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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 Friday, January nineteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is Elle 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 on this
preparation day morning is the incomparable God,

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the incomparable God. And what I'm
hoping this morning that you will do with

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me is worship God in a special
way. I need you to worship God,

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Worship the Lord in the beauty of
holiness, because he is unlike any

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other being in the universe, we'll
get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to just say
welcome to you and again a great,

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big, happy preparation day. And
I'm asking you to please go over to

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your Daily Portion dot com pick up
our uh your Daily Portion book. Also,

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community at your Daily Portion dot com.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for this
new day and for the privilege that you

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have entrusted to us to serve you. Please teach us your incomparability and then

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make us true worshipers. In Jesus'
name, I pray, Amen and Amen

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again, the incomparable God, the
incomparable God. First, I'm going to

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read from the book Steps to Christ. And if I have not shared this

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with you, it has been my
favorite book since about nineteen ninety three,

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besides the Bible, and I have
a few favorites, but the Steps to

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Christ's book is top number one favorite. And then some books by E.

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M. Bounds, the one on
Prayer, the one that's called on Prayer.

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It's the thicker one. Okay,
Anyway, I digress. The quote

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reads, thus dustlie, the more
we study the divine character in the light

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of the cross, the more we
see mercy, tenderness, and forgiveness blended

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with equity and justice. And the
more clearly we desern innumerable evidences of a

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love that is infinite and a tender
pity sir passing a mother's yearning sympathy for

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her wayward child. Cannot read that
one more time? Please. The more

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we study the divine character, so
we are connecting with God. We are

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saying, who is God? Like? Who is God? To us?

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Who is God in the universe?
To the creation of universe and the earth

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that we now inhabit? Who is
He? The more we study the divine

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character in the light of the cross, Oh, wait a minute, and

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what has God done for us?
Jesus in John chapter three and verse sixteen

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is seen as God's gift to us. For God soul loved the world that

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he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish

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but have everlasting life. Okay,
okay. In light of the cross,

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the more we see mercy. Because
God could have destroyed us, we earned

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it. The Bible says, the
soul that sinneth it shall die but we

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see that we earn we could not
earn the favor that God has given to

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us. Mercy said, no,
you will not die, but you will

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live as long as you would submit
yourself to God. So the more we

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see mercy and tenderness and forgiveness blended
with equity and justice. God doesn't change

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his laws. He does not say, okay, well, these rules don't

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apply to you. No, the
Holy Ten Commandments law are applicable to every

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being in the universe, every being
on planet Earth. Because, by the

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way, the Decalogue or the Ten
Commandments, is a transcript of God's character.

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I know some of you may be
thinking, oh, do the angels

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keep the Sabbath? Like? We're
not getting into that kind of a discussion

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today. I just need you to
understand, as a principle, love for

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God and in our cases, love
for humanity are manifest in the Holy Ten

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Commandments law. And therefore therefore the
forgiveness that we receive comes because we need

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it, because we have broken the
covenant with God by breaking the Ten Commandments

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law. So he doesn't turn us
back on his law. He can't turn

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his back on his character, you
understand. But he has made provision through

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what through mercy? We read that
through tenderness and forgiveness, continuing the quote,

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and the more clearly we discern the
innumerable evidences of a love that is

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in finite and a tender pity surpassing
a mother's yearning sympathy for her wayward child.

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So we are God's and that's the
end of the quote, wayward children.

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We are his wayward children until we
surrender our wills to God. And

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by the way, while He is
pitying us and is of tender mercy,

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it is far more surpassing that we
see and experience when mothers who love us

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have yearned over us. My mom
prayed for me for so long until I

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gave myself a way to God,
the incomparable God. So what we're gonna

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do now is read a couple of
passages in the time that we have left.

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First from the Book of Psalms,
chapter eighty six, and I'll read

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verses five through eight, and then
verse fifteen. And the Bible reads,

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for thou Lord art good and ready
to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all

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that call upon thee Are you calling
upon God's name? And when I say

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calling upon God's name. This is
a relationship. This is a position of

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submission, calling upon his name.
Are you accepting the character that is his

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name into your life? Hmm?
Okay. Verse six, Give ear,

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o Lord, unto my prayer,
and attend to the voice of my supplications.

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In the day of my trouble,
I will call upon THEE, for

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thou wilt answer me. Among the
gods lowercase G, there is none like

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unto THEE, O Lord, Neither
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People worship all kinds of things,
all kinds of beasts, all kinds

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of images, all kinds of false
gods who are actually people who have elevated

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themselves or been elevated by other people. The Bible is teaching us, with

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the Psalmist speaking about the incomparability of
God, that there is none like THEE

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neither are there any works like unto
thy works Verse fifteen. But thou,

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O Lord, art God full of
compassion and gracious, long suffering, and

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plenteous in mercy and truth. Is
there an echo in here? I think

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I have heard this somewhere. Wait
a minute, I think God manifest himself

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in as much of a way that
Moses could handle, as God protected him

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from God's effulgent brightness and his incomparable
holiness. This is what God did.

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And the Bible reads in thirty fourth
Division of Exodus, verses six and seven.

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And the Lord passed before him,
meaning Moses, and proclaimed, who

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is proclaiming God himself, the Lord, the Lord, God, merciful and

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gracious. This is what God is
saying about himself. He is manifesting his

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character for Moses and then for us
to study and learn for ourselves, long

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suffering and abundant in goodness and truth. Do not believe what they're typing in

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social media about God unless it aligns
with this. Do not believe what people

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are saying on YouTube about God and
his church and his people unless it aligns

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with this. Keeping mercy for thousands
forgiving iniquity. Ooh, that's the kind

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of That is the kind of infraction. When we know God is the judge,

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we know God is watching and could
not care less, and we do

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evil forgiving iniquity and transgression, that's
a different kind of sin, hah,

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and sin, and that by no
means will clear the guilty. We've talked

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about justice and mercy meeting a moment
ago, visiting the iniquity of the fathers

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upon the children and upon the children's
children unto the third and fourth, fourth

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generation. You know what, I'm
happy about that. He also said that

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he shows mercy to thousands who love
him and keep his commandments. God is

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incomparable. Worship him. It's a
wonderful thing to do. Thanks for joining

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us listening. Friends. Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the
mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,