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02 14 2025 Sin is No Joke · 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, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, February fourteen,
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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 Sin is no Joke. I just say that again,
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  Speaker 2: Sin is no joke. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Bother and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day, this time of preparation. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: the times in which we live are serious times. Sin
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  Speaker 2: is no joke. Help us not to play around with it.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again is
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  Speaker 2: no joke. We talked about that in a way on
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday when we were talking about how God condemned sin
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  Speaker 2: in the flesh through Christ in the sanctuary. We see
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  Speaker 2: the concept of Jesus being our substitute. And even though
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  Speaker 2: he never sinned, Bible says, the one who knew no
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  Speaker 2: sin became sin for us so that we can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: And so with that we know that God doesn't play
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  Speaker 2: around with sin. If God would execute job judgment almost
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  Speaker 2: a justice. If God would execute judgment on Christ because
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  Speaker 2: he's representing us and he becomes sin. If he would
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  Speaker 2: do that with Christ, how would it be for those
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  Speaker 2: who don't repent, those who don't repent and have actually
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  Speaker 2: committed the sins? You see, where are we going with this?
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  Speaker 2: So God is not playing games with sin. He has
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  Speaker 2: done all that can be done, pardon me, in order
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  Speaker 2: to save us from our sins. Okay. And so I'm
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  Speaker 2: reading now from the book the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at page forty two, and it reads, even when
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  Speaker 2: he was cast out of heaven in finite wisdom, did
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  Speaker 2: not destroy Satan. And I know that's a plot twist
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  Speaker 2: for some people. Really that's right, okay. Since only the
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  Speaker 2: service of love can be accepted or acceptable to God,
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  Speaker 2: the allegiance of his creatures must rest upon a conviction
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  Speaker 2: of His justice and benevolence. The inhabitants of heaven and
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  Speaker 2: of the worlds, being unprepared to comprehend the nature or
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  Speaker 2: consequences of sin, could not then and have seen the
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  Speaker 2: justice of God in the destruction of Satan. Ooh, this
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  Speaker 2: is getting good. Had he been immediately blotted out of existence,
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  Speaker 2: some would have served God from fear rather than from love.
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  Speaker 2: The influence of the deceiver would not have been fully destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: nor would the spirit of rebellion have been utterly eradicated
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  Speaker 2: for the good of the entire universe through ceaseless ages.
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  Speaker 2: He must more fully develop his principles, that his charges
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  Speaker 2: against the Divine government might be seen in their true
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  Speaker 2: light by all created beings, and that the justice and
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  Speaker 2: mercy of God and the immutability of his law might
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  Speaker 2: forever be placed beyond all question. And on and on
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  Speaker 2: and on this quote continues. You see, there are times
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  Speaker 2: that there are things we just don't understand. Remember we
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  Speaker 2: started out our week talking about that there are some
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  Speaker 2: things we just literally don't understand. And while that is
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  Speaker 2: being worked out, God does some special things, not so
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  Speaker 2: that we, you know, get an answer to every little
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  Speaker 2: detail or question that we have. But when the true
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  Speaker 2: nature of sin was not yet revealed, God needed it
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  Speaker 2: to run its course so that without question, by the
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  Speaker 2: time Jesus was crucified on the cross, without question, now
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  Speaker 2: everybody who has eyes can see that the devil is
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  Speaker 2: not for our goods. Sin is no joke. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I want to do is apply this in relationships,
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  Speaker 2: this concept okay, and we're using the win approach again.
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  Speaker 2: We are in page one one, one hundred and sixteen
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  Speaker 2: in our companion Guy that you can get at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com and the w What's important? Now,
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  Speaker 2: sin also affects how we interact with others. Can you
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth? Like have you ever had an interaction
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  Speaker 2: with another human being and you wonder what went wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Like what in the world I was communicating clearly and
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  Speaker 2: this person mistook what I said? And now it becomes
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  Speaker 2: a relationship challenge. Right, So sin also affects how we
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  Speaker 2: interact with others. Being honest and seeking reconciliation is essential
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  Speaker 2: to building healthy, loving relationships that reflect God's character. You know.
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  Speaker 2: In the Lord's Prayer, it says Jesus was speaking, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
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  Speaker 2: That is a principle that comes out of the heart
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  Speaker 2: of God. Because He has freely given us forgiveness. Now
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  Speaker 2: we have the privilege to freely give that to others.
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  Speaker 2: He freely mended our relationship with him. Of course we
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  Speaker 2: needed to cooperate, but he has also given us the
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  Speaker 2: ministry of reconciliation. Okay, and so the eye to internalize
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  Speaker 2: this insight. Consider a relationship that may be strained because
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  Speaker 2: of unresolved issues or unspoken resentments. Recognize how sin can
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  Speaker 2: create barriers and lead to misunderstandings and distance. Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever been in a situation where somebody you were close
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  Speaker 2: to just stop talking to you, or if they didn't
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  Speaker 2: stop talking to you, there was a coldness between you.
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  Speaker 2: There was a coldness between you, and you just don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to resolve it. Well, the Bible gives clear
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  Speaker 2: guidance in Matthew chapter eighteen about one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we resolve these conflicts, going to the person one
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  Speaker 2: on one to resolve conflicts. And then of course it
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  Speaker 2: gives us, it gives us the pathway beyond that. And
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  Speaker 2: so God is giving us the privilege to model what
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  Speaker 2: he did exactly. He resolved the distance problem by sending
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ as the bridge between humanity and divinity, between
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  Speaker 2: divinity and humanity. And then, of course end next best
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  Speaker 2: move this week, now, of course we're at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the week, take a step toward reconciliation, whether through
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  Speaker 2: an apology, forgiveness or simply reaching out. Make an effort
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  Speaker 2: to restore broken connections and reflect God's grace in your relationships.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's difficult. There was one relationship I
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  Speaker 2: had that I just it was so hard because it
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  Speaker 2: was with my estranged father and it was difficult. But
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  Speaker 2: I did my best when I became an adult, even
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  Speaker 2: though we had separation from my age thirteen until I'm
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  Speaker 2: already married. But I believe what the Bible says, and
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  Speaker 2: I did my best. He's now deceased, but that is
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  Speaker 2: what I believe, just like you, Okay. And so God
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  Speaker 2: has given us the privilege not to play around with sin,
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  Speaker 2: not to take on the devil's mindset where relationships or
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  Speaker 2: our businesses, our experience with God, or our personal development
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  Speaker 2: are concerned. And because He loves us so much, he
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  Speaker 2: revealed the devil's character so we can know that God
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  Speaker 2: actually does love us.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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,