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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. Let's experience God's words today and

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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 Tuesday, February eighteen,

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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 to Love God. I love this subject today.

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To Love God is our caption. Actually our series is

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God's Love and Justice. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but before we do, I'd like to say

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welcome to you and ask you to go over to

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Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that

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

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

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thank you for giving us this new morning and for

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your love, which is amazing. You are amazing Father. Teach

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us to live according to your principles of love and

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to do your will. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again to love God. And immediately I wasn't

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planning this, but immediately as Mac was do the opener,

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I was thinking about a song by the late Eleanor Wright,

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the late Eleanor Wright, do you Love God more than Anything?

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And I'll play just a little bit of it, and

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then we'll jump into the Bible text.

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Speaker 3: Do you love God more than anything? Do you love God?

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Do you love God more than anything? Do you love God?

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Speaker 2: Love is all God.

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Speaker 3: We'll ask in return for that He has given, and

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love will be the endless theme, love the host of Him. Man.

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Speaker 2: Oh dude, Now, you all who know me know me,

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realize that I can play music the entire time. But

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that's not why you're here. But that is a question though,

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with which we must contend. Do you love and I'm

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asking me that, like, do you love God more than anything?

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And it's our privilege to love God. But interestingly, God

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can't force anyone to love him? Can I just say

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that again, God cannot. I know what word I just

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used advisedly. I said God cannot force anyone to love him,

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and that means that that would actually be the antithesis

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of love. If he forced, then it's not love. And

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so when people say God can do anything, I understand.

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I understand what we mean when we say that. But

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the truth is God cannot fail. God cannot force our

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will because if he forced our will, then that would

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be antithetical to his character, you understand. And so in

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the same vein, he does not force love God. He

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gives us the privilege to love him freely. Now he

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does give the command though, he does give the clear

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guidance that there are two great commandments. One is to

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love the Lord your God. The number one, love the

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Lord your God with all your heart and with all

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your mind and everything that you have, all of your strength.

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And the second is like unto it. He says to

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love your neighbor as yourself. And so I'm going into

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the Bible Book of Deuteronomy, the Bible Book of Deuteronomy,

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chapter six, and I will begin with verse one. You see,

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sometimes people are so accustomed to abuse and force and

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authoritarian rule and domineering personalities that it is it is

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weird for people to say, well, wait a minute. You're

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saying that people can freely give, freely love, have the

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choice to love or not to love. Yes, And the

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Bible reads, now, these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances

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that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you.

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This is Moses speaking, so that you may carry them

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in out in the land where you are headed, and

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that you may so revere the Lord your God, that

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you will keep all his statutes and commandments. That I

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am giving you, you, your children, and your grandchildren all

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your lives to prolong your days. Pay attention to Israel,

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and be careful to do this so that it may

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go well with you, and that you may increase greatly

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in number. As the Lord, the God of your ancestors

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said to you, you will have a land flowing with

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milk and honey. Beginning at verse four, now here, oh Israel,

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the Lord, our God is one lord. You see, God

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is unified God, the Father God, the Son, God, the

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Holy Ghost are all on the same page with everything

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that matters in the universe. They are unified. And the

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Bible continues, And thou shalt love the Lord, thy God

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with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and

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with all thy might. You see, God gives us the

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power and privilege to love him. You see, he is

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empowering us. The Bible says, we love him be cause

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he first loved us. So he is the cause of

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our ability to love him. You see where this is going.

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He is the cause of our ability to love him.

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And so and so when he says that we shall

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love the Lord our God with everything we have and

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everything we are, he is also promising us that if

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we love him, he is going to live out his

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love through our lives, and we will be able to

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also keep his commandments. Verse six. These words I am

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commanding you this day must be kept in mind, and

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you must teach them to your children, and speak of

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them as you sit in your house, and as you

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walk along the road, and as you lie down, and

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as you get up. You shall tie them as a

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reminder on your forearm, and fasten them as symbols on

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your forehead inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses

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and your gates. If I were to write anything on

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my screens, my computer screens, my devices here, my mobile device,

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on my YouTube account, on my social media platforms. As

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I am consuming, I don't do a lot of consumption.

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But if I am consuming, then I need to put

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these words on the doorposts of all of my devices.

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Because if I am teaching my child Josiah to them

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as I sit in our house and walk along the

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road and lie down the commandments of God, then that

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also gets into my entertainment choices, that gets into my

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relationship choices, that gets into how I do business. You see,

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these devices are the portal for me, I'm saying, for me,

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the portal to the world. That's how I do business.

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That is how I relate to people that are my clients.

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That's how I move out into certain aspects of ministry.

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And so with all of this as the door on

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the doorframes of my house, my gates, my devices, my life,

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then that means that I will actually learn to love God.

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And if I love God more than anything, one day

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I'll get to see Him as he is. 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.

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Speaker 3: Yeah,