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08 25 2025 More Laws · 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: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Monday, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is more Laws, More Laws. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I would like to just say welcome
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  Speaker 2: where you are in the world. At your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com this is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new morning and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: we have to see through your lenses and to see
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  Speaker 2: all that you needed to go through in order to
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  Speaker 2: structure and organize your people and to give us law
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  Speaker 2: and order and justice. Please help us to respect you
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. More laws, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: more laws. There are so many details that God has
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  Speaker 2: given us about how to live in society, to live
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  Speaker 2: healthy in terms of relationships, in law, order, justice, judgments,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. And it's only when people follow the blueprint
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  Speaker 2: that God has given that we can thrive in the
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  Speaker 2: way that He intended. And so more laws, yes, more laws,
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  Speaker 2: since God is giving them than we are not tired
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  Speaker 2: at all. Okay, And so from the Bible Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty two, verse sixteen, straight through to the next chapter,
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  Speaker 2: verse nineteen, we see so many things going on. Number one.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, the rulings that God had given were practical
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  Speaker 2: applications of God's character. Because there's so much we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to go through all of it, but we will
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  Speaker 2: touch a few of them. Number two, God was not
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  Speaker 2: only concerned with right worship, but with right living, just living.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there are times that humans are so heavenly
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  Speaker 2: minded that we are no earthly good. That was not
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  Speaker 2: the way God organized his people. And then these laws
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  Speaker 2: restrained evil, protected the vulnerable. And you'll see that that
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  Speaker 2: keeps coming up, the vulnerable. How do we deal with
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  Speaker 2: the vulnerable, the lame, the main, the blind, the halt,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals that are fatherless, the widows, etc. Protect the
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable and shape a just society that reflects the holiness
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  Speaker 2: of God. There are times that people try to organize
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  Speaker 2: just societies and they try to turn them in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five into sort of a theocratic rule. But then
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  Speaker 2: you see characteristics that are nothing like God. That's not
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about. We're talking about the laws as
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  Speaker 2: God had already given them. Okay, so let's go with
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  Speaker 2: just a few of them. Now we're going to go
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  Speaker 2: with social justice and compassion. I won't go through all
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  Speaker 2: of the passage passages because it's literally just too many.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to get a feel of this how
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  Speaker 2: detailed God is. Okay, sexual responsibility. A man seducing a
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  Speaker 2: virgin must marry her or pay the price that you
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  Speaker 2: would pay when you're marrying a bride. Capital crimes, sorcery, bestiality,
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  Speaker 2: idolatry are condemned and linked to moral and spiritual corruption. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: think about where you live in the world right now.
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  Speaker 2: How is your country or your domicile faring now. Compassion
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  Speaker 2: for the vulnerable, don't mistreat strangers. That's in the Bible
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  Speaker 2: in verse twenty one of Exodus, chapter twenty two. Protect
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  Speaker 2: the widows and orphans verse twenty two. God hears their
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  Speaker 2: cries and will act in judgment in the event that
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  Speaker 2: they are God forbid harmed. How about fair lending in
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty five, no interest to be charged on the poor.
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  Speaker 2: Even borrowed garments must be returned by the night time.
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  Speaker 2: Then comes respect for God and leaders. Blasphemy and disrespect
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  Speaker 2: of authority forbidden. That's chapter that's verse twenty eight, and
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  Speaker 2: then comes legal integrity and mercy. Don't pervert justice. Truth
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  Speaker 2: must be maintained. The poor are not to be favored
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  Speaker 2: or oppressed, So impartial rule and then aid even our
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  Speaker 2: enemies help, even if a person is your enemy. Radical
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  Speaker 2: ethical compassion is what we're talking about. Then comes fair trial, protectives, protectives, protection,
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  Speaker 2: avoid bribes. How is your country faring right now? Don't
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  Speaker 2: oppress foreigners again, you know, the heart of a stranger,
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  Speaker 2: because God's people were strangers at some point. And then
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  Speaker 2: comes the Sabbath and the land there was a sabbatical year,
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  Speaker 2: a sabbath year every seventh year. The land rests, the
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  Speaker 2: poor and the animals benefit. This is a social justice sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: And then comes, of course, the weekly Sabbath of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy ten Commandments, which we've already covered. And then there
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  Speaker 2: are festivals and worship, and I think I'll just go
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  Speaker 2: past those. I'll pass those because we can learn from them,
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  Speaker 2: but not very relevant today except in principle. And so
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  Speaker 2: from a theological perspective, God's laws reflect his holiness, his
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  Speaker 2: justice and compassion. So for people who are averse to laws,
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  Speaker 2: who are reverse to rule and structure, then that means
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  Speaker 2: they're reverse God forbid to God because he's very, very structured.
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  Speaker 2: He governs every single sphere. That means literally everything in
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  Speaker 2: our lives, moral, legal, economic, agricultural, I said agricultural, can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine? And spiritual?
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  Speaker 1: Was? It?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely had nothing to do with legalism but covenental transformation.
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  Speaker 2: Then in our everyday application, as we slow down just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, here injustice begins when we forget our
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  Speaker 2: shared suffering and God's mercy. See, a lot of times
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  Speaker 2: people behave in the way that we do. Laws are
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  Speaker 2: not adjudicated appropriately because the humans that are attached to
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  Speaker 2: all of this forget what we've been through. We forget
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  Speaker 2: when we have had need. We forget when people who
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  Speaker 2: are close to us went through trials and tribulations and
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  Speaker 2: did not get the mercy or the appropriate justice that
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  Speaker 2: they deserved. And so forgetting our own humanity puts us
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  Speaker 2: in a position to be unmerciful, to be unjust, to
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  Speaker 2: be disrespectful, you see. And so God's people today must
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  Speaker 2: still protect the vulnerable. Look around in your own communities.
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  Speaker 2: Are there people in your own household, people in your
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  Speaker 2: church or religious communities that are vulnerable that cannot do
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  Speaker 2: for themselves? I said, cannot not won't that cannot do
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  Speaker 2: for themselves? Practice honest dealings and structure worship around remembering
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  Speaker 2: God's grace, how good God has been to us, And
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  Speaker 2: then having received that by faith, we are driven to
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  Speaker 2: go out into the world and be that way toward
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  Speaker 2: other people. And then of course Sabbath, rest, etc. Should
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  Speaker 2: lead us back to God, worship, generosity and equity. How
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  Speaker 2: is it in your society now, in the country you live,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you're domiciled. How we doing? If we were to
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  Speaker 2: create a quiz or a checklist to say how well
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  Speaker 2: am I doing? Where I am? Well, let me just
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  Speaker 2: say this. Some people say they're not into religion, but
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  Speaker 2: the Bible does say in James chapter one and verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, that there is a pure religion that is undefiled,
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  Speaker 2: that is to visit the fatherless and the widows in
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  Speaker 2: their trouble, and to keep ourselves unspotted from worldly evil practices.
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  Speaker 2: More laws, yes, more laws, but they are good lands
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  Speaker 2: for joining people listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,