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, of morning, Good morning, it is Friday. It
is August twenty two, twenty 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 Reverence for God's Law.
Reverence for God's Law. Before we get into that, I'd
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
we will get underway. Father, thank you for this Friday,
this preparation time for special experience with you during the
Sabbath hours. Help us to prepare during these hours like
we are preparing for the coming of the Lord. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again reverence for
the law of God. Okay. So we're going to read
from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred and three,
and let's see what else we can accomplish in the
few minutes that we will invest together. Okay, and it
reads God's God purposed to make the occasion of speaking
his law a scene of awful grandeur. Wow. Let me
just say that again. God purposed to make the occasion
of speaking his law a scene of awful grandeur. I
should say awful grandeur. In keeping with his exalted character.
The people were to be impressed that everything connected with
the service of God must be regarded with the greatest reverence.
WHOA A lot happened when God spoke those ten words
from Mount Horeb. There was a lot going on. Let
me just say that the Bible teaches us in Exodus
chapter nineteen, verses nine through twenty five, and then twenty
verses one through twenty one, that he surrounded the giving
of the Ten Commandments was thunder and lightning and smoke
and trumpet blasts. God wasn't being theatrical. He wasn't inviting
you to the next Broadway play. He wasn't taking you.
And since I don't go to the movie theater cinema,
I don't know what the latest technology is where the
screen and the sound and maybe even the rumble up
under the floor or under your seat or in the walls. Like,
he wasn't staging anything like that with the trumpet blasts
and the smoke and the lightning and the thunder. It
wasn't for theatrics. The people of God needed to be
impressed by the holiness of God through his law. They
need it to be impressed, Like, wait a minute, this
is nothing to shake a stick at, Like this is
nothing to take lightly. So when we say that the
Ten Commandments are holy, it is because God is holy.
It is the transcript of the character of God. And
so when God is speaking of the law He's not
speaking of it in the way that some of us
goofy humans do. I need you to get this. There
are people who will stand up in a couple of
days in pull pits all over the world and make
it seem as if this does not matter. But God
didn't go through all of that to reveal this for
the first time, at least codified in this way, for
us to just throw it away. In fact, Jesus taught
us in Matthew Chapter five, verses seventeen through twenty. And
I'll just read a couple of the verses. Think not
that I am come to destroy or abolish the law
or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but
to fulfill. For verily, I say unto you, till heaven
and earth pass, not one jot, not one tittle, shall
in any wise pass from the Law. Whoa awful grandeur,
awful grandeur. And so the quote that we use in
the beginning of our time together explains that God deliberately
orchestrated the Mount Horeb or Mount Si Nai experience as
one of awful grandeur to elevate the people's sense of reverence.
But the question is why, why did God go through
all of that to show nature is subject to his will,
and now we are a captive audience like, WHOA, what
is going on here? Because the law reflects his character. See,
if we take the law of God lightly, we're taking
God and his character lightly. Let me say it one
more again for the people in the back. If we
take the law of God lightly, then we are indeed
and in fact, taking God and his character lightly. Don't
do that? Like, can I just say that clearly? And
we can really just end the program here, like, don't
do that. Reverence for the law is ultimately reverence for God.
I said reverence for the law, and I don't take
it back. I don't apologize. I'm not going to equivocate.
I won't give you eighteen different ways of explaining this
just to get it. The Holy Ghost is gonna teach
your brain. You're gonna learn today that reverence for the
law is ultimately reverence for God. This is still the
reality today, yes, August twenty two, in twenty twenty five,
it is still valid today in an age of casual
worship and moral compromise, God's holiness, Like you realize everybody
can call themselves Christians today, Like everybody creeping compromise ain't
even creeping anymore, Like we're just compromises kicking the door down.
Compromise is allowing the lane, the main, the blind, the halt,
the individuals who have the greatest needs to suffer. And
people claim to be believers who look at this and
allow it. Some are actually the culprits for oppression. So
in this day, it's not even a creeping compromise, it's
it's a ridiculous, overt kicking down the door kind of compromise.
And God is saying no, no, no, no. Look at
these ten words. See me as the God who created
you and my character. God's holiness calls us. Here is
a word to sobriety. Mm m. You know the field
sobriety test in some places around the world to see
if you've had too much to drink. Yeah, some people
have had too much to drink of ourselves. Self perception
is getting us drunk, like some people have touch too
much pride and are not sober. Right, there are people
who somehow forget that love for God and love for
humanity is still our privilege through the Holy tank Commandment's
law that He is writing upon our hearts and our
lives if we submit ourselves to him. So God's holiness
calls us to sobriety and all filled obedience. Oh God,
so much to say. Spiritually speaking, we already said that
the closer we get to God's glory. Now we were
saying it. According to us law, we desert our flaws.
We feel a holy yearning to change. We depend upon
Jesus for our righteousness. Love his law not from a
burdensome perspective, but as a path of freedom. David said it.
He said it in Psalm chapter one hundred and nineteen,
verse ninety seven. Oh how I love Thy law. It
is my meditation all the day. He said it in
Psalm chapter nineteen and verse seven. The law of the
Lord is perfect, converting the soul. Oh so much more
to say, so much more to say. God's commandments are
not too hard in air quotes, because the Holy Ghost
writes them in our hearts and on our minds. So
we can be like Jesus. Like we can be like Jesus.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, 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,