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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 Tuesday, March

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

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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 the

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final week of our lessons study series, God's Love and

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Justice under the caption Law and Grace. We're talking about

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law and grace. Before we get into that, I'd like

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to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those

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to type number seven here because it's not helping you

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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 giving us this new day,

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this morning that has in it all of your calling,

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all of your blessing. Please give us your understanding Father,

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and teach us to serve you with everything we have

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and everything we are in Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. All right, let me just go ahead

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and begin with a newsflash. Grace does not replace God's law. Man,

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I just say that one more time. Newsflash like this

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just in Grace does not replace God's law. In fact,

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grace gives us the ability to keep God's law. And

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you're like, come on, Dave, that sounds like some legalistic stuff.

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Just give me a second. I want you to define grace.

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You can look it up in dictionaries. I want you

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to look it up, especially in both Hebrew and Greek

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dictionaries and concordances, and you let me know what you find.

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Let me tell you what I have found. Grace is

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number one unmerited favor. God gives us favor when we

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don't deserve it. We're sinners saved by grace he gives us,

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or I should say saved by grace. We're sinners that

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are being saved by God. Let me say it that way,

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And Grace says He's doing it not because we deserve it.

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He's doing it because He loves us. Okay, unmerited favor,

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we cannot earn it. But it's also power to do

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God's will. Unmerited favor number one, number two, power to

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do God's will. You see what happens when you have

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these little these little gestures enabled on these platforms. Okay,

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so well, what is God's will? There are so many

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places in scripture that we read where God's will is,

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but the baseline, the foundation for all of those is

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right in the commandments like those are a manifestation of

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the character of God or a transcript as we like

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to say of his character, that is God's will, and

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if we love him, he has promised that he will

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act out his will through us, you see. And so

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the law of God can only be kept by humans

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by the grace that God instills in us to have favor.

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We're alive, and we shouldn't be alive. We should be

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already suffering the second death. And number two, we are

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empowered now to do His will. And so what we're

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going to do is read now beginning at verse thirty

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one from Jeremiah, chapter thirty one, and make more sense

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of it. And the Bible reads, behold, the days come

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set the Lord that I will make a new covenant

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with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah.

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Let me just ask you a quick question. Where in

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the Bible does the Book of Jeremiah fall. Is it

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in the Old Testament or in the New Testament? Or

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hold on before you before you tell me. Is it

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in the Old Covenant part of the Bible or in

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the New Covenant? Somebody just learned something. You're scratching your head.

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Some of you just learned something. So Testament and Covenant

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same word, Old Covenant, New Covenant Old Testament, New Testament.

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And so when God is now giving us understanding concerning

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this reality that I'm about to read about, He's giving

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it to us in the Old Covenant dispensation, the Old Testament,

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that is, before Jesus took on human flesh to manifest

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to the world who God is, to keep the law perfectly.

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And then for those who live with him, live for

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him by faith, give us the ability to do the same.

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And of course he gave his life, he gave his life,

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he took his life back up again, and now he

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is in heavenly places doing a very special and unique ministry.

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And I'm thankful, okay. And so God is now giving

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us a sneak peek into the power way back then.

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So for those who are New Covenant in Air quotes Christians,

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people who believe in the New Covenant, I believe in

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the New Covenant. Yes, well, if you believe in the

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New Covenant, then you believe in what we're reading here here.

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It comes here. It comes with the House of Israel

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and with the House of Judah. Not according to the

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covenant that I made with their fathers in the day

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that I took them by the hand and pulled them

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out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break.

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You see, they broke it. They did not have the

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strength to keep the covenant, the law. They had no

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strength to do it. But this shall be the covenant

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that I will make with the House of Israel. After

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those days, I actually gave you a sneak peak of

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what we're saying. Here set the Lord. I will put

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my law, what law God, the Ten Commandments law in

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their inward parts, and I will write it in their

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hearts in the same way that God inscribed emblazoned upon

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the tables of sapphire stone. They were not gray, they

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were not bige. They didn't look like some kind of

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granite that we would put on our countertops at the house.

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They were sapphire. That blue, according to the Book of Numbers,

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actually represents the law of God. That the people of God,

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when they would see the blue tassel or riband on

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their clothes at the border him border of their garments,

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they would be reminded of the law of God, and

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that those tables of stone were actually taken out of

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the actual throne of God. And then God inscribed with

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his own finger the law of God and now he's

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saying He's going to do that on your hearts, brothers

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and sisters. Yeah, he's like, oh, but that says the

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House of Israel. Well, a lot of people say that

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they're new covenant Christians. I don't see a text that

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says anything about covenant with Christians. I see what the

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House of Israel. And that means that he's right when

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he said of Abraham that those who are baptized into

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Christ are abraham seed and heirs according to the promise.

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And so we become the House of Israel if we

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keep covenant with God. If we are baptized into Christ,

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we become cat We become covenant keepers. And therefore we

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are able to live according to God's principles. Let me

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keep going. Let me keep going. And he said that

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I will put my law in their inward parts and

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write it in their hearts, and be their God, and

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they shall be my people. What a promise. And they

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shall teach no more, every man his neighbor and every

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man his brother, saying no the Lord, for they shall

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all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest.

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So many other passages we could read in John chapter

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three run through twenty one. But the Bible is teaching

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us that God is writing his law in our hearts.

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God is showing us that when he does that we

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become obedient. We have direct knowledge of God, we have

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forgiveness of sin, we have new spiritual life, we have

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kingdom citizenship, and we are transformed in our nature. Why

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because God has kept his promise that if you will

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submit your will to him, his law will become a

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part of your lifestyle.

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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,