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03 05 2024 Remembering History and Repentance · 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
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning.
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  It is Tuesday, March five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host. That just spilled water
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  all over my keyboard. Right well, I'm getting prepared for you, and
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  this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  but today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study through the
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  Book of Psalms, and our caption for today is remembering history and repentance.
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  Remember history and repentance. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a
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  way that we can continue to fit build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
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  you for this new day and for the privilege we have to open up your
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  word again. Please please teach us, Father how to turn our heart toward
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  you. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Yes,
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  if I gave you an opportunity to define repentance, and I know that
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  sounds so like I don't know, it sounds so dry, like define repentance,
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  okay, number two. But if you were to define it, what
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  would you say that it is? Please? What would you say? Repentance
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  is? Go ahead and type it in the chat. What is repentance?
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  Yes, okay, let's give you another moment. What is repentance? Okay?
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  So repentance is turning the shoulder. So if I'm going east, if
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  I'm walking in an easterly direction, and I turn my shoulder and I go
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  toward the west. That is partially what repentance is. If I'm walking toward
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  sin, I'm doing and thinking in ways that God is not pleased, Yes,
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  and then I turn the shoulder. That is part of what repentance is.
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  The other part that is critical is it's godly sorrow for sin, not
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  just regret because we've gotten caught in the act of something that is undesirable and
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  we just feel like, wow, the penalty is too great, and so
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  yeah, let me repent. No no, no, no, no no.
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  It's godly sorrow for sin. And you're like, well, how do
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  I get that? Romans chapter two and verse four basically says that repentance is
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  a gift from God. God giveth repentance to his people, So we should
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  not take that for granted. If you can have godly sorrow for sin,
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  it is because God put that inside of your bosom. And I'm thankful,
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  thankful that He has been that kind toward us. Okay, And so now
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  we go to the Book of Psalms chapter one hundred and six and we begin
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  to drill this concept of remembering our history and learning, learning, learning to
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  repent, turn away from sin toward God and that he will give us sorrow,
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  godly sorrow for our sins. And so let's go to the Book of
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  Psalm chapter one hundred and six and verse thirteen, and the Bible reads here
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  they quickly forgot what he had done and did not wait for his instructions.
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  So we need to recognize that, like even my own in my own family
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  line, I realize that I have some of the gifts and the calling of
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  people who have gone on before, like people who are passed away now,
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  people who have lived before, in some of whom I've seen, I've seen
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  their actions and activities, right, And I recognize I have the same gifts,
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  But I also I also need to be watching out for the pitfalls.
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  One person in particular, I'm like, oh, this dude was proud,
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  Like this dude started to believe the hype about himself way back in the seventies
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  and eighties. And I'm like, God, if you have created me like
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  him and I have similar gifts in calling to him, then it's possible that
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  the enemy's going to try this trick again, Like he's going to try the
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  same trick that he did on these certain people in my ancestry. Right,
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  And so I'm prayerful against these things because I'm recognizing the past failures and the
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  historical sins of God's people, including people in my own family. You see,
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  we have to update this thing. We need to not just look back
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  to the Exodus and God's people there. We look there, but we have
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  to see in our own lives. How does this stuff apply? And so
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  this serves as a reminder of the importance of acknowledging and learning from past mistakes
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  and failures. Okay, and then we can go down to verse six where
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  it reads, we have sinned like our ancestors. We have done wrong,
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  we have done evil, and so God encourages us to recognize the personal and
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  collective admission of guilt. Sometimes we are among God's people, just like I
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  think it was Isaiah said. He said, wee was me, for I
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  am undone. I am a man of unclean lips, and I come from
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  among a people of uncleaned lips. And so we recognize we don't distance ourselves.
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  People who stand up outside of places of worship sometimes and they're pointing there
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  their judgmental little fingers, and they have even some people are on YouTube with
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  hundreds of thousands of people following them pointing their judgmental little fingers at the people
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  of God and some of the leaders among the people of God and judging them,
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  condemning them, identifying their sins the people that they're pointing at, and
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  not actually taking responsibility for their own sins. And so this is a collective
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  thing, a collective and personal admission of guilt. If you're among God's people,
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  then you have to recognize you're a part of the same family. And
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  don't point your finger at people, but say, God, we have sinned
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  in this regard. Lord, give your people, including me, repentance,
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  teach us how to serve you. Don't distance yourself, don't separate yourself,
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  don't become dissident in your mind set. But see where we have gone astray,
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  where we have fallen short, And do your best, brothers and sisters,
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  from within the flock and within the family, to make the wrongs right,
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  to repent and to point the way to righteousness having repented yourselves. You
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  see. And so I don't want to get on my soapbox here, so
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  I'll just pause right there. But we all need to admit our guilt before
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  God and then turn the shoulder, turn toward God. In a way from
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  our sins. I wish I had the time. Let's go to verse twenty
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  three of the Bible Psalm chapter one hundred and six, and the Bible reads
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  he had so he said he would destroy them, had not Moses has chosen
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  ones stood up in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.
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  You see. So, if I'm pointing my judgmental little thing at you
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  because you have sinned, and forgetting myself and how I live right and have
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  lived in the past right, I become self righteous and I can't stand as
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  an intercessor like Moses. Did you see Moses stood in the gap. It
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  says that he was an intercessor. The roles of Moses and others who interceded
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  for God's people prefigure Christ's intercessory role. You understand, you want to be
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  like Jesus, brothers and sisters. Yes, stand in the gap for somebody
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  today like Job did for his children. He said, if in case these
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  in their folly they sin against God, I need to stand in the gap
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  for them. At the end of Job's ordeal where his life turned into a
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  mess, but God was keeping him. He was still keeping him. He
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  had seemingly lost everything. He had four friends that were not properly connected to
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  God and a wife who had lost her mind. Yes and yeah, so
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  yeah, yeah, he stood in the gap for those three friends when God
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  said, I know I said four before because I'm including Elihu. But in
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  this case God said to those ali fasts, he said, listen, you
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  and your two friends need to go to Job and ask him to intercede for
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  you and offer sacrifice for you, and then I will hear him and forgive
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  you. You see, so we can't be judgmental and be an intercessor at
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  the same time. You see where this is going so much more, God's
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  unfailing love overcomes sin, personalizing the historical lessons and not just looking at it
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  as a history lesson, and then we need to remember God's words in order
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  to repent. A wonderful day. Thanks 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,