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03 19 2025 Called to Establish Justice · 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 Wednesday, March nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 called to Establish Justice. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I like to say
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for the opportunity that you have entrusted to
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  Speaker 2: us to open your word. And I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: please fill us with your holy spirit. Please give us
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  Speaker 2: the power that we need in order to live just
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  Speaker 2: and holy lives. In twenty twenty five, we know that
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  Speaker 2: we are nearing home. We're nearing home, and I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you to prepare us fully today in Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again, called to establish justice. I know
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  Speaker 2: that some of what we have said was jarring to you,
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  Speaker 2: because now you're starting to sense the import the import
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  Speaker 2: of doing God's will where justice is concerned. Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it. To the degree that he even so
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  Speaker 2: identifies with human beings whom he's entrusted power to the magistrate,
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  Speaker 2: the judges, and all these other types of leaders, that
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  Speaker 2: he would call them gods. We know that that was
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  Speaker 2: not an assignment of deity, but it was a heavy responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: So we know that justice really matters to God. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why believers are arguing about this as if
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  Speaker 2: God has not been very clear part of me in
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures where that is concerned. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: read in that vein beginning in verse twenty three of
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twenty three. Matthew Chapter twenty three, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty three. And of course Jesus is now having
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  Speaker 2: a passionate, a passionate discussion. It's a discourse really with
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  Speaker 2: those who should know the most about God, who should
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  Speaker 2: be closest to God, who should be the purveyors of
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  Speaker 2: justice and holiness in the earth. But somehow they lost focus.
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin woe until you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites,
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  Speaker 2: where ye pay tithe of mint and ennis and cumin,
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  Speaker 2: and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy,
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  Speaker 2: and faith. These ought ye to have done, and not
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  Speaker 2: to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain
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  Speaker 2: at a gnat and swallow a camel. And so God
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  Speaker 2: is saying that you are fastidious. You are paying a
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  Speaker 2: lot of attention to details, and somehow the things that
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  Speaker 2: matter most to me, meaning God, you miss it. You
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  Speaker 2: can tithe from your different herbs. Huh, you can see
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  Speaker 2: then in solution, maybe it's water, and you say this
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  Speaker 2: is unclean, and so you find a way to strain
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  Speaker 2: that tiny little net out, and then you end up
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  Speaker 2: having camel stew, which is completely unclean. How do you
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  Speaker 2: miss this? Blind guides, hypocrites, roll one to you, Roll
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  Speaker 2: one to you. Verse twenty five. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
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  Speaker 2: For ye make clean the outside of the cup, of
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  Speaker 2: the platter, and of the platter, but within are full
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  Speaker 2: of extortion and excess. God is saying, listen, let me
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  Speaker 2: come into your lives. God is saying to us, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, he wants to come into our lives and
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  Speaker 2: from the inside out through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to teach us how to live holy lives,
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  Speaker 2: holiness and our relationships, how to love and be kind
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  Speaker 2: and affect at one toward another, because for God, for
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  Speaker 2: Christ's sake, was kind to us. He wants us to
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  Speaker 2: take care of the laying, the main, the blind, the halt,
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  Speaker 2: those who are not able to speak here or any
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  Speaker 2: other thing that is a challenge to the people, to
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  Speaker 2: deliver the oppressed, oppressed, and to set the captives free.
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  Speaker 2: And we're out here arguing about things that barely matter.
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  Speaker 2: They matter, but not to the degree that these things matter.
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  Speaker 2: These are true religion and undefiled before God. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible continues, Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that
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  Speaker 2: which is within the cup and platter, that the outside
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  Speaker 2: of them may be clean. Also, you're worried about your reputation.
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  Speaker 2: You're worried about what happens when it's almost time for
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  Speaker 2: elections inside the church, at local levels and at higher levels,
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  Speaker 2: or I should say, at the organizational level. Scratch what
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  Speaker 2: I said about higher levels. At the organizational or structural levels,
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  Speaker 2: you're concerned about that, but not about extortion or excess.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my, oh my, oh, well, unto you Verse twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Scribes and pharisees hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepulchers,
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  Speaker 2: which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of
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  Speaker 2: dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. Even so ye
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  Speaker 2: also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are
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  Speaker 2: full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Whoa unto you, scribes and
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  Speaker 2: pharisees hypocrites, because ye build tombs to the profits and
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  Speaker 2: garnish sepulchers of the righteous. Even in our day we
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  Speaker 2: make tributes to and have programs for, and name entities
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  Speaker 2: based on people that we have revered and may be
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  Speaker 2: rightly so and honor them. And yet in our hearts
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  Speaker 2: there are things that are completely contrary to God's will.
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  Speaker 2: It's a show brothers and sisters, if indeed that is
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  Speaker 2: the case. And the Bible continues verse thirty and say,
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  Speaker 2: if we had been in the days of our fathers,
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  Speaker 2: we would not have been partakers with them in the
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  Speaker 2: blood of the Pharisees. So my, well, what are the
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  Speaker 2: weightier matters? I read a lot of words from the scriptures?
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  Speaker 2: What are the weightier matters? Jesus says judgment and justice
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  Speaker 2: in this context, mercy and faithfulness, justice or judgment that is,
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  Speaker 2: to uphold the true standards of righteousness, not just outward
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  Speaker 2: show ah, which also includes what I just said about
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  Speaker 2: setting the case aptis free et cetera. Mercy and faithfulness,
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  Speaker 2: and so Jesus teaches us that that external compliance is
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  Speaker 2: not enough. I have been struggling for years for the
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  Speaker 2: right words where people actually believe that the people he
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  Speaker 2: was speaking to were actual commandment keepers. No they weren't.
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  Speaker 2: They were legalists. They were externally compliant, but spiritually non compliant. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So internal transformation is primary. True religion affects the heart.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be afraid of the term religion. There is
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  Speaker 2: a godly and true religion the Bible writer teaches about.
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  Speaker 2: And then balance is needed. Do these things without neglecting
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  Speaker 2: other things. And then priorities must be right weightier matters first,
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  Speaker 2: and then the other things that also matter. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so these align with the scriptures in First Samuel, chapter
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  Speaker 2: sixteen and verse seven. For the Lord seeth not as
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  Speaker 2: a man seeth, for he looketh on the outward appearance.
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  Speaker 2: But the Lord looketh upon the heart. When God sees
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  Speaker 2: your heart, what is he seeing, Brothers and sisters, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not asking you to type it in the chat that's
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  Speaker 2: between you and God. When God sees your heart, what
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  Speaker 2: is he seeing? Lord? Help us? And so God has
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  Speaker 2: given us a calling. It is a calling for us
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  Speaker 2: to be just. It is a calling for us to
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  Speaker 2: be merciful. It is a privilege and a calling for
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  Speaker 2: us to be faithful. Do not get your priorities mixed up.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get your priorities mixed up or called to establish justice.
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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,