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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 Wednesday. It's

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

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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

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and

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our caption for today is different functions of God's Law,

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Different functions of God's Law. Before we get into that,

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

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join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion Life

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the world. At your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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

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will get underway. Father, thank you for this day and

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for giving us the truth as it is in Christ.

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Please help us to lay hold upon you, lay hold

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upon this truth and live live like Jesus lived in

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Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Different functions

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of God's law, and in this case we're talking about

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the Ten Commandments law. So you all don't need to

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be arguing in your Saba school classes when you're in

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person about what law is witch and all that kind

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of thing. We're talking about the Ten Commandment's law. Okay,

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So we're going right to James. The Book of James

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chapter one, Versus twenty three to twenty five. James chapter one,

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verses twenty three to twenty five, and the Bible reads,

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For if any be a hearer of the word and

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not a doer, he is like a man beholding his

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natural face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself, or

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he gazes at himself, he sees himself, like right now,

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I can see myself on a big screen while I

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am looking where you would be I'm looking at the camera,

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but I imagine, because I've spoken in person so many

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times I can't count. I'm imagining you on the other

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end of this thing, but I can still see me.

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So it's as if I were looking at myself God forbid,

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and then straightway forgetting what manner of man he is? Yes,

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verse twenty five. But whoso looketh into the perfect law

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of liberty. So now we're very clear. This is the

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Ten Commandments law, the Decalogue, as we said the other day,

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the perfect law of what liberty. So for those of

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you who think that if in fact you submit your

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will to God or your friends, tell you this thing

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that if you know you are attached to people who

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believe that if we submit our will to God and

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then we become law keepers, that somehow we become legalists,

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that's silly, because this text in the Bible, inspired by

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the Holy Ghost, says that we are looking into the

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law of liberty. So the law of liberty liberates. I

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hate this, I know, I know, I can't use the

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same word it. The law of liberty puts us into

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a position that if we surrender our will to God

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and his law becomes a promise to us that we

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are free to do God's will. I said, free to

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do God's will, not free to just do everything, free

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to do God's will, free to do God's will. And

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the Bible continues and continue with therein he is being

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a forgetful hearer. So if you look in and forget yourself,

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you're a forgetful hearer, but a doer, Not a forgetful

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hearer part of me, but a doer of the work.

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This man shall be blessed in his deed. Let me

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say it with no commentary now from the New English

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translation of the Bible. For if someone merely listens to

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the message of God's word and does not live it out,

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he is like someone who looks at his own face

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in a mirror. He gazes at himself and then goes

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out immediately and forgets what sort of person that he is.

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But the one who peers into the perfect law of

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liberty and fixes his attention there and does not become

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a forgetful listener, but one who lives it out, he

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will be blessed in what he does. So the immediate

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question is what are you looking at?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: What kind of mirror are you looking into? Are you

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looking at the kind of mirror that's like you grading

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your own paper and you deciding what it's going to be,

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like Lucifer did where he said, I don't need that law.

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We can make it up ourselves because we are holy beings. No, no,

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I hope not. But if you're looking into the perfect

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law of liberty, then there are a few things that

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we need to experience. So James uses this mirror metaphor

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to show us the purpose of God's law. There are

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a few things, at least from James's account. It reveals

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what we really are. It reveals what we really are.

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It reflects our need for spiritual cleansing. So we already

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see like what we really are is somebody who needs

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God to cleanse us. So we see who we are.

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We see what we are with no filters, nothing flattering,

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nothing to tell us, well, it's not that bad. It

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just reveals the truth, and we see that we are unholy,

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we are miserable, poor, blind, naked, and sometimes don't even

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know it by ourselves that is. And God is saying, okay, yeah,

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so keep looking, keep looking. You see right there. You

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need spiritual cleansing. And then the reality is it doesn't

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repair the sin. It exposes it. There's some people trying

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to wipe the law of God over our faces when

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our faces are dirty, wipe the love of God up

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under our armpits. I'm not being sacrilegious. I'm saying we

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need to see this in real life, like you're looking.

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You're looking in the mirror, right, Yeah, some people are

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trying to wipe the law of God all over and

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make it cleanse us, when in fact there is only

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one who can cleanse us, and that is God. So

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it reveals the fact that we need God. Okay, and

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so let me not go to theological with the time

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that we have left, and let's just go right in

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again to the Bible. Romans chapter seven and verse twelve.

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The Bible teaches us that it reveals God's character. He's

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holy and just and good. In verse seven it defines sin.

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Without the laws, sin cannot be recognized. And then in

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Galatians chapter three and verse twenty four, you can rewind this,

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you can rewind this one day. It points us to

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Christ as our redeemer and deliverer. And then in Genesis

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chapter two and verse seventeen, we see that it protects

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life and liberty. It sets boundaries that keeps us free

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from self destruction. And then finally in Jeremiah, chapter thirty

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one and verse thirty three, where we see the New Covenant,

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it promotes transformation when in turn it becomes rich and

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in our heart because that's what God has promised. So

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how do we apply this? How do we apply this?

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There's so much we could say and likely should say,

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but time is ticking. When you look into the mirror

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of God's law, and I'm saying this to myself. When

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you look into that mirror of God's law, don't just

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nod at what you see. Respond, well, what is the

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response like when I see that things aren't as right

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as I hoped, When I look and see that they

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are not as holy as I had hoped, or even

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maybe God forbid had convinced myself when I had the

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filter on, when I had the filter of well, at

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least I'm not as bad as person acts. God forbid.

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Now when I look, I don't just nod, I begin

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to act. How do I act? Well, don't use the

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law to measure ourselves with others or against others, use

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it to keep our own walk aligned. Well, what was

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what would be my response? What would be my own

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walk aligned principle, well, going to God and saying God,

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I feel off I'm off balance here. I can't stay

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on that line like the people who get caught for

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DUI or d wi, whatever the case may be, under

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intoxication like and they tell them to stand on this

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line and then walk forward one foot before the other,

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and they start stumbling. That is the human looking into

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the law of God without the Holy Ghost. And then

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let the Holy Spirit use the law to convict us

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and submit to the process, submit to God, and let

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Jesus cleanse us. There are so many things that we

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can learn here, but let's keep going. Make it a

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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 l David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,