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08 21 2025 The Law as God’s Promise for Us · 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: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: August twenty one, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: By name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is the
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  Speaker 2: Law as God's promise for us, and I would say
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  Speaker 2: to us, the Law as God's promise to us. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: very first time. We are hundreds of thousands of people
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  Speaker 2: every single day listening and or watching the Your Daily
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  Speaker 2: and come back again tomorrow. If the Lord spears life,
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  Speaker 2: we will be here. Let's pray, Father, thank you, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this opportunity to get into your word together
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  Speaker 2: and to experience your promises. Help us to believe you
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and amen again the
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  Speaker 2: law as God's promise for us now, it took a
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  Speaker 2: lot of discipline for me not to run ahead yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and we were talking about the different functions or the
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  Speaker 2: uses or purpose of the law and not talk about
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  Speaker 2: this because to me this is paramount. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that we can't really rank it unless we use God's
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  Speaker 2: ranking system, But for me, it's paramount because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are still living with a judgmental mindset. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about for our because all of us, in our brains,
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  Speaker 2: the way that our brains are wired, especially following sin,
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  Speaker 2: not especially with the reality of sin, we have a
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  Speaker 2: judge that always pops up and tells us what we're
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  Speaker 2: doing wrong, tells us that we're not good enough, tells
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  Speaker 2: us that you got whoops, you missed the spot you
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  Speaker 2: feel me like, And so sometimes it's appropriate, but sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's way overboard, and we have to learn how to
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  Speaker 2: activate other aspects of our mindset that on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the coin that says, wait a minute, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, here is the antidote. This is how we
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  Speaker 2: can overcome that judgmentalism that we impose upon our cels
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  Speaker 2: innately almost okay, And so we begin now in the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Romans Chapter three, Versus twenty to twenty
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  Speaker 2: four twenty through twenty four, and the Bible reads, therefore
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  Speaker 2: by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh should
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  Speaker 2: be justified in his sight. That means that we can't
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  Speaker 2: do God's law on our own. First of all, it's
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  Speaker 2: not even possible. So even if you tried, you would
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  Speaker 2: fail if you did it on your own. But okay,
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  Speaker 2: so you try, you can't be justified by getting it
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  Speaker 2: just right, because first of all, you can't do it
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  Speaker 2: just right without him. That's the first problem. But on
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  Speaker 2: top of that, even if it were possible, God wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: give you brownie points or patch you on the back
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  Speaker 2: and say, wow, now you're worthy of eternal life with me. No,
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  Speaker 2: so no one can be seen just as if we
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  Speaker 2: had never sinned by keeping the law. That's the cart
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  Speaker 2: in the horse perspective is out of whack. Okay, For
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  Speaker 2: by the law is the knowledge of sin. We said
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday, so we know what sin is based on
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the law identifies this for us. But
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  Speaker 2: now the righteousness of God without law is manifested, being
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  Speaker 2: witnessed by the law and the prophets. No, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of words Let's keep going, even the righteousness of God,
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  Speaker 2: which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and
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  Speaker 2: upon all them that believe, For there is no difference,
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  Speaker 2: for all have sinned. Let's pause right here. Every human
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  Speaker 2: being who has ever been born of a woman, except
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, has sinned and come short of the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God. God has this high standard perfect obedience one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent of the time. Every human being who has
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  Speaker 2: ever been born, no matter how is it ivf all
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  Speaker 2: have sinned. Is it the natural way between a man
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  Speaker 2: and a woman? The natural way all have sinned? If
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  Speaker 2: anything they invent in the future, if we're here, how
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  Speaker 2: don't know how many years into the future. If Jesus
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  Speaker 2: delays his coming, that individual will come under the same
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  Speaker 2: reality that all have sinned and comes short of the
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  Speaker 2: glory of God, being justified Verse twenty four freely by
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  Speaker 2: his grace. So God is saying, I'm going to empower
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  Speaker 2: you once I give you that unmerited favor that says
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  Speaker 2: I have mercy on you. Because you were born into
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  Speaker 2: this thing, and your daddy was Adam, and Adam jacked
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  Speaker 2: you up Adam Adam, Adam gave you an inheritance of
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  Speaker 2: a desire to sin, the proclivity, the predisposition to sin,
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  Speaker 2: came from Adam, your forefather. And so what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do is because of the second Adam, Jesus Christ, you're
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  Speaker 2: adopted into the family of God. And therefore, if you
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  Speaker 2: just yield your will to him, what we're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: is give you power to do God's will. But the
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  Speaker 2: submission comes first, The yielding comes first. The being humble
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  Speaker 2: before God comes first through the Holy Ghost, and then
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  Speaker 2: He begins to work his promises in your life. I'll
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  Speaker 2: come back to that in a moment. Being justified freely
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  Speaker 2: by His grace. Now you're seeing just as if you
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  Speaker 2: had never sinned because of the grace of God, unmerited
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  Speaker 2: favor and the power to do God's will through the
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  Speaker 2: redemption that is in Christ. So we know that being
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  Speaker 2: purchased from the devil, canceling all debts to sinning and
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  Speaker 2: being the enemy's friend. I know what I just said.
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  Speaker 2: Through that process, that blessing that Jesus is now we
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  Speaker 2: can actually do God's will. This is the part that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of teachers mix up. We make it seem
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  Speaker 2: as if we cannot be successful spiritually, we make it
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  Speaker 2: seem as if we will go to our graves if
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  Speaker 2: we die or await the coming, where we're just falling
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  Speaker 2: down getting up, falling down getting up. No disrespect to
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  Speaker 2: the one who penned the lyrics to that we fall
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  Speaker 2: down and get up song and just get back up again,
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  Speaker 2: get back up again. A saint is just a sinner
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  Speaker 2: that falls down and gets up. Like, I get the concept.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a point that God is able to
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  Speaker 2: keep us from falling. I'm just saying, if you believe
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  Speaker 2: the Bible in the Book of Jude, I believe it
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  Speaker 2: is in verse twenty four, the benediction says, now unto
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  Speaker 2: him that is able to keep you from falling, and
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  Speaker 2: to present you thoughtless before the presence with exceeding joy.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course the benediction continues, so God is
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  Speaker 2: able to cleanse us and also keep us holy if
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  Speaker 2: we choose to surrender our will to him. And so
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  Speaker 2: Paul makes two points clear. The law cannot justify anybody.
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  Speaker 2: We're clear on that the law can still teach, guide,
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  Speaker 2: and reveal our what our need for the Savior. In
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  Speaker 2: the SDA Bible Commentary, Volume one, page eleven oh five,
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  Speaker 2: it reads the ten commandments are ten promises. We could
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  Speaker 2: have gotten that straight out of the Bible, because God
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  Speaker 2: said that he would write his laws in our hearts
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  Speaker 2: and in our minds. He said he would take out
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  Speaker 2: from us our heart of stone and put in us
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  Speaker 2: a heart of flesh. That is the pliable one, that
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  Speaker 2: is the receptive one, that is the living, moving one
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  Speaker 2: that has the character of God stamped upon it. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Law is not a ladder that we climb
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  Speaker 2: in order to get to God. Ah, it's a mirror
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  Speaker 2: that drives us to Christ. And once we are in Him,
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  Speaker 2: it becomes a holy map for living. And so when
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  Speaker 2: God gives us these ten commandments, but he writes them
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, he says, I promise you that if
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  Speaker 2: you love me, I will enable you to keep my commandments,
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  Speaker 2: God's Law.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Friends, always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,
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  Speaker 1: make it a great day. Yeah,