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09 21 2025 The Sabbath of the Lord · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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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 Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: September twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our final week in our lesson study series, Exodus
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  Speaker 2: exod Us, and our caption for today is the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. The Sabbath of the Lord. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first i'd like
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us the privilege of experiencing You
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  Speaker 2: and experiencing your word and your truth as we study
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about the Sabbath, when not a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot today, help us to get the truth that is
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  Speaker 2: in Christ. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  Speaker 2: again the Sabbath of the Lord. Now, let me just
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and read from Exodus chapter thirty five. Exodus
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty five, and I will read verses one through three,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads. Then Moses gathered all the congregation
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  Speaker 2: of the children of Israel together and said to them,
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  Speaker 2: these are the words which the Lord has commanded you
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  Speaker 2: to do Verse two, work shall be done for six days.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where we get the five day work week,
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  Speaker 2: and I do understand where the four day one came from,
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  Speaker 2: because that's a business principle. Yes, shout to the authors
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  Speaker 2: who came up with that concept. But in reality, in reality,
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  Speaker 2: God has given us six days for our normal, servile labor,
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  Speaker 2: our normal work to be done. But that's a conjunction,
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  Speaker 2: means it negates. So for six days you're free to work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm empowering you to work. I'm empowering you to do
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  Speaker 2: those mundane things that may change the world in fact
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  Speaker 2: and indeed, but they are of a non holy or
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  Speaker 2: secular nature. We're I'm talking about evil. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: things that are just normal, everyday things. Do that for
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  Speaker 2: six days. Do all your buying and selling. Do that
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  Speaker 2: during the six days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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  Speaker 2: But the seventh day shall be a holy day for you,
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  Speaker 2: a sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any
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  Speaker 2: work I preempted myself that means servile labor on it.
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  Speaker 2: Look that up shall be put to death. You shall
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  Speaker 2: kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath. And
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  Speaker 2: so we're not going to drill that passage to the
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  Speaker 2: extreme detail except to say that God had made himself
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  Speaker 2: clear multiple times throughout history. Eve, I'm talking about up
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  Speaker 2: until this point that the holy seventh Day Sabbath was
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  Speaker 2: was key to good relationship with God. And of course
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  Speaker 2: subsequent to that time he made the point even more.
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  Speaker 2: But in Exodus chapter sixteen, before God ever gave tables
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  Speaker 2: of Stone, God showed his people the Sabbath that we see.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that in just a moment way
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  Speaker 2: back in Eden, okay. And so don't let anybody confuse
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  Speaker 2: your mind by making it seem as if the Seventh
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  Speaker 2: Day Sabbath was given to a certain set of people
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  Speaker 2: that we now call Jews. No, it's not only for
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  Speaker 2: the Jews. It's also for all of humanity, just like
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden part of me.
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  Speaker 2: And so we read now in that God in vein
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  Speaker 2: from Genesis chapter two and verse three, and the Lord
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  Speaker 2: God and God blessed the seventh Day. So it's a blessing,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a curse. It's not a burden to be
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  Speaker 2: hung around your neck and throw you into the sea.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an albatross. Ah, the Sabbath was blessed by God.
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  Speaker 2: Are you blessed in highly favored?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Are you blessed in highly favored? I can think of
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  Speaker 2: a couple of musical spiritual artists who sing songs about
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  Speaker 2: this blessing. If you're blessed in highly favored, then you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to see yourself as a burden. So why
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  Speaker 2: would people see the seventh day Sabbath that God gave
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  Speaker 2: and blessed as a burden, and then the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: and sanctified it. That means it is set apart for
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  Speaker 2: a holy use. No other day was set aside for
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  Speaker 2: a holy use. We worship God Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully you worship God all day and at different points
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  Speaker 2: of the day like Enoch walked with God. Hopefully you
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  Speaker 2: bow your head and your heart and surrender your will
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  Speaker 2: to God all day, every single day of those six
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  Speaker 2: and you worship God with your lifestyle. You are as
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  Speaker 2: lights in this wicked and perverse generation. But on the
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  Speaker 2: seventh Day, which in America and many parts of the
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  Speaker 2: world it's called Saturday whatever, it's called the seventh one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that one is holy. It is set aside for a
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  Speaker 2: holy use because that in it God had rested from
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  Speaker 2: all his work which he created and made so before
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  Speaker 2: there was ever sin on planet Earth, before anyone had
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  Speaker 2: ever sinned on planet Earth. The Bible says that God
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  Speaker 2: gave us this blessing. He gave us this time that
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  Speaker 2: is set aside for holy use, and he is showing
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  Speaker 2: that he rested on the seventh day Sabbath to give
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  Speaker 2: you the example. And of course later on we see
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  Speaker 2: that it is a sign between us and God that
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  Speaker 2: he's the one that sanctifies us. It's the sign. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Sabbath is God's memorial of his creative power,
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  Speaker 2: memorialized it set it apart at the beginning of human history.
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  Speaker 2: For here's that big word, a L L all people.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter every kindred, race, tongue, tribe, people, milu.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how you distinguish the different people on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, even though we are all of one blood.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. Yeah, but the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is teaching us that God is given this blessing to
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  Speaker 2: all of us to enjoy. Every single week, and then
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  Speaker 2: we go to verse two. Let me read it one
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  Speaker 2: more time. Six days shall work to be done. But
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  Speaker 2: on the seventh day there shall be to you a
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  Speaker 2: holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whosoever
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  Speaker 2: doeth work therein shall be put to death. That's what
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  Speaker 2: he said at that time. And so the Sabbath and
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  Speaker 2: the sanctuary share the same focus we're talking about in
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament. We know that the Old Testament sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: is not something that we experience today in that sense,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a teaching tool for us. God dwelling with
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  Speaker 2: his people and inviting his people into rest, he said,
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  Speaker 2: have them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell
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  Speaker 2: among them. The sabbath time is a special dwelling because
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  Speaker 2: God has special blessings and power and healing comes during
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  Speaker 2: the sabbath hours. It is lawful, yes, to do good
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  Speaker 2: on the Sabbath. He is, in fact and indeed the
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  Speaker 2: Lord of the Sabbath day. And so it's never to
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  Speaker 2: be a burden, but always to be a blessing to
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  Speaker 2: humanity and glorify God. And so use the sabbath to
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  Speaker 2: draw near to God in a special way without the
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  Speaker 2: distractions of the normal work week, setting aside all distractions
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  Speaker 2: so that you can experience his presence more fully. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I actually set I wish I thought about saying this
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  Speaker 2: before now, but I actually set on my iOS device,
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  Speaker 2: my iPhone a Sabbath, a Sabbath focus so that certain
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  Speaker 2: things don't come to my phone during the Sabbath hours,
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  Speaker 2: so I can be more focused. And of course, finally, finally,
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath affirms God's role, his role as creator, redeemer,
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  Speaker 2: and judge. Let the Sabbath shape your worldview, remembering creation,
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  Speaker 2: resting in salvation, and preparing for the Kingdom to come.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. 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,