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06 03 2025 The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: June three in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the story of Sodom
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  Speaker 2: and Gomorrah. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Fun fact,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you realize it, but the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that the city's like was like like the Garden
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  Speaker 2: of God, like Eden, hm, but so much wickedness. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: before we get into that I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Pardon me, Let's go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 2: and then get underweigh Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: platforms online. One message, one God, one faith, one baptism. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please make us holy like Abraham was during the time
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  Speaker 2: of the destruction of those two cities. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. I'm about to ask
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  Speaker 2: you a question, but pause before you start answering what
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  Speaker 2: made Abraham holy? Now, of course your mind is immediately
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  Speaker 2: going to go to what the Bible says about it,
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  Speaker 2: that his faith was accounted unto him for righteousness, And
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  Speaker 2: of course I can only but agree with what God
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  Speaker 2: said in his word. But you know, there was a
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  Speaker 2: you know it was a trick question, I admit it.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a marker I'll call it a marker
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  Speaker 2: of a Braham's life. That manifested the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: was holy, and that marker was that he did not
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  Speaker 2: want to see people destroyed. He definitely didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: see God's people destroyed. But he knew that the judgment
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  Speaker 2: was coming. Judgment is coming to Sodom and Gomorrah, and
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  Speaker 2: now he has to have a conversation with God. But
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  Speaker 2: before we get into that concept, I want to go
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  Speaker 2: to Ezekiel, chapter sixteen, verse forty nine. The Bible reads, behold,
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  Speaker 2: this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom. What was it? Ezekiel? Pride?
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  Speaker 2: Be careful when you hear the word pride. What are
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  Speaker 2: you proud of? Well? I know you're going to say
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  Speaker 2: the dictionary determines pride like, don't get confused, Dave, to
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  Speaker 2: be proud of your son. You should be proud of Josiah.
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  Speaker 2: I am. You should be proud of your wife because
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  Speaker 2: she really her new book project. Yes, I am be
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  Speaker 2: proud of all of those those people, the students, the
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  Speaker 2: clients that you that you coach. Yes I am, but listen,
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  Speaker 2: that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 2: kind of pride that leads us to leads people to
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  Speaker 2: walk away from God. I'm talking about self reliance. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about pomposity. I'm talking about bravado, big chestedness. This
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  Speaker 2: is what I'm talking about. So I'll read it in
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  Speaker 2: the new English translation. This was the sin of your
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  Speaker 2: sister Sodom. She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food,
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  Speaker 2: and enjoyed prosperous ease, but they did not help the
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  Speaker 2: poor and the needy. Their pumposity caused them to turn
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  Speaker 2: their backs on people in need. What is the lesson?
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  Speaker 2: The lesson is pride, entitlement, and rebellion against God's authority.
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  Speaker 2: We're at the heart of Sodom's fall. Many societies, even
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  Speaker 2: in our day, exalt personal freedom over submission to God's will.
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  Speaker 2: Exalt personal freedom over submission to God's will, even to
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  Speaker 2: the point of mocking his authority. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. We just don't have the time. Cultural pride
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  Speaker 2: often blinds people to moral decay. Now something else was
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  Speaker 2: going on. The Bible says here in the Book of
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  Speaker 2: Jude and verse seven, they gave themselves over to fornication
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  Speaker 2: and going after strange flesh New English translation. In a
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  Speaker 2: similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah indulged in sexual immorality and
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  Speaker 2: pursued unnatural desire. So sexual perversion is a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big deal then, it is a big
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  Speaker 2: deal today. We can see that in the news cycle
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  Speaker 2: right now. We don't even have to go too far.
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  Speaker 2: We can see it in the relationships that some of
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  Speaker 2: us have God forbid, but some of our friends and
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  Speaker 2: family have. Some people have redirected and returmed what it
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  Speaker 2: means to be in holy matrimony. Sexual perversion and rejection
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  Speaker 2: of God's design for human intimacy played a central role
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  Speaker 2: in their condemnation. Our world normalizes sexual immorality. How many
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  Speaker 2: things on those streaming services do people consume? And it
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  Speaker 2: seems so romantic, it seems so fun. The music positions
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  Speaker 2: us to accept it if we are willing to be careful.
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  Speaker 2: Old little eyes, what you see, be careful, little ears,
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  Speaker 2: what you hear, be careful, little hands, what you touch
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  Speaker 2: be careful, little feet. Where you go, there's a father
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  Speaker 2: up above looking down in tender love. Be careful how
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  Speaker 2: you allow your senses to be overwhelmed by what society
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  Speaker 2: has normalized. Our world normalizes sexual immorality through media, through law,
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  Speaker 2: through education. Sometimes what was once shameful is now celebrated.
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  Speaker 2: Now celebrated, I have so much more. We already talked
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  Speaker 2: about neglecting of the poor. That was a big problem then.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course there was an open defiance. In
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter three and verse nine. They declare their sin
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  Speaker 2: as sodom. They hide it. Not let me read it
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  Speaker 2: another way. They openly display their sin like sodom. They
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  Speaker 2: don't even hide it. What was once hidden in shame
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  Speaker 2: is paraded now openly, without fear of God, without concern
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  Speaker 2: from God. Many a sin in public forums, not only
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  Speaker 2: without remorse, but with applause from the crowd. People congratulate
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  Speaker 2: people for doing the wrong thing. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. And of course there was contempt according to
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  Speaker 2: sewod Peter chapter two and verse ten for the authority
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  Speaker 2: of God, the authority part of me of God. And
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  Speaker 2: so really, what does that mean? We know all that
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  Speaker 2: went wrong, But what do we know also that we
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  Speaker 2: have the privilege of not dealing with that. We have
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of being covered in the righteousness of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And number one, God's judgment is real and final from
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  Speaker 2: Revelation chapter twenty and verse fifteen. And whosoever was not
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  Speaker 2: found written in the Book of Life was cast into
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  Speaker 2: the lake of fire. I don't like talking about this thing,
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  Speaker 2: but the reality is we don't have to be among
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  Speaker 2: those cast into the lake of fire. We have the privilege.
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  Speaker 2: We have the privilege of being seen as if we
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  Speaker 2: had never sinned, coming through the judgment that is going
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  Speaker 2: on even now. We can be in the Lamb's Book
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  Speaker 2: of life if we just choose to serve him, if
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  Speaker 2: we just choose to serve him. So much to say
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  Speaker 2: so little time, let me just say this. God first
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  Speaker 2: rebukes his people if we need it, and when we
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  Speaker 2: are corrected by faith in love, then we can go
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  Speaker 2: out and teach transgressors their way and so God's way,
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  Speaker 2: and so we can accept conviction when God corrects us,
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  Speaker 2: and then let his discipline guide you into deeper holiness.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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