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08 19 2025 The Gift of the Decalogue · 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: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Tuesday, August nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: two thousand 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 through the Book of Exodus, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Gift of the Decalogue. Almost said dialogue,
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  Speaker 2: the Gift of the Decalogue. Before we get into that,
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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. I'd like to just say, really
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  Speaker 2: really quickly, a great, big, happy birthday to my big
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  Speaker 2: sister Lisa. It is her birthday, and I'm thankful. It's
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  Speaker 2: not my job or my business to say how long
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  Speaker 2: God has had her on planet Earth, but she's my
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  Speaker 2: big sister, and uh yeah, I'm a grown, grown man.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad that God has given you the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of life and for the rest of us to have
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of your presence. Happy birthday, Happy Birthday. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, Father, thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 2: for the privilege of being able to see your law
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  Speaker 2: from your lens and not the lens of humans who
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  Speaker 2: have trivialized your truth. I pray that you will give
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  Speaker 2: us your holy spirit help us to live your truth
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. The
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  Speaker 2: gift of the decalogue tell the truth? Have you ever
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  Speaker 2: seen the Ten Commandments as a gift? Decalogue? That's what
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  Speaker 2: it means. Basically, we're talking about the Ten Commandments. Have
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  Speaker 2: you ever seen them as a gift? Is that your
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  Speaker 2: perspective or is it something else. It's up to you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna drill you on it, but
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  Speaker 2: it is something that we must consider. Yeah. So from
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Exodus chapter twenty, verses one through seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: we see one of the telling of the words. The
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  Speaker 2: words will come back to why I'm saying it that way,
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  Speaker 2: called the Ten Commandments, And of course it's also in
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  Speaker 2: Deuteronomy chapter five. But we're going to just talk about
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  Speaker 2: the different tables. The fire stone, not the bage, not
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  Speaker 2: the brown in those movies that clearly the people did
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  Speaker 2: not study history to know that. It couldn't have been bage.
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  Speaker 2: It couldn't have been brown or gray. It had to
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  Speaker 2: have been sapphire. Yeah, look that upphire stones. It's a
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  Speaker 2: blue hue that in fact, God said that the tassels
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  Speaker 2: that were to be on the bottom or the edge
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  Speaker 2: of the people of God's clothing ribband, they were of
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  Speaker 2: blue to help them remember the law of God. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. So the stone cut out
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  Speaker 2: from the actual throne of God. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. Yes, now we have the Ten Commandments on
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  Speaker 2: two tables. On the first table, we have no other gods.
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  Speaker 2: That's loyalty and worship. We have no idols or images.
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  Speaker 2: That's purity of worship. That is, no misuse of God's
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  Speaker 2: holy Blessed be his name. That represents reverence. And then
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  Speaker 2: remembering the seventh day Sabbath, not replacing it, but remembering
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  Speaker 2: the seventh day Sabbath. This is sacred and sanctified time.
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  Speaker 2: That is the first table. In the second table, of course, wait,
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  Speaker 2: let me say the first table establishes God's authority, his identity,
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  Speaker 2: and our covenant relationship with him. On the second table,
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  Speaker 2: we see the duties toward humanity. Honoring our parents. That's
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  Speaker 2: respecting authority, including our parents. No murder, that's the value
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  Speaker 2: or treasuring of life in the way that God treasures life.
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  Speaker 2: No adultery that's purity of relationships. No stealing that is
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  Speaker 2: respecting of property. No false witness again that is integrity.
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  Speaker 2: And then no coveting that is contentment of heart. These
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  Speaker 2: govern interpersonal relationship, of course, among people, into personal conduct
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  Speaker 2: re rooted in love and justice. Who I said a lot?
