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03 21 2025 Be Compassionate · 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 Friday, March
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is be compassionate. Be Compassionate. 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: say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  Speaker 2: also let us know where you are in the world
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for the opportunity that we have to pray
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  Speaker 2: and to open up our minds to you. Teach us
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  Speaker 2: to have the kind of compassion that you have, the
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  Speaker 2: kind that you would approve of. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. So we're gonna go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: begin by reading out of the book The Desire of Ages,
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  Speaker 2: page two hundred and eighty six, and then I will
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  Speaker 2: share some principles with you, okay. And so it reads
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  Speaker 2: the spies dared not answer Christ and the presence of
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  Speaker 2: the Multitude for fear of involving themselves in difficulty. They
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  Speaker 2: knew that he had spoken the truth. And so the
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  Speaker 2: first question I need to ask all of us is,
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  Speaker 2: when God is speaking the truth to us and we
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  Speaker 2: know it, will we do it? Will we live according
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  Speaker 2: to the truth that he is speaking, or will we
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  Speaker 2: do something else? That's something that we need to think about.
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  Speaker 2: Rather than violate their traditions. Oh, they would leave a
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  Speaker 2: man to suffer. Wait a minute, what they would leave
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  Speaker 2: him to suffer while they would relieve a brute beast
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  Speaker 2: talking about a real life animal because of the loss
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  Speaker 2: to the owner if it were neglected. Thus, greater care
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  Speaker 2: was shown to an animal more so than a man
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  Speaker 2: who is made in the image of God. This illustrates
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  Speaker 2: the working of all false religions, all false religions. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to think it through. Am I living according
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  Speaker 2: to the principles of false religion where I prioritize things, beasts,
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  Speaker 2: other things outside of who God is and what He
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  Speaker 2: would have me to above him. Okay, let's keep going.
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  Speaker 2: They originate in man's desire to exalt himself above God,
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  Speaker 2: but they result in degrading humans below the animal or
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  Speaker 2: the brute. Every religion that wars against the sovereignty of
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  Speaker 2: God defrauds man of the glory which was his at creation,
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  Speaker 2: and it is to be restored in Him in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Every false religion teaches its adherents to be careless of
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  Speaker 2: human needs, sufferings, and rights. The Gospel places a high
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  Speaker 2: value upon humanity as the purchase of the blood of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and it teaches a tender regard for the wants of
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  Speaker 2: the woes of humans. The Lord says, I will make
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  Speaker 2: a man more precious than fine gold, meaning humans, people,
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  Speaker 2: men and women, even a man than the golden wedge
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  Speaker 2: of o fear. And then, of course Jesus turned. When
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  Speaker 2: he turned upon the Pharisees with the question whether it
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  Speaker 2: is lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or
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  Speaker 2: to do evil, to save life or to kill, he
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  Speaker 2: confronted them with their own wicked purposes. They were hunting
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  Speaker 2: his life with bitter hatred, while he was saving life
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  Speaker 2: and bringing happiness to multitudes. Was it better to slay
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  Speaker 2: on the Sabbath, as they were planning to do, than
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  Speaker 2: to heal the afflicted as he had done? Was it
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  Speaker 2: more righteous to murder in the heart upon God's holy
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  Speaker 2: day than love to all people, which finds expression in
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  Speaker 2: deeds of mercy? Oh my, so much to say, so
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  Speaker 2: little time. Let's jump in with two feet into the scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna go with the first principle that true
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  Speaker 2: and godly religion values humans lives. Again. Back to Isaiah
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen, and I'll read verse twelve from another another
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  Speaker 2: another version. I will make human beings more scarce than
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  Speaker 2: pure or more valued than pure gold, and people more
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  Speaker 2: valued than the gold from ofear. So God values you
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  Speaker 2: more than precious metals, He values you more than precious stones.
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  Speaker 2: He values you more than anything that is created on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth or anywhere else in the universe for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: You human beings, brothers and sisters, We human beings are
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  Speaker 2: of such value that, of course God sent his only
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  Speaker 2: begotten son so that we can be saved. And guess
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus became as one of us in order to
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  Speaker 2: save us. So we see the value there. False religion
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  Speaker 2: shows a mix up in priorities. And really that's an
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  Speaker 2: understatement from Matthew, chapter twenty three and verse twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Woe unto you we read this, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
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  Speaker 2: You would pay tithe of mint and ninus, Annis and
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  Speaker 2: cumin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy,
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  Speaker 2: and faith. And so the priority gets shifted, flipped upside down,
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  Speaker 2: turned inside out, you see. And so we talked about
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  Speaker 2: that principle the other day. And so here are some
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  Speaker 2: contrasts between God's kind of religion, true religion, that is
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  Speaker 2: undefiled that takes care of people in every way that
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  Speaker 2: we can. That is the second and great commandment. And
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  Speaker 2: of course we prioritize God above all, and then to
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  Speaker 2: be pure as we await the coming of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so the contrast is between pure religion that's undefiled
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  Speaker 2: and the kind of religions that we make up. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so here are the contrasts. Sometimes these false religions
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  Speaker 2: will prioritize even animals above humans. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time to really drill into this, but you have
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  Speaker 2: seen people do some really weird things in defense of
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  Speaker 2: animals over and above human beings. Then false religion values property,
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  Speaker 2: oh people. True religion values humans as God's image bearers. Ooh,
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  Speaker 2: I like that image bearers. We bear the image of God.
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  Speaker 2: We represent God, and therefore we are valued above all
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  Speaker 2: of his creation. Okay. Number two, there is ritual versus mercy.
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  Speaker 2: False religion emphasizes rules over compassion. I didn't say that
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  Speaker 2: we shouldn't have rules. In fact, I do love rules.
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  Speaker 2: I love laws. I love to have a standard to follow.
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  Speaker 2: I love for an objective measure to be in place
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  Speaker 2: so i'll know if I'm on the right track. I
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  Speaker 2: like that kind of thing. But false religion actually emphasizes
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  Speaker 2: all of what I just said, structure, rules, protocols, all
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff above compassion for humans. True religion shows
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  Speaker 2: practical love, hands and feet of God down on planet
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  Speaker 2: Earth to do what God would do if he were
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  Speaker 2: physically located on this planet. Number three self folk's exaltation
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  Speaker 2: versus service. False religion seeks to exalt self above God.
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  Speaker 2: True religion serves others in humanity and then, of course
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  Speaker 2: treatment of rights. False religion careless of human needs and rights.
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  Speaker 2: True religion upholds human dignity and worth or value and
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  Speaker 2: then purpose and result. False religion degrades humanity. True religion
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  Speaker 2: restores God's image. If you are being abused spiritually, I
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  Speaker 2: just want to shoot right there. Since we're ending here,
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  Speaker 2: then that is a degrading kind of a religion. But
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  Speaker 2: God restores his image in us. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,