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01 16 2024 God Is the Judge · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Tuesday, January sixteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption is God is the Judge. God is the Judge. We'll
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  get into that in just a moment. I like to say welcome to you
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  and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
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  Portion dot com. This is a way that we can continue to build faith
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  and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for getting us thus far into our work
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  weeknd for the opportunity to come aside just a moment and rest with each other
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  for a while. Please, God give us understanding and help us to appreciate
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  your holiness today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  God is the judge. Now, let me just shout to you, this
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  is great news. Okay, maybe I didn't shout it, but you could
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  kind of hear my intent here right like, this is great news because I
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  have a question for you. Have you ever been misjudged? Have you ever
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  been missed? Miss judged? And I actually underlined that part when I wrote
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  it in my notes, and I said that God sees all I've been in
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  work situations, relationship situations, all kinds of other challenges when people think they
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  know but they don't know, and then they make a determination made on bad
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  inform, made based upon bad information, That is miss judging. Okay,
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  okay, we'll get into that first. Now, let's go ahead and begin
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  to take think about seven steps here if we have enough time. Okay.
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  So we're using the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy five as the backdrop,
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  not about misjudging, but about the beauty of God being judge right. He
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  is the one that sees all, He knows all, and justice, judgment,
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  and righteousness. In the Bible, when it's referencing God, it's all
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  about holiness, okay, or righteousness. So the first thing is in verse
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  two, when I shall see the congregation, I will judge up rightly.
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  So there's a redundancy here because we're talking about God judging. Of course,
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  God only has one way of judging, and that is uprightly. So what
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  we do, though, is acknowledge God's timing and sovereignty, his timing and
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  sovereignty. Recognize that God's judgments are fair and they are made at his perfect
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  time. I wish I could really get into some of my experiences, but
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  I think it could get a little weird depending on who's listening or watching.
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  Right. But there are times that you just wonder, why are people behaving
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  a certain way, Why are they quote judging me in this way? Why
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  is it that they are doing X based on what they heard, based on
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  what they perceived because of somebody else's actions and then aligning or assigning their actions
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  with you just because you're close to that other person. You see what I'm
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  saying, Like it's almost like guilt by association. What I tell to people
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  when they're going through these kinds of things is that God sees. God sees
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  and he knows all. Here's a case in point. Remember Hagar, Yes,
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  Hagar and Sarah having a problem because you know, Sarah got the bright
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  idea that in order for God to keep his promise to Abraham and Sarah to
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  have a son or a seed who would be the father of many nations.
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  Right if you want to say, she said, well, let's see,
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  my husband and I are old. Our reproductive situations are not functional. So
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  one of the ways that we think that we can actually answer God's answered God's
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  call, like where God can keep his promise is if Abraham you go into
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  Hagar, you two have a baby, and then everything else problem solved and
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  God didn't ask for any help, like he said, what was going to
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  happen? And there was a bad relationship, and actually even into twenty twenty
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  four, there are relationships that are strained and even very dangerous or bad and
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  broken relationships because of Abraham's listening to Sarah and trying to do what God only
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  could do. But you know what, God sent a messenger to Hagar,
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  and he said it in a way that she would understand, like he visited
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  her to let her know that I'm gonna bless your seed, and I see
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  you, I see you. I'm judging justly at the right time. Now
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  go submit to yourself to Sarah. But I see you and I see your
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  seed. So again God's judgments are fair and are made in his perfect timing.
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  I wish I had the time. Here is another one from verse six.
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  From promotion cometh neither for promotion cometh neither from the east, nor the
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  west, nor the south. Now we have to understand that true success and
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  elevation come from God, not from human arrogance, not from human actions.
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  Refuse to boast in wickedness. Remember it doesn't come from people, and it
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  doesn't come from people's evil activities like scammers and people who feel like that they
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  are smarter than other people, people who are shrewd and calculating, and how
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  they do business, how they relate to others. It doesn't come from there
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  it comes from God. Here is another one from verse seven. But God
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  is the judge. He puteth down one and set it up, setteth up
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  another one. So we need to trust God in his ultimate justice, because
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  again the text says clearly God is the judge. Have faith in God and
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  that he will ultimately bring about justice, elevating the humble. Have you taken
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  the low road? Brothers and sisters, have you ever humbled yourself and said,
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  you know what, I know that these people have the wrong idea.
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  I know that I'm not getting my just deserts my reward as I should get,
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  not because I deserve it, but because I have earned it. There
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  are times that you have have not gotten the pay that you deserve. There
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  are times that you have not gotten the recognition for your service that you deserve,
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  and it was assigned or stolen to some assigned to or stolen by someone
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  else, And then they and their families and their legacy may have benefited you.
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  See. Uh, yeah, I won't go too far down into that
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  road, but just understand that God is just and we can trust ultimately in
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  his justice. Examine your own heart and your actions. From verse nine,
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  I will declare forever, I will sing praises unto the God of Jacob.
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  Regularly reflect on your actions and heart's intentions, seeking to align them with God's
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  will, and praising him for his guidance and righteousness. Things don't always work
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  out the same way. There are times that you have to praise Him in
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  the difficult times. There are times that you praise him in triumph. There
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  are times that you praise him in the times that you just really don't understand.
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  But you have read that God inhabited the praises of his people, and
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  so you praise Him for his mighty acts and according to his excellent greatness.
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  And you know that in reality, if you praise God, you are coming
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  into his prayers. So if you examine your heart, if I examine my
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  heart and say, God, am I praising you because things are perfect?
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  Am I praising you because I desire something from you? Or am I praising
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  you because You're worthy? You see, also celebrate God's righteous judgment. In
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  verse three, the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I bear
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  up the pillars of it Sillah. Rejoice in God's just governance of the world,
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  knowing that his judgments are always right and ultimately bring stability into the chaos
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  of life. There's so much more that we could say, but I'm so
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  thankful that God is the judge and we are not. What a wonderful day,
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  Peace, Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,