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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. It's

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February six, twenty twenty five. 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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption

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for today is hold fast to Love and Justice. Hold

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Fast to Love and Justice. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Pick

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application guide we have run it for two quarters now,

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and if this quarter is successful, then we will continue

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in subsequent subsequent quarters. If you still desire it, it

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paperback form, then we will continue to publish this. Otherwise,

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this is the end. It's okay, and I don't want

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to waste time with something that is not useful to you. Okay,

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So go over to your Daily Portion dot com and

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pick it up, and also let us know where you are.

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Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, we

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do thank you for this day. Thank you for your

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steadfast love. Thank you for giving us the right and

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the will or the right to choose. And I pray

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God that you will teach us to make the right

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choice today. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.

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Now listen. I know that some people were disturbed by

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what I said right as we were closing yesterday. You're like, well, wait,

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what did he just say? Yeah, that God allows us

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to live for holiness, make the right choices. And he

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also and I said, God forbid, he allows us to

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live the wrong way too. Yeah, not because he's for that.

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For two days we have been driving the fact that

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he is always holy, always just always good. But the

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fact is that when he Behold stands at the door

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and he is consistently incessantly knocking, he is knocking for

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us to allow him into our lives. The doorknob is

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on the inside of the door, not on the out.

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Jesus is not going to break down the door and

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come in. He's knocking, and he is giving us the

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freedom to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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We can do the right thing, and that is his desire.

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His singular desire is for every human being to live

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according to his principles, and for us to live with

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him eternally, for nobody to ever be destroyed or ever

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experience the consequences of sin. I hope you are listening clearly.

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But since he's a gentleman, since he gives us the

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freedom of choice, some people will choose the pathway of

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judas a scary out. I'm saying, God forbid, like some

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people will choose the pathway of Lucifer, who became the devil,

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the enemy of our souls. There are some people who

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will do that and not repent. Now, God's love and

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justice are always still here, his holiness still here, his

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love still here to transform our lives if we will

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just yield our will to him. But some people will

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choose the pathway of unrighteousness. And God is not going

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to force anyone to live holy. That's all I meant

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by it. And it's a and it's a it's a

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it's a it's a serious matter because now the question

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is what am I going to do at the time

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that God is entrusted to me? Will I embrace love?

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Will I hold fast to love?

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Speaker 1: M hmm?

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Speaker 2: Will I hold fast to righteousness? Or will I flip flop?

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Where I will I have a variableness and shadow of

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turning in my life where God does not? But will I?

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And so we we have the call of God. That

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he is the Lord, your God. He is God, the

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faithful God that keeps covenant and mercy for thousands of

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generations with those who love him and keep his commandments

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like he is good and his steadfast love endurs forever,

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and his faithfulness to all generations. And God he can

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be trusted. He gives only good gifts to his children.

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In fact, he also bestows good things, even on those

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who position themselves as enemies. Remember the sun he gives us,

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It rises and falls. Even for people who don't love him.

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There's water and food and clothing and shelter. Sometimes people

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who don't love him also receive happiness in their spirit,

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and they don't really know what it is. But still,

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but again, God's goal for every human is to live

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with Him eternally. And people who don't love him, people

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who choose hatred, will not experience eternity with God, will

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not experience all that God has even in this life

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for them. And so God wants us to hold fast

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to judgment, hold fast to love. And so we now

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read in the Bible Book of Matthew, chapter five, and

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beginning at verse forty three, the Bible reads, he have

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heard it, said them of them heard it said, thou

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shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I

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say unto you, love your enemies, Oh My, bless them

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that curse you. Do good to them that hate you.

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Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. Ye,

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that ye may be the children of your father, which

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is in heaven. For He maketh the sun to rise

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on the evil and on the good. He sendeth rain

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to the just and to the unjust. For if ye

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love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not?

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Even the publicans the same? Like wicked people can do that.

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If ye salute your brethren ownly, what do ye more

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than others? Do not even the publicans? So be ye perfect? Oh, oh,

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here we go. I love this word. Be ye perfect,

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even as your Father in heaven is perfect. Now there's

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another place where God says, in the Old Testament the

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very same thing. But he says, be perfect, for your

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Father in heaven is perfect for four. Therefore you can

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be perfect because God is perfect, meaning God can transform

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our characters. Yes, we don't have to have the argument

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from the eighteen hundreds about perfection. Come on, come on,

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it's not inherent. We were not born that way. Clearly,

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we were born in sin shapen, in iniquity. That is

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the way we were born. However, Jesus said to Nicodemus

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one evening, he said, listen, marvel, not that I say

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unto you, you must be born again. That which is

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born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of

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spirit is spirit. Marvel, Not that I say unto you.

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You must be born again. Like God can transform our

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lives to the degree that when people do evil against us,

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we can forgive them. When people say bad words to

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you on the road in a road rage incident, you

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can choose to stay in your vehicle. You can choose

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not to draw your weapon. You can choose not to

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cause an accident on the highway Highway seventy five, Highway

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Interstate Interstate eighty one, like you can choose on I

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ninety five I sixty six. You can choose not to

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engage in road rage. Now why because God has made

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you perfect. In Isaiah in the Book of Romans, Chapter eight,

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God shows us his rescue plan. He said, there was

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therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

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Are you in Christ Jesus? Well, how would I know? Oh,

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he says, who walk not according to the flesh, but

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according to the spirit. For the law of the Spirit

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of life has set you free from the law of

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sin and death. You no longer have to be incomplete.

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You no longer have to be bound to the law

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of sin and death. You can, in fact do what

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God says because His spirit lives in you. What the

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Law could not do in that it was weakened the flesh.

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God did by sending his own son in the likeness

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of flesh, and the righteousness of the Law could be

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fulfilled in us walk not according to the flesh, but

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according to the spirit. You see, if we hold fast

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to the love of God, then we can be holy

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and just My God.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make

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it a great day. Yeah,