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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 Monday, August

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twenty five, 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 through the Book of Exodus, and our

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caption for today is more Laws, More Laws. Before we

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get into that, I would like to just say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion

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Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and let us know

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dot com this is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father, We thank you

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for giving us this new morning and for the privilege

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we have to see through your lenses and to see

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all that you needed to go through in order to

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structure and organize your people and to give us law

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and order and justice. Please help us to respect you

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in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. More laws, Yeah,

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more laws. There are so many details that God has

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given us about how to live in society, to live

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healthy in terms of relationships, in law, order, justice, judgments,

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et cetera. And it's only when people follow the blueprint

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that God has given that we can thrive in the

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way that He intended. And so more laws, yes, more laws,

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since God is giving them than we are not tired

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at all. Okay, And so from the Bible Book of Exodus,

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chapter twenty two, verse sixteen, straight through to the next chapter,

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verse nineteen, we see so many things going on. Number one.

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Number one, the rulings that God had given were practical

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applications of God's character. Because there's so much we're not

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going to go through all of it, but we will

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touch a few of them. Number two, God was not

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only concerned with right worship, but with right living, just living.

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You see, there are times that humans are so heavenly

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minded that we are no earthly good. That was not

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the way God organized his people. And then these laws

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restrained evil, protected the vulnerable. And you'll see that that

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keeps coming up, the vulnerable. How do we deal with

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the vulnerable, the lame, the main, the blind, the halt,

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those individuals that are fatherless, the widows, etc. Protect the

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vulnerable and shape a just society that reflects the holiness

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of God. There are times that people try to organize

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just societies and they try to turn them in twenty

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twenty five into sort of a theocratic rule. But then

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you see characteristics that are nothing like God. That's not

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what we're talking about. We're talking about the laws as

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God had already given them. Okay, so let's go with

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just a few of them. Now we're going to go

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with social justice and compassion. I won't go through all

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of the passage passages because it's literally just too many.

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I want you to get a feel of this how

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detailed God is. Okay, sexual responsibility. A man seducing a

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virgin must marry her or pay the price that you

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would pay when you're marrying a bride. Capital crimes, sorcery, bestiality,

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idolatry are condemned and linked to moral and spiritual corruption. Yeah,

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think about where you live in the world right now.

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How is your country or your domicile faring now. Compassion

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for the vulnerable, don't mistreat strangers. That's in the Bible

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in verse twenty one of Exodus, chapter twenty two. Protect

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the widows and orphans verse twenty two. God hears their

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cries and will act in judgment in the event that

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they are God forbid harmed. How about fair lending in

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verse twenty five, no interest to be charged on the poor.

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Even borrowed garments must be returned by the night time.

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Then comes respect for God and leaders. Blasphemy and disrespect

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of authority forbidden. That's chapter that's verse twenty eight, and

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then comes legal integrity and mercy. Don't pervert justice. Truth

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must be maintained. The poor are not to be favored

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or oppressed, So impartial rule and then aid even our

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enemies help, even if a person is your enemy. Radical

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ethical compassion is what we're talking about. Then comes fair trial, protectives, protectives, protection,

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avoid bribes. How is your country faring right now? Don't

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oppress foreigners again, you know, the heart of a stranger,

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because God's people were strangers at some point. And then

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comes the Sabbath and the land there was a sabbatical year,

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a sabbath year every seventh year. The land rests, the

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poor and the animals benefit. This is a social justice sabbath.

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And then comes, of course, the weekly Sabbath of the

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Holy ten Commandments, which we've already covered. And then there

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are festivals and worship, and I think I'll just go

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past those. I'll pass those because we can learn from them,

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but not very relevant today except in principle. And so

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from a theological perspective, God's laws reflect his holiness, his

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justice and compassion. So for people who are averse to laws,

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who are reverse to rule and structure, then that means

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they're reverse God forbid to God because he's very, very structured.

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He governs every single sphere. That means literally everything in

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our lives, moral, legal, economic, agricultural, I said agricultural, can

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you imagine? And spiritual?

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Speaker 1: Was? It?

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Speaker 2: Definitely had nothing to do with legalism but covenental transformation.

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Then in our everyday application, as we slow down just

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a little bit, here injustice begins when we forget our

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shared suffering and God's mercy. See, a lot of times

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people behave in the way that we do. Laws are

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not adjudicated appropriately because the humans that are attached to

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all of this forget what we've been through. We forget

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when we have had need. We forget when people who

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are close to us went through trials and tribulations and

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did not get the mercy or the appropriate justice that

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they deserved. And so forgetting our own humanity puts us

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in a position to be unmerciful, to be unjust, to

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be disrespectful, you see. And so God's people today must

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still protect the vulnerable. Look around in your own communities.

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Are there people in your own household, people in your

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church or religious communities that are vulnerable that cannot do

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for themselves? I said, cannot not won't that cannot do

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for themselves? Practice honest dealings and structure worship around remembering

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God's grace, how good God has been to us, And

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then having received that by faith, we are driven to

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go out into the world and be that way toward

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other people. And then of course Sabbath, rest, etc. Should

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lead us back to God, worship, generosity and equity. How

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is it in your society now, in the country you live,

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wherever you're domiciled. How we doing? If we were to

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create a quiz or a checklist to say how well

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am I doing? Where I am? Well, let me just

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say this. Some people say they're not into religion, but

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the Bible does say in James chapter one and verse

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twenty seven, that there is a pure religion that is undefiled,

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that is to visit the fatherless and the widows in

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their trouble, and to keep ourselves unspotted from worldly evil practices.

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More laws, yes, more laws, but they are good lands

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for joining people listening.

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

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,