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08 23 2025 Living the Law · 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 2: Vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, it is Sabbath. It's
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  Speaker 2: August twenty three, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of
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  Speaker 2: exit Us, and our caption for today is living the Law.
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  Speaker 2: Living the Law. Yes, we're talking about the ten Commandments.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get nervous now, come on, we already started to
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  Speaker 2: teach why this is possible. Yes, living the Law. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I like to say Happy Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: do that today. Scratch that. At the appropriate time, you'll
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  Speaker 2: get what you see on the screen there. But let
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, Father, thank you for the Sabbath hours
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  Speaker 2: that you have given into our care, that you have
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  Speaker 2: made for us to connect with you in a new
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  Speaker 2: and a special and intimate way. Please teach us to
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  Speaker 2: yield ourselves to you in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Living the law, Yes you can. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into the details of that.
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  Speaker 2: You just go back a day or two and listen
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  Speaker 2: to and watch our program so that we can just
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  Speaker 2: fearlessly and actively submit ourselves to God so He can
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  Speaker 2: actually live his law through our lives. Okay, so we're
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  Speaker 2: just doubling down on that. Let's go ahead and begin
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  Speaker 2: reading here in the Book of Exodus, chapter twenty, Versus
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  Speaker 2: twenty two and twenty three. The Book of Exodus, chapter twenty,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to read verses twenty two and twenty three
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible reads, and the Lord said, unto Moses,
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  Speaker 2: Thus shalt thou say to my children, the children of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: Ye shall ye have seen that I have talked with
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  Speaker 2: you from heaven. Remember God position the people of God
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  Speaker 2: to see that inter that ominous, incredible interaction between God
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  Speaker 2: and Moses. Directly, The Bible says he spoke to him
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  Speaker 2: mouth to mouth. I think it says mouth to mouth
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  Speaker 2: like intimately, very closely. Now, God is condescending while he's
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  Speaker 2: elevating Moses. He's still condescending in a sense, so that
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  Speaker 2: Moses could stand the awe and grandeur of God. And
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  Speaker 2: God speaks to Moses not just to make Moses feel
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  Speaker 2: like he's some kind of elite creature who is able
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  Speaker 2: to say, yes, I had that experience with God and
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  Speaker 2: know you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: For the benefit of all the people of God, even
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  Speaker 2: down into our own generation, God, let him be the
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  Speaker 2: case study of what happens when we yield and we
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  Speaker 2: are able to hear from God. The Bible continues, Ye
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  Speaker 2: shall not, the Bible says, ye shall not. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say it one more time. Ye shall not make unto
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  Speaker 2: me Gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you
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  Speaker 2: gods of gold. Wow. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so let's put a little history behind this Mount Sinai.
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  Speaker 2: This experience was part of God's covenantal relation to his
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  Speaker 2: people as they were being formed into a nation. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: He's delivered them from from Egyptian captivity. In any nation,
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  Speaker 2: who who who enslaves somebody takes away their God that's
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  Speaker 2: their goal, takes away their identity, takes away their food
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  Speaker 2: and gives them inferior food that'll just take them down
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to destruction, takes away even their spouses, like
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  Speaker 2: separates families in a way that keeps your legacy from
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  Speaker 2: growing in the way that God had intended. And so
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  Speaker 2: that was no different. I think somebody just heard what
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  Speaker 2: I was saying, is if it's Februar in the monthly calendar.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm saying, this is what happened to the
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  Speaker 2: people of God. And so now God is forming them
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  Speaker 2: into a nation, a holy nation, a royal priesthood. You
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  Speaker 2: see where I'm going with this. And so this verse
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  Speaker 2: comes immediately after the giving of the Ten Commandments, showing
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  Speaker 2: the seriousness of being not only connected to God, but
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  Speaker 2: having fidelity toward God, to the one True and Living God,
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  Speaker 2: blessed be his name. And so we read a quote
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  Speaker 2: from let's call it Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and three and three hundred four. God designed that the
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  Speaker 2: principles of his Holy Law should not be merely written
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  Speaker 2: on the tablets of stone, but engraven upon the hearts
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  Speaker 2: and minds of his people. That has always been the goal.
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  Speaker 2: It's always been the goal, okay, And so in everyday life,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at it this way. Living the law today
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  Speaker 2: still means, because yeah, there are going to be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people preaching sermons at some point in the
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  Speaker 2: very near future somewhere around the world that say, like
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  Speaker 2: that was yesterday's news. God's not concerned about the law,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, wow, if God was going to change
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  Speaker 2: his law, then Jesus need not to have died. If
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  Speaker 2: God could have changed his Holy Law, then Jesus need
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  Speaker 2: not to have come. So that don't even make no sense.
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  Speaker 2: So living the law today still means worshiping God alone,
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  Speaker 2: no idols of success, no graven images obviously, and statues
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  Speaker 2: and relics and all this other stuff. No idols of wealth,
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  Speaker 2: no idols wiz of influence, no idols of self, no pride,
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  Speaker 2: We worship God alone. And then also it still means
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  Speaker 2: forming a community set apart by the values of justice
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  Speaker 2: and mercy and humility, as according to Michael, chapter six
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  Speaker 2: and verse eight. And then finally, living the law today
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  Speaker 2: is it still means obeying God or not even trying
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  Speaker 2: to attempt, not even attempting to obey God as a
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  Speaker 2: way to get into his good graces. That don't work,
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  Speaker 2: And that's not the spirit of God. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: to earn God's favor. But it's because we have God's favor. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: people who love God have the favor of God. In
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  Speaker 2: order to keep the commandments, the cart and the horse
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  Speaker 2: have to have the right priority. The only way that
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  Speaker 2: a human being and can can have no other gods
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  Speaker 2: before God as if is if we already love God.
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  Speaker 2: The only way that a human being cannot covet anything
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  Speaker 2: our neighbor's wife, our neighbor's stuff, our neighbor's husband, God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: Like the only way that that's possible is if we
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  Speaker 2: love God. Because there's no fear in love. Like pull,
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  Speaker 2: perfect love casts out fear, fear, hath torment. God God
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  Speaker 2: perfects us to the point that we can stand boldly
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  Speaker 2: in the day of judgment, where the law of liberty
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  Speaker 2: really is the standard of that judgment. Right and so
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm thankful that God has given us the
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  Speaker 2: law the power of love, so that we can love
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  Speaker 2: Him and we can love other human beings. And so
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  Speaker 2: there are so many ways that we can look at this,
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  Speaker 2: but let's just let's just do a quick summary because
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  Speaker 2: we're running out of time, okay, and so living the Gods,
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  Speaker 2: the God's living, the law of God, the thee is.
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  Speaker 2: The law is not what some people have said, just
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  Speaker 2: the prescription of rules, its relationship, its relational guidance based
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  Speaker 2: on God's character. It's the revelation of his character in
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  Speaker 2: codified form. God's intent was to make a people distinct
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  Speaker 2: and holy and guess what else, protected and blessed. How
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  Speaker 2: do we apply this? God's law shapes our hearts, our families,
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  Speaker 2: our cultures, not just our conduct. Ooh, somebody just got it. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: bless you and keep you today, make it a great day. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with EL David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,