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  Speaker 2: I said a lot. But let's continue by reading from
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  Speaker 2: the book Patriarchs and Profits, page three hundred five to
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and nine. I'm cherry picking some of the quote,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads, the law was not spoken at the
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  Speaker 2: time exclusively for the benefit of the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: but for the entire world. It was to be preserved
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  Speaker 2: as a sacred trust. Now, when we use the word trust,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we're talking about our relationship and how we experience
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  Speaker 2: one another. But a trust is also is also a
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  Speaker 2: way to give people resources in the event that we
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  Speaker 2: are no longer here. A trust. This is a sacred trust.
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  Speaker 2: Christ himself gave the law from sini Did you hear
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  Speaker 2: that detail? Christ himself gave the law from Sinai clothed
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  Speaker 2: in the garb of humanity. Not one command has been annulled,
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  Speaker 2: not a jot or tittle has been changed. And so
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  Speaker 2: the writer she is emphasizing the permanence of the law,
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  Speaker 2: the moral function of the law, and its universal authority.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not exempt from this law. But we in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning talked about this law as a gift. Now
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  Speaker 2: we see it as a trust. God has given it
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  Speaker 2: to us in trust. And so the word commandments in
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  Speaker 2: this text actually actually literally means words. These are the
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  Speaker 2: words of the covenant, not burdens of the covenant, not
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  Speaker 2: limitations of the covenre, not legalistic views of God in
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  Speaker 2: a covenant. No, And then, of course law to Rah,
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  Speaker 2: this is instruction or guidance. The decalogue is God's teaching
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  Speaker 2: his guidance. They're not handcuffs, They're not just rules that
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  Speaker 2: we can trifle with. There's so much that God is
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  Speaker 2: accomplishing with us in this law. And so the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that we have in this case is to worship God
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  Speaker 2: with loyalty. Now, somebody is thinking, if you're thinking like me,
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  Speaker 2: well you skip a step day, like, how did you
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  Speaker 2: get right there? How did you get to loyalty? How
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  Speaker 2: did you get to keeping the Ten commandments? How did
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  Speaker 2: you do that? You skip a step day? Well? Really,
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  Speaker 2: really I didn't, because the days before in our study
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  Speaker 2: I already talked about how God delivered the people from captivity.
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  Speaker 2: So before anybody can keep the law of God, God
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  Speaker 2: has to has to deliver us, remove us from the
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  Speaker 2: oppressor's grasp, to deliver us from being bound to sinful mindset.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God first delivers us before he gives us
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  Speaker 2: his law. I already talked to you about how He
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  Speaker 2: made us a peculiar treasure. I already talked to you
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  Speaker 2: about how he raised us up and set us upon
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  Speaker 2: eagle's wings, and drew us to himself. So the relationship
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  Speaker 2: now is already established. I've already spoken to you about
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  Speaker 2: how he heard the groanings of his people, and again
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  Speaker 2: all that I have already said. And so now it
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  Speaker 2: is time for those same people who have experienced all
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  Speaker 2: of this, who are to be in right relationship with God,
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  Speaker 2: to be held responsible. Now it's time for them to
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  Speaker 2: be responsible. It's time for us to be responsible. So
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  Speaker 2: God still expects us to put Him first. No idols,
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  Speaker 2: no divided worship. God still expects us to keep holy
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  Speaker 2: the seventh day Sabbath. He has not changed that. It
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  Speaker 2: remains a sign of trust and dependence and of holiness
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  Speaker 2: between us and God. He still wants us to be honoring.
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  Speaker 2: Family and life and purity and truth and contentment still
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  Speaker 2: matter deeply to God. In twenty twenty five, and it
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  Speaker 2: still begins in the heart. The final commandment of do
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  Speaker 2: not covet reveals that God's law is spiritual Romans, chapter
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  Speaker 2: seven and verse fourteen. It addresses the inner life and
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  Speaker 2: not just our actions. See, God has given us the
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  Speaker 2: gift of Jesus Christ, but He's also given us the
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  Speaker 2: gift of his character.
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  Speaker 1: They's rejoined us. Listen. He always remember we cannot live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  Speaker 1: with El. David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,