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03 24 2025 The Law Is Holy and Righteous and Good · 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: 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: March twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in the final week of our Lesson study series God's
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  Speaker 2: Love and Justice, and our caption for today is the
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  Speaker 2: Law is Holy and right and good. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you for this new workweek. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for loving us so much that you have given us
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  Speaker 2: your only begotten. Please help us to stop blaming you,
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  Speaker 2: stop blaming you for all of the unholiness and making
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  Speaker 2: it seem as if what you have done is not perfect.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say something very clearly here. It is
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  Speaker 2: not God's fault that humans. Excuse me, that humans have
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  Speaker 2: chosen to sin and come short of the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: It's not God's fault. It's not God's fault that when
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  Speaker 2: Jesus has given all that he can possibly give all
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  Speaker 2: of heaven, God, our Father, has given us in one gift,
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  Speaker 2: and that Jesus is also resurrected with all power in
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  Speaker 2: his hands, and he is able, willing, and available to
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  Speaker 2: transform our lives. That some people choose not to be transformed,
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  Speaker 2: it's not God's fault, and we do not need to
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  Speaker 2: even attempt to throw away the standard of righteousness which
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  Speaker 2: is manifest in the Ten Commandments law. Just because people
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  Speaker 2: keep falling, people keep jumping into sin, just because people
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  Speaker 2: keep bungling our relationship and breaking our covenant, doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that there's something wrong with God's law. That is not
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  Speaker 2: the problem. The problem is that some humans just choose
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  Speaker 2: not to submit to God's will. Because if we do
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  Speaker 2: submit to God's will, then he will transform us. He
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  Speaker 2: has written his laws in our hearts and in our
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  Speaker 2: minds so that he can keep his promise that if
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  Speaker 2: we love him, he will promise to keep his commandments
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  Speaker 2: through our lives. He will live his life within us
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  Speaker 2: like the hymn writer would have penned. He will abide
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  Speaker 2: in us, and his word will abide in us. And
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  Speaker 2: then we can ask what we will and it shall
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  Speaker 2: be done. Unto us. I'm thankful, and I'm thankful. In
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  Speaker 2: Romans chapter six, as we continue our discussion here, beginning
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  Speaker 2: at verse one, the Bible reads, well, watch shall we say,
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  Speaker 2: then shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
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  Speaker 2: Because there is this incredible, beautiful argument about how we're
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  Speaker 2: sin a Brown's grace Dutch doth much more abound. So
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  Speaker 2: if sin is on number ten, then God has grace
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  Speaker 2: on number twenty. I'm just making up that number so
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  Speaker 2: you can see this visually, you see. So your ability
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  Speaker 2: to sin is not more powerful than God's ability to save.
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  Speaker 2: But again again we do have to submit and say, Okay, God,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in your care. Please do whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: you need to do in order to transform me. So
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  Speaker 2: what shall we say in order to make God look good?
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  Speaker 2: What shall we say in order to point at the
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  Speaker 2: fact that He is incredible and grace is incredible? Should
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  Speaker 2: we continue to sin? God forbid? The Bible says, how
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  Speaker 2: shall we that are dead to sin live any longer?
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  Speaker 2: Theref know ye not that so many of us as
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  Speaker 2: were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death.
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  Speaker 2: And so in the same way that Jesus miraculously gave
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  Speaker 2: his life. For us, we, by means of miracle, can
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  Speaker 2: die to sin in the same way that Jesus miraculously
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  Speaker 2: raised himself from the dead. He said, I laid down
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  Speaker 2: my life that I may take it again. I have
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  Speaker 2: this commandment of my Father in the same way that miraculously,
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  Speaker 2: now Jesus has risen, thank God, and he is ministering
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  Speaker 2: in the heavenly sanctuary. In the same way that that
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  Speaker 2: is the reality. We can be raised from our spiritually
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  Speaker 2: dead state and be powerful to do whatever God asks
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  Speaker 2: for us to do. You see, and so and so,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, know ye not that so many of us,
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  Speaker 2: as we're baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the Bible continues with the resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: In Romance chapter seven, beginning at verse seven, the Bible reads, well,
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  Speaker 2: what shall we say, then, is the law sin God forbid? Nay,
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  Speaker 2: I had not known sin, but by the law, for
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  Speaker 2: I had not known lust, except the law says thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt not covet, But sin taking occasion by the commandment,
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  Speaker 2: wrought in me a manner of concupiscence. For without the law,
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  Speaker 2: sin was dead. Let me read that verse eight again
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  Speaker 2: in another translation. But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment,
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  Speaker 2: produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. That's what
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  Speaker 2: sin does. Like sin is it likes to overtake our
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  Speaker 2: minds and make us think about stuff that we don't
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  Speaker 2: really need to be thinking about in and desiring to
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  Speaker 2: do stuff that is contrary to God's to God's word.
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  Speaker 2: And so it says here that this is what's happening,
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  Speaker 2: for apart from the law, sin is dead. And so really,
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  Speaker 2: people will think that they're doing fine if they murder somebody,
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  Speaker 2: if there's no law against murder, people will think everything
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  Speaker 2: is fine. If there is about about trafficking people and
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  Speaker 2: illicit drugs, if there's no law against it, they'll think
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  Speaker 2: it's quite fine. But the Bible is saying that the
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  Speaker 2: law is making very clear what God's standard is, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so it says here in verse nine. And I
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  Speaker 2: was once alive apart from the law, so ignorantly I
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  Speaker 2: thought I was good to go ah. But with the
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  Speaker 2: coming of the commandment, Sin became alive. It's like, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, you mean I have been on the wrong
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  Speaker 2: side of this thing all this time? Verse ten. And
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  Speaker 2: then I died for so, so I found that the
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  Speaker 2: very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: God was showing us. He's showing us this is the way,
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  Speaker 2: walk in it. You've been walking that way. So now
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  Speaker 2: that this mirror is in front of you, are you
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  Speaker 2: going to forget immediately what manner of person you are?
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to say? God? Now I'm looking in
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  Speaker 2: this mirror, and I'm not seeing your character. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: in this mirror. I'm not seeing how you live. I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking in this mirror. I'm seeing the opposite of you
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  Speaker 2: in this mirror. Can you please transform me? When the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says for sins, seizing the opportunity through the commandment
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  Speaker 2: deceived me, and though and through it I died. So
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  Speaker 2: when the law it is holy and the commandment is
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  Speaker 2: holy and just, or righteous and good. So here are
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  Speaker 2: a few principles as we come to a swift close.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much that God was teaching here, but I
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  Speaker 2: had to put it down in my notes. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: the law remains, It reveals sin, It is righteous, it
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  Speaker 2: is good. Law is not your problem. That posted speed
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  Speaker 2: limit is not your problem. Number Two, grace doesn't make
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  Speaker 2: the law void, Grace doesn't permit sin. Death to sin
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  Speaker 2: is required because of grace, and the law still guides.
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  Speaker 2: Number three laws Functions continue, shows what sin is, reveals
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  Speaker 2: our need, points to Christ, and guides holy living. The
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  Speaker 2: law's character is unchanged, and new relationship to the law
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  Speaker 2: comes when we surrender our will to God. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day, Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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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.