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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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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: 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 Sabbath. It's

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August twenty three, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name

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is El David Harris. I am your host, and this

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is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word

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every single day, and today is no exception. We are

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continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of

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exit Us, and our caption for today is living the Law.

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Living the Law. Yes, we're talking about the ten Commandments.

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Don't get nervous now, come on, we already started to

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teach why this is possible. Yes, living the Law. Before

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we get into that, I like to say Happy Sabbath

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining for the very

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first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community pick up. Well, let's not

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do that today. Scratch that. At the appropriate time, you'll

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get what you see on the screen there. But let

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us know where you are in the world at your

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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways

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

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ahead and pray, Father, thank you for the Sabbath hours

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that you have given into our care, that you have

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made for us to connect with you in a new

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and a special and intimate way. Please teach us to

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yield ourselves to you in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Living the law, Yes you can. Yeah,

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I'm not going to go into the details of that.

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You just go back a day or two and listen

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to and watch our program so that we can just

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fearlessly and actively submit ourselves to God so He can

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actually live his law through our lives. Okay, so we're

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just doubling down on that. Let's go ahead and begin

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reading here in the Book of Exodus, chapter twenty, Versus

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twenty two and twenty three. The Book of Exodus, chapter twenty,

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We're going to read verses twenty two and twenty three

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in the Bible reads, and the Lord said, unto Moses,

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Thus shalt thou say to my children, the children of Israel,

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Ye shall ye have seen that I have talked with

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you from heaven. Remember God position the people of God

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to see that inter that ominous, incredible interaction between God

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and Moses. Directly, The Bible says he spoke to him

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mouth to mouth. I think it says mouth to mouth

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like intimately, very closely. Now, God is condescending while he's

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elevating Moses. He's still condescending in a sense, so that

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Moses could stand the awe and grandeur of God. And

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God speaks to Moses not just to make Moses feel

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like he's some kind of elite creature who is able

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to say, yes, I had that experience with God and

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know you didn't.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: For the benefit of all the people of God, even

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down into our own generation, God, let him be the

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case study of what happens when we yield and we

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are able to hear from God. The Bible continues, Ye

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shall not, the Bible says, ye shall not. Let me

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say it one more time. Ye shall not make unto

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me Gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you

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gods of gold. Wow. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So yeah,

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so let's put a little history behind this Mount Sinai.

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This experience was part of God's covenantal relation to his

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people as they were being formed into a nation. Remember,

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He's delivered them from from Egyptian captivity. In any nation,

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who who who enslaves somebody takes away their God that's

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their goal, takes away their identity, takes away their food

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and gives them inferior food that'll just take them down

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the pathway to destruction, takes away even their spouses, like

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separates families in a way that keeps your legacy from

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growing in the way that God had intended. And so

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that was no different. I think somebody just heard what

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I was saying, is if it's Februar in the monthly calendar.

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But anyway, I'm saying, this is what happened to the

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people of God. And so now God is forming them

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into a nation, a holy nation, a royal priesthood. You

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see where I'm going with this. And so this verse

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comes immediately after the giving of the Ten Commandments, showing

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the seriousness of being not only connected to God, but

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having fidelity toward God, to the one True and Living God,

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blessed be his name. And so we read a quote

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from let's call it Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred

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and three and three hundred four. God designed that the

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principles of his Holy Law should not be merely written

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on the tablets of stone, but engraven upon the hearts

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and minds of his people. That has always been the goal.

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It's always been the goal, okay, And so in everyday life,

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let's look at it this way. Living the law today

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still means, because yeah, there are going to be a

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lot of people preaching sermons at some point in the

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very near future somewhere around the world that say, like

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that was yesterday's news. God's not concerned about the law,

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and it's like, wow, if God was going to change

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his law, then Jesus need not to have died. If

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God could have changed his Holy Law, then Jesus need

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not to have come. So that don't even make no sense.

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So living the law today still means worshiping God alone,

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no idols of success, no graven images obviously, and statues

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and relics and all this other stuff. No idols of wealth,

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no idols wiz of influence, no idols of self, no pride,

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We worship God alone. And then also it still means

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forming a community set apart by the values of justice

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and mercy and humility, as according to Michael, chapter six

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and verse eight. And then finally, living the law today

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is it still means obeying God or not even trying

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to attempt, not even attempting to obey God as a

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way to get into his good graces. That don't work,

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And that's not the spirit of God. So it's not

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to earn God's favor. But it's because we have God's favor. Yeah, yeah,

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people who love God have the favor of God. In

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order to keep the commandments, the cart and the horse

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have to have the right priority. The only way that

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a human being and can can have no other gods

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before God as if is if we already love God.

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The only way that a human being cannot covet anything

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our neighbor's wife, our neighbor's stuff, our neighbor's husband, God forbid.

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Like the only way that that's possible is if we

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love God. Because there's no fear in love. Like pull,

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perfect love casts out fear, fear, hath torment. God God

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perfects us to the point that we can stand boldly

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in the day of judgment, where the law of liberty

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really is the standard of that judgment. Right and so

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and so I'm thankful that God has given us the

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law the power of love, so that we can love

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Him and we can love other human beings. And so

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there are so many ways that we can look at this,

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but let's just let's just do a quick summary because

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we're running out of time, okay, and so living the Gods,

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the God's living, the law of God, the thee is.

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The law is not what some people have said, just

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the prescription of rules, its relationship, its relational guidance based

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on God's character. It's the revelation of his character in

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codified form. God's intent was to make a people distinct

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and holy and guess what else, protected and blessed. How

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do we apply this? God's law shapes our hearts, our families,

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our cultures, not just our conduct. Ooh, somebody just got it. Lord,

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bless you and keep you today, make it a great day. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: 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,