Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, it is Sabbath. It's
August twenty three, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no exception. We are
continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of
exit Us, and our caption for today is living the Law.
Living the Law. Yes, we're talking about the ten Commandments.
Don't get nervous now, come on, we already started to
teach why this is possible. Yes, living the Law. Before
we get into that, I like to say Happy Sabbath
to everyone joining us, especially those joining for the very
first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
Please join our online community pick up. Well, let's not
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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray, Father, thank you for the Sabbath hours
that you have given into our care, that you have
made for us to connect with you in a new
and a special and intimate way. Please teach us to
yield ourselves to you in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Living the law, Yes you can. Yeah,
I'm not going to go into the details of that.
You just go back a day or two and listen
to and watch our program so that we can just
fearlessly and actively submit ourselves to God so He can
actually live his law through our lives. Okay, so we're
just doubling down on that. Let's go ahead and begin
reading here in the Book of Exodus, chapter twenty, Versus
twenty two and twenty three. The Book of Exodus, chapter twenty,
We're going to read verses twenty two and twenty three
in the Bible reads, and the Lord said, unto Moses,
Thus shalt thou say to my children, the children of Israel,
Ye shall ye have seen that I have talked with
you from heaven. Remember God position the people of God
to see that inter that ominous, incredible interaction between God
and Moses. Directly, The Bible says he spoke to him
mouth to mouth. I think it says mouth to mouth
like intimately, very closely. Now, God is condescending while he's
elevating Moses. He's still condescending in a sense, so that
Moses could stand the awe and grandeur of God. And
God speaks to Moses not just to make Moses feel
like he's some kind of elite creature who is able
to say, yes, I had that experience with God and
know you didn't.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: For the benefit of all the people of God, even
down into our own generation, God, let him be the
case study of what happens when we yield and we
are able to hear from God. The Bible continues, Ye
shall not, the Bible says, ye shall not. Let me
say it one more time. Ye shall not make unto
me Gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you
gods of gold. Wow. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So yeah,
so let's put a little history behind this Mount Sinai.
This experience was part of God's covenantal relation to his
people as they were being formed into a nation. Remember,
He's delivered them from from Egyptian captivity. In any nation,
who who who enslaves somebody takes away their God that's
their goal, takes away their identity, takes away their food
and gives them inferior food that'll just take them down
the pathway to destruction, takes away even their spouses, like
separates families in a way that keeps your legacy from
growing in the way that God had intended. And so
that was no different. I think somebody just heard what
I was saying, is if it's Februar in the monthly calendar.
But anyway, I'm saying, this is what happened to the
people of God. And so now God is forming them
into a nation, a holy nation, a royal priesthood. You
see where I'm going with this. And so this verse
comes immediately after the giving of the Ten Commandments, showing
the seriousness of being not only connected to God, but
having fidelity toward God, to the one True and Living God,
blessed be his name. And so we read a quote
from let's call it Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred
and three and three hundred four. God designed that the
principles of his Holy Law should not be merely written
on the tablets of stone, but engraven upon the hearts
and minds of his people. That has always been the goal.
It's always been the goal, okay, And so in everyday life,
let's look at it this way. Living the law today
still means, because yeah, there are going to be a
lot of people preaching sermons at some point in the
very near future somewhere around the world that say, like
that was yesterday's news. God's not concerned about the law,
and it's like, wow, if God was going to change
his law, then Jesus need not to have died. If
God could have changed his Holy Law, then Jesus need
not to have come. So that don't even make no sense.
So living the law today still means worshiping God alone,
no idols of success, no graven images obviously, and statues
and relics and all this other stuff. No idols of wealth,
no idols wiz of influence, no idols of self, no pride,
We worship God alone. And then also it still means
forming a community set apart by the values of justice
and mercy and humility, as according to Michael, chapter six
and verse eight. And then finally, living the law today
is it still means obeying God or not even trying
to attempt, not even attempting to obey God as a
way to get into his good graces. That don't work,
And that's not the spirit of God. So it's not
to earn God's favor. But it's because we have God's favor. Yeah, yeah,
people who love God have the favor of God. In
order to keep the commandments, the cart and the horse
have to have the right priority. The only way that
a human being and can can have no other gods
before God as if is if we already love God.
The only way that a human being cannot covet anything
our neighbor's wife, our neighbor's stuff, our neighbor's husband, God forbid.
Like the only way that that's possible is if we
love God. Because there's no fear in love. Like pull,
perfect love casts out fear, fear, hath torment. God God
perfects us to the point that we can stand boldly
in the day of judgment, where the law of liberty
really is the standard of that judgment. Right and so
and so I'm thankful that God has given us the
law the power of love, so that we can love
Him and we can love other human beings. And so
there are so many ways that we can look at this,
but let's just let's just do a quick summary because
we're running out of time, okay, and so living the Gods,
the God's living, the law of God, the thee is.
The law is not what some people have said, just
the prescription of rules, its relationship, its relational guidance based
on God's character. It's the revelation of his character in
codified form. God's intent was to make a people distinct
and holy and guess what else, protected and blessed. How
do we apply this? God's law shapes our hearts, our families,
our cultures, not just our conduct. Ooh, somebody just got it. Lord,
bless you and keep you today, make it a great day. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with EL David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,