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11 01 2025 The Enemy Within · 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: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Sabbath, November one,
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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: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series with lesson number six now Lessons of Faith
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  Speaker 2: from Joshua, under the caption the Enemy within the Enemy within.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this moment of time. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for exposing the enemy, the real enemy. Now please give
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  Speaker 2: us the strength to surrender our will so you can
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  Speaker 2: fight for us. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen, and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. If you were with us last evening during
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  Speaker 2: our our worshipful approach to music and learning the lesson,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and type A one in the chat. The
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  Speaker 2: enemy within actually brings to my mind when David needed
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  Speaker 2: to be at the side of King Saul when he
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  Speaker 2: was dealing with some darkness. And the blessing is that
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  Speaker 2: that David had the gift of worship, and his worshipful
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  Speaker 2: gift also was attached to music, and he was able
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  Speaker 2: to dispel that darkness under the Holy Ghost with that
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  Speaker 2: Saul was dealing with. And so every day we struggle
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  Speaker 2: with this enemy within, this enemy within, and so we're
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  Speaker 2: going to expose this from the scriptures and see what
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  Speaker 2: God would have us to do. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads here in Jeremiah, chapter seventeen and verse ten. I
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  Speaker 2: the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to
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  Speaker 2: give every person, every man according to his ways, according
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  Speaker 2: to the fruit of his deeds. I search the heart.
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  Speaker 2: This is God's vantage point. He sees and knows everything
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  Speaker 2: about everything that's in our minds, on our hearts, our intentions,
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  Speaker 2: the things we're planning, where our DNA is impacting how
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  Speaker 2: we behave today or how we think, and so I'm
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  Speaker 2: thankful that even though it says to give every person
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  Speaker 2: according to his deeds, and that might be like fear,
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  Speaker 2: like a fearful thing to some of us, I'm grateful
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  Speaker 2: that He's given us Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, to save
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  Speaker 2: us from our sins, so that the deeds that are
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  Speaker 2: revealed in judgment have nothing to do with us, because
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  Speaker 2: we will have asked God for forgiveness, we will have
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  Speaker 2: chosen repentance, we will have had the Holy Ghost transform
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  Speaker 2: our lives. So now we are covered in the righteousness
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. So when the judgment comes through to
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  Speaker 2: our name, really God only sees the character, the untarnished
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  Speaker 2: character of Jesus Christ. Okay, let me just stop before
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  Speaker 2: I continue to preach. Now, let's go ahead and learn
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  Speaker 2: something from the actual lesson study here, the lesson study here,
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  Speaker 2: and our first lesson is coming in from Joshua, chapter
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  Speaker 2: seven and verse eleven. What we said a while ago
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  Speaker 2: was a bonus this Sabbath morning, and the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that God's people hath sinned and they have also transgressed
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  Speaker 2: my covenant which I commanded them. And so the context
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  Speaker 2: will likely talk about it tomorrow. If my memory serves,
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  Speaker 2: will talk about it tomorrow. But it is God's people's defeat.
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  Speaker 2: At Ai at Ai revealed a truth that every believer
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  Speaker 2: must face. What is it? The greatest threat to victory
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  Speaker 2: does not come from the enemy outside, but from compromise inside.
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  Speaker 2: And the guy named Aiken Aichin he Aikin's hidden sin
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  Speaker 2: poisoned the entire camp. I need you to ask yourself,
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  Speaker 2: is there anything that you are doing, any thoughts, any feelings,
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  Speaker 2: any actions that you are harboring ah that are against
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  Speaker 2: God that are poisoning the entire camp of your family,
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  Speaker 2: the entire camp of your your worship community, your meet ministry,
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  Speaker 2: how the people with whom you work. Is there anything
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  Speaker 2: that you are doing that is leaking into the society.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm saying it from a sin perspective in the
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  Speaker 2: society in which you live. So because Aiken's hidden sin
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  Speaker 2: poisoned the entire camp, showing that private disobedience can have
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  Speaker 2: public consequences, I need the nations of the world to
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  Speaker 2: hear this. Those who are in charge of large groups
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  Speaker 2: of people you represent in government, the people that are
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  Speaker 2: in your countries or wherever you are domiciled, I need
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  Speaker 2: you to know that private disobedience can have public consequences.
