1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,559 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's 2 00:00:05,639 --> 00:00:10,480 food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do 3 00:00:10,599 --> 00:00:15,080 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,879 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,039 all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need 6 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:30,839 to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,359 author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good 8 00:00:34,359 --> 00:00:39,280 morning. It is Wednesday, November fifteen, twenty twenty three. Hello, 9 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:42,280 my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,560 your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today 11 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,600 is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission, 12 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:57,600 my mission, and our caption for today is loving others as we love 13 00:00:57,759 --> 00:01:02,759 ourselves, Loving others as we love ourselves. We'll get into that in just 14 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:04,359 a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,840 to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. I want you to please 16 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,079 click the join link to become a part of the community. Also, I 17 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:18,599 ask you to please go ahead and pick up your Daily Portion book and tell 18 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,079 us where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This 19 00:01:23,239 --> 00:01:26,079 is a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, 20 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:30,280 and then we will get to underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you 21 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,400 for giving us this new day, and thank you for your word. Thank 22 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:37,959 you for giving us the privilege to love, and please help us to do 23 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,079 so, help us to live in that way, become that in Jesus name. 24 00:01:42,159 --> 00:01:48,799 I pray, Amen and damen again, loving others as we love ourselves. 25 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,519 And I know, I know there are people who say, but there 26 00:01:52,519 --> 00:01:56,319 are people who don't love themselves. Are we supposed to love ourselves that way? 27 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,200 I love people that way. Well, No, Jesus is always making 28 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,280 of the ideal. He's speaking of the ideal. He's not speaking about our 29 00:02:04,319 --> 00:02:08,560 brokenness. Some people do demonstrate hatred for themselves. Obviously, that is not 30 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:14,639 a godly principle. So let's just get that one out as soon as possible. 31 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:17,199 But first, let's go ahead and read from the book of the book 32 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:23,599 Excuse me, Christ's object Lessons, page forty nine, and it reads, 33 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:30,639 love is the underlying principle of God's government in heaven and earth. And it 34 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:37,120 must be the foundation of the Christian's character. Did you get that love must 35 00:02:37,159 --> 00:02:46,039 be the foundation of the Christian's character. This alone make and keep him steadfast, 36 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:52,919 This alone can enable him to withstand trial and temptation. That's love. 37 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:57,599 Love is the principal element of life. Brothers and sisters, Love is a 38 00:02:57,879 --> 00:03:02,879 great I shouldn't say great. Love is the best motivator, not somebody with 39 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,759 a microphone, not somebody on your YouTube channel or a social media post. 40 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:15,400 Love the kind of love that transforms us, the kind of love that makes 41 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:21,599 us move from unholy sinners to righteous saints. And you're like, but Dave, 42 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,479 how can we become righteous saints? Like everybody makes mistakes. That's not 43 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:30,879 what we're talking about. We're talking about the quality of life that says not 44 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:34,080 I but Christ, the kind of life that says, I submit, I 45 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:38,400 surrender all. And the Bible says John talked about this because he knew under 46 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:42,960 the Holy Ghost that you would ask something like this, right, he said, 47 00:03:43,479 --> 00:03:46,120 my little children, these things write I unto you that you sin not. 48 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:52,120 And if any man sins, of course any woman sins, then you 49 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:57,080 have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous, and so God is 50 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:03,840 able to transform us. And if God forbid during that transformation's experience, we 51 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:09,719 make mistakes, we sin, then we have an advocate with the Father. 52 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:14,199 If we will surrender our will again, you see how that works. Yeah, 53 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,399 if we confess our sins again, John said, then he is faithful 54 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:23,480 and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 55 00:04:23,519 --> 00:04:27,519 So don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Let's read now 56 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,120 from the Book of Matthew chapter twenty two, beginning at verse thirty seven, 57 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:38,120 and the Bible reads Jesus said, unto him, thou shalt love the Lord 58 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,360 thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 59 00:04:42,399 --> 00:04:47,600 with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. So miraculously 60 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:53,160 we are able to love God. Jesus is answering somebody who's, you know, 61 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,959 trying to make a mess of things and trip him up talking about marriage 62 