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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 Friday, March

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twenty one, 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 day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption

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for today is be compassionate. Be Compassionate. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.

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Please pick up the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide, the

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Life Application Guide. It goes right with our quarterly and

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also let us know where you are in the world

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at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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

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Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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day and for the opportunity that we have to pray

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and to open up our minds to you. Teach us

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to have the kind of compassion that you have, the

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kind that you would approve of. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. So we're gonna go ahead and

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begin by reading out of the book The Desire of Ages,

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page two hundred and eighty six, and then I will

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share some principles with you, okay. And so it reads

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the spies dared not answer Christ and the presence of

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the Multitude for fear of involving themselves in difficulty. They

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knew that he had spoken the truth. And so the

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first question I need to ask all of us is,

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when God is speaking the truth to us and we

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know it, will we do it? Will we live according

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to the truth that he is speaking, or will we

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do something else? That's something that we need to think about.

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Rather than violate their traditions. Oh, they would leave a

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man to suffer. Wait a minute, what they would leave

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him to suffer while they would relieve a brute beast

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talking about a real life animal because of the loss

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to the owner if it were neglected. Thus, greater care

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was shown to an animal more so than a man

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who is made in the image of God. This illustrates

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the working of all false religions, all false religions. I

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want you to think it through. Am I living according

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to the principles of false religion where I prioritize things, beasts,

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other things outside of who God is and what He

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would have me to above him. Okay, let's keep going.

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They originate in man's desire to exalt himself above God,

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but they result in degrading humans below the animal or

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the brute. Every religion that wars against the sovereignty of

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God defrauds man of the glory which was his at creation,

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and it is to be restored in Him in Christ.

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Every false religion teaches its adherents to be careless of

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human needs, sufferings, and rights. The Gospel places a high

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value upon humanity as the purchase of the blood of Christ,

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and it teaches a tender regard for the wants of

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the woes of humans. The Lord says, I will make

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a man more precious than fine gold, meaning humans, people,

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men and women, even a man than the golden wedge

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of o fear. And then, of course Jesus turned. When

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he turned upon the Pharisees with the question whether it

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is lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or

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to do evil, to save life or to kill, he

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confronted them with their own wicked purposes. They were hunting

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his life with bitter hatred, while he was saving life

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and bringing happiness to multitudes. Was it better to slay

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on the Sabbath, as they were planning to do, than

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to heal the afflicted as he had done? Was it

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more righteous to murder in the heart upon God's holy

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day than love to all people, which finds expression in

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deeds of mercy? Oh my, so much to say, so

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little time. Let's jump in with two feet into the scriptures.

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So we're gonna go with the first principle that true

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and godly religion values humans lives. Again. Back to Isaiah

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chapter thirteen, and I'll read verse twelve from another another

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another version. I will make human beings more scarce than

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pure or more valued than pure gold, and people more

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valued than the gold from ofear. So God values you

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more than precious metals, He values you more than precious stones.

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He values you more than anything that is created on

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planet Earth or anywhere else in the universe for that matter,

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You human beings, brothers and sisters, We human beings are

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of such value that, of course God sent his only

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begotten son so that we can be saved. And guess

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what Jesus became as one of us in order to

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save us. So we see the value there. False religion

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shows a mix up in priorities. And really that's an

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understatement from Matthew, chapter twenty three and verse twenty three.

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Woe unto you we read this, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,

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You would pay tithe of mint and ninus, Annis and

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cumin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy,

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and faith. And so the priority gets shifted, flipped upside down,

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turned inside out, you see. And so we talked about

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that principle the other day. And so here are some

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contrasts between God's kind of religion, true religion, that is

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undefiled that takes care of people in every way that

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we can. That is the second and great commandment. And

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of course we prioritize God above all, and then to

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be pure as we await the coming of Jesus Christ.

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And so the contrast is between pure religion that's undefiled

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and the kind of religions that we make up. Okay,

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and so here are the contrasts. Sometimes these false religions

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will prioritize even animals above humans. I wish I had

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the time to really drill into this, but you have

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seen people do some really weird things in defense of

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animals over and above human beings. Then false religion values property,

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oh people. True religion values humans as God's image bearers. Ooh,

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I like that image bearers. We bear the image of God.

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We represent God, and therefore we are valued above all

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of his creation. Okay. Number two, there is ritual versus mercy.

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False religion emphasizes rules over compassion. I didn't say that

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we shouldn't have rules. In fact, I do love rules.

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I love laws. I love to have a standard to follow.

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I love for an objective measure to be in place

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so i'll know if I'm on the right track. I

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like that kind of thing. But false religion actually emphasizes

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all of what I just said, structure, rules, protocols, all

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of that stuff above compassion for humans. True religion shows

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practical love, hands and feet of God down on planet

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Earth to do what God would do if he were

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physically located on this planet. Number three self folk's exaltation

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versus service. False religion seeks to exalt self above God.

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True religion serves others in humanity and then, of course

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treatment of rights. False religion careless of human needs and rights.

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True religion upholds human dignity and worth or value and

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then purpose and result. False religion degrades humanity. True religion

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restores God's image. If you are being abused spiritually, I

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just want to shoot right there. Since we're ending here,

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then that is a degrading kind of a religion. But

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God restores his image in us. Make it a great day, 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,