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02 09 2024 We Want Justice?! · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Friday, February nine, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is we want justice? We want justice?
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  Or do we It's really a question is it a statement? Is it
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  a question? We'll get into that in just a moment, but first i'd
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  like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go ahead over to
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  Also, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and join our online community.
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  That is one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and
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  Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for the privilege that
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  we have to open up your word again, and thank you for this time
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  of preparation. Please give us your mindset while we prepare for connection with you.
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  In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a man again. We
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  want justice now. The fact is that justice and righteousness are synonymous in the
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  Bible. And I say that again, Justice and righteousness are the same in
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  the Bible. And that means that if we're seeking justice, we're actually seeking
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  holiness. Holiness in our behaviors, our holiness in our mindset, holiness in
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  our activities on a daily basis, holiness in the systems that we have set
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  up in our civic society. Well, maybe maybe we might get a little
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  bit in trouble here if we look at it in that way. But really,
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  really equity is equity. If somebody is in a court system or proceeding
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  then It needs to be fair. Right. If someone is in a situation
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  where someone needs to pay for a service or a product, then it needs
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  to be fair how they are charged, how those products of services are delivered.
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  If we want justice, then really and truly we want equity. We
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  want holiness, You want education for a certain set of people, it needs
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  to be equal across the board. If you have access us, I have
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  access. If I have access, you have access the things that we need
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  on a daily basis, food, water, clothing, shelter. It needs
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  to be to where it is not unfairly slanted one way or the other.
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  We want justice, but the fact is, where our spirituality is concerned,
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  we want justice and mercy because yeah, we have sinned and come short of
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  the glory of God. And what we need is for God to make us
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  holy and to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all on righteousness,
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  so that when we are in judgment we are covered in the righteousness of
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  Jesus Christ. And then justice and mercy can come together and do something special
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  and miraculous for people who yield our will to him. I think I said
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  enough right there, Let's go ahead and jump into the lesson for today.
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  And this is one that often people forget if you're a person who follows Sabbath,
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  school and churches and so forth, people just kind of skip over and
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  gloss over the Friday. And I'm thinking, why there's so much truth here,
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  And so let me go ahead and begin with the Book of Psalms.
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  That's the Book of Psalms, chapter fifty eight, and I will read beginning
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  at verse ten, or actually I'll just read verse ten this time. And
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  the Bible reads the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance. He shall
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  wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. And that sounds harsh.
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  That sounds harsh. But wait a minute, no, wait a minute,
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  no, nothing's wrong with that. What we need is to cultivate a heart
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  for justice and fairness. There are people out here oppressing people. We don't
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  need to lay down for that and make it seem as if that's not a
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  big deal. Like we need to stand up and fight for justice, whatever
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  it takes, as long as we do not defile our characters, we stand
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  up for justice and righteousness. We actively seek to understand and address the issues
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  of injustice in our actual communities. This is not theoretical brothers and sisters,
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  and people say, oh, oh, but we're living on planet Earth and
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  Jesus is coming soon, and you don't want to get caught up into Okay,
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  right, What if with Martin Luther King Junior in the United States of
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  America did not get into that because he was a man of the cloth,
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  if you want to say, like a preacher, what if he didn't get
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  himself involved? You see? And so there is a way to do it
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  when we seek God's face and then he will give us direction. Let me
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  not get too caught up into that one. Let's move to the next one.
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  From the Book of Matthew, chapter five and verse eleven, Blessed are
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  ye when men or people shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say
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  all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. And of course the
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  thought continues in verse twelve. We'll pause right there. What we need to
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  develop when we are dealing with this society where justice seems difficult to find at
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  times, is to develop a resilience in the face of persecution. Inside of
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  the quote faith, outside of the faith. In fact, Jesus is referencing
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  people who were supposed to be holy that are reviling you and saying all manner
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  of evil against you falsely for his sake. Yeah, rejoice, he said,
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  and be exceeding glad for greatest your reward in heaven. For so persecuted
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  they the prophets which were before you. You Like, how, Dave,
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  how did you have what would make you think that these are people who are
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  supposed to be people of God? Because the people who persecuted prophets were like
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  supposed to be people of God. Yeah, okay, let's continue. Hah.
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  So the practical step in this regard is when facing ridicule or opposition for
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  what you believe and hold true, focus on staying strong to your faith in
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  God. Use these experiences as opportunities to deepen your trust in God. Trouble
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  won't last always, brothers and sisters. So let's go to the book of
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  Psalms. And I know we're running, but you can always rewind this.
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  If you're under radio, then go to your Daily Portion dot com and then
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  you can click the button to whatever platform you like the most and come back
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  to today, rewind it, and you're good to go. Okay. So
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  in Psalms, chapter one hundred and forty six and verse three, the Bible
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  reads, put not your trust in princes nor in the son of Man,
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  in whom there is no help. Yeah, so what we need is spiritual
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  wisdom because human wisdom just won't make it. It just won't make it.
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  The best philosophers fail. May I say that again. And it's not that
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  there's nothing that you can glean. But what I'm saying is if you're trying
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  to if you're trying to solve the problem with poverty, you're trying to resolve
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  the problem with different diseases like HIV AIDS, Like if you're trying to resolve
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  the problem with obesity, you're trying to resolve the problem with education gaps in
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  certain cities and states and countries. Yeah, you need wisdom that is beyond
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  human wisdom. And so what we need is before taking action on issues,
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  we need to pray for guidance and discernment there are things that we cannot see
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  with our natural eyes, and then seek God's wisdom first rather than relying solely
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  on human ideas and strategies. So you see the cooperation there. We seek
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  God first, and then we expect that He will teach us how to deal
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  with the thing that is right in front of us on planet Earth. Okay,
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  let's go to Psalms, chapter twenty seven and verse fourteen. Wait on
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  the Lord, the Bible says, be of good courage, and he shall
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  strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. Yeah. Practice
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  patience and trust God's timing in times of waiting our uncertainty. Practice patience and
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  remind yourself. Tell yourself self. God is still working. He is faithful,
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  He has been faithful in the past, and he will continue to be
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  faithful until Jesus comes. We want justice. Well you be the judge.
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  Wonderful day, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,