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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 Sunday, January twelve,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 more valuable than you can imagine, more valuable

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then you can imagine. Of course, he's talking about us,

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He's talking about you, brothers and sisters. Before we get

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into that, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone

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joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.

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I'm asking you to go over to your Daily portion

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the Your Daily Portion Companion guide that is related to

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this lesson, yes, where we apply everything that we study.

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And also please let us know where you are in

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the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving

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us this value that you have placed on us by

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giving us your son. Thank you for loving us and

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putting us into this new work week. I pray that

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we will listen to you as you guide us in

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the paths of righteousness. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. More valuable than you can imagine. And

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God is talking about us. And so God loves sinners.

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Can I say it this way? God loves sinners, but

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he despises the sin. I'm gonna say it one more time.

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God loves sinners, but he despises the sin. Why does

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God despise the sin? Because it disrupts the relationship that

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he wants to have with us. Sin gets in the way.

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He sees that it is destructive, He sees that it

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is in the way, he sees that he has to

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hide himself from us if we are still sinful and

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don't yield ourselves to him, huh, or else we will

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be destroyed just because he's holy and we are not.

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And therefore he despised sin. He despises sin. That's not

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the only reason, but that is in this context. But

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what did Jesus do about it? What did God, our

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father do about it? What is the Holy Ghost doing

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about it? And so our story today is set in

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Luke chapter fifteen. That's the book of Luke, chapter fifteen.

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And really it's about the prodigal son's story, at least

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that's what some people call it. It's the parable in

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Luke chapter fifteen. And let me just summarize. There are

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two sets of people here listening to Jesus, two sets

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of people. Both sets are sinners, okay. And so there

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are sinners who are willing to yield themselves to God,

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willing to surrender to God. And then there are sinners

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who feel like they got all they have it all together.

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These are sinners who who feel like because they know

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the scriptures, they have them even on their bodies, you understand.

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And they are leaders of God's people. Those sinners feel

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like everything is just fine with them. But two sets

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both are sinners. Now the son. There is a son

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who goes to his daddy. He's the younger of two sons.

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He goes to his daddy and says, give me what

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is mine. And so he's asking for an inheritance, and

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by virtue of him asking for an inheritance, he's really saying, Father,

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I wish you were dead. I can't stand your rules.

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I need the money. Give it to me and I

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can get out of here. And to make a long

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story short, the father and the story, he gives unto them.

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The Bible says, unto them. He divideth unto them his living,

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and so that which he would have had and given

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to them as an inheritance, he now gives it to them.

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Of course, it would normally have been divided already in

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the Jewish economy, but was not to be given out

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until God forbid the dead. He dies, but he gives

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them what he is to give them. The younger son

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goes out and he burns the money on Harlot's. He

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burns the money on partying. He burns the money on

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what the Bible calls riotous living. He goes out. He

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is a lost sheep that goes out from the house.

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He gets lost. But there is another brother. The second

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brother is at home. He's the one that looks tidy

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and nice. He's the one who would be considered maybe

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a leader. I don't know. He is the one that

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seems to be behaving. But low Kei, he's not. He's not.

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He is the lost sheep. I just don't have the

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time to parse out the story, to drill it in

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the way that we need to. Let's just say that

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this son is lost at home. He is the lost

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sheep that is at home. He is like the coin

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that is lost at home. But this young man, the

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prodigals prodigal son is lost away from home. And so

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the story is told that the son who is away

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from home, who burns all of the money on riotous living.

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The Bible says that, yeah, he realizes that he's in

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a pickle. And he says, you know what, my servants,

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my father's servants have everything they need, and I'm out

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here getting food, adjoining myself to a man, a stranger

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in a foreign land, and wanting the things that he

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is feeding. The pigs in order for me to just

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get a meal. But my father's servants have everything that

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they need. So I'm going to go. I'm going to

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arise and go to my father, and I'm going to

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say I have sinned, Father, i have sinned. Please accept

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me as one of your servants. And the Bible teaches,

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in a long story short that as this young man

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has come to himself, how many know that the only

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way that we can become aware of ourselves, and that

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scenario is if the Holy Spirit comes to us. Ah.

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The Holy Spirit teaches us all truth about God, that

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he is holy, he's just, he's good, he loves us Ah,

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and then he teaches us how foul and sinful that

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we are, and how much we are in need of

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a savior. He does not leave us there. And so

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the Bible says, as he has this awareness, he says,

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I'm gonna arise, I'm going to confess and say, let

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me be one of your servants. And the Bible says

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that as this young man now he goes home and

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he's approaching home, he's approaching home, and the father sees

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him on his approach. I said, the father sees him

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on his approach. That means that the father is looking

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for him. The father's looking for you, brothers and sisters.

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If you are lost, the father is looking for you.

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And so he sees the son a great way off,

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And the Bible says that the father runs out to him.

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He runs out to him, the son who went away

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bosie and proud, who went away with his money bag

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full of money. Now he's coming back dejected, feeling rejected.

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He is broken down, and the father sees him, and

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he runs out to him. Ah, he runs out to him,

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and he falls upon his son's neck, and he continues

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to kiss him. And immediately he not only restores him,

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but he makes him better than when he was living

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in his home. He did not let that son come

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into the house in shame. He covered him with a

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with a robe of righteousness. Huh. He put on him

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the feet shod with the prepar the shoes shod with

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the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. He puts on

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his finger the signet that says, not only are you

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my son, but you now represent me. And he tells

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his servants to throw a party, because my son who

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was lost, you come and rejoice with me. That he

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is found. And now the brother is not rejoicing. The

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other brother he's not rejoicing, and he's asking the serve

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what's going on. And the Bible says that they said,

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your brother who was lost, he is found. He was dead,

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but now he's alive. He's back. Come and party with us. Well.

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He remonstrates with his father, who goes out to him

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because he realizes his son is not coming in to

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the party, the celebration of the life of his brother,

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and he says, but I've been with you all this time.

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You never thrown me a party andan not going in basically,

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and the father says, all that I have has been yours.

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Will you come in and rejoice? Everything that I have

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is yours. Can you imagine the kind of love? You

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are more valuable Whether you are the first or the

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second brother, you are more valuable than you can imagine.

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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,