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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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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

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday. It's

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August twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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El David Harris. I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus,

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and our caption for today is the Code of the Covenant,

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The Code of the Covenant. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask

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you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. And what I almost said yesterday,

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but it was Sabbath, I shouldn't have said, is go

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ahead and pick up your Daily Portion Life Application Guide.

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Click the link and buy it. That's what I'm saying,

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or download it at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father, Thank you, thank you for

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this day and for giving us a code of conduct,

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the Code of the Covenant, so that we can we

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can see how this word, the ten words who gave

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us at Sinai, can need to be spread into our

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entire lives, even into the details of how we think,

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in what we do, how we relate to people. In

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Jesus name, I pray, naymen and amn again. The code,

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the Code of the Covenant, and so the lesson writer.

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The lesson writer used patriarchs and pop prophets, page three

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hundred and ten. I'll read just a couple of things

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here from that from that book, and it reads the

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minds of the people blinded and debased by slavery and heathenism.

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So you have to get the picture. The people of

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God were so oppressed and so bound. All they knew

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was their master's oppression, their master's whip, their master's false gods.

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That's what they knew they were. Okay, So the minds

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of the people, blinded by and debased by slavery and

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heathenism were not prepared to appreciate fully the far reaching

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of the far reaching principles of God's ten precepts, that

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the obligations of the ten Comes might be more fully

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understood and enforced. Additional precepts were given illustrating and applying

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the principles of the ten Commandments. Okay, and so I'm

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just gonna pause right here and then and then we're

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gonna break this down a little bit. Okay, So you

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have the ten Commandments. These guys are locked up and

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enslaved and bound to all kinds of wickedness and even

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heathen God's food that is not healthful toward them. And

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who knows what other demoralizing things happened during that time.

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And so what God needed to do was identify a

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way so that you could see more how to play

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this out in life. And so these laws they provided equity. Yeah,

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they provided equity. I know that's a dirty word in

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some people's countries right now. Equity he he he showed

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us through those laws equity protection, human dignity, especially for

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the vulnerable, equity protection and human dignity, especially for the vulnerable.

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The goal wasn't just like punishment or retribution for evil doing.

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That wasn't the goal. I understand that when people see laws,

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they are looking at in their own minds, because the

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judge that rises up in unhealthy minds and gets entertained

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there in our minds, they're seeing a way to be

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penalized or punitive, like God being the angry God that

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they portrayed in these in these terrible things in the past,

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like a way where he's a tyrant and he's looking

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lightning bolts, like people are looking for lightning bolts to

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hit them if they God forbid do something that is

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contrary to God's will. That's not really what it was.

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It was. It was restorative, just compassion, the moral order

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in the people of God's society. Okay, so let's break

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this code down a little bit here. The code of

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the Covenant. Number one, slavery. It wasn't permanent. Freedom was

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granted after six years. So the slavery that you would

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see in the people of God's lives back then is

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not the one that you would see in the transatlantic

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slave trade. I don't have time to deal with that,

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but anyway it was. Freedom was to be granted after

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six years verse two of Exodus chapter twenty one. Voluntary

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extension was allowed with a legal ritual. You'll find the

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verses we're looking at Exodus chapter twenty one Versus one

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through eleven. And then there were protections for women, especially

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in polygamous relationships or situations. Too much to cover. It's

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too much to cover as the world turns. It's too

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much to cover. But just go to the text and

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pray over it and study. We can't do it all here.

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And then there was a moral principle. God's people were

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once slaves in Egypt. Now they must not abuse others.

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Remember when you were slaved, I delivered you. You remember

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how bad it was. Don't do that. And then comes

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this idea of homicide and how God is like, no,

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do not do that, do not murder. Premeditated murder was

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punishable by death. That's the way that he wrote it.

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Unintentional killing. There was a provision of asylum. God differentiates

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intent and accident, introducing early concepts of degrees of guilt.

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So sometimes people are trying to figure out like, where

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do the nations get their way of codifying the different

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levels or measures or degrees of these things as they

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are doing sentencing or whatever it is during a trial.

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After a trial, well a lot of it is coming

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straight out of the scriptures. If it's done well, and

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then comes bodily injuries, restitution based justice in what way

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the offender pays or restores the loss. God gave guidelines

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for all of this slave protections. Harming a slave triggered

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a release, so that transatlantic style where all of that

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wickedness happened. If this were according to the code of

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Covenant and conduct, the moment there there were harmed, they

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were supposed to be released, then comes proportional consequences I

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for an eye, not revenge, but legal parity. So if

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you're in a self defense situation, let me just use

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that as an example. If someone is coming to you

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with a certain kind of force, then the com mensor

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it force needs to be used. Don't go overboard. It's

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not I for a whole arm, it's not I for

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a whole body. Right, and retribution was completely out of

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the question. So if somebody's coming into your home, as

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an example, and they are coming with violence. Then if

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you have to match that force with force, you deal

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with that. They're leaving your premises, they're almost out of there.

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You don't chase them down, and then you fear where

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I'm going, Like, you don't go to somebody's house six

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weeks later or a month later or twenty minutes later

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to go find the culprit, drag them out and do

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anything to them, because that is vengeance, that's retribution. It

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is not I for an eye. And then comes animal

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control laws. Owners are held accountable for their animals that

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injure others. That came straight out of the Bible. I

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know it's a lot, it's a lot. It's a lot,

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but it's truth, okay, And so basically let's apply it.

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Because I have so much more in my notes, we

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won't use tia. We are called to live with integrity,

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that's the bottom line, and justice and compassion. Even in

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these complex situations that some of you got a headache

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listening to me talk about this morning, we should and

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must advocate for systems that reflect God's justice protecting the vulnerable,

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and then leadership, parenting, and even employment should reflect the

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character of God's law in fairness, mercy and love. God

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gave us codes of covenant, codes of conduct for every

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situation principally that matters, and all we need to do

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is go into the scriptures, pray over it, and apply

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it by God's grace, having submitted to him peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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