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02 01 2025 God’s Love of Justice · 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: 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, February one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series, God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is God's Love of Justice. I know it sounds confused. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is similar to the theme. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but it's God's Love of Justice. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us your love and being just.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for finding a way for mercy and justice
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  Speaker 2: to come together so that we can live and you,
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  Speaker 2: at the same time can continue to be holy. I
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  Speaker 2: pray that we will not take you for granted anymore,
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  Speaker 2: that we will love you with everything we are and
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  Speaker 2: do your will. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again God's love of justice. Do you love justice?
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  Speaker 2: Do you love justice? And I don't mean what some
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  Speaker 2: people call justice, Like sometimes people talk about justice, but
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  Speaker 2: really they just want what they want and anything else
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  Speaker 2: is in justice. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about righteousness from God's perspective. He realized that in the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: every almost every instance where God is referencing justice. From
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  Speaker 2: his perspective, it's about righteousness, it's about holiness. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time. So God's love of justice, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads here in Jeremiah, chapter nine and verse twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: But let him who glories glory in this that he
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  Speaker 2: understands and knows me that I am the Lord exercising
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  Speaker 2: loving kindness. God is loving and he's kind both and
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  Speaker 2: at the same time judgment and righteousness. That's the same
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  Speaker 2: as justice in the earth. For in these I delight,
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  Speaker 2: says the Lord. You see, God loves to be loving
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  Speaker 2: and kind. He loves to be just and aphalled righteousness
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  Speaker 2: in the earth. You see, there are things that happen
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  Speaker 2: in our society today that are unjust. The way that
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  Speaker 2: the lame, the main, the blind, the halt, the people
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  Speaker 2: who are fatherless, the oppressed, the widows are being treated
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  Speaker 2: in society many times is unjust. There is inequity in
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  Speaker 2: so many of the systems of the world. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I really had the time, but I don't. But God
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  Speaker 2: is saying that he loves to be just and the
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  Speaker 2: justifier of those who him, who are being saved by Him.
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  Speaker 2: To be justice, to hope, uphold righteousness, and to justify
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  Speaker 2: in this case is that God is going to treat you,
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  Speaker 2: dear brother, dear sister as if you had never sinned,
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  Speaker 2: just as if you had never sinned, that is, if
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  Speaker 2: you yield your will to him. And I'm thankful. I'm
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  Speaker 2: thankful because He has given us so many places in
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures to see what his will is where where
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  Speaker 2: justice is concerned. The first one is an Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: one and verse seventeen. Isaiah Chapter one and verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Learn to do well, seek judgment. This is what the
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  Speaker 2: prophet is telling us, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: Relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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  Speaker 2: Did we not just say that? And so what God
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  Speaker 2: wants for us to do to do? Not think about,
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  Speaker 2: not like theorize about it, or or be philosophical about.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that we need to be seeking justice
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  Speaker 2: for the oppressed, Advocate for justice in your community, and
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  Speaker 2: support organizations that fight against oppression and support vulnerable groups.
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  Speaker 2: There are some people who are so quote heavenly minded,
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  Speaker 2: that they are no earthly good. The Bible says, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read it again, learn to do well. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I got that seek judgment, okay, relieve the oppressed, judge
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  Speaker 2: the fatherless, plead for the widow. So there's no question
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  Speaker 2: about what God desires for us. And in Micah chapter
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  Speaker 2: six and verse eight, this one is familiar to most
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  Speaker 2: of you. He hath showed the old man, and I
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  Speaker 2: would say, by extention, O woman, this is all people.
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  Speaker 2: He has showed you, all people, what is good and
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  Speaker 2: what the Lord doth require of thee. To do what justly,
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  Speaker 2: love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God. It says,
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  Speaker 2: to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.
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  Speaker 2: So we are to live a life characterized by fairness.
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  Speaker 2: Are when you are speaking to your children? Are you fair?
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  Speaker 2: When they God forbid, do something that is not holy
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  Speaker 2: or that is against your rules in your home? And
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with rules as long as they're just.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time for that. But when
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  Speaker 2: they do, God forbid? But if they do, are you fair?
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  Speaker 2: And how you treat them? How about mercy? Are you merciful?
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  Speaker 2: Are you humble? Are you embodying the character of God
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  Speaker 2: in personal and professional interactions? And I'm asking myself the
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  Speaker 2: same question. This isn't a quiz for you. I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you the same thing I'm asking myself. And in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten and verse fourteen, the Bible reads, wherefore my
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  Speaker 2: dearly beloved flee from idolatry. So in all of this
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  Speaker 2: pursuit of justice, which is righteousness, remember, and of course
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  Speaker 2: we're thankful for God's mercy, etc. Now we need to
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  Speaker 2: flee from idolatry. We were talking about it yesterday a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Idolatry a little bit yesterday where the people
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  Speaker 2: of God built a golden calf, and they needed mercy
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  Speaker 2: because God should and could have I should say, destroyed
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  Speaker 2: them immediately because they were already breaking the commandments. But
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that basically God showed them mercy they
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  Speaker 2: could have gotten their acts together. Of course, there was judgment.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there were some things that Moses had them
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  Speaker 2: to do because this is the way God wanted it
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  Speaker 2: to be. Yes, that not pleasurable to them. But the
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  Speaker 2: Bible teaches us that God was doing that because those
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  Speaker 2: that God loves, he also rebukes and chastens when the
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  Speaker 2: need should arise. And so we are to flee idolatry,
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  Speaker 2: avoid and denounce modern forms of idolatry such as materialism, oh,
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  Speaker 2: self centeredness, oh, focusing instead on serving God and others.
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  Speaker 2: And then from the Bible Book of Proverbs, chapter fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse thirty one, he that oppresseth the poor reproacheth
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  Speaker 2: his maker, but he that honoreth him hath mercy on
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  Speaker 2: the poor. And I think in the New Testament Jesus
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  Speaker 2: said it this way, like himself speaking. He said, there
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  Speaker 2: are some people out here who need to be visited,
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  Speaker 2: who are locked up. There are some people out here
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  Speaker 2: who have certain needs. And the Bible says, in the
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  Speaker 2: way that you treat these the least of these, my brethren,
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  Speaker 2: this is how you, in fact are treating me. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action really is to engage in charitable activities
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  Speaker 2: that assist the poor and those who are at a disadvantage,
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  Speaker 2: showing God's love in practical ways. Not talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, we need to be about it. Some
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  Speaker 2: of you know that I am obsessed with assisting individuals
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  Speaker 2: who have amputations, and I need to be a billionaire
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  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned to help even more people.
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  Speaker 2: The reality is God's love and justice go together? Does
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  Speaker 2: it go together?
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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,