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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.

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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: 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 Thursday. It's

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March twenty seven, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice just

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a couple more days here, and our caption for today

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is above all love one another, Above all love one another.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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that it will not be useful. No, we have archives

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materials are very useful as we approach the coming of

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Jesus Christ. So go ahead and pick that up, regardless

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of the fact that we are done here for this quarter.

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And please also, when you get there, click the number seven,

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as well at your portion dot com. This is one

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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 in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity

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to open up your word again today. Teach us to

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love like Jesus loves in Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Let's begin with the first sentence of

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the lesson writer's paragraph. It says here, if love is

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the fulfillment of the law. I like where this is going,

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then one cannot keep God's law in the full sense,

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simply by refraining from doing things. I'm going to read

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that again for those in the back. Okay, if love

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is the fulfillment of the law, then one cannot keep

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God's law in the full sense simply by refraining from

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doing things. You see. The problem that people have many

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times is that we think that we can abstain our

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way into holiness, we can stop our way into righteousness.

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You see, there are things that we need to be avoiding.

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There are things that we should completely stay away from,

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and we feel like like, if we do that, then

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we will be seen as holy. But the fact is,

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whereas we should be staying away from a lot of

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the things that we're saying, I mean, do we really

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need to talk about lying, cheating, stealing? Do we really

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need to talk about bad words and abusing people? Like?

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It's obvious that we need to at all costs avoid

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these things. Avoid pride like the plague, like avoid gossip

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like the plague. We must do that. But if we do,

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and when we do, it doesn't make us any more holy.

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And you're like, hold on, Dave, where are we gone

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with this thing? The truth is, holiness comes from God,

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not from abstinence. Somebody just got it. Holiness comes from God,

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not from abstinence, okay. And so what we want to

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do is yield our will to God. And when we

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yield our will, God gives us both to will and

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to do of his good pleasure. He is the one

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that makes us holy, not our own actions. Okay. And

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so we're going to read now since we have that

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framework from the Bible Book of James, chapter two, James

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chapter two, and I will read beginning at verse one,

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and the Bible reads, my brethren, have not the faith

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of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory with

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respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly

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a man with gold ring or goodly apparel, or there

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come in and also a poor man in vile raiment,

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and ye have respect to him that weareth the happy clothing,

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and say unto him, sit thou here in a good place,

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And say to the poor, stand thou there, or sit

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under the under my footstool. Are you not then being

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partial in yourselves? And are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken,

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my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of

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this world? Rich in faith? And heirs of the kingdom,

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which he hath promised to them that love him. But

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ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress

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you and draw you before the judgment seats. Do not

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they blaspheme and blaspheme that worthy name by which ye

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are called. If ye fulfill the royal law according to

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the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, you

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do well. But if ye have respect to persons, ye

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commit sin and are convinced of the law. And as

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excuse me, transgressors. Okay, I think the message is simple,

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even though the language may have been confusing to some

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of us. The law of God is very clear, very simple,

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and principally we are never to be partial. God wants

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us to be impartial. Not because somebody looks like they

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have money or they actually have means should we give

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them preference or be different toward them. Not because somebody

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looks like they have less means that we should somehow

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treat them with to despise them. No, God is saying

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that when we see people, we need to see Jesus

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in the people you see in another place, He said,

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as you have done it unto the least of these,

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my brethren, ye have done it unto me when I

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had When I had a need of clothing, did you

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come and clothe me? When I had a need of

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food or shelter? Did you give me food or help

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me find somewhere to live? Like when I had these

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needs and I seemed to be among the welfare class

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in these communities, how did you treat me? How did

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you treat me when I looked like I was rich

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and increased with goods? You see, God is saying, no

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matter how a person looks for our perception of them,

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they were created by God, and we should treat them

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with the love that God would have treated them with.

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And the Bible reads in First John, chapter three and

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verse fifteen, my little children, let us not love in word.

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We see, we talk about it a lot, We even

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do Bible studies like these. And everybody says amen, and

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maybe even looks around at maybe one of our neighbors

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and said, boy, I remember when you did that thing wrong,

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And don't say it, but we're thinking it. Well, yeah,

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he's talking to all of us, my little children, let

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us not love in word like, don't talk about it,

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be about it, neither in tongue, but in deed and

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in truth in Acts chapter ten. In Acts chapter ten,

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we see another principle of no discrimination, beginning at verse

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thirty four. Then Peter opened his mouth and said, of

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a truth, I perceive that God is no respector of persons.

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But in every nation, he that feareth Him, or respects

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God and worketh righteousness is accepted or welcomed by Him.

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And then we have love shows no partiality. We've said it,

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but let's read it from another passage from Romans chapter two,

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verse eleven. For there is no partiality with God. Isn't

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that very clear? For there is no respect of persons

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with God? And so how do we apply this? Well,

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let me just give seven quick tips. Love goes beyond

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avoiding evil. Love actively seeks good, Love treats all people equally.

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Love shows practical care, Love reflects God's character. Love searches

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and reaches beyond the four walls of what we call

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the church. And then, of course love demonstrates true faith. Yeah,

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above all, love one another. But we need to love

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like Jesus love. You know how to do it. If not,

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just ask him. Make it a great day. 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,