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08 24 2025 The Code of the Covenant · 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 Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: August twenty four, 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 Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Code of the Covenant,
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  Speaker 2: The Code of the Covenant. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community. And what I almost said yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: but it was Sabbath, I shouldn't have said, is go
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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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, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day and for giving us a code of conduct,
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  Speaker 2: the Code of the Covenant, so that we can we
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  Speaker 2: can see how this word, the ten words who gave
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  Speaker 2: us at Sinai, can need to be spread into our
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  Speaker 2: entire lives, even into the details of how we think,
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  Speaker 2: in what we do, how we relate to people. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, naymen and amn again. The code,
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  Speaker 2: the Code of the Covenant, and so the lesson writer.
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  Speaker 2: The lesson writer used patriarchs and pop prophets, page three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and ten. I'll read just a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: here from that from that book, and it reads the
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  Speaker 2: minds of the people blinded and debased by slavery and heathenism.
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  Speaker 2: So you have to get the picture. The people of
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  Speaker 2: God were so oppressed and so bound. All they knew
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  Speaker 2: was their master's oppression, their master's whip, their master's false gods.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they knew they were. Okay, So the minds
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  Speaker 2: of the people, blinded by and debased by slavery and
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  Speaker 2: heathenism were not prepared to appreciate fully the far reaching
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  Speaker 2: of the far reaching principles of God's ten precepts, that
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  Speaker 2: the obligations of the ten Comes might be more fully
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  Speaker 2: understood and enforced. Additional precepts were given illustrating and applying
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  Speaker 2: the principles of the ten Commandments. Okay, and so I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna pause right here and then and then we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna break this down a little bit. Okay, So you
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  Speaker 2: have the ten Commandments. These guys are locked up and
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  Speaker 2: enslaved and bound to all kinds of wickedness and even
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  Speaker 2: heathen God's food that is not healthful toward them. And
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  Speaker 2: who knows what other demoralizing things happened during that time.
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  Speaker 2: And so what God needed to do was identify a
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  Speaker 2: way so that you could see more how to play
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  Speaker 2: this out in life. And so these laws they provided equity. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they provided equity. I know that's a dirty word in
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  Speaker 2: some people's countries right now. Equity he he he showed
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  Speaker 2: us through those laws equity protection, human dignity, especially for
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  Speaker 2: the vulnerable, equity protection and human dignity, especially for the vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: The goal wasn't just like punishment or retribution for evil doing.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't the goal. I understand that when people see laws,
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  Speaker 2: they are looking at in their own minds, because the
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  Speaker 2: judge that rises up in unhealthy minds and gets entertained
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  Speaker 2: there in our minds, they're seeing a way to be
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  Speaker 2: penalized or punitive, like God being the angry God that
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  Speaker 2: they portrayed in these in these terrible things in the past,
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  Speaker 2: like a way where he's a tyrant and he's looking
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  Speaker 2: lightning bolts, like people are looking for lightning bolts to
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  Speaker 2: hit them if they God forbid do something that is
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  Speaker 2: contrary to God's will. That's not really what it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was restorative, just compassion, the moral order
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  Speaker 2: in the people of God's society. Okay, so let's break
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  Speaker 2: this code down a little bit here. The code of
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  Speaker 2: the Covenant. Number one, slavery. It wasn't permanent. Freedom was
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  Speaker 2: granted after six years. So the slavery that you would
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  Speaker 2: see in the people of God's lives back then is
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  Speaker 2: not the one that you would see in the transatlantic
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  Speaker 2: slave trade. I don't have time to deal with that,
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  Speaker 2: but anyway it was. Freedom was to be granted after
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  Speaker 2: six years verse two of Exodus chapter twenty one. Voluntary
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  Speaker 2: extension was allowed with a legal ritual. You'll find the
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  Speaker 2: verses we're looking at Exodus chapter twenty one Versus one
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  Speaker 2: through eleven. And then there were protections for women, especially
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  Speaker 2: in polygamous relationships or situations. Too much to cover. It's
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  Speaker 2: too much to cover as the world turns. It's too
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  Speaker 2: much to cover. But just go to the text and
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  Speaker 2: pray over it and study. We can't do it all here.
