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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 Sabbath, December

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twenty eight, 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 beginning with lesson

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number one in our new Lesson study series, God's Love

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and Justice, and our caption for today is God Loves Freely.

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God Loves freely. Before we get into that, I'd like

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to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining

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us for the very first time. I am so happy

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we did an exceptional time, had an exceptional time in

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the Book of Mark, and then in John and now

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we get to see God's love and justice balanced. Before

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we begin, I'd like to say, please go over to

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your Daily Portion dot com. I'm asking you to let

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us know where you are in the world. Also join

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our online community. But this is our second quarter of

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releasing the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide. It goes

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with this lesson study, Okay, So pick that up at

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the appropriate time. You can download it or you can

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get it in paperback. And I'm asking you to do

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that because sometimes we don't know how to apply, we

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don't know how to apply the truths that we see.

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We will do it in four key areas every single day.

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I'm not going to go through the guide every day,

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but I'll give you a taste of it today as

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the Lord gives us strength. But make sure at the

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appropriate time you do get that guide because it goes

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right with the lesson. Okay. So let's go ahead and

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

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thank you for this day and for giving us the

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privilege to come together on this Sabbath morning and to

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not just consider your word, but live live by the

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truths of your word. And I pray that today you

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will teach us how to love you and embrace your love,

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embrace your justice in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and

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a man again. God loves freely. Now on my lesson,

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I actually underscored the words, but then I added the

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word me, and it reads like this, God loves me freely.

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And I would encourage you to do the same thing,

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because sometimes in a passive way, we say Jesus loves

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Jesus loves you brother, Jesus loves you, sister, or we

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might sing the song Jesus loves me. This I know,

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for the Bible tells me so little ones to him belong.

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They are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me.

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And then somehow our intellect or our random negative thoughts

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about ourselves or who knows what else, will not apply

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it to me. Not this time, God, not this time.

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I don't really know if you love me, because when

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I pray, you don't answer my prayers. And it's like,

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did he answer your prayer and just say no? And

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you didn't believe in his sovereignty to be able to

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say no. Because no is the best for his will

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and the best for your good. So Jesus loves me freely.

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And then I wrote in my lesson yes and read

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letters exclamation points. Celebrate that. Celebrate the fact that God

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loves you. Fill in your name here, like God loves me.

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Celebrate that. There are times that his love, His love

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gives me. The things that I like, like the things

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that get me all have butterflies in my stomach. And

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I love exactly what He has done or not done.

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But then there are times that I need chiding correction.

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There are times that when I ask for patients, then

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things that are challenging come my way, and I have

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to build the patience muscle. God loves me. Celebrate that.

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And so now we read from the book of Hoseiah Hoseiah,

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Chapter fourteen and verse four. I will heal their backsliding.

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I will love them freely from my anger has turned

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away from him. You see, there are times that people relapse.

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God's people relapse. We re degenerate, we go backwards. Sometimes

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God's people go backwards, not because we have to, not

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because after all, we're on only human. But some people

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who have tasted of the heavenly gift of God sometimes

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turned back like Lot's wife, and because God loves them.

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God loves us. There are times that there is a

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there are there's chastisement that comes with that. I wish

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I had the time to deal with that, But he

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said that that he will heal that that that backsliding spirit,

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that thing that makes you want to go backward, that

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thing that says when we were we were in Egypt,

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it was better for us, even though we were enslaved.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: When I was in that relationship I should never have

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been into. But at least I had some pleasure. Ah,

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I want to go back to that. No, at least

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when I was drinking that rum or smoking that weed, Like,

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at least in those times I could, I could forget

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about my troubles for that moment, and I felt like

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I was more in control of my life. But now

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the stress is beyond me, and it's like no, no, no, no,

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I will heal that spirit that causes you to think

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that before you connected with God, it was better that somehow,

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that degenerating spirit, that degenerative spirit that breaks down, like

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somehow you believe that that is is better, Like when

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you were watching those things just to take your mind away,

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those movies that have nothing to do with building your character,

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those movies that actually tend away from God and you

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you somehow find solace in that or in the discussion

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that makes you just feel better about yourself because somebody's

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just an echo chamber and just telling you only good

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stuff rather than helping you and say, hey, brother, hey sister,

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like this is an area that you want to be

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on the lookout for, you understand. So sometimes I need

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that kind of healing. We're looking at the balance of

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God's love and his righteousness or justice.

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Speaker 1: Ha.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I need that kind of what people call tough love.

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But we're talking about tough love from God's perspective, not humans.

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And so Peter, Peter, Yeah, I have to put myself

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in the story of Peter, as he had denied Jesus.

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He had denied Jesus three times and even to the

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point of cursing, saying bad word so that the young

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woman would disassociate Peter from Jesus. He was distancing himself

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from Jesus because Jesus was holy. But Jesus was about

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to be murdered on a cross, and he was like,

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oh no, no, no, no, don't put me in that

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because I'm not trying to go on that cross. Oh no, no, no, no, no,

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I was not with Jesus. Big bad word alert, bit

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bad word alert. So so I want to prove that

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I don't have nothing to do with Jesus. And of

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course Jesus, having told him this already, their sets of

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eyes met in Jesus just went on and did what

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he promised he would do to save us from our sins.

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And now Peter, feeling dejected, feeling the reality of his degeneration,

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feeling the reality of his backsliding, like Peter feeling the

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relapse in his soul, is now sorrowful. But there comes

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a point after Jesus is raised, after he takes his

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life back up again, he goes to Peter. He sends

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a message to him first, but then he goes to Peter,

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and then he he asks him some serious questions. You see,

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when Jesus was on the cross, see, Peter was denying

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him before the cross, and while Jesus was on the cross,

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he felt forsaken like Peter. James and John left Jesus

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when they should have been praying for him in the

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garden of Gethsemite they were sleeping. And now Jesus is

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taking that feeling of separation to the cross and the

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Father is not shining his light on Jesus to where

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Jesus can discern it, and he feels like he is

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being forsaken by his father. But now that Jesus has

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done what he said he was going to do, he's

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forsaken by the disciples, forsaken by Peter. He feels he's

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not but he feels forsaken by God, our father, and

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he gives his life, and now he has to overcome Jesus,

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overcome that sense of those feelings of abandonment. How does

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love figure into this equation? He comes back, he gives

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his life and then takes it back again, and he

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asks Peter do you love me? Three times he asks

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Peter do you love me? And Peter in frustration. Finally,

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finally he submits his whole mind to God and say yes,

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I love you. I do love you. And Jesus says, well,

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if you love me, I need you to feed feed

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my sheep. This is a relationship principle that tends toward God.

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You see, God loves me freely, so I have the

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privilege to love him too.

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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,