Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning.
It is Thursday, April eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
no exception. We are continuing in our lessons study series through the principle or
the discussion of the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is a legacy
of love, a legacy of love. We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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we continue to build faith and fellowship. And let me just say that for
those who are in the community, we started a chat just about six days
ago or five days ago that is about the practicality of the Word of God.
There are so many of us that look at it philosophically and we feel
satisfied if we can speak a little bit of coin a Greek, or a
little bit of Airmic or a little bit of Hebrew, or be able to
discuss something in detail and understand just intellectually. But now we're talking about practically,
like what does the Word of God look like in our lives? Okay,
so again, go to your Daily Portion dot com and join the online
community, and then join the chat that is currently underway. Let's go ahead
and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
you for giving us this new day and for the privilege that you have entrusted
to us. Please teach us today about your love like help us to live
in the legacy and then continue the legacy in our own lives and families and
communities. In Jesus' name, I pray again amen and Amen. Okay,
so a legacy of love. Jesus left the legacy. No, let me
put it this way. Jesus actually created Jesus and God our Father, with
the Holy Spirit. Yes, and the ministering angels, as as the foot
soldiers. If you want to say I have created a legacy of love,
how do we know? Well? The Bible does say in John chapter three
and verse sixteen that God loved the world so much that he gave his only
begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him would not perish but have everlasting life.
God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved. And then he gave us
those who have chosen, who have chosen to serve him. He's given us
the ministry of love, the ministry of reconciliation, the ministry that says,
I see that you are one of God's children, and I can also see
that you need assistance, So may I lend a helping hand. Yes,
I can see that you have not yet chosen to serve God. Ah,
But I realized that I was like that at one time in my life.
May I give or lend a helping hand, and I won't be different in
my home versus what I am on the road. May I say that like
the legacy of love does not allow for hypocrisy, No, sir, no
ma'am. The legacy of love says that once God's love is prominent in our
life, then we are that way wherever we go, wherever we go,
the legacy of love. And so let me just start on the down part
and then we'll go up. Okay. So the devil, the devil who
was once Lucifer, he was once the son of the Morning, but now
he is the deceiver, like he's the father of lies. He is the
enemy of God and God's people. Right, he's an enemy of everything that
is good and loving, okay, and principled and righteous. Well, he
spread discord and strife in heaven. And so when you are at work,
you're at school, you are in a fellowship of believers, and you see
that someone is spreading discord and strife. They are not bringing people together.
But when they are present or when they speak, when they are working behind
the scenes, those individuals seem to be scattering rather than building rapport, rather
than building in community. Then you know that they are of their father,
the devil. Can we just say that really clearly, like it doesn't matter.
You don't have to say, well, they're a good person, but
they're just not the right person for this community. The reality is that discord
and strife comes from the enemy. And yeah, so I preempted myself because
in my notes I said Satan spread discord and strife in heaven, and then
he brought the same saa a A A m e e e e e e
tactic to earth. Now, what that is the question? He brought that
same tactic to earth when he was finally evicted from heaven. He brought that
down here. So what do we do? What do we do? We
embrace brothers and sisters the love that God has given us through Christ. We
embrace the mindset of Jesus Christ. Yes, and so in John chapter John,
chapter thirteen, and verse thirty five, the Bible reads, I give
you a new commandment. Well, what is the new commandment? Jesus love
one another. The concept, the principle of love was new to the people
of God in that they weren't living up to that standard in the way that
God would have been fully pleased. You see, I'm not saying that nobody
was. But when Jesus was teaching this principle, he was teaching it now
from the perspective of the one who is a manifest is the ultimate manifestation of
love that only the prophets only foresaw. Like God gave them a peek into
what would happen. Now, Jesus is actually here the manifestation of God's love
for us, so that we can be saved. Yes through what receiving Christ
into our lives, allowing him to live his life through us. The victory
that Jesus manifest on planet Earth, he is willing to live it in our
lives and through our lives, And so he wants us to love one another
verse thirty five. Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples if
and I may I just add here and only, if you have love for
one another. This is the only way that people will know that you are
my disciples, if you have love for one another. And here it reads
in First John, chapter four and verse twenty one. And the commandment we
have from him is this, that the one who loves God will show love
two other believers. Two. Now does that mean that we don't love people
who don't love God. Well, that's not the discussion right now. The
discussion is that the legacy begins with the fellowship of believers. Like if I
can't love my brother whom I can see, if I cannot love my sister
whom I can see through those board meetings, ah, through those quadrinial orquinial
meetings that we have around the world that have to do with selecting leaders and
by laws, etc. Etc. And the structure, etc. If we
cannot demonstrate love in these environments and loving the people in my community is completely
out of the question. Because in the ideal space, right the heavenly space,
if you wils if you were willing to say, the heavenly space,
if we are not loving God and our fellow believers, then there's no way
that we can have the power that God wants to manifest through us. When
we go out into our communities, the places that we build business, the
places where we exercise, the places that we have school, or are traveling
on the road in the public transportation or ride shares in those metroplexus where you
want to keep the traffic down. If you cannot be loving towards your brothers
or sisters, some of whom make really terrible mistakes, some of us who
make really terrible errors in judgment. Yes, if we can't love each other,
how in the world can we love those to Christ who are not as
holy as they should be. You see where this is going. And so
this legacy of love is huge. So based on how we treated each other
during the pandemic, was God's love more or less evident? And if you
don't understand what I'm saying, look into the lesson. There was a discussion
of an old pandemic. Interesting. Have a wonderful day. Peace, Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,