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03 18 2025 God Loves 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: 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 Tuesday, March eighteen,
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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. We are in Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number twelve and our caption for today is God Loves Justice.
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  Speaker 2: God Loves Justice. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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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 serve you and to do your will. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you now to please please fill us with
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  Speaker 2: your holy spirit, give us your mindset and teach us
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  Speaker 2: how to be after your own image and likeness in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Now I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you the title or the caption again,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm going to add something to it, and I
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  Speaker 2: need your word that you will not switch off the
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  Speaker 2: broadcast in the middle of me sharing this. Okay, Please
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  Speaker 2: do not switch off the broadcast in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: me saying this, okay, God loves justice so much that
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  Speaker 2: he calls us God's I'm gonna say it again. Do
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  Speaker 2: not switch off the broadcast. This is write in the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: God loves justice so much that he calls us God's.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is lowercase G for those who use Englis language,
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  Speaker 2: and that God's concept is delegated authority, delegated authority from
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  Speaker 2: God or by God, but not deity. So please do
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  Speaker 2: not misunderstand or misquote me. God loves justice so much
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  Speaker 2: that he calls us gods. That's delegated authority, but not deity.
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  Speaker 2: He's not making us equal with himself, but he is
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  Speaker 2: saying that he loves justice and some other things so
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  Speaker 2: much that he also delegates the authority that he would
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  Speaker 2: call us God's. Okay. In the Book of Psalms, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Psalms, chapter eighty two, and you would
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  Speaker 2: have heard Jesus talk about this too. But in Psalms
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  Speaker 2: chapter eighty two, the Bible reads, God standeth in the
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  Speaker 2: congregation of the Mighty, He judgeth among the gods. Now
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  Speaker 2: let me go to another version. God stands in the
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  Speaker 2: assembly of l in the midst of the gods, he
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  Speaker 2: renders judgment. How long he says, will you make unjust
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  Speaker 2: legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? Let me
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  Speaker 2: read it again verse two, how long will ye judge unjustly?
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  Speaker 1: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Gods? Gods lowercase and in Hebrew elohem? Now, Elohem is
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  Speaker 2: not always the creator. Okay, it's not always the Creator,
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  Speaker 2: but it does reference the creator. Elohem is not the
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  Speaker 2: Creator's name, not like Yahweh blessed be his name. But
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  Speaker 2: it does reference the Creator. But it also references lowercase
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  Speaker 2: g gods, judges, even false gods. But let me say,
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  Speaker 2: in this passage Elohem, it represents judges or magistrates or
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  Speaker 2: representatives God's sovereignty. Okay, These gods lowercase g Elohim in
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  Speaker 2: this case represent maybe judges, definitely like magistrates, representatives of
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  Speaker 2: God's sovereignty. Now let me read this straight through without stopping.
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  Speaker 2: God standeth in the congregation of the Mighty, He judgeth
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  Speaker 2: among the gods. Verse two, he says, how long will
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  Speaker 2: you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked?
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  Speaker 2: Defend the cause of the poor, you gods, huh, and
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  Speaker 2: the fatherless vindicate the oppressed and suffering. You gods, rescue
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  Speaker 2: the poor and the needy, deliver them from the power
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  Speaker 2: of the wicked. They never know or understand. They stumble
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  Speaker 2: around in the dark while all the foundations of the
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  Speaker 2: earth crumble. I thought, you are gods, all of you
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  Speaker 2: are sons of the Most High. Yet you die like mortals.
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  Speaker 2: You will fall like all the other rulers. Rise up,
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  Speaker 2: O God, meaning the one of Heaven, execute judgment on
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  Speaker 2: the earth, for you own all the nations. And so
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  Speaker 2: God is not speaking to the idols that people erect.
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  Speaker 2: He's talking about the human beings that he has seen,
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  Speaker 2: who are judges and magistrates, representatives of God's sovereign will,
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  Speaker 2: who have the power and influence to deliver the broken hearted,
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  Speaker 2: to defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless,
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  Speaker 2: to vindicate the oppressed and the suffering, to rescue the
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  Speaker 2: poor and the needy, those who are able to deliver
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  Speaker 2: them from the power of the wicked. He is judging
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  Speaker 2: those gods, those judges, those magistrates, those supreme court justices.
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  Speaker 2: He is judging those who do not do this according
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  Speaker 2: to his will, because they are to represent the most High. God.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name, And so God is showing us
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  Speaker 2: his concerns against unjust leadership. He condemns corrupt judgment. He
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  Speaker 2: rebukes favoritism toward the wicked. Do we not see in
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  Speaker 2: the news, brothers and sisters, favoritism toward the wicked. He
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  Speaker 2: holds authorities accountable for what vulnerable people, the poor, the lame,
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  Speaker 2: the main, the blind, the fatherless, the afflicted, the needy,
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  Speaker 2: the oppressed. And his expectations of these gods is that
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  Speaker 2: they would defend the helpless, execute justice, rescue the oppressed,
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  Speaker 2: deliver them from wickedness. This is God's expectation of you,
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  Speaker 2: dear brother. Are you with judge, a magistrate? Are you
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  Speaker 2: someone in authority? Are you someone who in this case
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  Speaker 2: would represent God to be able to do these things
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  Speaker 2: that he is calling the gods to do in Psalm
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  Speaker 2: chapter eighty two. I know some people it's jarring for
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  Speaker 2: me to use the term, but it's right in the text.
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  Speaker 2: It's right in the text, and it's in Hebrew as well,
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  Speaker 2: like for those who love to study ancient languages. And
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  Speaker 2: so the responsibility for all people, but especially those with
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  Speaker 2: these levels of authority or influence, is to actively defend
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  Speaker 2: the vulnerable, fight against systematic injustice, use your influence for good,
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  Speaker 2: stand against corruption. God's standards are not negotiable. M He
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  Speaker 2: gives us the position so that we will be responsible.
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  Speaker 2: All authority is accountable to God. Earthly power is temporary.
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  Speaker 2: Notice I said in the beginning that this is delegated authority,
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  Speaker 2: This is not deity. God is not bringing us up
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  Speaker 2: to the level of who he is, but we are
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  Speaker 2: to cooperate with him in Our response should be to
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  Speaker 2: recognize our human accountability, to work for justice in our
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  Speaker 2: sphere of influence, support the oppressed, and then trust God's
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  Speaker 2: ultimate judgment. Okay, and if you want more on that,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was actually chiding the people of his day the
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  Speaker 2: same way in John chapter ten, and he references here
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  Speaker 2: the same space in the Book of Psalms chapter eighty two.
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  Speaker 2: So what are you gonna do? God loves justice so
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  Speaker 2: much that he delegates authority to humans to represent him. Peace.
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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,