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05 28 2024 The Immutability of God’s Law · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Tuesday, May twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series the Great
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  Controversy. Our caption for today is the Sabbath and the Law. The Sabbath
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  and the Law. We'll get into this and just a moment, but first
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  I like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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  the very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com,
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  where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. We are
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  here to continue to build faith and fellowship. I'd like to go ahead and
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  pray and then we will get underwagh. Father in heaven, thank you for
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  giving us this day. Thank you for loving us so much that you gave
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  us the Sabbath time. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to connect with
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  you in a special way. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen
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  again the Sabbath and the Law. Now, my key for today is if
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  more people would honor God, and I mean honor him fully in his word
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  regarding the Holy seventh Day Sabbath, then we would be better in our human
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  relationships. I don't care what kind of relationships they are. Crime and violence
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  would be at all time low. I'm talking about if people would keep holy
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  the seventh day Sabbath, then even crime and violence and success in all key
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  areas of our lives would be on a rise that we couldn't even calculate.
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  And you're like, Dave, that doesn't even make sense. That just seems
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  like none of those things are related. Yeah, well, uh yeah,
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  they do relate because really and truly, yeah, if a person can keep
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  holy the seventh day Sabbath, it is because we're already in a relationship with
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  God. May I say that again. The only way that a person can
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  keep holy the seventh day Sabbath is if we are in relationship with God.
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  And this is why this is It's critical. If more people would honor God
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  on his holy seventh day Sabbath, then every key area of our lives would
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  be improved. Crime and violence would be at an all time low, our
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  relationships and the quality of those would be at an all time high. And
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  really, I just said it for effect in that way. I mean it
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  though, but I said it in that way because there are people who think
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  you can keep the Sabbath holy and not be holy. That's not what I'm
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  talking about. So don't be confused. I'm not saying going to church on
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  this satur Day makes this the reality. An individual who loves God enough because
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  God loved us first, loves God enough in order for us to be in
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  connection with him, and then he begins to keep his commandments through our lives
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  because He's written his laws on our hearts and in our minds. Then that
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  means that everything that God desires for us will be our reality. And I'm
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  thankful that God has given us a respite. He's given us a time during
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  each week, at the end of each week, really the seventh day Sabbath,
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  in order to connect with God in a way that we cannot connect with
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  God in any other day. Yes, we worship God every day. Sunday
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  we worship God, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday we worship God, Thursday we
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  worship God. Day of Preparation, Friday we worship God. But there is
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  only one day, brothers and sisters, that is holy. It is the
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  only time that God set aside as holy. And therefore therefore we honor God,
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  and we remember what He said to remember, and we choose not to
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  forget. Now, let me jump into the scriptures here. We're going to
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  go ahead and begin in the Book of Revelation, chapter fourteen. That's the
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  Book of Revelation, chapter fourteen, and I will read beginning at verse six,
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  and the Bible reads and I saw another angel fly in the midst of
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  heaven. And we're going to read about these angels again having the Everlasting Gospel
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  to preach unto them. That dwell on the earth. And so we see
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  that this angel is preaching the Gospel, the Everlasting Gospel, the power of
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  God unto salvation, to everyone that believes, so that there is nothing that
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  we cannot overcome. We can do all things through Christ, which strengthens us.
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  We can be among the people where Jesus says he is able to keep
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  us from falling and to present us faultless before the Father with exceeding joy.
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  We know this because the Everlasting Gospel is to be preached into all who dwell
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  on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people,
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  saying with a loud voice, Fear God. This is all about respect and
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  honoring God, give glory unto Him. Hahah. That is that we begin
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  to reflect the life of Christ in our lives, because we're surrendering our will
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  to him. The way that he treated people, will treat you. The
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  way that he had success in the things that he did. We will be
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  successful in the things that we do. And the way that he was diligent
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  in his work and service while he lived on planet Earth, we will do
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  the same. And the way that he connected to God, his father and
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  surrendered his will completely to the Father. We will do the same. Yes.
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  And then the Bible continues, for the hour of his judgment is come.
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  And of course we invested an entire week about this aspect of judgment,
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  this phase of judgment that happens before the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus
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  Christ. And the Bible continues and worship him that made heaven and earth,
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  and the sea and the fountains of waters. It's so interesting that the end
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  of that part of the passage would say that we should worship God in the
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  beauty of holiness, the God who created. Oh wait a minute, I
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  think the Bible reads in Genesis chapter two, verses one through three three,
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  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and the host of them.
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  And on the seventh day, what day? On the seventh day, God
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  ended his work which he had made. And he rested on the seventh day
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  for all from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the
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  seventh day. Which day did he bless the seventh one? And he sanctified
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  it that means to be set aside for a holy youth. Which day did
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  he set aside for a holy youth? That is the Sabbath because that in
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  it he had rested from all his work, which God created and made.
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  And so this is an interesting thing because this Sabbath principle that God gives us
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  the privilege of experiencing every single week is a bridge. It's a bridge between
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  God's law and his grace. You see. The Holy ten Commandment's law can
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  only be kept if we have the power of God in our lives. And
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  the grace of God is the power to do God's will, you see.
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  And so every week we get to commemorate His power. We commemorate the fact
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  that He is the creator. We commemorate the reality that He is our redeemer.
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  We commemorate the reality that He is the Lord, which doth sanctify us.
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  He sets us aside as holy. And we commemorate this in a special
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  way that can only happen during this time. In Exodus chapter twenty, verses
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  eight through eleven, some take it for granted in the commandment itself, remember
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  the Sabbath day. Don't forget it. To keep it holy. Six days
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  shalt thou labor and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the
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  Sabbath of the Lord God, a thy God in it, Thou shalt not
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  do any work thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant,
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  nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
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  within thy gates. For in six days, six literal days, brothers and
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  sisters, the Lord made heaven and the earth, the sea, and all
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  that in them is. And he rests on the seventh day. Wherefore,
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  the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and he made it holy. We can't
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  make it anything under them. What God made it, He made it holy.
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  And those who receive the truth concerning his word, his law, the
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  holiness of his character, the holiness of the Sabbath, that is firmly nestled
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  in the transcript of his character, that is the ten Commandment's law. When
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  we accept and embrace this, really we are saying yes, God, Yes
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  to your will and to your way. Even though the world and some of
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  our religious leaders teach us things other than this truth, we say, yes,
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  God, we embrace you, and therefore we embrace this holy seventh Day
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  time. Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,