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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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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

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, January six,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series God's Love and Justice with the caption covenantal Love,

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covenantal Love. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'll like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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up that your Daily Portion Companion guide today. We are

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in pages twenty seven and twenty eight. Twenty seven and

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, Thank you for this day and for

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giving us a covenant through Christ. Thank you for loving

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us beyond belief. Help us to love you back. Please,

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in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again

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covenantal love. May I just say very quickly that I

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love the covenant concept from the Bible where our relationship

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with God is concerned because I fail and I have failed.

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I'm not a failure, but I have made promises that

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I've not kept. I've made attempts at things that I

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could not fulfill. And I'm talking about with my greatest efforts.

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And I am really in real life like I'm a consistent, reliable,

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don't bite off more than I can chew kind of person.

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But when it comes to spirituality, I realize everything is

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more than I can chew, everything is bigger than me.

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So submission to God's will and the covenant of his

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love is so key because listen, God made a promise.

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Let's keep it very simple. This morning. God made a

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promise to write his laws in our heart and in

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our minds. Right, he writes his law of love, the

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Ten commandments, love for God and love for our fellow humans.

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Write that in our hearts so that we can actually

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live according to those principles. So God says, if we

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live according to those principles, then the reward, apart from

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transforming our characters while we live down here, is to

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take us to heaven for a thousand years, and then

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we will inherit the newly created earth, where there will

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be no more sin, sickness, or anything of the sort. Okay,

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So that's God's promise. That's his end of the bargain,

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and he sealed it through the Covenant of sacrifice. Jesus

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Christ gave his life for us so he could empower

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us to do his will. And I'm oversimplifying. Ah, but

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now we have to do our part. Wait a minute,

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that's where things start to get murky because we don't

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have the capability. I know everything I just said, but listen,

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while Jesus lived on planet Earth. He was living in

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human flesh, in human form. Now he represents the human

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side of the covenant. He's the one that keeps the

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promises that we are to keep. He in the Bible

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words in Romans chapter eight, he condemned sin in the

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flesh in order that the righteousness or the righteous requirements

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of the law might be fulfilled or fully met in us,

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who walk not according to the flesh, but according to

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the spirit. So God keeps his end of the bargain,

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and through Christ, they keep the human side of the

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bargain to give us a head start, so that by

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his grace, because of his sacrifice, because of the gift

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that comes through Jesus Christ, now I can keep the

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human side of the covenant. My promises I can keep

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as long as I surrender my will to him. Understand,

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And so covenantal love is so sweet in that regard.

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In so many other places. Now, the lesson writer says,

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the Bible often depicts God's special love relationship with us

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by using family or kinship metaphors, particularly metaphors of the

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love between husband and wife or of a good mother

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for her child. These metaphors are used particularly to depict

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the special relationship between God and his covenant people. This

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is a relationship of covenantal love. I've described that to you,

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which involves not only God's love for his people, but

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also expectations that people will accept his love and will

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love him and one another in return. Now we know

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how that can be possible. And so from the Bible

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Book of Deuteronomy, chapter seven, we read beginning at verse six,

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for thou art and holy people, this is what God

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calls you. I want you to look in the mirror

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one day, or look into a camera that has a

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display reflecting your face, your image back to you and say,

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I am a holy I am holy. And I want

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you to hear it because God said you're holy. Not

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because you've generated holiness, not because you did your goodee

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for the day, not because you can tick and say,

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well I think that I have accomplished fill in the

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blank positive things today. No, but because God says that

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you're holy, and because his word, his word is the power,

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and what he commands actually happens. You see. So, by

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God's proclamation in your life, you are holy. Why because

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in his word is power, His biddings are enablings. You understand,

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for thou art a holy people, that means you're set

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aside for a holy use unto the Lord thy God.

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The Lord thy God hath chosen THEE to be a

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special people unto himself, above all people that are upon

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the face of the earth. The Lord did not set

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his love upon you, nor choose you because you were

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more in number than any people, for ye were the

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fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you,

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can you just say Jesus loves me? This I know,

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for the Bible tells me so. And I'm saying me,

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I want you to identify yourself as the one He loves,

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not for God's soul love the world. And I understand

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what the scripture was saying. And I'm not saying to

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contradict the scripture, but what I'm saying is personalize it.

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In this moment. I don't want you to think about

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how God loves the world, how He loves we, us, them,

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those they. I'm saying me, he loves me. And in

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the moments that you feel worthless, in the moments that

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you feel like you want to defeat yourself, you don't

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want to make another promise to God, because after all

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you have failed before. You want to know what next

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because another trial has come upon you today, and you're like,

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when can I get a break? And You're like, get

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a break? Why would you need a break when God

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is your shelter in this time of storm? Why would

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you need a break When His yoke is easy, his

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burden is light when we are having trials. It is

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not that we carry those trials and burdens on our own.

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And I understand I've been exhausted, but I've been the

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most exhausted when I was not yielding that burden to God.

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And the Bible continues because the Lord loved you, and

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because verse eight he would keep the oath which he

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had sworn unto your father's hath. The Lord brought you

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out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of

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the house of bondmen. Has he ever delivered you from

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any sin habit? Has he ever delivered you from a

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relationship he shouldn't have been in. Has he ever delivered

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you from a cycle of abuse? Has He delivered you

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from the things that you have said negatively about yourself?

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Because maybe you heard somebody saying it to you in

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your formative years and you keep repeating this in your

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own mind. Well, he's delivering you from the hand of Pharaoh,

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the king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord thy God,

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he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and

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mercy in them that love Him and keep his commandments

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to a thousand generations. And the Bible says, greater love

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hath no man than this, The man laid down his

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life for his friends. Jesus is keeping covenant on the

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God side of the thing, and he also is keeping

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covenant on the human side, so.

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Speaker 1: That you can keep covenant with Thanks for joining us,

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listens and friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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

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This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,

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make it a great day. Yeah,