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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, April seven,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 how to study Bible prophecy. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first i'd like to

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say welcome to you. Ask you to go over to

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your Daily dot com. Please type www dot your Daily

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Portion dot com. Please join our online community, and we're

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still looking for ten thousand people. On that page. On

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It's a number seven. In a circle. Click that number

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seven and also join join that community as well 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, and then we will get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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day and for the opportunity to come together in this

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manner to not just open your word, but to be

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transformed by you through your word. I pray that we

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will live the love that you have given to us

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in Jesus name. I pray Amen and a men again,

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understanding God's love. Understanding God's love. I will admit every

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quarter order that we begin a new lesson study, I

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have difficulty for the first one or two weeks as

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I'm presenting, because the lesson is always teaching us foundational

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teachings to get us in full swing, in full gear

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as we run forward with the subsequent weeks. And sometimes

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for me, I'm not saying anything's wrong with it, but

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sometimes for me, it's the details that people get lost

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in and we're not able to really connect with God

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unless we do so intentionally. So I want you to

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be intentional, and I think today's lesson more than just

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it being sort of academic in nature is a good

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principle because it's all about God and his love. So

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I don't want you to focus of course, it says

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understanding God's Love, but I don't want you to focus

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on this, like you know, asking your device, what is

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the definition of love? Next question? What we're looking for

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is a connection with God. Because God so loved the

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world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever

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believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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God didn't send his son into the world to condemn

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the world. Sometimes people feel condemned. Sometimes you hear voices

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in your own minds from when you were young and

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people only had condemnatory or critical things to say of you,

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And I'm talking about unproductive critical things to say to

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or about you, and you super impose. Sometimes we put

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that on our relationship with God and we feel condemned

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all of the time. But understanding God's Love says that

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he didn't come to condemn us, but to transform us. Yes,

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there are times that we will receive God's correction and

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chastisement and reproof. Yes, there are many, many, many times

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that we will have to turn away from our sin

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and turn toward God because He loves us, and so

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understanding the nature of love is the key and important

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key to understanding Bible prophecy. So we read the end

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of the story. Let me read now from the book

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the Great Controversy. See the end of the story teaches

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us this, the entire universe is clean. I'm looking forward

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to that day. Yes, if you are looking forward to

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the day that the entire universe is clean. There is

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no more talk of crime or violence, no more sex,

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inappropriate sex, money and murder like when if you're looking

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forward to those days, go ahead and type of one

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in the chat. The entire universe is clean. One pulse

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of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation from

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Him who created all flow, life and light and gladness

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throughout the realms of illimitable space, from the minutest atom

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to the greatest world. All things animate and inanimate, in

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their shadow, unshadowed beauty and perfect joy declare just one message.

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You want to know what that message is? Here is

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the one message that God is love. I'm looking forward

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to the day that that is our reality. But until

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then we hold on to the truth by faith that

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God loves us so much that he gave us all

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of heaven and one gift so that we can be

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transformed and be saved and help others to do the same.

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And so based on the story in Genesis chapter twenty two,

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beginning at verse one, we are seeing the profound mention

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of love. The first mention of quote love in the

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Bible is found in Genesis twenty two. And I will

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read just a couple of the verses, and it reads,

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and it came to pass after these things that God

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did tempt or test Abraham and said unto him Abraham,

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and he said, behold here am I. And he said,

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unto him, Take now thy son, thine only son whom thou.

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What is the word? Here? Lovest? And get thee into

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the land of Mariah and offer him there for a

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burnt offering. Wait a minute, God is asking or commanding

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Abraham to give his son as a sacrifice, the one

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whom he loves. Yes, I wish I had the time

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to deal with why Abraham found himself in this predicament.

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It was because the father of the faithful wasn't as

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faithful as we know that he became at some point

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when God talked to him and to his wife about

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the promise Sarah, about the promise of the son that

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God would put into they're loins who would be the

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basis of many great nations, A great nation. Yes, but

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they did not believe God to the to the point

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of action. And so and so now we have this test.

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I wish I had the time. But the first mention

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of love in this context shows us. Number one, God's sacrifice.

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I said, God's sacrifice love, God's kind of love, his

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brand of love, if you will, is sacrificial in nature.

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And I already said it to you. For God so

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loved the world that he was gave, He sacrificed, He

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gave his only begotten son. That's the one of a

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kind son, Jesus is one of a kind. And it

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teaches us that love requires sacrifice. You say you love someone,

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you say you're you love that woman, gentlemen you're about

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to get married. Ladies, you say that you love that

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that guy you're about to get married. Well, what does

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it look like? Well, love requires a sort of sacrifice.

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What am I investing? Who? What of myself am I giving?

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And of course it's the highest love, the highest cost

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that sacrifice. Giving what is dearest? What could be more

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dear than Abraham's son? Are you serious? The Son of Promise,

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the son that was a part of the whole controversy

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in the end where Ishmael and Hagar and the discussion

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of whether Iliezer's children could be a part of you

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understand of this covenant situation. Giving what is dearest means

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that godly love is sacrificial. Number two, it will be tested.

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The Bible says that God did tempt or test Abraham.

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Love proves genuine through trials. Is it real or is

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it fake? Or counterfeit? Is it real or is it fake?

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Love proves genuine through trials. Also, love is demonstrated by obedience.

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We can't say we love God and then don't live

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according to his commandments. I wish I had the time,

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and then, of course love is stronger than self preservation.

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Let me give you just a couple more principles. We

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have run out of time. Love is costly. The prophetic

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part is that God will give himself as the lamb

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in the person of Jesus Christ. And then love has

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an element of trust and it's responsive, and we see

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God's character of love in this story, But do we

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see his love in our lives? My answers yes.

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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.

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Speaker 2: Yeah,