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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, February one,

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twenty 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, God's Love and Justice, and our caption for

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today is God's Love of Justice. I know it sounds confused. Yes,

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our caption for today is similar to the theme. Yes,

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but it's God's Love of Justice. We'll get into that

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in just a moment, but first I'd like to say

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welcome to you in Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath. Thank you

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for joining us. When you get an opportunity. Please go

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Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,

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thank you for giving us your love and being just.

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Thank you for finding a way for mercy and justice

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to come together so that we can live and you,

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at the same time can continue to be holy. I

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pray that we will not take you for granted anymore,

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that we will love you with everything we are and

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do your will. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and

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Amen again God's love of justice. Do you love justice?

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Do you love justice? And I don't mean what some

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people call justice, Like sometimes people talk about justice, but

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really they just want what they want and anything else

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is in justice. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking

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about righteousness from God's perspective. He realized that in the Bible,

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every almost every instance where God is referencing justice. From

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his perspective, it's about righteousness, it's about holiness. I wish

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I had the time. So God's love of justice, the

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Bible reads here in Jeremiah, chapter nine and verse twenty seven.

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But let him who glories glory in this that he

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understands and knows me that I am the Lord exercising

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loving kindness. God is loving and he's kind both and

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at the same time judgment and righteousness. That's the same

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as justice in the earth. For in these I delight,

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says the Lord. You see, God loves to be loving

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and kind. He loves to be just and aphalled righteousness

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in the earth. You see, there are things that happen

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in our society today that are unjust. The way that

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the lame, the main, the blind, the halt, the people

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who are fatherless, the oppressed, the widows are being treated

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in society many times is unjust. There is inequity in

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so many of the systems of the world. I wish

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I really had the time, but I don't. But God

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is saying that he loves to be just and the

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justifier of those who him, who are being saved by Him.

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To be justice, to hope, uphold righteousness, and to justify

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in this case is that God is going to treat you,

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dear brother, dear sister as if you had never sinned,

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just as if you had never sinned, that is, if

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you yield your will to him. And I'm thankful. I'm

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thankful because He has given us so many places in

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the scriptures to see what his will is where where

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justice is concerned. The first one is an Isaiah chapter

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one and verse seventeen. Isaiah Chapter one and verse seventeen.

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Learn to do well, seek judgment. This is what the

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prophet is telling us, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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Did we not just say that? And so what God

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wants for us to do to do? Not think about,

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not like theorize about it, or or be philosophical about.

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The Bible says that we need to be seeking justice

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for the oppressed, Advocate for justice in your community, and

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support organizations that fight against oppression and support vulnerable groups.

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There are some people who are so quote heavenly minded,

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that they are no earthly good. The Bible says, I'm

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going to read it again, learn to do well. Okay,

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I got that seek judgment, okay, relieve the oppressed, judge

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the fatherless, plead for the widow. So there's no question

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about what God desires for us. And in Micah chapter

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six and verse eight, this one is familiar to most

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of you. He hath showed the old man, and I

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would say, by extention, O woman, this is all people.

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He has showed you, all people, what is good and

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what the Lord doth require of thee. To do what justly,

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love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God. It says,

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to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.

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So we are to live a life characterized by fairness.

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Are when you are speaking to your children? Are you fair?

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When they God forbid, do something that is not holy

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or that is against your rules in your home? And

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there's nothing wrong with rules as long as they're just.

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I wish I had the time for that. But when

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they do, God forbid? But if they do, are you fair?

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And how you treat them? How about mercy? Are you merciful?

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Are you humble? Are you embodying the character of God

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in personal and professional interactions? And I'm asking myself the

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same question. This isn't a quiz for you. I'm asking

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you the same thing I'm asking myself. And in First Corinthians,

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chapter ten and verse fourteen, the Bible reads, wherefore my

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dearly beloved flee from idolatry. So in all of this

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pursuit of justice, which is righteousness, remember, and of course

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we're thankful for God's mercy, etc. Now we need to

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flee from idolatry. We were talking about it yesterday a

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little bit. Idolatry a little bit yesterday where the people

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of God built a golden calf, and they needed mercy

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because God should and could have I should say, destroyed

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them immediately because they were already breaking the commandments. But

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the Bible says that basically God showed them mercy they

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could have gotten their acts together. Of course, there was judgment.

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I mean, there were some things that Moses had them

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to do because this is the way God wanted it

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to be. Yes, that not pleasurable to them. But the

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Bible teaches us that God was doing that because those

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that God loves, he also rebukes and chastens when the

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need should arise. And so we are to flee idolatry,

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avoid and denounce modern forms of idolatry such as materialism, oh,

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self centeredness, oh, focusing instead on serving God and others.

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And then from the Bible Book of Proverbs, chapter fourteen

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and verse thirty one, he that oppresseth the poor reproacheth

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his maker, but he that honoreth him hath mercy on

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the poor. And I think in the New Testament Jesus

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said it this way, like himself speaking. He said, there

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are some people out here who need to be visited,

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who are locked up. There are some people out here

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who have certain needs. And the Bible says, in the

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way that you treat these the least of these, my brethren,

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this is how you, in fact are treating me. And

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so the action really is to engage in charitable activities

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that assist the poor and those who are at a disadvantage,

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showing God's love in practical ways. Not talking about it.

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Brothers and sisters, we need to be about it. Some

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of you know that I am obsessed with assisting individuals

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who have amputations, and I need to be a billionaire

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as far as I'm concerned to help even more people.

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The reality is God's love and justice go together? Does

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it go together?

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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,