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01 19 2024 The Incomparable GOD · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Friday, January nineteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption on this preparation day morning is the incomparable God,
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  the incomparable God. And what I'm hoping this morning that you will do with
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  me is worship God in a special way. I need you to worship God,
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  Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, because he is unlike any
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  other being in the universe, we'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to just say welcome to you and again a great,
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  big, happy preparation day. And I'm asking you to please go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com pick up our uh your Daily Portion book. Also,
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  I need you to join the online community at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  and Heaven, thank you for this new day and for the privilege that you
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  have entrusted to us to serve you. Please teach us your incomparability and then
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  make us true worshipers. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  again, the incomparable God, the incomparable God. First, I'm going to
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  read from the book Steps to Christ. And if I have not shared this
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  with you, it has been my favorite book since about nineteen ninety three,
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  besides the Bible, and I have a few favorites, but the Steps to
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  Christ's book is top number one favorite. And then some books by E.
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  M. Bounds, the one on Prayer, the one that's called on Prayer.
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  It's the thicker one. Okay, Anyway, I digress. The quote
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  reads, thus dustlie, the more we study the divine character in the light
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  of the cross, the more we see mercy, tenderness, and forgiveness blended
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  with equity and justice. And the more clearly we desern innumerable evidences of a
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  love that is infinite and a tender pity sir passing a mother's yearning sympathy for
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  her wayward child. Cannot read that one more time? Please. The more
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  we study the divine character, so we are connecting with God. We are
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  saying, who is God? Like? Who is God? To us?
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  Who is God in the universe? To the creation of universe and the earth
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  that we now inhabit? Who is He? The more we study the divine
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  character in the light of the cross, Oh, wait a minute, and
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  what has God done for us? Jesus in John chapter three and verse sixteen
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  is seen as God's gift to us. For God soul loved the world that
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  he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish
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  but have everlasting life. Okay, okay. In light of the cross,
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  the more we see mercy. Because God could have destroyed us, we earned
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  it. The Bible says, the soul that sinneth it shall die but we
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  see that we earn we could not earn the favor that God has given to
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  us. Mercy said, no, you will not die, but you will
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  live as long as you would submit yourself to God. So the more we
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  see mercy and tenderness and forgiveness blended with equity and justice. God doesn't change
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  his laws. He does not say, okay, well, these rules don't
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  apply to you. No, the Holy Ten Commandments law are applicable to every
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  being in the universe, every being on planet Earth. Because, by the
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  way, the Decalogue or the Ten Commandments, is a transcript of God's character.
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  I know some of you may be thinking, oh, do the angels
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  keep the Sabbath? Like? We're not getting into that kind of a discussion
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  today. I just need you to understand, as a principle, love for
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  God and in our cases, love for humanity are manifest in the Holy Ten
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  Commandments law. And therefore therefore the forgiveness that we receive comes because we need
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  it, because we have broken the covenant with God by breaking the Ten Commandments
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  law. So he doesn't turn us back on his law. He can't turn
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  his back on his character, you understand. But he has made provision through
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  what through mercy? We read that through tenderness and forgiveness, continuing the quote,
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  and the more clearly we discern the innumerable evidences of a love that is
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  in finite and a tender pity surpassing a mother's yearning sympathy for her wayward child.
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  So we are God's and that's the end of the quote, wayward children.
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  We are his wayward children until we surrender our wills to God. And
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  by the way, while He is pitying us and is of tender mercy,
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  it is far more surpassing that we see and experience when mothers who love us
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  have yearned over us. My mom prayed for me for so long until I
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  gave myself a way to God, the incomparable God. So what we're gonna
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  do now is read a couple of passages in the time that we have left.
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  First from the Book of Psalms, chapter eighty six, and I'll read
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  verses five through eight, and then verse fifteen. And the Bible reads,
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  for thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all
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  that call upon thee Are you calling upon God's name? And when I say
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  calling upon God's name. This is a relationship. This is a position of
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  submission, calling upon his name. Are you accepting the character that is his
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  name into your life? Hmm? Okay. Verse six, Give ear,
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  o Lord, unto my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications.
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  In the day of my trouble, I will call upon THEE, for
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  thou wilt answer me. Among the gods lowercase G, there is none like
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  unto THEE, O Lord, Neither are there any works like unto thy works.
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  People worship all kinds of things, all kinds of beasts, all kinds
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  of images, all kinds of false gods who are actually people who have elevated
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  themselves or been elevated by other people. The Bible is teaching us, with
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  the Psalmist speaking about the incomparability of God, that there is none like THEE
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  neither are there any works like unto thy works Verse fifteen. But thou,
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  O Lord, art God full of compassion and gracious, long suffering, and
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  plenteous in mercy and truth. Is there an echo in here? I think
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  I have heard this somewhere. Wait a minute, I think God manifest himself
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  in as much of a way that Moses could handle, as God protected him
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  from God's effulgent brightness and his incomparable holiness. This is what God did.
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  And the Bible reads in thirty fourth Division of Exodus, verses six and seven.
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  And the Lord passed before him, meaning Moses, and proclaimed, who
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  is proclaiming God himself, the Lord, the Lord, God, merciful and
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  gracious. This is what God is saying about himself. He is manifesting his
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  character for Moses and then for us to study and learn for ourselves, long
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  suffering and abundant in goodness and truth. Do not believe what they're typing in
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  social media about God unless it aligns with this. Do not believe what people
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  are saying on YouTube about God and his church and his people unless it aligns
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  with this. Keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity. Ooh, that's the kind
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  of That is the kind of infraction. When we know God is the judge,
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  we know God is watching and could not care less, and we do
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  evil forgiving iniquity and transgression, that's a different kind of sin, hah,
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  and sin, and that by no means will clear the guilty. We've talked
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  about justice and mercy meeting a moment ago, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
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  upon the children and upon the children's children unto the third and fourth, fourth
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  generation. You know what, I'm happy about that. He also said that
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  he shows mercy to thousands who love him and keep his commandments. God is
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  incomparable. Worship him. It's a wonderful thing to do. Thanks for joining
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  us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,