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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 Wednesday, March nineteen,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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

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today is called to Establish Justice. We'll get into that

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in just a moment, but first I like to say

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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, 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 and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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day and for the opportunity that you have entrusted to

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us to open your word. And I'm asking you to

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please fill us with your holy spirit. Please give us

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the power that we need in order to live just

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and holy lives. In twenty twenty five, we know that

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we are nearing home. We're nearing home, and I'm asking

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you to prepare us fully today in Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again, called to establish justice. I know

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that some of what we have said was jarring to you,

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because now you're starting to sense the import the import

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of doing God's will where justice is concerned. Think about it.

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Think about it. To the degree that he even so

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identifies with human beings whom he's entrusted power to the magistrate,

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the judges, and all these other types of leaders, that

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he would call them gods. We know that that was

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not an assignment of deity, but it was a heavy responsibility.

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So we know that justice really matters to God. I

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don't know why believers are arguing about this as if

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God has not been very clear part of me in

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the scriptures where that is concerned. So we're going to

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read in that vein beginning in verse twenty three of

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Matthew chapter twenty three. Matthew Chapter twenty three, beginning at

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verse twenty three. And of course Jesus is now having

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a passionate, a passionate discussion. It's a discourse really with

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those who should know the most about God, who should

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be closest to God, who should be the purveyors of

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justice and holiness in the earth. But somehow they lost focus.

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And so we begin woe until you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites,

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where ye pay tithe of mint and ennis and cumin,

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

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and faith. These ought ye to have done, and not

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to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain

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at a gnat and swallow a camel. And so God

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is saying that you are fastidious. You are paying a

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lot of attention to details, and somehow the things that

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matter most to me, meaning God, you miss it. You

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can tithe from your different herbs. Huh, you can see

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then in solution, maybe it's water, and you say this

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is unclean, and so you find a way to strain

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that tiny little net out, and then you end up

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having camel stew, which is completely unclean. How do you

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miss this? Blind guides, hypocrites, roll one to you, Roll

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one to you. Verse twenty five. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,

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For ye make clean the outside of the cup, of

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the platter, and of the platter, but within are full

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of extortion and excess. God is saying, listen, let me

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come into your lives. God is saying to us, brothers

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and sisters, he wants to come into our lives and

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from the inside out through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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He wants to teach us how to live holy lives,

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holiness and our relationships, how to love and be kind

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and affect at one toward another, because for God, for

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Christ's sake, was kind to us. He wants us to

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take care of the laying, the main, the blind, the halt,

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those who are not able to speak here or any

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other thing that is a challenge to the people, to

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deliver the oppressed, oppressed, and to set the captives free.

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And we're out here arguing about things that barely matter.

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They matter, but not to the degree that these things matter.

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These are true religion and undefiled before God. Okay, And

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so the Bible continues, Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that

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which is within the cup and platter, that the outside

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of them may be clean. Also, you're worried about your reputation.

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You're worried about what happens when it's almost time for

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elections inside the church, at local levels and at higher levels,

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or I should say, at the organizational level. Scratch what

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I said about higher levels. At the organizational or structural levels,

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you're concerned about that, but not about extortion or excess.

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Oh my, oh my, oh, well, unto you Verse twenty seven.

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Scribes and pharisees hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepulchers,

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which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of

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dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. Even so ye

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also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are

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full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Whoa unto you, scribes and

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pharisees hypocrites, because ye build tombs to the profits and

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garnish sepulchers of the righteous. Even in our day we

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make tributes to and have programs for, and name entities

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based on people that we have revered and may be

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rightly so and honor them. And yet in our hearts

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there are things that are completely contrary to God's will.

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It's a show brothers and sisters, if indeed that is

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the case. And the Bible continues verse thirty and say,

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if we had been in the days of our fathers,

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we would not have been partakers with them in the

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blood of the Pharisees. So my, well, what are the

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weightier matters? I read a lot of words from the scriptures?

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What are the weightier matters? Jesus says judgment and justice

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in this context, mercy and faithfulness, justice or judgment that is,

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to uphold the true standards of righteousness, not just outward

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show ah, which also includes what I just said about

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setting the case aptis free et cetera. Mercy and faithfulness,

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and so Jesus teaches us that that external compliance is

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not enough. I have been struggling for years for the

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right words where people actually believe that the people he

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was speaking to were actual commandment keepers. No they weren't.

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They were legalists. They were externally compliant, but spiritually non compliant. Okay,

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So internal transformation is primary. True religion affects the heart.

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Do not be afraid of the term religion. There is

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a godly and true religion the Bible writer teaches about.

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And then balance is needed. Do these things without neglecting

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other things. And then priorities must be right weightier matters first,

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and then the other things that also matter. Okay. And

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so these align with the scriptures in First Samuel, chapter

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sixteen and verse seven. For the Lord seeth not as

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a man seeth, for he looketh on the outward appearance.

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But the Lord looketh upon the heart. When God sees

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your heart, what is he seeing, Brothers and sisters, I'm

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not asking you to type it in the chat that's

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between you and God. When God sees your heart, what

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is he seeing? Lord? Help us? And so God has

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given us a calling. It is a calling for us

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to be just. It is a calling for us to

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be merciful. It is a privilege and a calling for

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us to be faithful. Do not get your priorities mixed up.

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Don't get your priorities mixed up or called to establish justice.

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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,