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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 Friday, February seven,

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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, and our caption for

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today is God is Love. These are three three pivotal words,

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three pivotal words in this day and age. God is Love.

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

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we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and

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so we can apply the lesson in four areas of

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our lives. So it goes with the quarterly. It is

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not the quarterly. And if it continues to be of

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value to you, then we'll continue to produce it. Otherwise

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

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ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for this more and for giving

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us this day of preparation. We are living in a

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time of preparation. Please teach us to prepare for the

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Sabbath hour and prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ.

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In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. God

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is love. Now, that is something that maybe escapes a

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lot of people, including believers. It escapes sometimes because maybe

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we say it so flippantly, like we say it so quickly.

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It's like, yeah, God is love. And then and then

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really don't know what that means, but listen, I want

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to also say while we go down through this lesson

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today that God cares what we think about him because

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that will determine if we accept Him as love and

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be saved. Can I say it again? I know that

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some people are having free in brain right now, like

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how could God care what we think about him? Like,

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he doesn't have a challenge with who he is. That's correct,

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But God cares what we think about him because that

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will impact what we will do with his love and

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whether or not we will accept salvation from him. Okay,

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so we're going right into my favorite book, my favorite book,

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Steps to Christ. Outside of the Bible, my number one

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favorite book is Steps to Christ. It's a short, thirteen

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chapter book, really really short, but changed my life and

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has continued to change my life. And it reads beginning,

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let's see what page we're going to begin, Page ten,

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The Word of God reveals his character. So if you

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want to know who God is, if you want to

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know how to relate to him, if you want to

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see a transcript of God's character, then you go into

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the Bible. I want to be very clear when it

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says the Word of God is talking about these sixty

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six blessed books that we now call the Bible, the

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New Testament and the Old Testament, the Old Testament and

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the New and that's where we can see the revelation

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of his character. Let me continue the quote. He himself

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has declared his infinite love and pity. When Moses prayed,

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show me thy glory, the Lord answered, I will make

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all my goodness pass before thee. This is his glory.

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The Lord passed before Moses. You're like, well, what is

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his glory about. To tell you, this is his glory.

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This is his glory. Here we go, and he passed

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before Moses, and he proclaimed, it's God speaking, nobody speaking

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for him. He's not speaking through a prophet by the

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Holy Ghost. No, He's proclaiming himself the Lord, the Lord God,

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mercyful and gracious, long suffer, and abundant in goodness and truth.

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This is what God is showing us his glory. Now.

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He's showing us that he is the Lord, the self

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existent and eternal one, the one who is so powerful

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and yet he is so near near enough to hear

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the groanings. According to the first few chapters of the

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Book of Exodus. He can hear the groanings of his people.

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He's self existent, he is eternal, and yet he can

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come near enough to us, even though he is God Almighty,

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blessed be his name. He can come so close close

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to us, and he is so near to who we

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are and what we need, that he can hear our groanings.

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He's the Lord, God, merciful and gracious. Have you ever

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been in a situation where you needed God's mercy. I'm

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talking about that time that you said, God, if you

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will deliver me, then I will. I will not do

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this again, and he delivers you, and then did it

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again anyway, and you broke your promises, and then in

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your own spirit, in your own mindset, you're like my promises.

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They feel like ropes of sand. I feel like when

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I say something, I no longer mean it, and I'm

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having a difficult time. And God, with his unmerited favor,

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comes towards you with his grace that is power to

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do what he says. He gives you this power. And

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by the way, in the meantime, he's long suffering. He's

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long suffering. That means he's very patient, extremely patient, and

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abundant in goodness and truth. Sometimes when you switch on

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your television, you have to wonder if people know what

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the world truth is. You have to fact check everything.

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We don't know if what looks like a human on

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the screen is actually a human or if it is

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some kind of robot that was manufactured in a computer

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with the artificial intelligence at the level that it has reached.

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And I have no price problem with artificial intelligence. I'm

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just saying, sometimes we don't know if it's a human

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in front of us or if it's a machine. Sometimes

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we don't know if it's a human speaking to us

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or a machine. But God is saying. God is saying

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that he is He is true all the time, and

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he's always good, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity. That's

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the kind of that's the kind of infraction against God's

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holy law and his government when humans know what he

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stands for and go against him anyway, like iniquity is

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when King David took Bathsheba and he murdered bath Sheba's husband.

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That's iniquity. Knowing full well who God is and what

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God stands for, knowing that he is the judge of all,

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and not caring, Oh wait a minute. Sometimes humans in

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twenty twenty five are doing the same thing, most of

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us who are listening on on this program or watching

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me on this program, knowing exactly what God wants, and

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some God forbid even though he said in our lives,

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let's make it an example. Like in our lives, he said,

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don't eat of the fruit of the tree that is

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in the midst of the garden. And some of us,

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like Adam, I said, like Adam, I didn't mention Eve

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I said, like Adam, take the fruit, knowing full well

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everything that's going on, not being deceived but being self

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deceived instead, and still do what God said, don't do

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very simple. God gives simple instructions, nothing, nothing too complicated

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about don't eat of the fruit that's in the midst

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of the garden, for in the day that thou eatest

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thereof thou shalt surely die. Like that is as clear

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as it can be. And God has given us the

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same thing in his holy ten commandments about thou shalt

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and thou shalt not very clear. And in twenty twenty

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five there are people still trampling the commandments of God,

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are still proud, are still covetous, and some people are

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still murderous in our thoughts and our actions. Some people

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we are trampling the seventh day Sabbath, saying that it

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doesn't matter what day. Ha ha, it doesn't matter what day.

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And it's like, I don't know about that, because the

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Bible is very clear. God only made one day holy.

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He's only sanctified one day. And I don't mean for worship.

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I'm saying for holiness. We worship God every day, but

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He's only made one day holy. And by the way,

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if you have a spouse, your husband, ladies, your wife, gentlemen,

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that spouse is the only spouse for you. You can't have

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three and four spouses. But God is love and he's

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so loving that he manifests himself in his word to

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the degree that we can see and learn to love

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him and be saved Peast.

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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,