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,279 and commandments and all kinds of stuff, right the resurrection. Yeah, and 63 00:05:01,399 --> 00:05:05,439 Jesus is like, okay, So the great, first and great commandment is 64 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,959 to love God with everything. That's miraculous, Like, we cannot do that 65 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,279 on our own and the Bible continues, and the second is like unto it. 66 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,120 You see, the first was miraculous. We were born in sin, 67 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:26,360 shaping in iniquity, right. We were not born with the mindset that leans 68 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,160 or tends toward God. Yeah, as soon as we're born, it seems 69 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:35,680 that the selfishness gene just follows us mine mind, mind, closed fist mind. 70 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:42,560 Yeah. But God can transform us and so so miraculously we can learn 71 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,879 to love God. The second we can also miraculously do, which is thou 72 00:05:46,959 --> 00:05:54,519 shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law 73 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,920 and the prophets, right, And so the first four commandments are about loving 74 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:05,800 God. The final six commandments are about what. Yeah, I know most 75 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,920 people are going to say about loving others, right, loving our neighbors, 76 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,720 But it's about loving God and our neighbor. Right. So we don't have 77 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,920 to segment in the sense that the final six has nothing to do with loving 78 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,759 God. Of course, it has to do with loving God. But now 79 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:26,040 we begin to see the miraculous focus to loving others. Right, and so 80 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:32,160 the first action is to prioritize loving God. That's our action item loving God 81 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:39,839 with your entire being, reflecting that love on how you treat others. Make 82 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:45,600 this the central focus of your daily living. After you have received your daily 83 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:48,680 portion, You see what I did right there. After you have received your 84 00:06:48,759 --> 00:06:55,639 daily portion, then turn that portion whatever God gives to you, turn it 85 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,279 out and give to others. Ask God, how do I live in such 86 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:06,319 a way that freely I have received, I also now can freely give and 87 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:14,839 invariably and without fail. God will do that. Okay, and so let's 88 00:07:14,879 --> 00:07:17,439 go now to Micah, the book of Micah. What is the last time 89 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,000 he read Micah? In Micah Micah chapter six and verse eight, and the 90 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,759 Bible reads he hath showed thee, O man, what is good? And 91 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,000 what doth the Lord require of thee? What is it? What is it? 92 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:34,399 You want to know what makes God happy? You want to know what 93 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:40,720 God has required? Hmmm, well it says here to do just lee. 94 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:47,519 I just say that justice just lee means righteousness in almost every case in the 95 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:53,720 Bible. So to do justly or to do righteously, right, live righteously, 96 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:59,000 and to love mercy, oh my, not to love only to receive 97 00:07:59,199 --> 00:08:03,279 mercy, you understand, loving to give mercy, loving to be merciful. 98 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:09,839 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall what obtain. Okay, So I 99 00:08:09,879 --> 00:08:15,120 think you know where we're going with this, and to walk humbly with thy 100 00:08:15,199 --> 00:08:18,920 God. God wants us to walk humbly with him. Don't run away from 101 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:24,120 God, right, don't come to God with your own agenda. Don't write 102 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:26,319 him a prescription. When you need an answer to prayer. Lord, do 103 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:30,920 it exactly this way. And once you have done it that way, you 104 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,320 will have proven yourself to me. No, walk humbly with your God. 105 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:41,039 With your God, humble yourself before God and walk with Him. Wherever thou 106 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:45,919 leadest ie will follow. Isn't that right? Yeah? Okay? And we'll 107 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:50,519 read also from Galatians chapter five and verse fourteen, which says, for the 108 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:56,840 for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this, you shall 109 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,480 love your neighbor as your self. I'm going to give you a big word 110 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:13,159 like externalization. I'll say it this way. Externalize your internal faith. Let 111 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,639 the faith that is in you, that lays hold on the power of God 112 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:22,559 transform you to the degree that it leaks out, it overflows into other people's 113 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:30,360 lives. Whatever God gives you, let it radiate, let it leak, 114 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:35,600 let it overflow into other people's lives. I wish I had the time. 115 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:41,480 And then, of course, genuine love over empty rituals is another principle for 116 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,320 today, have a wonderful day, peace, Thanks for joining us listening to 117 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:50,159 friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word 118 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,320 that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with 119 00:09:54,399 --> 00:10:00,279 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,