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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 Thursday, August

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twenty nine, twenty twenty four. 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 our

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Lesson study series through the Book of Mark. Our caption

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for today is the Greatest Commandment, the Greatest Commandment. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first i'd

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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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 and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,

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for the opportunity that we have to pray. Father, Please

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give us the spirit of the law in our bosom.

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Please write your laws in our hearts, Father, and in

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our minds. Help us to live like Jesus lived. In

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Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again the greatest Commandment.

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Now this is a very interesting discussion. I like it.

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I like it. We'll get into it now from the

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Bible Book of Mark, chapter twelve, and we'll read beginning

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at verse twenty eight. Okay twelve, and we will read

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beginning at verse number twenty eight. And the Bible reads.

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And one of the scribes came, and, having heard them

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reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well,

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asked him, which is the first commandment of all? He said,

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which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him,

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the first of all commandments is here, oh Israel, the Lord,

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our God is one lord. And thou shalt love the

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Lord with thy heart, all thy heart, and with all

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thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all

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thy strength. This is the first great or first commandment,

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and the second, namely, is like unto this, thou shalt

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love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment

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greater than these. And the scribes said to him, well mastered,

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thou hast said the truth. For there is one God,

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and there is none other but He. And to love

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him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,

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and with all the soul, and with all the strength,

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and to love his neighbor as himself is more than

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all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that,

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he answered discreetly he said, unto him, thou art not

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far from the Kingdom of God. He said, thou art

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not far from the Kingdom of God. And no man

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after that durst ask him any question. I really love

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what just happened here? First of all, sometimes we in

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twenty twenty four, like we modern day believers, categorize all scribes, Pharisees, Herodians, sadducees,

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and all of the priests and leaders of the people

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of God back in Jesus's days times, we type cast them.

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We say that that all of them were wicked and

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that they were they were enemies of God. And it's like, well, no, no, no, no, no

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no no no, no no no. That is almost like

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modern day racism, like sometimes people say, because you're from

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a certain group of people, then fill in the negative

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blank here, and it's like, no, that is not the reality.

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It is true that they're in that reality. Then with

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these religious leaders, that there were some people who did

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not live according to God's principles, some of them were

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enemies of God, but not all were like this. Not

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all of any people group are like anything except humans.

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All of us are humans and the rest of it.

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We need to find out, like we need to ask

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the question, We need to experience people. We need to

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see the fruit that the lives of individuals bear. And

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so this individual scribe who had details like this brother

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knew the law of God, like he was a faithful scribe,

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but apparently apparently he had real interest in God. Apparently

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he was. He was open, and he was he was

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receptive to Jesus Christ. And so when Jesus answers him,

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the man is satisfied. When I say satisfied, I mean

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he's satisfied that Jesus quote is on the right track.

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That's a whole discussion, right. I understand, like Jesus is

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the one who gave this truth. But I'm saying, like

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this man, it resonated with him. He knew that he

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was having an encounter with someone who was fully connected

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to the truth concerning God's word. And he called that

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man Jesus, He called him master, and then he reiterated

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the Shamah Shamah. So Jesus, now he's he's reciting to

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the man the law in the law from the book

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of Deuteronomy as we see it now Deuteronomy chapter six,

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where Shama is the Lord hero Israel. The Lord our

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God is one Lord, and thou shalt worship him with

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everything that you have and everything that you are, Shamah.

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That is what resonated with the people of God. Then,

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and to hear and to do was one. And in

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the same to hear and to do hear about the

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Lord our God, who is one Lord. I wish I

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had the time to deal with the one Lord part.

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But he also said to now worship and live according

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to the principles of what you hear, hearing and doing

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are the same. You hear the commandments of God, then

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do them. If you can discern the voice of God,

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then do what the voice says. What God says to you.

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Hear our prayer, O Lord, We sing that sometimes among

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ourselves in religious exercises. Here our prayer, O Lord, ligne

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thine ear to us, you say, hearing and then doing

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incline your ear to us. Okay, okay, he's key. He's

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giving keen attention to our prayers and then grant us.

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He's acting now on our behalf. Grant us thy peace.

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And so we agree now that to hear and to

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do is the same. What what is Jesus getting at here?

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He said? The first commandment of all is to love

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God with everything. And I love it because because there's

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nothing on reserve, like there's nothing that we hold back.

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Our habits on the internet. We love God with those.

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The money that either we have or we will have

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in the future, We love God with those. The relationships

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that we develop with people, just people everyday people ja

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at our jobs, where we exercise, when we are on

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the road in the taxi, when we encounter people, if

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we do fly overseas or wherever we go in the airports,

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we are loving God with that aspect of our hearts

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and in those secret places, those things that we entertain

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in our minds that nobody will ever know, nobody will

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ever know, we worship God in that space too. We

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worship God with all of our hearts and all of

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our minds, even those things that we don't want to

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let go of. But because we love God and we

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are worshipers, we say, okay, God, we yield. I yield

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like I open up my mind and heart to you

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so that you can have your way with me. Thank

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you God. And so that is the first and great commandment.

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May I just say right here that this is a

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miracle for a human being who is a son or

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a daughter of Adam, who was the first man. He

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was the one that represented the human race. He gave

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us the disease of desiring to sin. But it's a

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miracle when a human being in that condition can learn

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to love God. It's a miracle. And so when Jesus

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says the second is like unto it, now we can

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see that to love human beings is also a miracle.

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I'm not talking about loving human beings because they quote

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love us. I'm not saying that we love human beings

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in response to how they treat us. I'm saying to

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have the kind of love that Jesus is talking about

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for human beings, loving my neighbor as myself like unto

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the first Law. It's also miraculous, and it is only

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because God writes his laws and our hearts and on

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our minds under the New Covenant, that we can keep

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the first and second Commandment.

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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,