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02 05 2024 Justice for the Oppressed · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Monday, February five, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson Studies series through the Book
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  of Psalms, and our caption for today is justice for the oh Pressed,
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  Justice for the Oppressed. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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  are in the world because this is a way that we continue to build faith
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  and fellowship at your daily portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Bother and Heaven. Thank you for giving
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  us this new opportunity to open your word. And I'm asking you to please
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  give us your holy spirit teach us how to love you and to serve you.
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  I pray that you will give us the mindset of Jesus Christ and to
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  let the captives set the captives free, and to relieve the oppressed and help
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  the poor and needy. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen
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  again justice for the oppressed. So we're going to begin in our discussion by
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  thinking through something, spiritually thinking through some things, and then we will move
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  to action. Okay. And so we begin by reading the passages from the
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  lesson Study, beginning at Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter nine,
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  and I will read verse eighteen the Book of Psalms, chapter nine, and
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  I will read verse eighteen, and the Bible reads for the needy shall not
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  always be forgotten. The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. Okay.
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  So we have a good starting point let's continue verse five of Psalms chapter
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  twelve, and the Bible reads for the oppression of the poor, for the
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  sighing of the needy. Now will I arise, Okay, seth the Lord.
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  I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. Okay.
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  Let me jump in here and say that God is still awake, slumbers,
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  He never sleeps. He knows the plight of those who are needy and
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  oppressed. Okay, Verse seventeen of Psalm chapter forty. We're going somewhere,
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  but I am poor and needy. Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou
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  art my help and my deliverer. Make no tarrying, Oh my God.
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  So there are times that God's people are poor and needy. There are times
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  that we are oppressed. There are times that we see the wickedness of those
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  who are oppressing us, and we wonder where is our God. But the
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  Psalmist in this regard is saying that even though I'm poor, I'm needy.
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  Right, if I were among those who are poor and needy and know that
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  the Lord thinks on me, he knows that God is his deliverer, make
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  no tarrying, Oh my God. So he's asking God to please get to
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  his case. We'll get to it in a moment. Come on verse seven
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  of Psalms, chapter one hundred and thirteen. Please pardon me. He raiseth
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  up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the
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  dunghill. And you're like, okay, so this is a common threat.
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  There are poor, there are needy. God has made promises to these people.
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  And many of these poor and needy are God's people or something. Well,
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  let's see. Let's see what Jesus said from the Book of Luke chapter
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  four, beginning at verse sixteen, and the Bible reads, And he came
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  unto Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as his custom was,
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  he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up four to
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  read. Now he is about to tell us about his ministry. And there
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  was delivered unto him a book of the prophet Essayus. And when he had
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  opened the book, he found the place where it was written. The spirit
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  of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to do what
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  the gospel to the poor. So that has something to do with the deliverance.
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  Yes, Ah, he had set me to heal the broken hearted,
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  to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,
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  to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of
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  the Lord. And then he closed the book. He gave it again unto
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  the minister, and sat down, and the eyes of them all were in
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  the synagogue, were fastened upon him, and he began to say unto them,
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  this day is the scripture fulfilled in your ears. And so many of
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  the times, if I continue through all of the passages that the lesson writer
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  prescribes, many of the times we missed the point. We see that Jesus
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  took action. We see that in his humanity he took action. So in
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  the Psalms, we see that God needs to thunder from heaven, from beyond
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  the clouds and the stuff, and to begin to deliver the oppressed and the
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  captives, to give food to the hungry and the needy. You see.
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  And then we see Jesus acting in his humanity as an agent of change,
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  an agent of God our Father. So what does that say about me today?
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  We see all of these promises for deliverance. What does that say for
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  me today? Well, now it's time for some action. Okay. So
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  in the Book of James, Chapter one and verse twenty seven, I hope
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  you are seeing yourself in these passages. Now the Bible reads pure religion.
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  Some of you call yourselves being in a religion, and all of us are
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  many of us do and undefiled be for God and the Father. Is this?
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  So there is a kind of religion that is pure and undefiled, not
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  just calling yourself to be a part of a denomination. But the kind of
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  religion that is pure and undefiled. Is this to visit the fatherless' that's action,
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  and the widows in their affliction, that is action. And to keep
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  himself unspotted from the world. And so what God is saying to us is
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  that we need to actually be compassionate. There are a set of people,
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  There are categories of people that God has given us the privilege to reach out
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  to. In this passage, do we see We see the fatherless, the
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  widows, and those who are afflicted. And God says that, oh,
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  while you are living in this way, be unspotted from the world, live
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  holy lives, and pure religion will be the outcome. So actively seek opportunities
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  to help and support the vulnerable, including the fatherless and the widows and those
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  in distress. This involves more than just acknowledging their plight. It calls for
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  tangible actions to alleviate their suffering. And So, if you're one of those
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  people who are wagging your fingers at God and saying, God, you promise
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  to deliver the poor and needy, why are there still so many? You
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  promise that you would deliver the captives and the fatherless, and to deal kindly
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  with the widows. Why do we have so many of them? Then,
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  really, and truly it's easy. Just go ahead and pick up a mirror.
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  Pick up a mirror. We know that God does things miraculously, But
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  pick up a mirror, brothers and sisters, and ask what have you done?
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  Whatever you see in that mirror, when you put it up before your
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  face, ask yourselves, what have you done? In order to fulfill the
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  promise that God has placed in his words so many times, because He expects
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  us to act in the same way that Jesus did. Of course, there
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  is another one in the Book of Proverbs, chapter thirty one. As we
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  come to a swift close, beginning at verse eight, open thy mouth for
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  those who cannot speak and the cause of those as appointed to destruction. Open
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  thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and the
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  needy. So we are to be advocates for justice and fair treatment for those
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  who have less means, be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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  And of course this includes advocating for the rights of the vulnerable and oppress
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  and working toward fair treatment for them. And of course we know that we
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  need to be generous. Bible says that if we will give to the poor,
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  we are lending to God. So justice for the oppressed, give us
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  justice. Yeah, well, we need to advocate for that same justice.
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,