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10 29 2025 Free Choice · 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 Marning, Good morning. It's Wednesday at October
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine and 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 lessons of Faith from Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is free Choice. Free Choice.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: Please type that in the chat for somebody at the
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  Speaker 2: wwwpart please, and yeah, this is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for getting us to this moment, the moment
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  Speaker 2: where we need to choose, choose this day whom we
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  Speaker 2: will serve. Let it be that as for we, all
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  Speaker 2: of us, in our homes, our houses, that we will
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  Speaker 2: serve the Lord in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. We all have the privilege to choose the
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  Speaker 2: right pathway. I just want to start right there. All
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  Speaker 2: of us have the privilege to choose the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: Love gives us that privilege. Now now, now we can
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  Speaker 2: also God forbid, choose to go the wrong direction. That's
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  Speaker 2: our choice. That's our almost said, that's our choice. We
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  Speaker 2: can do that. That's our prerogative. See there are words
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  Speaker 2: in a dictionary for this stuff. It's our prerogative. Like
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  Speaker 2: we can go whichever way we desire. But I remember
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  Speaker 2: God saying of his people when they were going down
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  Speaker 2: the wrong path. I remember him saying, like, God hath
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  Speaker 2: no pleasure in the death of those who who die.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore take heed lest she fall. Like take heed, turn
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  Speaker 2: yourselves and live. I mix the Old Testament in the
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  Speaker 2: New Testament text, but they were along the same lines. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it was seen, and I think it's Ezekiel chapter eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: where God said turn yourselves and live. Please. He's begging
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  Speaker 2: us to live. And for those who don't know God,
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  Speaker 2: he is saying the very same thing. There is no
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  Speaker 2: reason for any human being to turn our way against
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  Speaker 2: God and ultimately miss out on eternity with Him. And
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  Speaker 2: so today may be your day. You see what happened
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  Speaker 2: yesterday when I abandoned my notes completely, Because it's like
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  Speaker 2: God is giving us these moments of time to be
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  Speaker 2: transformed by the renewing of our minds. And so we
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  Speaker 2: begin now with our first question, our first lesson. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: coming in from Deuteronomy chapter twenty and verse seventeen. Deuteronomy
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty and verse seventeen. And we're still taking that
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  Speaker 2: trek from Egypt to Canaan. We're in the second generation. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we're under Joshua, his leadership, and we are getting close
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  Speaker 2: to actually getting into the promised lamp. But there's some
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  Speaker 2: people who were just choosing not to surrender their will
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  Speaker 2: to God. And so the Bible reads here, even though
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  Speaker 2: we're back in Deuteronomy, but thou shalt utterly destroy them,
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  Speaker 2: namely the Hittites and the Amorites, and the Canaanites and
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  Speaker 2: the Perizites, and the divine wars of God's people. God
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  Speaker 2: allowed no middle ground. There was no middle ground. Every
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  Speaker 2: nation had to choose either we're going to align with
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  Speaker 2: God or we're going to reject him. And I admit
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  Speaker 2: because when you hear me pause like this, it's because
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  Speaker 2: I'm fighting against myself under the Holy Ghost to just
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  Speaker 2: simply tell the truth. I feel like I want to
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  Speaker 2: be diplomatic, because there is a part of my behavior
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  Speaker 2: style that has diplomacy built and etched into it. There
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  Speaker 2: were times I want to pull it back and nullify
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  Speaker 2: some of the heaviness of it. But I should not
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  Speaker 2: allow my behavior style to resist what in the world
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  Speaker 2: God said in his word. He said these very things.
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  Speaker 2: He said, these very things. We don't need to reject God.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to be on the wrong side of justice,
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  Speaker 2: and so the Hebrew word, the Hebrew word that is
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  Speaker 2: in the discussion for today, refers to what is devoted
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  Speaker 2: to destruction or set apart for judgment. It symbolized complete
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  Speaker 2: surrender to God's authority, whether for mercy or for God's wrath.
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  Speaker 2: And so when those ancient Canaanites persisted in rebellion, their
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  Speaker 2: destruction revealed the consequences of rejecting divine truth. Do you
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  Speaker 2: hide the truth when you're sharing with people? Do you
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  Speaker 2: make up your own truth? People talk about my truth,
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  Speaker 2: my own truth. God was giving them very clearly the
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  Speaker 2: pathway to spiritual success and prosperity even on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, verses one through fourteen show what
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  Speaker 2: God's people the blueprint for God's people to prosper and
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  Speaker 2: of course, anybody who had joined themselves according to Isaiah
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifty six, verses one through five, and kept covenant
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  Speaker 2: with God and kept the Holy seventh day Sabbath together,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals would receive that covenantal blessings. The promise is
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  Speaker 2: that they would be more than of more than sons
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  Speaker 2: and of daughters. They would be they would they would
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  Speaker 2: have names that would remain forevern, the forever, the name
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  Speaker 2: of God inscribed upon their actual character on their foreheads,
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  Speaker 2: in their foreheads, And so we need to remember God's
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  Speaker 2: mercy is wide but requires a response that means, don't
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  Speaker 2: take God's mercy for granted. You get stopped by law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement over and over because you, in fact and indeed
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  Speaker 2: have been speeding. Don't take that stuff for granted. Eventually
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  Speaker 2: they gone impound your car and lock you up, like
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  Speaker 2: if that is your habit, and you get enough points
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  Speaker 2: on your license and then you're in your license gets suspended.
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  Speaker 2: You continue to drive on a suspended license. Eventually that
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  Speaker 2: thing is going to get too hot for you to handle,
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  Speaker 2: and it would be unnecessary because even in that system
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  Speaker 2: there is a level of correction and mercy. They don't
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  Speaker 2: take your license immediately. You understand where I'm going with this.
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  Speaker 2: So God's mercy is wide, but it requires a response.
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  Speaker 2: Every choice to resist His will leads to leads further
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  Speaker 2: from his protection. God help us our lessen. Number two
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Deuteronomy, chapter thirteen and verse fourteen. Then
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  Speaker 2: shout thou inquire and make search, and ask diligently, and behold,
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  Speaker 2: if it be truth and the thing certain, and that
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  Speaker 2: such abomination is wrought among you that we really basically
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  Speaker 2: need to listen to God. That's the bottom line of this.
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  Speaker 2: The law of warfare in the Book of Deuteronomy shows
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  Speaker 2: that total destruction was never the default approach. Even the
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  Speaker 2: command to destroy the idolatrous towns came only after do
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  Speaker 2: inquiry and proof of consistent, unrepentant rebellion. This reveals that
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  Speaker 2: God's justice was measured, It was deliberate and morally grounded.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things we see in society today that
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  Speaker 2: are not morally grounded. There are some things that happened
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  Speaker 2: suddenly where the crime and the judgment do not match up.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. And so what God
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  Speaker 2: is showing us is that those who turned toward Him,
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  Speaker 2: like Rayhab the Gibbian knights, even though the Gibbia Knights were,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they were shifty, but they did turn toward
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  Speaker 2: God in their own way, they found mercy. But those
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  Speaker 2: who persisted against God they found condemnation. It's always a
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  Speaker 2: deep breath for me, because I don't take pleasure in
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  Speaker 2: this either. And I'm reading now from the book Desire
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  Speaker 2: of Ages, page twenty two, the exercise of force is
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  Speaker 2: contrary to the principles of God's government. He desires only
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  Speaker 2: the service of love, and love cannot be commanded, It
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  Speaker 2: cannot be won by force or authority HM. And so
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  Speaker 2: one question for your reflection is in what areas of
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  Speaker 2: your life do you need to choose life more intentionally?
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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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,