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

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

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

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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

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

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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

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September twenty one, 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 final week in our lesson study series, Exodus

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exod Us, and our caption for today is the Sabbath

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of the Lord. The Sabbath of the Lord. We'll get

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into that in just a moment, but first i'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask you to go

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank you,

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Thank you for giving us the privilege of experiencing You

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and experiencing your word and your truth as we study

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a little bit about the Sabbath, when not a whole

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lot today, help us to get the truth that is

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in Christ. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen

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again the Sabbath of the Lord. Now, let me just

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go ahead and read from Exodus chapter thirty five. Exodus

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chapter thirty five, and I will read verses one through three,

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and the Bible reads. Then Moses gathered all the congregation

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of the children of Israel together and said to them,

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these are the words which the Lord has commanded you

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to do Verse two, work shall be done for six days.

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I don't know where we get the five day work week,

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and I do understand where the four day one came from,

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because that's a business principle. Yes, shout to the authors

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who came up with that concept. But in reality, in reality,

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God has given us six days for our normal, servile labor,

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our normal work to be done. But that's a conjunction,

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means it negates. So for six days you're free to work.

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I'm empowering you to work. I'm empowering you to do

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those mundane things that may change the world in fact

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and indeed, but they are of a non holy or

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secular nature. We're I'm talking about evil. We're talking about

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things that are just normal, everyday things. Do that for

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six days. Do all your buying and selling. Do that

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during the six days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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But the seventh day shall be a holy day for you,

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a sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any

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work I preempted myself that means servile labor on it.

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Look that up shall be put to death. You shall

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kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath. And

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so we're not going to drill that passage to the

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extreme detail except to say that God had made himself

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clear multiple times throughout history. Eve, I'm talking about up

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until this point that the holy seventh Day Sabbath was

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was key to good relationship with God. And of course

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subsequent to that time he made the point even more.

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But in Exodus chapter sixteen, before God ever gave tables

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of Stone, God showed his people the Sabbath that we see.

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And we'll talk about that in just a moment way

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back in Eden, okay. And so don't let anybody confuse

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your mind by making it seem as if the Seventh

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Day Sabbath was given to a certain set of people

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that we now call Jews. No, it's not only for

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the Jews. It's also for all of humanity, just like

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Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden part of me.

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And so we read now in that God in vein

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from Genesis chapter two and verse three, and the Lord

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God and God blessed the seventh Day. So it's a blessing,

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it's not a curse. It's not a burden to be

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hung around your neck and throw you into the sea.

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It's not an albatross. Ah, the Sabbath was blessed by God.

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Are you blessed in highly favored?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Are you blessed in highly favored? I can think of

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a couple of musical spiritual artists who sing songs about

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this blessing. If you're blessed in highly favored, then you

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don't want to see yourself as a burden. So why

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would people see the seventh day Sabbath that God gave

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and blessed as a burden, and then the Bible says

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and sanctified it. That means it is set apart for

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a holy use. No other day was set aside for

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a holy use. We worship God Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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Hopefully you worship God all day and at different points

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of the day like Enoch walked with God. Hopefully you

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bow your head and your heart and surrender your will

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to God all day, every single day of those six

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and you worship God with your lifestyle. You are as

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lights in this wicked and perverse generation. But on the

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seventh Day, which in America and many parts of the

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world it's called Saturday whatever, it's called the seventh one. Yeah,

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that one is holy. It is set aside for a

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holy use because that in it God had rested from

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all his work which he created and made so before

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there was ever sin on planet Earth, before anyone had

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ever sinned on planet Earth. The Bible says that God

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gave us this blessing. He gave us this time that

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is set aside for holy use, and he is showing

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that he rested on the seventh day Sabbath to give

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you the example. And of course later on we see

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that it is a sign between us and God that

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he's the one that sanctifies us. It's the sign. And

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so the Sabbath is God's memorial of his creative power,

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memorialized it set it apart at the beginning of human history.

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For here's that big word, a L L all people.

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It doesn't matter every kindred, race, tongue, tribe, people, milu.

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It doesn't matter how you distinguish the different people on

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planet Earth, even though we are all of one blood.

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I wish I had the time. Yeah, but the Bible

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is teaching us that God is given this blessing to

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all of us to enjoy. Every single week, and then

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we go to verse two. Let me read it one

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more time. Six days shall work to be done. But

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on the seventh day there shall be to you a

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holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whosoever

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doeth work therein shall be put to death. That's what

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he said at that time. And so the Sabbath and

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the sanctuary share the same focus we're talking about in

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the Old Testament. We know that the Old Testament sanctuary

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is not something that we experience today in that sense,

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but it's a teaching tool for us. God dwelling with

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his people and inviting his people into rest, he said,

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have them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell

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among them. The sabbath time is a special dwelling because

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God has special blessings and power and healing comes during

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the sabbath hours. It is lawful, yes, to do good

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on the Sabbath. He is, in fact and indeed the

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Lord of the Sabbath day. And so it's never to

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be a burden, but always to be a blessing to

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humanity and glorify God. And so use the sabbath to

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draw near to God in a special way without the

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distractions of the normal work week, setting aside all distractions

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so that you can experience his presence more fully. Yeah,

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I actually set I wish I thought about saying this

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before now, but I actually set on my iOS device,

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my iPhone a Sabbath, a Sabbath focus so that certain

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things don't come to my phone during the Sabbath hours,

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so I can be more focused. And of course, finally, finally,

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the Sabbath affirms God's role, his role as creator, redeemer,

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and judge. Let the Sabbath shape your worldview, remembering creation,

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resting in salvation, and preparing for the Kingdom to come.

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Make it a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,