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  Speaker 2: The covenant that secured divine favor could not coexist with
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  Speaker 2: secret rebellion. So when Aiken did that thing that we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about in a day or two, yeah, and then
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  Speaker 2: hid it or attempted to hide it from God, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that had an impact on the people around him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: covenant keeping people must be covenant keepers. We can't just
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  Speaker 2: say it. It has to be our reality. And so
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that in detail, like I said tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: beginning tomorrow. But the action step for this moment is
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  Speaker 2: to ask the Holy Ghost to search your heart daily.
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  Speaker 2: Hidden sin must be confessed to God before it becomes
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  Speaker 2: a public defeat. Hidden sin must be confessed to God
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  Speaker 2: before it becomes public defeat. Yeah, let's move to our
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  Speaker 2: second lesson, coming in from coming in from first Peter,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse four, and the Bible reads an
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  Speaker 2: inheritance imperishable. This is what God wants to give us,
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  Speaker 2: undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you. So this
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  Speaker 2: is what God wants. So God's presence is our true power.
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  Speaker 2: God's presence is our true power. So God's people's strength
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about the ancient people of God. Their strength
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  Speaker 2: was never in swords or strategy, and we invested an
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  Speaker 2: entire week talking about how God never intended his people
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  Speaker 2: to have to take up arms, never for any reason, right,
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  Speaker 2: But it was in the presence of God. When the
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  Speaker 2: presence of God was with them. When God was with them,
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  Speaker 2: they were successful, full stop. Which is why again I
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  Speaker 2: think I said it yesterday that Moses begged God, if
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  Speaker 2: I have found favor with you, would you please show
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  Speaker 2: me your glory in another place? He said, God, if
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  Speaker 2: you will not be with us, please don't let us
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  Speaker 2: go up and do whatever was coming next. So when
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  Speaker 2: Sin broke the covenant, his presence withdrew. I know I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying it in a passive way. God withdrew when Aken
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  Speaker 2: and others would have broken covenant with him, and then
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  Speaker 2: defeat comes right away. Defeat followed. The same is true
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  Speaker 2: for us in twenty twenty five. Nothing has changed. Spiritual
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  Speaker 2: success in spiritual warfare depends on the obedience of God's people.
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  Speaker 2: When we take on the armor of God, we are
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  Speaker 2: to be taking on the armor of God as individuals
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  Speaker 2: who are yielding our will to God. We're not just
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  Speaker 2: talking about it. We're not singing those goofy songs that
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  Speaker 2: challenge the devil all the time and make it seem
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  Speaker 2: like we can just put the enemy under our feet
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  Speaker 2: without God. Come on, now, stop with that stuff. God
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  Speaker 2: is saying to us that the only safe place is
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  Speaker 2: surrender to God. Surrender to God, who is, as we've
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  Speaker 2: said over the last couple of weeks, he is the
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  Speaker 2: commander of the heavenly Hope, sees the ultimate holy and
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  Speaker 2: divine warrior. And so we are to guard our connection
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  Speaker 2: with God above everything else. His presence and not our performance,
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  Speaker 2: determines victory in our lives. Our final lesson is confession
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  Speaker 2: restores covenant strength. Now, the Bible says in Ezra chapter ten,
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  Speaker 2: which we'll talk about verse eleven. Now therefore, make confession
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  Speaker 2: unto the Lord, God of your father's and do his pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: This is a model for us that when we fall,
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  Speaker 2: God forbid, but if we do that, we confess quickly.
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  Speaker 2: We confess quickly and connect with God. Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 2: us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with el David Harris
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  Speaker 1: make it a great day. Yeah.