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

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

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

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Sunday. It's

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February two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle

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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,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series, God's Love and Justice, and wouldn't you

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know our caption for today is love and Justice. We'll

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get into that in just a moment. I like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.

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Please pick up the Your Daily Portion companion guide. It

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goes with the quarter's lesson right and I've said to

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you a few days in a row that we are gauging.

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This is the second quarter we've done it, and if

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it's successful, we'll continue Otherwise, otherwise we'll use our time

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more wisely than to go through what it takes to

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produce this book. Okay, so it's up to you. It's

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up to you. If it's useful to you, then you

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pick it up. If it's not, then no worries. We

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just won't produce it again. Okay. This is all at

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray. Father, we do thank you for

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this day and for giving us your love. Help us

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to understand your love and live in the fullness of

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a good relationship with You Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and a man again. There is so much that we

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just literally do not understand about God's love. We just don't.

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And that's not a negative. It's our reality as limited

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human beings. But may I just say this, as I

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have shared with you before, Justice in the scriptures almost

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all of the time means righteousness. So justice and righteousness

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mean the same thing. And so where there is no justice.

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There is no righteousness, you understand. So righteousness is what

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is undergirding our discussion here, because because sometimes people misconstrue

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what love is. Let me say that one more time.

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People misconstrue what love is because sometimes they're seeking justice

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at the expense of other people. Times, not understanding or

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really living what justice is, they turn their backs on love,

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true love. So justice according to God's principles means that, yes,

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sin has to be extinguished from the earth one day

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because love cannot prevail where righteousness is not prevailing. Okay,

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so let me just go ahead and begin reading from

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the Bible Book of Psalms, the Bible Book of Psalms,

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chapter thirty three, and I'll read verse five. I'll read

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verse five. He loveth righteousness and judgment. The earth is

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full of the goodness of the Lord. Let me read

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it from another version. The Lord loves justice and fairness.

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He is full of the Lord's faithful love. Aren't you

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glad that God loves justice and love and love. God

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loves love justice. This sounds weird, Yeah, aren't you glad?

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Because listen, if our baseline or our foundation is God,

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then how in the world would we not live according

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to his principles of love and justice. See, we don't

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have to get mixed up in the way that we

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talk about it in politics. We don't have to be

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mixed up in the way that sometimes Christianese speaking people

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get mixed up because we misapprehend the Bible. No, we

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can just simply look to God. How does he live

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where love and justice is concerned. Look at how he

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dealt with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

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after they both had sinned. You see the love of

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God in full swing because he went there and he

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reached out to the first human he created, Adam. He

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represents the human race, and he goes, Adam, where are you?

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And he's beginning to show Adam really where Adam is.

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Not because God didn't know. He wanted Adam to know

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that he was si paraded from him. He was naked, yes,

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he was hiding. Yes, he was ashamed, Yes he was afraid. Yes,

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But why because he turned us back on justice, He

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turned us back on righteousness, and his love quotient dropped

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through the bottom of his life. He no longer demonstrated

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the love that God had put in him in order

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to live a righteous life. You see, and so we

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see also that he could have God could have extinguished

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Adam and Eve, but he chose not to. He gave

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them mercy. He gave them what they needed in order

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to amend their ways. And so we see love and justice,

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and of course mercy is all mixed up in there.

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And perfectly God begins the journey of reconciliation. And in

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Isaiah chapter sixty one and verse eight, the Bible reads,

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for I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for

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burnt offering. I will direct their work in truth. I

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will make an everlasting covenant with them. Let me read

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it again in another version, For I the Lord love

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justice and hate robbery andson, I will faithfully reward my

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loyal followers and make an eternal covenant with them. And

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so the standard of righteousness the standard of God's covenant,

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the ten Commandments law. In this case, he has said

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that He under the New Covenant, has written them in

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our hearts and on our minds. God writes the transcript

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of his character the measure of righteousness in our new

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spiritual DNA, so that we can actually learn to love God.

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We can actually keep his commandments because they become a

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part of who we are under the New Covenant. And

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in Jeremiah chapter nine and verse twenty four, the Bible reads,

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but let the one who boasts boast about this that

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he understands and knows me, meaning God. For I the

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Lord who promotes fairness and justice and righteousness in the earth.

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For I delight in these things, declares the Lord Isa.

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In an Psalm chapter eighty five and verse ten, the

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Bible says, mercy and truth are met together. I gave

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you an inkling of that a moment ago. Righteousness and

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peace have kissed each other. That means they are they

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are balanced, They are in perfect harmony and agreement. And

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one more Psalm chapter eighty nine and verse fourteen, the

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Bible reads, Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne.

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Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule. Aren't you glad

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that God is characterized in this way? So that any ruler,

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any king, any president, any prime minister, or leader of

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a country can, if those individuals submit themselves to God,

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can manifest the same thing. Equity and justice, huh, loyal

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love and faithfulness. Anybody who is surrendered to God can

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live according to these principles. I wish I had the

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time to really deal with what I just said, and

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so I'm thankful because human justice has been perverted, human

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love has been watered down and spoiled, and now sometimes

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people live according to those false premises, and then of

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course that just reaks havoc in our lives. And so

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what I want you to do really is to invest

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some time and go to page ninety or eighty nine,

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eighty nine and look at the relationship's application in our

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Companion Guide, and I'll just give you a quick one

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on the w What is important now? God's call to

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love and justice extends to our relationships. We are to

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treat others with fairness, kindness, and mercy, reflecting His character

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in our interactions. So what are your relationships like? Are

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they the ones in your home with your spouse, your children,

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I'm with your parents are you? Are we talking about

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relationships that you have in the gym or some other

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exercise environment at work? What kinds of relationships are we

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talking about? We have the privilege because God writes his

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laws in our lives and our hearts to live according

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to love and justice everywhere we go and in all

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of our relationships. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,