Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, January six,
twenty twenty five. 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 lesson
study series God's Love and Justice with the caption covenantal Love,
covenantal Love. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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Father and Heaven, Thank you for this day and for
giving us a covenant through Christ. Thank you for loving
us beyond belief. Help us to love you back. Please,
in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again
covenantal love. May I just say very quickly that I
love the covenant concept from the Bible where our relationship
with God is concerned because I fail and I have failed.
I'm not a failure, but I have made promises that
I've not kept. I've made attempts at things that I
could not fulfill. And I'm talking about with my greatest efforts.
And I am really in real life like I'm a consistent, reliable,
don't bite off more than I can chew kind of person.
But when it comes to spirituality, I realize everything is
more than I can chew, everything is bigger than me.
So submission to God's will and the covenant of his
love is so key because listen, God made a promise.
Let's keep it very simple. This morning. God made a
promise to write his laws in our heart and in
our minds. Right, he writes his law of love, the
Ten commandments, love for God and love for our fellow humans.
Write that in our hearts so that we can actually
live according to those principles. So God says, if we
live according to those principles, then the reward, apart from
transforming our characters while we live down here, is to
take us to heaven for a thousand years, and then
we will inherit the newly created earth, where there will
be no more sin, sickness, or anything of the sort. Okay,
So that's God's promise. That's his end of the bargain,
and he sealed it through the Covenant of sacrifice. Jesus
Christ gave his life for us so he could empower
us to do his will. And I'm oversimplifying. Ah, but
now we have to do our part. Wait a minute,
that's where things start to get murky because we don't
have the capability. I know everything I just said, but listen,
while Jesus lived on planet Earth. He was living in
human flesh, in human form. Now he represents the human
side of the covenant. He's the one that keeps the
promises that we are to keep. He in the Bible
words in Romans chapter eight, he condemned sin in the
flesh in order that the righteousness or the righteous requirements
of the law might be fulfilled or fully met in us,
who walk not according to the flesh, but according to
the spirit. So God keeps his end of the bargain,
and through Christ, they keep the human side of the
bargain to give us a head start, so that by
his grace, because of his sacrifice, because of the gift
that comes through Jesus Christ, now I can keep the
human side of the covenant. My promises I can keep
as long as I surrender my will to him. Understand,
And so covenantal love is so sweet in that regard.
In so many other places. Now, the lesson writer says,
the Bible often depicts God's special love relationship with us
by using family or kinship metaphors, particularly metaphors of the
love between husband and wife or of a good mother
for her child. These metaphors are used particularly to depict
the special relationship between God and his covenant people. This
is a relationship of covenantal love. I've described that to you,
which involves not only God's love for his people, but
also expectations that people will accept his love and will
love him and one another in return. Now we know
how that can be possible. And so from the Bible
Book of Deuteronomy, chapter seven, we read beginning at verse six,
for thou art and holy people, this is what God
calls you. I want you to look in the mirror
one day, or look into a camera that has a
display reflecting your face, your image back to you and say,
I am a holy I am holy. And I want
you to hear it because God said you're holy. Not
because you've generated holiness, not because you did your goodee
for the day, not because you can tick and say,
well I think that I have accomplished fill in the
blank positive things today. No, but because God says that
you're holy, and because his word, his word is the power,
and what he commands actually happens. You see. So, by
God's proclamation in your life, you are holy. Why because
in his word is power, His biddings are enablings. You understand,
for thou art a holy people, that means you're set
aside for a holy use unto the Lord thy God.
The Lord thy God hath chosen THEE to be a
special people unto himself, above all people that are upon
the face of the earth. The Lord did not set
his love upon you, nor choose you because you were
more in number than any people, for ye were the
fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you,
can you just say Jesus loves me? This I know,
for the Bible tells me so. And I'm saying me,
I want you to identify yourself as the one He loves,
not for God's soul love the world. And I understand
what the scripture was saying. And I'm not saying to
contradict the scripture, but what I'm saying is personalize it.
In this moment. I don't want you to think about
how God loves the world, how He loves we, us, them,
those they. I'm saying me, he loves me. And in
the moments that you feel worthless, in the moments that
you feel like you want to defeat yourself, you don't
want to make another promise to God, because after all
you have failed before. You want to know what next
because another trial has come upon you today, and you're like,
when can I get a break? And You're like, get
a break? Why would you need a break when God
is your shelter in this time of storm? Why would
you need a break When His yoke is easy, his
burden is light when we are having trials. It is
not that we carry those trials and burdens on our own.
And I understand I've been exhausted, but I've been the
most exhausted when I was not yielding that burden to God.
And the Bible continues because the Lord loved you, and
because verse eight he would keep the oath which he
had sworn unto your father's hath. The Lord brought you
out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of
the house of bondmen. Has he ever delivered you from
any sin habit? Has he ever delivered you from a
relationship he shouldn't have been in. Has he ever delivered
you from a cycle of abuse? Has He delivered you
from the things that you have said negatively about yourself?
Because maybe you heard somebody saying it to you in
your formative years and you keep repeating this in your
own mind. Well, he's delivering you from the hand of Pharaoh,
the king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord thy God,
he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and
mercy in them that love Him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations. And the Bible says, greater love
hath no man than this, The man laid down his
life for his friends. Jesus is keeping covenant on the
God side of the thing, and he also is keeping
covenant on the human side, so.
Speaker 1: That you can keep covenant with Thanks for joining us,
listens and 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,