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03 02 2024 Lessons of the Past · 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 Sabbath, March two, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is Lessons of the Past. Lessons of
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  the Past. We'll get into that and just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say happy, happy Sabbath to you, and especially for people who
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  maybe have never kept a Sabbath. You didn't know about Sabbath years ago or
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  maybe even two months ago, and this is your first time keeping the Sabbath.
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  Holy, I am so thankful that you're here, and I know that
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  there are hundreds and thousands of people who are happy as well that you're able
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  to see that God has made a covenant with this people. And part of
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  that covenant has to do with coming into this pavilion huh on the seventh day
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  Sabbath to experience Him in a way that there is no way in any other
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  day that we experience Him, even though we worship God every day. I
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  said a lot, but that's just to say welcome to you, and welcome
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  to all of our brothers and sisters around the world on two hundred plus radio
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  stations, couple of television stations, all over the internet, and on podcasts.
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  We are in this thing together to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Let's go ahead and pray and then get underwigh. Father, Thank you for
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  this Sabbath morning. Thank you for loving us. Please teach us to serve
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  you and not forget what you've done for us in the past. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Well, there is an
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  infamous quote, and maybe I don't know if I'm using the right terminology.
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  But there is a quote that just comes to my mind among the people of
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  God that says, there is no fear for the future. We have no
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  need to fear in the future except we forget how God has led us in
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  the past. May I just say it to you one more time. We
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  have no need to fear anything that is coming along the pathway in the future,
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  except if we forget how far and how long and in the ways that
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  God has led us in the past. Ah, Yes, Now has God
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  been good to you? And I said that in past tense? Right?
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  Has He been good to you in the past? Yesterday? Was He good
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  to you when you were having pain in your body, when your mind was
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  not right, when you sinned against God? Huh? When you had a
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  prayer that you felt like God was not answering, and then you found out
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  later on that He gave you the exact right answer that you needed at the
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  time, even though you did not like what the answer was. Or in
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  other times that you overcame trials and other times where you lived in triumph.
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  God gave you a moment in your dark pathway. He gave you a moment,
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  a glimmer of hope and gave you the opportunity to be happy for just
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  a moment, and then he gave you the strength to get through whatever you
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  were going through. Like, have you a past with God that you can
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  remember and say, Well, since you have been good to me before,
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  God, you will be good to me in the future. Your track record
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  is good with me. God. You've been good to friends of mine.
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  You've been good to people that I've seen in my workplace. I have seen
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  people escape death who tried to kill themselves. I've seen people who escape death
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  who were sent into the war zones of the world because they are serving their
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  countries, and they came back safe and sound. I have seen where you
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  have comforted people in my life who have lost loved ones unfortunately. I know
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  that if I can just remember that you brought your people through so many trials,
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  through so many tribulations, have given us power to overcome so many temptations,
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  that certainly you will do it again. Okay, now that we have
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  gotten that sorted out, let's go ahead and read from the Bible from the
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  Book of Psalms, chapter seventy eight, Verses three and four. The Book
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  of Psalms, chapter seventy eight verses three and four, and the Bible reads
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  which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. And
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  so there is a legacy that we expect in the family of God, that
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  we will hear how or what great things the Lord has done for his people
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  over the years. Right, we will not hide them from our children.
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  So we pass them on to our children, telling them the telling to the
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  generation to come, the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful
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  works that he has done. And so we should build into our daily reality
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  when we are thinking and praying that God has been good? In what ways
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  has he been good? Remember that song, counter your blessings, count them
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  one by one, or name them one by one. That is an experience
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  that we need to actually have. Maybe that is a part of the legacy
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  that you will build in your family unit or among people that you mentor or
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  take good care of. So here are seven takeaways, seven takeaways in that
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  vein, and I will read first from the Book of Zechariah. The Book
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  of Zechariah, chapter one and verse four. Don't be like your ancestors,
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  so clearly, so clearly, we're talking about some of the people who did
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  not do what God said, do not be like your ancestors, to whom
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  the former prophets proclaimed. This is what the Lord of Hosts says, Turn
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  now from your evil wickedness. But they would not listen to me, says
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  the Lord. And so what we need to do is learn from our people's
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  past mistakes, even if it's you, even if it's your own past mistakes.
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  Learn from the past mistakes from our ancestors are forbearers in the faith,
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  our family members. I did say ancestors already, and even from our own
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  past mistakes. We need to learn that when we delay, oh be,
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  it is disobedience. When we delay our obedience, it is disobedience. Okay.
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  And so let's go to the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
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  thirty five and verse nine, and the Bible reads he performed, meaning God
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  awesome deeds and acts of judgment in your past, oh Egypt, against Pharaoh
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  and all his prophets. And of course that was the bad Pharaoh. There
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  was a good pharaoh during Joseph's day that followed what God was leading him to
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  do through Joseph. Okay, but we're talking about the one that enslaved God's
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  people and So what we want to do was celebrate God's mighty acts. Celebrate
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  his mighty acts. He performed awesome deeds of acts of judgment in your midst.
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  You see. Let's go to another one from the Book of Ephesians,
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  chapter two and verse nineteen. So you are no longer foreigners or non citizens,
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  but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.
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  We need to recognize that we are a part of the spiritual heritage, the
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  inheritance. Once we choose to serve God. We are Abraham's seed. We
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  are heirs according to the promise. The promises that God made to Abraham become
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  our promises, and we will one day inherit the heavenly Canaan and the earth
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  made new, the earthly Canaan that is now free of sin. There is
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  no more death, dying, pain, or death because the former things are
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  passed away. So we want to connect to our spiritual heritage by simply making
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  a decision. Making a decision to serve God, then all of the promises
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  that God has made to his people become fulfilled in our lives. I thank
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  God for that. Okay, And so we want to go let's go.
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  Let's go quickly, because I see we're running out of time. Let's go
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  with Psalm chapter one hundred and nineteen and verse fifty four nineteen verse fifty four
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  the Book of Psalms and the Bible reads. Your statutes have been like songs
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  to me in the house where I live. So we want to recognize and
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  understand our role in God's plan wherever we happen to live. Brighten the corner
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  where you are. Remember the goodness of God, remember his words, live
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  according to his words, and embrace them like beautiful music in your lives,
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  and become the melody that God wants to sing in the world. And then
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  we again recognize our role to assist others into a right relationship with God.
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  So much to say and not enough time. But these are the lessons of
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  the past. Let us follow God's word and live according to his principles.
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  Peace, happy sam Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
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  of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  it a great day. Yeah,