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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

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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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 morning.

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It is Thursday, April eleven,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I
am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's
word every single day, and today is

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no exception. We are continuing in
our lessons study series through the principle or

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the discussion of the Great Controversy,
and our caption for today is a legacy

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of love, a legacy of love. We'll get into that in just a

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moment, but first I'd like to
say welcome to you and ask you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion
dot com. Please join our online community,

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pick up your Daily Portion book,
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in the world at your Daily Portion
dot com. This is a way that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. And let me just say that for

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those who are in the community,
we started a chat just about six days

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ago or five days ago that is
about the practicality of the Word of God.

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There are so many of us that
look at it philosophically and we feel

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satisfied if we can speak a little
bit of coin a Greek, or a

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little bit of Airmic or a little
bit of Hebrew, or be able to

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discuss something in detail and understand just
intellectually. But now we're talking about practically,

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like what does the Word of God
look like in our lives? Okay,

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so again, go to your Daily
Portion dot com and join the online

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community, and then join the chat
that is currently underway. Let's go ahead

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and pray, and then we will
get underway. Father and Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this new day
and for the privilege that you have entrusted

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to us. Please teach us today
about your love like help us to live

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in the legacy and then continue the
legacy in our own lives and families and

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communities. In Jesus' name, I
pray again amen and Amen. Okay,

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so a legacy of love. Jesus
left the legacy. No, let me

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put it this way. Jesus actually
created Jesus and God our Father, with

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the Holy Spirit. Yes, and
the ministering angels, as as the foot

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soldiers. If you want to say
I have created a legacy of love,

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how do we know? Well?
The Bible does say in John chapter three

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and verse sixteen that God loved the
world so much that he gave his only

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begotten son, that whosoever believeth in
him would not perish but have everlasting life.

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God did not send his son into
the world to condemn the world,

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but that the world through him might
be saved. And then he gave us

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those who have chosen, who have
chosen to serve him. He's given us

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the ministry of love, the ministry
of reconciliation, the ministry that says,

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I see that you are one of
God's children, and I can also see

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that you need assistance, So may
I lend a helping hand. Yes,

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I can see that you have not
yet chosen to serve God. Ah,

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But I realized that I was like
that at one time in my life.

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May I give or lend a helping
hand, and I won't be different in

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my home versus what I am on
the road. May I say that like

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the legacy of love does not allow
for hypocrisy, No, sir, no

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ma'am. The legacy of love says
that once God's love is prominent in our

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life, then we are that way
wherever we go, wherever we go,

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the legacy of love. And so
let me just start on the down part

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and then we'll go up. Okay. So the devil, the devil who

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was once Lucifer, he was once
the son of the Morning, but now

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he is the deceiver, like he's
the father of lies. He is the

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enemy of God and God's people.
Right, he's an enemy of everything that

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is good and loving, okay,
and principled and righteous. Well, he

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spread discord and strife in heaven.
And so when you are at work,

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you're at school, you are in
a fellowship of believers, and you see

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that someone is spreading discord and strife. They are not bringing people together.

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But when they are present or when
they speak, when they are working behind

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the scenes, those individuals seem to
be scattering rather than building rapport, rather

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than building in community. Then you
know that they are of their father,

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the devil. Can we just say
that really clearly, like it doesn't matter.

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You don't have to say, well, they're a good person, but

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they're just not the right person for
this community. The reality is that discord

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and strife comes from the enemy.
And yeah, so I preempted myself because

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in my notes I said Satan spread
discord and strife in heaven, and then

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he brought the same saa a A
A m e e e e e e

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tactic to earth. Now, what
that is the question? He brought that

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same tactic to earth when he was
finally evicted from heaven. He brought that

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down here. So what do we
do? What do we do? We

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embrace brothers and sisters the love that
God has given us through Christ. We

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embrace the mindset of Jesus Christ.
Yes, and so in John chapter John,

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chapter thirteen, and verse thirty five, the Bible reads, I give

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you a new commandment. Well,
what is the new commandment? Jesus love

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one another. The concept, the
principle of love was new to the people

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of God in that they weren't living
up to that standard in the way that

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God would have been fully pleased.
You see, I'm not saying that nobody

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was. But when Jesus was teaching
this principle, he was teaching it now

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from the perspective of the one who
is a manifest is the ultimate manifestation of

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love that only the prophets only foresaw. Like God gave them a peek into

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what would happen. Now, Jesus
is actually here the manifestation of God's love

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for us, so that we can
be saved. Yes through what receiving Christ

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into our lives, allowing him to
live his life through us. The victory

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that Jesus manifest on planet Earth,
he is willing to live it in our

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lives and through our lives, And
so he wants us to love one another

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verse thirty five. Everyone will know
by this that you are my disciples if

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and I may I just add here
and only, if you have love for

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one another. This is the only
way that people will know that you are

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my disciples, if you have love
for one another. And here it reads

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in First John, chapter four and
verse twenty one. And the commandment we

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have from him is this, that
the one who loves God will show love

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two other believers. Two. Now
does that mean that we don't love people

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who don't love God. Well,
that's not the discussion right now. The

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discussion is that the legacy begins with
the fellowship of believers. Like if I

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can't love my brother whom I can
see, if I cannot love my sister

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whom I can see through those board
meetings, ah, through those quadrinial orquinial

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meetings that we have around the world
that have to do with selecting leaders and

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by laws, etc. Etc.
And the structure, etc. If we

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cannot demonstrate love in these environments and
loving the people in my community is completely

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out of the question. Because in
the ideal space, right the heavenly space,

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if you wils if you were willing
to say, the heavenly space,

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if we are not loving God and
our fellow believers, then there's no way

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that we can have the power that
God wants to manifest through us. When

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we go out into our communities,
the places that we build business, the

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places where we exercise, the places
that we have school, or are traveling

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on the road in the public transportation
or ride shares in those metroplexus where you

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want to keep the traffic down.
If you cannot be loving towards your brothers

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or sisters, some of whom make
really terrible mistakes, some of us who

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make really terrible errors in judgment.
Yes, if we can't love each other,

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how in the world can we love
those to Christ who are not as

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holy as they should be. You
see where this is going. And so

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this legacy of love is huge.
So based on how we treated each other

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during the pandemic, was God's love
more or less evident? And if you

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don't understand what I'm saying, look
into the lesson. There was a discussion

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of an old pandemic. Interesting.
Have a wonderful day. Peace, Thanks

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for joining us listening. Friends.
Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,