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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 Tuesday, August nineteen,

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two thousand twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 through the Book of Exodus, and our caption

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for today is the Gift of the Decalogue. Almost said dialogue,

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the Gift of the Decalogue. Before we get into that,

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

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. I'd like to just say, really

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really quickly, a great, big, happy birthday to my big

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sister Lisa. It is her birthday, and I'm thankful. It's

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not my job or my business to say how long

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God has had her on planet Earth, but she's my

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big sister, and uh yeah, I'm a grown, grown man.

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So I'm glad that God has given you the privilege

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of life and for the rest of us to have

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the privilege of your presence. Happy birthday, Happy Birthday. Let's

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go ahead and pray, Father, thank you for this day,

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for the privilege of being able to see your law

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from your lens and not the lens of humans who

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have trivialized your truth. I pray that you will give

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us your holy spirit help us to live your truth

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in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. The

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gift of the decalogue tell the truth? Have you ever

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seen the Ten Commandments as a gift? Decalogue? That's what

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it means. Basically, we're talking about the Ten Commandments. Have

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you ever seen them as a gift? Is that your

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perspective or is it something else. It's up to you.

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I mean, I'm not gonna drill you on it, but

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it is something that we must consider. Yeah. So from

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the Book of Exodus chapter twenty, verses one through seventeen,

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we see one of the telling of the words. The

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words will come back to why I'm saying it that way,

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called the Ten Commandments, And of course it's also in

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Deuteronomy chapter five. But we're going to just talk about

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the different tables. The fire stone, not the bage, not

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the brown in those movies that clearly the people did

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not study history to know that. It couldn't have been bage.

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It couldn't have been brown or gray. It had to

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have been sapphire. Yeah, look that upphire stones. It's a

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blue hue that in fact, God said that the tassels

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that were to be on the bottom or the edge

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of the people of God's clothing ribband, they were of

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blue to help them remember the law of God. I

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wish I had the time. So the stone cut out

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from the actual throne of God. I wish I had

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the time. Yes, now we have the Ten Commandments on

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two tables. On the first table, we have no other gods.

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That's loyalty and worship. We have no idols or images.

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That's purity of worship. That is, no misuse of God's

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holy Blessed be his name. That represents reverence. And then

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remembering the seventh day Sabbath, not replacing it, but remembering

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the seventh day Sabbath. This is sacred and sanctified time.

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That is the first table. In the second table, of course, wait,

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let me say the first table establishes God's authority, his identity,

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and our covenant relationship with him. On the second table,

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we see the duties toward humanity. Honoring our parents. That's

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respecting authority, including our parents. No murder, that's the value

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or treasuring of life in the way that God treasures life.

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No adultery that's purity of relationships. No stealing that is

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respecting of property. No false witness again that is integrity.

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And then no coveting that is contentment of heart. These

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govern interpersonal relationship, of course, among people, into personal conduct

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re rooted in love and justice. Who I said a lot?

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I said a lot. But let's continue by reading from

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the book Patriarchs and Profits, page three hundred five to

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three hundred and nine. I'm cherry picking some of the quote,

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and it reads, the law was not spoken at the

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time exclusively for the benefit of the people of God,

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but for the entire world. It was to be preserved

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as a sacred trust. Now, when we use the word trust,

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sometimes we're talking about our relationship and how we experience

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one another. But a trust is also is also a

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way to give people resources in the event that we

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are no longer here. A trust. This is a sacred trust.

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Christ himself gave the law from sini Did you hear

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that detail? Christ himself gave the law from Sinai clothed

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in the garb of humanity. Not one command has been annulled,

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not a jot or tittle has been changed. And so

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the writer she is emphasizing the permanence of the law,

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the moral function of the law, and its universal authority.

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So we're not exempt from this law. But we in

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the beginning talked about this law as a gift. Now

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we see it as a trust. God has given it

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to us in trust. And so the word commandments in

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this text actually actually literally means words. These are the

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words of the covenant, not burdens of the covenant, not

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limitations of the covenre, not legalistic views of God in

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a covenant. No, And then, of course law to Rah,

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this is instruction or guidance. The decalogue is God's teaching

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his guidance. They're not handcuffs, They're not just rules that

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we can trifle with. There's so much that God is

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accomplishing with us in this law. And so the privilege

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that we have in this case is to worship God

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with loyalty. Now, somebody is thinking, if you're thinking like me,

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well you skip a step day, like, how did you

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get right there? How did you get to loyalty? How

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did you get to keeping the Ten commandments? How did

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you do that? You skip a step day? Well? Really,

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really I didn't, because the days before in our study

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I already talked about how God delivered the people from captivity.

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So before anybody can keep the law of God, God

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has to has to deliver us, remove us from the

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oppressor's grasp, to deliver us from being bound to sinful mindset.

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You see, God first delivers us before he gives us

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his law. I already talked to you about how He

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made us a peculiar treasure. I already talked to you

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about how he raised us up and set us upon

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eagle's wings, and drew us to himself. So the relationship

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now is already established. I've already spoken to you about

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how he heard the groanings of his people, and again

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all that I have already said. And so now it

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is time for those same people who have experienced all

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of this, who are to be in right relationship with God,

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to be held responsible. Now it's time for them to

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be responsible. It's time for us to be responsible. So

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God still expects us to put Him first. No idols,

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no divided worship. God still expects us to keep holy

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the seventh day Sabbath. He has not changed that. It

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remains a sign of trust and dependence and of holiness

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between us and God. He still wants us to be honoring.

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Family and life and purity and truth and contentment still

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matter deeply to God. In twenty twenty five, and it

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still begins in the heart. The final commandment of do

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not covet reveals that God's law is spiritual Romans, chapter

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seven and verse fourteen. It addresses the inner life and

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not just our actions. See, God has given us the

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gift of Jesus Christ, but He's also given us the

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gift of his character.

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Speaker 1: They's rejoined us. Listen. He always remember we cannot live

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by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

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the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion

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with El. David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,