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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. It's

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March seventeen, 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 the two Greatest Sins, the two Greatest Sins.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book,

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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. Father,

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we do thank you for giving us the opportunity to

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open up your word and to receive the fullness of

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your truth. Please help us to listen for your voice

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and then do whatever you ask us to do. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again the

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two great tests sins, and I know already I can

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hear some people in Jamaica Land we love where I live, saying,

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but sin, a sin, sin is sin, like people believe

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that all sin are all sins are of equal magnitude.

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Now let me just begin by saying, there is no

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sin that we should be playing around with. God is

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not pleased with any sin. It's there's no small what

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I shouldn't say it that way. There are no sins

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that God is just like, oh, that's no big deal

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that no every sin would require would require us to

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really pay the piper, like when we sin. The Bible

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says the sin the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

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And so Jesus Christ. Even if there were one sin

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that Adam committed and one sin only, then Jesus Christ,

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if he's going to save us from our sins, would

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have gone through the same process to save us. Okay,

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now there is an impact reality. Not all sin are

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of equal magnitude. Why, even in our faulty human systems,

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there are different kinds of punishments for different kinds of crimes.

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If a sixteen year old steals, God forbid, a candy

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bar from the supermarket that values about eighty five cents us,

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that child is not going to prison for twenty five years.

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But some of the heinous acts that we are hearing

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in the news these days under indictment, federal indictment for this,

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where videos and baby oil and all kinds of other

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really creepy stuff is going on, well, of course those

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have a much heavier weight. The Bible says it this way,

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to whom much is given, much is to be required.

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Also that speaks to the reality of our responsibility. And

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also he talks about about you know, the penalties a

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few stripes versus many stripes, depending on what it is

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that an individual is unfortunately guilty of. But Jesus paid

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it all. This is the good part. We can recover

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from any sin situation. Now, after I've said all of that,

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we need to jump into the Bible Book of Psalms.

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The Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and thirty five,

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beginning at verse thirteen, the Bible reads, thy name, O Lord,

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endureth forever and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.

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For the Lord will judge his people, and he will

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repent himself concerning his servants. The idols of the Heathen

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are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They

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have not mouths, but they speak not. They have mouths,

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but they speak not. Eyes they have, but they see not.

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They have ears, but they hear not. Neither is there

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any breath in their mouths. They that make them are

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like unto them. So is everyone that trusteth in them.

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Bless the Lord, oh House of Israel. Bless the Lord,

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oh House of Aaron. And so we see here We

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see here that this passage reveals the key points about idolatry.

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Here are some of them. The contrast between the living

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God and dead idols. And when we say dead, we're

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talking not talking about something that lived and then died. No,

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this is a fabrication, just like you can. You can

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make a battery pack so you can charge your cell phone,

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like you can create a watch. You understand. And so

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these are things that humans engineered and then worshiped, like

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the golden calf in back in the Book of Exodus

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number two, the futility of human made objects of worship.

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Why would you worship something you create? Why would I

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worship something thing that I put together, something that I

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have mastered, create, I build something. I build a car

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and then worship the car. Does that make sense? That

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means that there is no responsibility. That means that there

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is no understanding that is greater than my own human understanding.

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And we see what mess I make up things as

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a human sometimes, and so that is futile. Then there

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is the transformation principle. We become like what we worship.

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You want to worship your bank account, then that's what

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you want? Will bank accounts come and go? That's what humans?

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Speaker 1: Do?

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Speaker 2: You want to worship an actual statue? Well, statues get destroyed,

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they deteriorate. Is that what you desire for yourself? And

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I hope your answer is absolutely not. And so there

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is a warning that idolators become spiritually lifeless. Just like

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their idols. And then finally, finally, the enduring relevant of

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God versus the temporary nature of idols. Here today, gone today,

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here today, gone tomorrow. A new paradigm comes in and

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then we're not worshiping this idol, We're worshiping that idol. Okay.

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So yeah, there's some people maybe listening or watching and saying,

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come on, Dave, we don't worship idols anymore, give me

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a break. Well, a lot of people do. But there

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are other kinds of idols that maybe the people thinking

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this actually do worship. Sometimes people worship material possessions. This

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is why our social media feeds look the way that

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they do. Sometimes people are showing off their stuff so

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others will start to revere them or somehow hold them

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in a higher esteem, or they can feel like they

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have been keeping up with the Joneses. You understand. Then

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there is status. There is power. Much of the wickedness

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that we see in the news is about a power grab.

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People are flexing their power muscles and subjugating people through money,

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through influence, through what they can do in a particular

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industry or field. And if you bow and scuffle or

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you do something that is unmentionable. Then they wield power

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and hold it over you in order to promise you success.

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Then there is self reliance, there is technology, there is

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our career, there is pleasure. Like people worship all sorts

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of things. But God is saying that we have the

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privilege of worshiping Him. We have the privilege of staying

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connected with Him in right relationship, so that we don't

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need to worship anything else. You see, when the children

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of Israel were waiting for Moses to come down from

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the top of Horeb or Mount Sinai as some people

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would say, he was up there having communion with God.

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He's getting as close to God as you can get

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as a human being. He's up in the cloud now

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God receiving the Ten Commandments. He's receiving the blueprint for

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what we now know as the sanctuary or the Sacerdotal system,

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the system of sacrifices in the Old Testament, which was

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really a way to help us understand how salvation works

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through Christ and his people. God's people are at the

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base of the mountain, saying, we don't know where Moses is. Aaron,

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build us a golden cast so we can worship what

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so in the moments sometimes where it seems that God

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is not available, do we turn to our things, or

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some paradigm or some other idol and worship it. Wow,

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that is a great sin and we need to repent.

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Make it a great day.

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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,