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04 16 2025 Isaac and Rebekah · 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: 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, morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, April sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Isaac and Rebecca. Isaac and Rebecca. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and getting us to
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  Speaker 2: the midpoint of our week. Please draw us into your presence,
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  Speaker 2: with you until Jesus comes. In Jesus's name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again Isaac and Rebecca. The lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: points out something very interesting that when Abraham was all
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  Speaker 2: and no doubt thinking about his promises or the promises
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  Speaker 2: that God made to him and his posterity, he gave
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  Speaker 2: his oldest and most trusted servant a solemn task. And
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  Speaker 2: you want to know what that task was. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead into the Bible Book of Genesis, chapter fifteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse five. Here is a promise, Here is a promise,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads he took him outside and said,
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  Speaker 2: look at the sky. This is what God said. He said,
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  Speaker 2: and count the stars. If you are able to count them,
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  Speaker 2: then he said to him, so shall your descendants be Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to talk about the details in a
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  Speaker 2: second when we go to Genesis chapter twenty four, But
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  Speaker 2: for now, let's think about the connection of the promise
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  Speaker 2: from Genesis chapter twenty two and verse eighteen. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and in thy seat shall all of the nations of
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  Speaker 2: the earth be blessed. So if when Abraham is giving
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  Speaker 2: his servant a solemn task of finding his son the
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  Speaker 2: right wife, and he has the promise of God settled
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  Speaker 2: in his mind, he's thinking about the connection. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: there is a connection maybe he wasn't fully aware of
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  Speaker 2: in the messianic line, a connection of the covenant continuation
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  Speaker 2: and the divine promise and the future blessing. So all
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  Speaker 2: of this and more is wrapped up in the task
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  Speaker 2: that the servant had. Now, let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: What if you had this task. What if someone of
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  Speaker 2: good reputation who is connected to God is asking you
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  Speaker 2: to serve in a particular way, and you have all
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  Speaker 2: of this seemingly on your shoulders, what do you do first?
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  Speaker 2: Do you just run out and say, okay, I'll go
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  Speaker 2: do exactly what he or she said? Or are you
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  Speaker 2: going to pray first? Are you going to ask God
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  Speaker 2: how do I fulfill this mammoth task. That's a question
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  Speaker 2: that we all need to be answering. And then of
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  Speaker 2: course we see the action, the action of Abraham's faith,
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  Speaker 2: his trust in the promise, his active obedience, and the
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  Speaker 2: focus on the future as he continues to build and
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  Speaker 2: covenant with God. And then the Bible teaches us about legacy,
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  Speaker 2: spiritual legacy that would come as a result of just
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things. One Abraham and Sarah being obedient
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  Speaker 2: to God and receiving the promise, and number two having
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  Speaker 2: when that son is born to lead him into the
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  Speaker 2: paths of righteousness, and then ultimately when he is married,
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  Speaker 2: to continue the legacy. Okay, and so that was just
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  Speaker 2: a quick overview. Now we're going to the Bible book
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  Speaker 2: of Genesis, chapter twenty four and see why this is
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  Speaker 2: all so important. Genesis chapter twenty four, and I'll read
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one. And Abraham was old and well
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  Speaker 2: stricken in age. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in
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  Speaker 2: all things. And Abraham said, unto his eldest servant of
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  Speaker 2: his house that ruled over all that he had put
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  Speaker 2: I pray thee thy hand under my thigh, and I
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  Speaker 2: will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of
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  Speaker 2: Heaven and the God of Earth, that thou shalt not
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  Speaker 2: take a wife unto my son of the daughters of
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  Speaker 2: the Canaanites. Of course, this is because these well we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into the details. Let me pause right here among
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  Speaker 2: whom I dwell, But thou shalt go unto my country
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  Speaker 2: and to my kindred and take a wife unto my
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  Speaker 2: son Isaac. So there is an importance in this choice.
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  Speaker 2: There's an importance in this choice, and the Bible does
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  Speaker 2: teach us in the New Testament, we understand now what
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  Speaker 2: it means. Two Corinthians, Chapter sixteen and verse four six
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  Speaker 2: and verse fourteen. Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers.
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  Speaker 2: Why not because unbelievers don't love God. You see, unbelievers
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  Speaker 2: don't have faith in the God of Heaven. And if
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  Speaker 2: this is a covenantal relationship that Abraham is extending through
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  Speaker 2: his legacy based on the promise of God, then he
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  Speaker 2: knows that the promise or the enactment of the promise
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  Speaker 2: can be disrupted by his disobedience. And so we want
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  Speaker 2: to continue the spiritual legacy. When you got married, were
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  Speaker 2: you thinking about the promise of God. Were you thinking
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that one day we will see him
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  Speaker 2: face to face. Were you thinking about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: one day you would have children, and those children if
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  Speaker 2: the Lord spair's life, will have children, and God has
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  Speaker 2: given you a responsibility to train up your children in
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  Speaker 2: God's path of righteousness, were you thinking about that? I
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  Speaker 2: certainly was. I wish I had the time. Let's keep going,
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep going. And then, of course there is that
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  Speaker 2: saying promise in Genesis chapter twenty one and verse twelve
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  Speaker 2: we see the promise repeated. It's a divine promise straight
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  Speaker 2: from God in Isaac, shall all thy seed be called?
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  Speaker 2: So the stakes are high because eventually Jesus would come,
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  Speaker 2: as he was born to Mary, he would come through
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  Speaker 2: that line. And again there's covenantal fulfillment. There is the
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  Speaker 2: promise of preservation and God's plan. Of course, there is
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  Speaker 2: prophetic significance. There is all kinds of relational significance. But
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  Speaker 2: more than that, it is about connection with God and
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  Speaker 2: keeping that connection clear. And so this teaches us that
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  Speaker 2: marriage does affect faith. Our choices. I'm saying it does
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  Speaker 2: affect faith. There is a spiritual unity that is crucial
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  Speaker 2: when we get married. Faith preservation is vital. And then
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  Speaker 2: of course family influences destiny or the outcomes of our lives.
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  Speaker 2: I say often there is no one who influences me
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  Speaker 2: more heavily than Simone. Simona is the greatest influence in
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  Speaker 2: my life. It doesn't matter with whom I work when
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing my contract work or whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: I do for business. It doesn't matter what my son does.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what's going on on the television, which
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  Speaker 2: I don't watch anyway, but that's a different story. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have that kind of time, right But whatever is
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube or some other platform, that stuff is critical. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: But Simone is the most influential person because I am
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  Speaker 2: joined to her. The two of us have become one flesh.
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  Speaker 2: And so if that is the case, and it is,
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  Speaker 2: and we have a child because because of our love relationship,
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  Speaker 2: then that means that whatever happens in the generations to
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  Speaker 2: come are vital. Bible actually talks about it in the
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  Speaker 2: Ten Commandments, where it says that God is showing mercy
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  Speaker 2: to thousands who love him and keep his commandments. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: before that, he said he's visiting the iniquity that the fathers,
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  Speaker 2: upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of
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  Speaker 2: those who hate him. But I'm thanking God for the mercy,
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  Speaker 2: the mercy that comes to those who love Him and
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  Speaker 2: keep his commandments. So marriage is no light matter. When
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  Speaker 2: we are marrying, we choose hopefully by God's grace, with
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  Speaker 2: the power of the Holy Spirit and legacy in mind. 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,