
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  Speaker 2: preparing the people. So God has his people on the march.
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  Speaker 2: Are you marching? Are you marching into the promised land? Now?
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  Speaker 2: Are you on your way marching to Zion? Beautiful, beautiful Zion.
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  Speaker 2: Are you marching to Zion? Then? If you are, then
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  Speaker 2: God has set up the blueprint and the way marks,
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  Speaker 2: the milestones that let you know that you are marching
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  Speaker 2: in the right direction under his leadership. And then, of
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  Speaker 2: course verses sixteen to eighteen, the people confirm their loyalty
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  Speaker 2: to Joshua. Because remember this is a continuity plan. God
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  Speaker 2: is putting Moses obviously out of the picture, and he's
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  Speaker 2: bringing Joshua to the forefront of the picture so that
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  Speaker 2: they can, under God and his leadership, learn how to
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  Speaker 2: serve God. Because they're going to the Promise. They're not
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  Speaker 2: going to the promise to continue with their enslaved mentality,
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  Speaker 2: going into the promise to murmur. They are going into
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  Speaker 2: the promise so that they can continue to be God's people.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're affirming their loyalty to God's continuity plan
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  Speaker 2: under Joshua pledging obedience. Now, what I want you to
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  Speaker 2: do is give keen attention to Joshua's name. Look at
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  Speaker 2: what Joshua's name, the way we say it in English means,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a coincidence that God would use that person
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  Speaker 2: with that name to quote save the people. And Joshua's
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  Speaker 2: name is Yahost Shuah. May I just say yah Showah
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  Speaker 2: blessed be his name, because the term actually means in Hebrew,
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  Speaker 2: Yahweh saves. Yahost Shia blessed be. His name is a
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  Speaker 2: central figure in our plan of salvation. May I say
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  Speaker 2: it another way, Yahoshua blessed be. His name is the
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  Speaker 2: name that we should be using to identify who Jesus is.
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  Speaker 2: In the Hebrew culture, Yahos Shoah and Jesus synonymous, and
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  Speaker 2: so Joshua the one whom God chose to replace Moses.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, the central figure is a prefigurement of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ himself, the one who promised and pledged that
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  Speaker 2: he would lay down his life that we may take it.
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  Speaker 2: He may take it again so that we can actually
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  Speaker 2: march in to heavenly Zion. And then the earth made
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  Speaker 2: new and So God showed us through human instrumentality, what
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  Speaker 2: it is like to serve God and have His presence
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  Speaker 2: with us. So much more we could say, But let
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  Speaker 2: me just read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page
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  Speaker 2: four hundred eighty two, and it reads, Joshua was now
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  Speaker 2: the acknowledged leader of God's people. He was full of
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  Speaker 2: faith in the promises of God. His courage and perseverance
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  Speaker 2: and leadership were not the result of natural ability. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that God calls his people and the first
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  Speaker 2: thing we do is give our resume that says, this
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  Speaker 2: is what qualifies us for the calling. But in fact
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  Speaker 2: and indeed, yes, God will use those things. But it
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  Speaker 2: is in fact and indeed God using them. God equips
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  Speaker 2: the called. He does not necessarily call the equipped. I know,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know. If you are a medical doctor
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  Speaker 2: and you went through the training necessary to perfect your
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  Speaker 2: craft in that field to practice medicine, God is not
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  Speaker 2: nullifying that. But that is not what qualifies you to
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  Speaker 2: be His servant. You understand, Okay, let me just keep going.
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  Speaker 2: But his connection with God. Connection with God is the
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  Speaker 2: key to us being able to cross over the Jordan River,
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  Speaker 2: take the land that God has given us divided among
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  Speaker 2: the people of God, and to serve God throughout the
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  Speaker 2: ceaseless ages of eternity. Follow God and you cannot lose peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,