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,
vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, August nineteen,
two thousand 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 Exodus, and our caption
for today is the Gift of the Decalogue. Almost said dialogue,
the Gift of the Decalogue. Before we get into that,
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. I'd like to just say, really
really quickly, a great, big, happy birthday to my big
sister Lisa. It is her birthday, and I'm thankful. It's
not my job or my business to say how long
God has had her on planet Earth, but she's my
big sister, and uh yeah, I'm a grown, grown man.
So I'm glad that God has given you the privilege
of life and for the rest of us to have
the privilege of your presence. Happy birthday, Happy Birthday. Let's
go ahead and pray, Father, thank you for this day,
for the privilege of being able to see your law
from your lens and not the lens of humans who
have trivialized your truth. I pray that you will give
us your holy spirit help us to live your truth
in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. The
gift of the decalogue tell the truth? Have you ever
seen the Ten Commandments as a gift? Decalogue? That's what
it means. Basically, we're talking about the Ten Commandments. Have
you ever seen them as a gift? Is that your
perspective or is it something else. It's up to you.
I mean, I'm not gonna drill you on it, but
it is something that we must consider. Yeah. So from
the Book of Exodus chapter twenty, verses one through seventeen,
we see one of the telling of the words. The
words will come back to why I'm saying it that way,
called the Ten Commandments, And of course it's also in
Deuteronomy chapter five. But we're going to just talk about
the different tables. The fire stone, not the bage, not
the brown in those movies that clearly the people did
not study history to know that. It couldn't have been bage.
It couldn't have been brown or gray. It had to
have been sapphire. Yeah, look that upphire stones. It's a
blue hue that in fact, God said that the tassels
that were to be on the bottom or the edge
of the people of God's clothing ribband, they were of
blue to help them remember the law of God. I
wish I had the time. So the stone cut out
from the actual throne of God. I wish I had
the time. Yes, now we have the Ten Commandments on
two tables. On the first table, we have no other gods.
That's loyalty and worship. We have no idols or images.
That's purity of worship. That is, no misuse of God's
holy Blessed be his name. That represents reverence. And then
remembering the seventh day Sabbath, not replacing it, but remembering
the seventh day Sabbath. This is sacred and sanctified time.
That is the first table. In the second table, of course, wait,
let me say the first table establishes God's authority, his identity,
and our covenant relationship with him. On the second table,
we see the duties toward humanity. Honoring our parents. That's
respecting authority, including our parents. No murder, that's the value
or treasuring of life in the way that God treasures life.
No adultery that's purity of relationships. No stealing that is
respecting of property. No false witness again that is integrity.
And then no coveting that is contentment of heart. These
govern interpersonal relationship, of course, among people, into personal conduct
re rooted in love and justice. Who I said a lot?
I said a lot. But let's continue by reading from
the book Patriarchs and Profits, page three hundred five to
three hundred and nine. I'm cherry picking some of the quote,
and it reads, the law was not spoken at the
time exclusively for the benefit of the people of God,
but for the entire world. It was to be preserved
as a sacred trust. Now, when we use the word trust,
sometimes we're talking about our relationship and how we experience
one another. But a trust is also is also a
way to give people resources in the event that we
are no longer here. A trust. This is a sacred trust.
Christ himself gave the law from sini Did you hear
that detail? Christ himself gave the law from Sinai clothed
in the garb of humanity. Not one command has been annulled,
not a jot or tittle has been changed. And so
the writer she is emphasizing the permanence of the law,
the moral function of the law, and its universal authority.
So we're not exempt from this law. But we in
the beginning talked about this law as a gift. Now
we see it as a trust. God has given it
to us in trust. And so the word commandments in
this text actually actually literally means words. These are the
words of the covenant, not burdens of the covenant, not
limitations of the covenre, not legalistic views of God in
a covenant. No, And then, of course law to Rah,
this is instruction or guidance. The decalogue is God's teaching
his guidance. They're not handcuffs, They're not just rules that
we can trifle with. There's so much that God is
accomplishing with us in this law. And so the privilege
that we have in this case is to worship God
with loyalty. Now, somebody is thinking, if you're thinking like me,
well you skip a step day, like, how did you
get right there? How did you get to loyalty? How
did you get to keeping the Ten commandments? How did
you do that? You skip a step day? Well? Really,
really I didn't, because the days before in our study
I already talked about how God delivered the people from captivity.
So before anybody can keep the law of God, God
has to has to deliver us, remove us from the
oppressor's grasp, to deliver us from being bound to sinful mindset.
You see, God first delivers us before he gives us
his law. I already talked to you about how He
made us a peculiar treasure. I already talked to you
about how he raised us up and set us upon
eagle's wings, and drew us to himself. So the relationship
now is already established. I've already spoken to you about
how he heard the groanings of his people, and again
all that I have already said. And so now it
is time for those same people who have experienced all
of this, who are to be in right relationship with God,
to be held responsible. Now it's time for them to
be responsible. It's time for us to be responsible. So
God still expects us to put Him first. No idols,
no divided worship. God still expects us to keep holy
the seventh day Sabbath. He has not changed that. It
remains a sign of trust and dependence and of holiness
between us and God. He still wants us to be honoring.
Family and life and purity and truth and contentment still
matter deeply to God. In twenty twenty five, and it
still begins in the heart. The final commandment of do
not covet reveals that God's law is spiritual Romans, chapter
seven and verse fourteen. It addresses the inner life and
not just our actions. See, God has given us the
gift of Jesus Christ, but He's also given us the
gift of his character.
Speaker 1: They's rejoined us. Listen. He 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,