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03 17 2025 The Two Greatest Sins · 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. It's
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  Speaker 2: March seventeen, 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, God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the two Greatest Sins, the two Greatest Sins.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you for giving us the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: open up your word and to receive the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: your truth. Please help us to listen for your voice
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  Speaker 2: and then do whatever you ask us to do. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again the
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  Speaker 2: two great tests sins, and I know already I can
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  Speaker 2: hear some people in Jamaica Land we love where I live, saying,
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  Speaker 2: but sin, a sin, sin is sin, like people believe
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  Speaker 2: that all sin are all sins are of equal magnitude.
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  Speaker 2: Now let me just begin by saying, there is no
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  Speaker 2: sin that we should be playing around with. God is
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  Speaker 2: not pleased with any sin. It's there's no small what
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't say it that way. There are no sins
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  Speaker 2: that God is just like, oh, that's no big deal
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  Speaker 2: that no every sin would require would require us to
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  Speaker 2: really pay the piper, like when we sin. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says the sin the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus Christ. Even if there were one sin
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  Speaker 2: that Adam committed and one sin only, then Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: if he's going to save us from our sins, would
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  Speaker 2: have gone through the same process to save us. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now there is an impact reality. Not all sin are
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  Speaker 2: of equal magnitude. Why, even in our faulty human systems,
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  Speaker 2: there are different kinds of punishments for different kinds of crimes.
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  Speaker 2: If a sixteen year old steals, God forbid, a candy
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  Speaker 2: bar from the supermarket that values about eighty five cents us,
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  Speaker 2: that child is not going to prison for twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: But some of the heinous acts that we are hearing
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  Speaker 2: in the news these days under indictment, federal indictment for this,
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  Speaker 2: where videos and baby oil and all kinds of other
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  Speaker 2: really creepy stuff is going on, well, of course those
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  Speaker 2: have a much heavier weight. The Bible says it this way,
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  Speaker 2: to whom much is given, much is to be required.
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  Speaker 2: Also that speaks to the reality of our responsibility. And
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  Speaker 2: also he talks about about you know, the penalties a
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  Speaker 2: few stripes versus many stripes, depending on what it is
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  Speaker 2: that an individual is unfortunately guilty of. But Jesus paid
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  Speaker 2: it all. This is the good part. We can recover
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  Speaker 2: from any sin situation. Now, after I've said all of that,
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  Speaker 2: we need to jump into the Bible Book of Psalms.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and thirty five,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse thirteen, the Bible reads, thy name, O Lord,
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  Speaker 2: endureth forever and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.
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  Speaker 2: For the Lord will judge his people, and he will
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  Speaker 2: repent himself concerning his servants. The idols of the Heathen
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  Speaker 2: are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They
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  Speaker 2: have not mouths, but they speak not. They have mouths,
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  Speaker 2: but they speak not. Eyes they have, but they see not.
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  Speaker 2: They have ears, but they hear not. Neither is there
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  Speaker 2: any breath in their mouths. They that make them are
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  Speaker 2: like unto them. So is everyone that trusteth in them.
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  Speaker 2: Bless the Lord, oh House of Israel. Bless the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: oh House of Aaron. And so we see here We
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  Speaker 2: see here that this passage reveals the key points about idolatry.
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  Speaker 2: Here are some of them. The contrast between the living
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  Speaker 2: God and dead idols. And when we say dead, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking not talking about something that lived and then died. No,
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  Speaker 2: this is a fabrication, just like you can. You can
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  Speaker 2: make a battery pack so you can charge your cell phone,
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  Speaker 2: like you can create a watch. You understand. And so
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  Speaker 2: these are things that humans engineered and then worshiped, like
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  Speaker 2: the golden calf in back in the Book of Exodus
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  Speaker 2: number two, the futility of human made objects of worship.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you worship something you create? Why would I
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  Speaker 2: worship something thing that I put together, something that I
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  Speaker 2: have mastered, create, I build something. I build a car
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  Speaker 2: and then worship the car. Does that make sense? That
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  Speaker 2: means that there is no responsibility. That means that there
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  Speaker 2: is no understanding that is greater than my own human understanding.
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  Speaker 2: And we see what mess I make up things as
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  Speaker 2: a human sometimes, and so that is futile. Then there
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  Speaker 2: is the transformation principle. We become like what we worship.
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  Speaker 2: You want to worship your bank account, then that's what
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  Speaker 2: you want? Will bank accounts come and go? That's what humans?
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  Speaker 1: Do?
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  Speaker 2: You want to worship an actual statue? Well, statues get destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: they deteriorate. Is that what you desire for yourself? And
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  Speaker 2: I hope your answer is absolutely not. And so there
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  Speaker 2: is a warning that idolators become spiritually lifeless. Just like
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  Speaker 2: their idols. And then finally, finally, the enduring relevant of
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  Speaker 2: God versus the temporary nature of idols. Here today, gone today,
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  Speaker 2: here today, gone tomorrow. A new paradigm comes in and
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  Speaker 2: then we're not worshiping this idol, We're worshiping that idol. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, there's some people maybe listening or watching and saying,
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  Speaker 2: come on, Dave, we don't worship idols anymore, give me
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  Speaker 2: a break. Well, a lot of people do. But there
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  Speaker 2: are other kinds of idols that maybe the people thinking
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  Speaker 2: this actually do worship. Sometimes people worship material possessions. This
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  Speaker 2: is why our social media feeds look the way that
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  Speaker 2: they do. Sometimes people are showing off their stuff so
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  Speaker 2: others will start to revere them or somehow hold them
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  Speaker 2: in a higher esteem, or they can feel like they
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  Speaker 2: have been keeping up with the Joneses. You understand. Then
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  Speaker 2: there is status. There is power. Much of the wickedness
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  Speaker 2: that we see in the news is about a power grab.
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  Speaker 2: People are flexing their power muscles and subjugating people through money,
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  Speaker 2: through influence, through what they can do in a particular
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  Speaker 2: industry or field. And if you bow and scuffle or
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  Speaker 2: you do something that is unmentionable. Then they wield power
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  Speaker 2: and hold it over you in order to promise you success.
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  Speaker 2: Then there is self reliance, there is technology, there is
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  Speaker 2: our career, there is pleasure. Like people worship all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things. But God is saying that we have the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of worshiping Him. We have the privilege of staying
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  Speaker 2: connected with Him in right relationship, so that we don't
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  Speaker 2: need to worship anything else. You see, when the children
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  Speaker 2: of Israel were waiting for Moses to come down from
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  Speaker 2: the top of Horeb or Mount Sinai as some people
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  Speaker 2: would say, he was up there having communion with God.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting as close to God as you can get
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  Speaker 2: as a human being. He's up in the cloud now
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  Speaker 2: God receiving the Ten Commandments. He's receiving the blueprint for
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  Speaker 2: what we now know as the sanctuary or the Sacerdotal system,
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  Speaker 2: the system of sacrifices in the Old Testament, which was
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  Speaker 2: really a way to help us understand how salvation works
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  Speaker 2: through Christ and his people. God's people are at the
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  Speaker 2: base of the mountain, saying, we don't know where Moses is. Aaron,
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  Speaker 2: build us a golden cast so we can worship what
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  Speaker 2: so in the moments sometimes where it seems that God
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  Speaker 2: is not available, do we turn to our things, or
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  Speaker 2: some paradigm or some other idol and worship it. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: that is a great sin and we need to repent.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,