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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to 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

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morning. It is Monday, February
five, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson Studies series through the Book

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of Psalms, and our caption for
today is justice for the oh Pressed,

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Justice for the Oppressed. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but

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first I'd like to say welcome to
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Com. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Bother and Heaven. Thank you for giving

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us this new opportunity to open your
word. And I'm asking you to please

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give us your holy spirit teach us
how to love you and to serve you.

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I pray that you will give us
the mindset of Jesus Christ and to

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let the captives set the captives free, and to relieve the oppressed and help

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the poor and needy. In Jesus'
name, I pray, Amen and Amen

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again justice for the oppressed. So
we're going to begin in our discussion by

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thinking through something, spiritually thinking through
some things, and then we will move

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to action. Okay. And so
we begin by reading the passages from the

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lesson Study, beginning at Psalms,
the Book of Psalms, chapter nine,

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and I will read verse eighteen the
Book of Psalms, chapter nine, and

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I will read verse eighteen, and
the Bible reads for the needy shall not

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always be forgotten. The expectation of
the poor shall not perish forever. Okay.

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So we have a good starting point
let's continue verse five of Psalms chapter

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twelve, and the Bible reads for
the oppression of the poor, for the

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sighing of the needy. Now will
I arise, Okay, seth the Lord.

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I will set him in safety from
him that puffeth at him. Okay.

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Let me jump in here and say
that God is still awake, slumbers,

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He never sleeps. He knows the
plight of those who are needy and

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oppressed. Okay, Verse seventeen of
Psalm chapter forty. We're going somewhere,

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but I am poor and needy.
Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou

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art my help and my deliverer.
Make no tarrying, Oh my God.

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So there are times that God's people
are poor and needy. There are times

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that we are oppressed. There are
times that we see the wickedness of those

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who are oppressing us, and we
wonder where is our God. But the

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Psalmist in this regard is saying that
even though I'm poor, I'm needy.

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Right, if I were among those
who are poor and needy and know that

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the Lord thinks on me, he
knows that God is his deliverer, make

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no tarrying, Oh my God.
So he's asking God to please get to

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his case. We'll get to it
in a moment. Come on verse seven

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of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
thirteen. Please pardon me. He raiseth

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up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the

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dunghill. And you're like, okay, so this is a common threat.

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There are poor, there are needy. God has made promises to these people.

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And many of these poor and needy
are God's people or something. Well,

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let's see. Let's see what Jesus
said from the Book of Luke chapter

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four, beginning at verse sixteen,
and the Bible reads, And he came

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unto Nazareth, where he had been
brought up. And as his custom was,

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he went into the synagogue on the
Sabbath day and stood up four to

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read. Now he is about to
tell us about his ministry. And there

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was delivered unto him a book of
the prophet Essayus. And when he had

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opened the book, he found the
place where it was written. The spirit

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of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to do what

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the gospel to the poor. So
that has something to do with the deliverance.

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Yes, Ah, he had set
me to heal the broken hearted,

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to preach deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind,

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to set at liberty them that are
bruised, to preach the acceptable year of

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the Lord. And then he closed
the book. He gave it again unto

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the minister, and sat down,
and the eyes of them all were in

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the synagogue, were fastened upon him, and he began to say unto them,

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this day is the scripture fulfilled in
your ears. And so many of

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the times, if I continue through
all of the passages that the lesson writer

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prescribes, many of the times we
missed the point. We see that Jesus

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took action. We see that in
his humanity he took action. So in

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the Psalms, we see that God
needs to thunder from heaven, from beyond

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the clouds and the stuff, and
to begin to deliver the oppressed and the

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captives, to give food to the
hungry and the needy. You see.

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And then we see Jesus acting in
his humanity as an agent of change,

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an agent of God our Father.
So what does that say about me today?

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We see all of these promises for
deliverance. What does that say for

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me today? Well, now it's
time for some action. Okay. So

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in the Book of James, Chapter
one and verse twenty seven, I hope

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you are seeing yourself in these passages. Now the Bible reads pure religion.

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Some of you call yourselves being in
a religion, and all of us are

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many of us do and undefiled be
for God and the Father. Is this?

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So there is a kind of religion
that is pure and undefiled, not

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just calling yourself to be a part
of a denomination. But the kind of

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religion that is pure and undefiled.
Is this to visit the fatherless' that's action,

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and the widows in their affliction,
that is action. And to keep

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himself unspotted from the world. And
so what God is saying to us is

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that we need to actually be compassionate. There are a set of people,

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There are categories of people that God
has given us the privilege to reach out

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to. In this passage, do
we see We see the fatherless, the

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widows, and those who are afflicted. And God says that, oh,

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while you are living in this way, be unspotted from the world, live

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holy lives, and pure religion will
be the outcome. So actively seek opportunities

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to help and support the vulnerable,
including the fatherless and the widows and those

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in distress. This involves more than
just acknowledging their plight. It calls for

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tangible actions to alleviate their suffering.
And So, if you're one of those

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people who are wagging your fingers at
God and saying, God, you promise

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to deliver the poor and needy,
why are there still so many? You

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promise that you would deliver the captives
and the fatherless, and to deal kindly

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with the widows. Why do we
have so many of them? Then,

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really, and truly it's easy.
Just go ahead and pick up a mirror.

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Pick up a mirror. We know
that God does things miraculously, But

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pick up a mirror, brothers and
sisters, and ask what have you done?

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Whatever you see in that mirror,
when you put it up before your

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face, ask yourselves, what have
you done? In order to fulfill the

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promise that God has placed in his
words so many times, because He expects

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us to act in the same way
that Jesus did. Of course, there

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is another one in the Book of
Proverbs, chapter thirty one. As we

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come to a swift close, beginning
at verse eight, open thy mouth for

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those who cannot speak and the cause
of those as appointed to destruction. Open

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thy mouth, judge righteously, and
plead the cause of the poor and the

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needy. So we are to be
advocates for justice and fair treatment for those

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who have less means, be a
voice for those who cannot speak for themselves.

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And of course this includes advocating for
the rights of the vulnerable and oppress

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and working toward fair treatment for them. And of course we know that we

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need to be generous. Bible says
that if we will give to the poor,

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we are lending to God. So
justice for the oppressed, give us

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justice. Yeah, well, we
need to advocate for that same justice.

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Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live

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by bread alone, but by every
word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with
el David Harris. Make it a

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great day. Yeah,