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  Speaker 2: And then there was a moral principle. God's people were
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  Speaker 2: once slaves in Egypt. Now they must not abuse others.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when you were slaved, I delivered you. You remember
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  Speaker 2: how bad it was. Don't do that. And then comes
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  Speaker 2: this idea of homicide and how God is like, no,
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  Speaker 2: do not do that, do not murder. Premeditated murder was
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  Speaker 2: punishable by death. That's the way that he wrote it.
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  Speaker 2: Unintentional killing. There was a provision of asylum. God differentiates
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  Speaker 2: intent and accident, introducing early concepts of degrees of guilt.
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  Speaker 2: So sometimes people are trying to figure out like, where
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  Speaker 2: do the nations get their way of codifying the different
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  Speaker 2: levels or measures or degrees of these things as they
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  Speaker 2: are doing sentencing or whatever it is during a trial.
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  Speaker 2: After a trial, well a lot of it is coming
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  Speaker 2: straight out of the scriptures. If it's done well, and
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  Speaker 2: then comes bodily injuries, restitution based justice in what way
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  Speaker 2: the offender pays or restores the loss. God gave guidelines
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  Speaker 2: for all of this slave protections. Harming a slave triggered
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  Speaker 2: a release, so that transatlantic style where all of that
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  Speaker 2: wickedness happened. If this were according to the code of
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  Speaker 2: Covenant and conduct, the moment there there were harmed, they
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to be released, then comes proportional consequences I
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  Speaker 2: for an eye, not revenge, but legal parity. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're in a self defense situation, let me just use
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  Speaker 2: that as an example. If someone is coming to you
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  Speaker 2: with a certain kind of force, then the com mensor
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  Speaker 2: it force needs to be used. Don't go overboard. It's
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  Speaker 2: not I for a whole arm, it's not I for
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  Speaker 2: a whole body. Right, and retribution was completely out of
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  Speaker 2: the question. So if somebody's coming into your home, as
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  Speaker 2: an example, and they are coming with violence. Then if
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  Speaker 2: you have to match that force with force, you deal
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  Speaker 2: with that. They're leaving your premises, they're almost out of there.
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  Speaker 2: You don't chase them down, and then you fear where
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  Speaker 2: I'm going, Like, you don't go to somebody's house six
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  Speaker 2: weeks later or a month later or twenty minutes later
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  Speaker 2: to go find the culprit, drag them out and do
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  Speaker 2: anything to them, because that is vengeance, that's retribution. It
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  Speaker 2: is not I for an eye. And then comes animal
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  Speaker 2: control laws. Owners are held accountable for their animals that
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  Speaker 2: injure others. That came straight out of the Bible. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's a lot, it's a lot. It's a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but it's truth, okay, And so basically let's apply it.
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  Speaker 2: Because I have so much more in my notes, we
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  Speaker 2: won't use tia. We are called to live with integrity,
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  Speaker 2: that's the bottom line, and justice and compassion. Even in
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  Speaker 2: these complex situations that some of you got a headache
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  Speaker 2: listening to me talk about this morning, we should and
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  Speaker 2: must advocate for systems that reflect God's justice protecting the vulnerable,
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  Speaker 2: and then leadership, parenting, and even employment should reflect the
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  Speaker 2: character of God's law in fairness, mercy and love. God
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  Speaker 2: gave us codes of covenant, codes of conduct for every
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  Speaker 2: situation principally that matters, and all we need to do
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  Speaker 2: is go into the scriptures, pray over it, and apply
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  Speaker 2: it by God's grace, having submitted to him peace.
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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,