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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, of morning, Good morning, it is Friday. It

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is August twenty two, 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 Exodus,

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and our caption for today is Reverence for God's Law.

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Reverence for God's Law. Before we get into that, I'd

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like to just say welcome to you and ask you

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then

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we will get underway. Father, thank you for this Friday,

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this preparation time for special experience with you during the

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Sabbath hours. Help us to prepare during these hours like

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we are preparing for the coming of the Lord. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again reverence for

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the law of God. Okay. So we're going to read

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from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred and three,

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and let's see what else we can accomplish in the

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few minutes that we will invest together. Okay, and it

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reads God's God purposed to make the occasion of speaking

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his law a scene of awful grandeur. Wow. Let me

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just say that again. God purposed to make the occasion

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of speaking his law a scene of awful grandeur. I

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should say awful grandeur. In keeping with his exalted character.

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The people were to be impressed that everything connected with

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the service of God must be regarded with the greatest reverence.

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WHOA A lot happened when God spoke those ten words

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from Mount Horeb. There was a lot going on. Let

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me just say that the Bible teaches us in Exodus

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chapter nineteen, verses nine through twenty five, and then twenty

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verses one through twenty one, that he surrounded the giving

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of the Ten Commandments was thunder and lightning and smoke

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and trumpet blasts. God wasn't being theatrical. He wasn't inviting

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you to the next Broadway play. He wasn't taking you.

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And since I don't go to the movie theater cinema,

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I don't know what the latest technology is where the

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screen and the sound and maybe even the rumble up

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under the floor or under your seat or in the walls. Like,

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he wasn't staging anything like that with the trumpet blasts

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and the smoke and the lightning and the thunder. It

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wasn't for theatrics. The people of God needed to be

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impressed by the holiness of God through his law. They

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need it to be impressed, Like, wait a minute, this

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is nothing to shake a stick at, Like this is

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nothing to take lightly. So when we say that the

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Ten Commandments are holy, it is because God is holy.

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It is the transcript of the character of God. And

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so when God is speaking of the law He's not

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speaking of it in the way that some of us

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goofy humans do. I need you to get this. There

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are people who will stand up in a couple of

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days in pull pits all over the world and make

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it seem as if this does not matter. But God

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didn't go through all of that to reveal this for

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the first time, at least codified in this way, for

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us to just throw it away. In fact, Jesus taught

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us in Matthew Chapter five, verses seventeen through twenty. And

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I'll just read a couple of the verses. Think not

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that I am come to destroy or abolish the law

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or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but

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to fulfill. For verily, I say unto you, till heaven

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and earth pass, not one jot, not one tittle, shall

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in any wise pass from the Law. Whoa awful grandeur,

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awful grandeur. And so the quote that we use in

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the beginning of our time together explains that God deliberately

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orchestrated the Mount Horeb or Mount Si Nai experience as

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one of awful grandeur to elevate the people's sense of reverence.

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But the question is why, why did God go through

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all of that to show nature is subject to his will,

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and now we are a captive audience like, WHOA, what

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is going on here? Because the law reflects his character. See,

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if we take the law of God lightly, we're taking

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God and his character lightly. Let me say it one

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more again for the people in the back. If we

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take the law of God lightly, then we are indeed

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and in fact, taking God and his character lightly. Don't

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do that? Like, can I just say that clearly? And

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we can really just end the program here, like, don't

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do that. Reverence for the law is ultimately reverence for God.

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I said reverence for the law, and I don't take

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it back. I don't apologize. I'm not going to equivocate.

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I won't give you eighteen different ways of explaining this

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just to get it. The Holy Ghost is gonna teach

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your brain. You're gonna learn today that reverence for the

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law is ultimately reverence for God. This is still the

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reality today, yes, August twenty two, in twenty twenty five,

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it is still valid today in an age of casual

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worship and moral compromise, God's holiness, Like you realize everybody

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can call themselves Christians today, Like everybody creeping compromise ain't

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even creeping anymore, Like we're just compromises kicking the door down.

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Compromise is allowing the lane, the main, the blind, the halt,

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the individuals who have the greatest needs to suffer. And

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people claim to be believers who look at this and

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allow it. Some are actually the culprits for oppression. So

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in this day, it's not even a creeping compromise, it's

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it's a ridiculous, overt kicking down the door kind of compromise.

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And God is saying no, no, no, no. Look at

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these ten words. See me as the God who created

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you and my character. God's holiness calls us. Here is

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a word to sobriety. Mm m. You know the field

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sobriety test in some places around the world to see

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if you've had too much to drink. Yeah, some people

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have had too much to drink of ourselves. Self perception

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is getting us drunk, like some people have touch too

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much pride and are not sober. Right, there are people

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who somehow forget that love for God and love for

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humanity is still our privilege through the Holy tank Commandment's

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law that He is writing upon our hearts and our

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lives if we submit ourselves to him. So God's holiness

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calls us to sobriety and all filled obedience. Oh God,

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so much to say. Spiritually speaking, we already said that

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the closer we get to God's glory. Now we were

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saying it. According to us law, we desert our flaws.

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We feel a holy yearning to change. We depend upon

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Jesus for our righteousness. Love his law not from a

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burdensome perspective, but as a path of freedom. David said it.

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He said it in Psalm chapter one hundred and nineteen,

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verse ninety seven. Oh how I love Thy law. It

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is my meditation all the day. He said it in

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Psalm chapter nineteen and verse seven. The law of the

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Lord is perfect, converting the soul. Oh so much more

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to say, so much more to say. God's commandments are

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not too hard in air quotes, because the Holy Ghost

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writes them in our hearts and on our minds. So

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we can be like Jesus. Like we can be like Jesus.

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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,