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08 22 2025 Reverence for God’s 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: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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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, of morning, Good morning, it is Friday. It
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  Speaker 2: is August twenty two, 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 Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Reverence for God's Law.
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  Speaker 2: Reverence for God's Law. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, thank you for this Friday,
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  Speaker 2: this preparation time for special experience with you during the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath hours. Help us to prepare during these hours like
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  Speaker 2: we are preparing for the coming of the Lord. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again reverence for
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  Speaker 2: the law of God. Okay. So we're going to read
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  Speaker 2: from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred and three,
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  Speaker 2: and let's see what else we can accomplish in the
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  Speaker 2: few minutes that we will invest together. Okay, and it
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  Speaker 2: reads God's God purposed to make the occasion of speaking
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  Speaker 2: his law a scene of awful grandeur. Wow. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say that again. God purposed to make the occasion
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  Speaker 2: of speaking his law a scene of awful grandeur. I
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  Speaker 2: should say awful grandeur. In keeping with his exalted character.
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  Speaker 2: The people were to be impressed that everything connected with
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  Speaker 2: the service of God must be regarded with the greatest reverence.
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  Speaker 2: WHOA A lot happened when God spoke those ten words
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  Speaker 2: from Mount Horeb. There was a lot going on. Let
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  Speaker 2: me just say that the Bible teaches us in Exodus
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  Speaker 2: chapter nineteen, verses nine through twenty five, and then twenty
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  Speaker 2: verses one through twenty one, that he surrounded the giving
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  Speaker 2: of the Ten Commandments was thunder and lightning and smoke
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  Speaker 2: and trumpet blasts. God wasn't being theatrical. He wasn't inviting
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  Speaker 2: you to the next Broadway play. He wasn't taking you.
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  Speaker 2: And since I don't go to the movie theater cinema,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the latest technology is where the
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  Speaker 2: screen and the sound and maybe even the rumble up
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  Speaker 2: under the floor or under your seat or in the walls. Like,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't staging anything like that with the trumpet blasts
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  Speaker 2: and the smoke and the lightning and the thunder. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't for theatrics. The people of God needed to be
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  Speaker 2: impressed by the holiness of God through his law. They
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  Speaker 2: need it to be impressed, Like, wait a minute, this
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  Speaker 2: is nothing to shake a stick at, Like this is
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  Speaker 2: nothing to take lightly. So when we say that the
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  Speaker 2: Ten Commandments are holy, it is because God is holy.
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  Speaker 2: It is the transcript of the character of God. And
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  Speaker 2: so when God is speaking of the law He's not
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  Speaker 2: speaking of it in the way that some of us
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  Speaker 2: goofy humans do. I need you to get this. There
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  Speaker 2: are people who will stand up in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days in pull pits all over the world and make
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  Speaker 2: it seem as if this does not matter. But God
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  Speaker 2: didn't go through all of that to reveal this for
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  Speaker 2: the first time, at least codified in this way, for
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  Speaker 2: us to just throw it away. In fact, Jesus taught
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  Speaker 2: us in Matthew Chapter five, verses seventeen through twenty. And
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  Speaker 2: I'll just read a couple of the verses. Think not
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  Speaker 2: that I am come to destroy or abolish the law
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  Speaker 2: or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but
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  Speaker 2: to fulfill. For verily, I say unto you, till heaven
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  Speaker 2: and earth pass, not one jot, not one tittle, shall
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  Speaker 2: in any wise pass from the Law. Whoa awful grandeur,
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  Speaker 2: awful grandeur. And so the quote that we use in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of our time together explains that God deliberately
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  Speaker 2: orchestrated the Mount Horeb or Mount Si Nai experience as
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  Speaker 2: one of awful grandeur to elevate the people's sense of reverence.
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  Speaker 2: But the question is why, why did God go through
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  Speaker 2: all of that to show nature is subject to his will,
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  Speaker 2: and now we are a captive audience like, WHOA, what
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  Speaker 2: is going on here? Because the law reflects his character. See,
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  Speaker 2: if we take the law of God lightly, we're taking
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  Speaker 2: God and his character lightly. Let me say it one
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  Speaker 2: more again for the people in the back. If we
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  Speaker 2: take the law of God lightly, then we are indeed
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  Speaker 2: and in fact, taking God and his character lightly. Don't
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  Speaker 2: do that? Like, can I just say that clearly? And
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  Speaker 2: we can really just end the program here, like, don't
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  Speaker 2: do that. Reverence for the law is ultimately reverence for God.
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  Speaker 2: I said reverence for the law, and I don't take
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  Speaker 2: it back. I don't apologize. I'm not going to equivocate.
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  Speaker 2: I won't give you eighteen different ways of explaining this
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  Speaker 2: just to get it. The Holy Ghost is gonna teach
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  Speaker 2: your brain. You're gonna learn today that reverence for the
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  Speaker 2: law is ultimately reverence for God. This is still the
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  Speaker 2: reality today, yes, August twenty two, in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: it is still valid today in an age of casual
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  Speaker 2: worship and moral compromise, God's holiness, Like you realize everybody
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  Speaker 2: can call themselves Christians today, Like everybody creeping compromise ain't
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  Speaker 2: even creeping anymore, Like we're just compromises kicking the door down.
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  Speaker 2: Compromise is allowing the lane, the main, the blind, the halt,
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  Speaker 2: the individuals who have the greatest needs to suffer. And
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  Speaker 2: people claim to be believers who look at this and
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  Speaker 2: allow it. Some are actually the culprits for oppression. So
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  Speaker 2: in this day, it's not even a creeping compromise, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a ridiculous, overt kicking down the door kind of compromise.
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying no, no, no, no. Look at
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  Speaker 2: these ten words. See me as the God who created
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  Speaker 2: you and my character. God's holiness calls us. Here is
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  Speaker 2: a word to sobriety. Mm m. You know the field
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  Speaker 2: sobriety test in some places around the world to see
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  Speaker 2: if you've had too much to drink. Yeah, some people
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  Speaker 2: have had too much to drink of ourselves. Self perception
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  Speaker 2: is getting us drunk, like some people have touch too
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  Speaker 2: much pride and are not sober. Right, there are people
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  Speaker 2: who somehow forget that love for God and love for
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  Speaker 2: humanity is still our privilege through the Holy tank Commandment's
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  Speaker 2: law that He is writing upon our hearts and our
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  Speaker 2: lives if we submit ourselves to him. So God's holiness
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  Speaker 2: calls us to sobriety and all filled obedience. Oh God,
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  Speaker 2: so much to say. Spiritually speaking, we already said that
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  Speaker 2: the closer we get to God's glory. Now we were
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  Speaker 2: saying it. According to us law, we desert our flaws.
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  Speaker 2: We feel a holy yearning to change. We depend upon
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  Speaker 2: Jesus for our righteousness. Love his law not from a
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  Speaker 2: burdensome perspective, but as a path of freedom. David said it.
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  Speaker 2: He said it in Psalm chapter one hundred and nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: verse ninety seven. Oh how I love Thy law. It
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  Speaker 2: is my meditation all the day. He said it in
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  Speaker 2: Psalm chapter nineteen and verse seven. The law of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is perfect, converting the soul. Oh so much more
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  Speaker 2: to say, so much more to say. God's commandments are
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  Speaker 2: not too hard in air quotes, because the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 2: writes them in our hearts and on our minds. So
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  Speaker 2: we can be like Jesus. Like we can be like Jesus.
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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,