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08 14 2026 The Need of Love · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, August fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host Dan. This is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Love the Need
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  Speaker 2: of Love almost said the love I need the need
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  Speaker 2: of love. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: in heaven, thank you for giving us this opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: come together just one more time to open up your
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  Speaker 2: word and Father, will you please give us your holy spirit?
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  Speaker 2: Will you teach us how to love you God? I
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  Speaker 2: pray that you will fill us with your holy spirit
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  Speaker 2: and prepare our minds for the Sabbath time. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen, Amen, and amen again the need of love. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to begin by reading from the book The
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  Speaker 2: Acts of the Apostles, page three hundred and eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: pages three eighteen and three nineteen, and it begins, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how high the profession, now this is not about
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  Speaker 2: what we do for a living. This is back in
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  Speaker 2: the day when you know the writers would say, well,
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  Speaker 2: if I say I love, in my case, my wife's amone,
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  Speaker 2: I am professing my love. Okay. So, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: high the profession he shows, he whose heart is not
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  Speaker 2: filled with love for God and his fellow men is
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  Speaker 2: not a true disciple of Christ. I'd like for us
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  Speaker 2: to just let that settle in for a moment, because
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  Speaker 2: there are many times that we measure human beings, measure
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  Speaker 2: our connection with God by some of the things we do.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, there are people that I consider the didn't I, guys,
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  Speaker 2: didn't I cast out devils in your name? Didn't I
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  Speaker 2: heal and do many mighty works? And Jesus said to
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  Speaker 2: the people who were in that discussion there in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Matthew, he said, depart from me, ye, workers
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  Speaker 2: of iniquity, I never knew you. And it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: how can the God who knows everything, he knows all,
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  Speaker 2: and he knows everything, he's all powerful, blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: how could he say that he never knew somebody? Well,
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, now, the Bible teaches us the verb to know,
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  Speaker 2: to know is an intimate reality. Let me say it
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  Speaker 2: to you like this, Adam knew his wife Eve, and
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  Speaker 2: they bear a son. The fruitfulness of that knowing style
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  Speaker 2: of relationship is a manifestation. What is the manifestation? Jesus
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  Speaker 2: said it when he was praying, as recorded in John
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  Speaker 2: chapter seventeen. He said, this is life eternal, that they
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  Speaker 2: may know THEE the only True God, and Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: whom thou has sent. And so that intimate knowledge of God,
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  Speaker 2: that intimate experience with God, the outcome of that, and
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  Speaker 2: that manifestation of the outcome of that easy eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: And so when Jesus says to those people who did
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  Speaker 2: all of these wonderful things, they go down through this
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  Speaker 2: long list of things that they have been doing in
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  Speaker 2: their minds faithfully, almost like the son who was left
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  Speaker 2: at home in the Prodigal Son's story, the one that
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  Speaker 2: went out and blew his father's living, and there was
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  Speaker 2: one at home. He said, I did not leave your house.
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  Speaker 2: Neither at any time did I fill in blank anything evil.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, wait a minute, Jesus said, I never knew
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  Speaker 2: you in that other scenario. Well, how is that possible?
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  Speaker 2: Because God has a design. God has a design, and
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  Speaker 2: so before he formed you in your mother's womb. He
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  Speaker 2: knew you well, okay, and he said, in the case
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  Speaker 2: of Jeremiah, that you would be a prophet unto the nations.
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  Speaker 2: And so if Jeremiah had become anything else, if Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: had had done another plan, if Jeremiah had written God
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  Speaker 2: a prescription and decided that he was going to go
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  Speaker 2: another pathway, then the Bible is teaching us that that
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  Speaker 2: is not what God would have known. God knew he
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  Speaker 2: was going to be a prophet unto the nations. He
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  Speaker 2: knew exactly what the calling was. He knew the plans
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  Speaker 2: he had for Jeremiah, plans. And then he explains more
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  Speaker 2: for Jeremiah and the people of God in chapter twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine of Jeremiah. And so God saying, whatever does not
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  Speaker 2: align with my design, I never knew. There's no intimacy
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  Speaker 2: with what does not align with my design. There is
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  Speaker 2: no there is no eternal life with whatever does not
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  Speaker 2: align with my design. There is there is no mutual
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  Speaker 2: love with what does not align with my design, because
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  Speaker 2: if you love me, you will keep my commandments. And
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  Speaker 2: therefore the Bible is teaching us that we can talk
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  Speaker 2: and say we love God. We can we can say
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of things. We can even work mighty and
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  Speaker 2: wonderful works. But the heart that is not filled with
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  Speaker 2: the love of God and our fellow men is not
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  Speaker 2: a true disciple of Christ. Let me continue the quote.
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  Speaker 2: Though he should possess great faith. Oh wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: I think we said that already, and have power even
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  Speaker 2: to work miracles. Yet without love, his faith would be worthless.
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  Speaker 2: He might display great lives reality. You know, people who
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  Speaker 2: give away a lot of resources in order to benefit
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  Speaker 2: other people. He might show that kind of reality. He
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  Speaker 2: may do that, okay, But should he from some other motive,
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  Speaker 2: then genuine love bestow all of his goods to feed
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  Speaker 2: the poor. She's actually quoting directly out of one Corinthians thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: The act would commend him, would not commend him to
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  Speaker 2: the favor of God. In his zeal, he might even
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  Speaker 2: meet a martyr's death. Yet if not actuated by love,
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  Speaker 2: he would be regarded by God as deluded, a deluded enthusiast,
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  Speaker 2: or an ambitious hypocrite. What yeah, So this is where
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  Speaker 2: the rubber meets the road. God has welcomed us into
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  Speaker 2: a relationship of love, and the two great commandments are
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  Speaker 2: love for God and love for humanity, loving the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: our God with everything we have and everything we are,
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  Speaker 2: and then loving our neighbor as ourselves. On these two
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  Speaker 2: hang all the law and the prophets. And so let
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  Speaker 2: me continue a quote from Lift Him Up, page one
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  Speaker 2: hundred thirty four, to make the point even better. We
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  Speaker 2: have an abundance of sermonizing. What is most needed is
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  Speaker 2: love for perishing souls. That love which comes in rich
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  Speaker 2: currents from the throne of God. True Christianity diffuses love
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  Speaker 2: through the whole being. It touches every vital part, the brain,
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  Speaker 2: the heart, the helping hands, the feet, enabling men to
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  Speaker 2: stand firmly where God requires them to stand, so that
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  Speaker 2: they will not make crooked paths for their feet lest
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  Speaker 2: the lane be turned out of the way. The burning,
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  Speaker 2: consuming life of Christ for perishing souls is the life
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  Speaker 2: of the whole system of Christianity. May I just say
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  Speaker 2: that one more time in case people have gotten you
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  Speaker 2: mixed up on the internet or in some churches. Let
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  Speaker 2: me say it again, The burning consuming love, the what
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  Speaker 2: love for Christ or of Christ too, for perishing souls.
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  Speaker 2: So there are people out here that are not connected
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  Speaker 2: to God that are losing their lives every day if
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  Speaker 2: you don't have that kind of love that is the
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  Speaker 2: life of the whole system of Christianity. I'm so grateful
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  Speaker 2: that God has shown us the true image, the true
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  Speaker 2: picture of his love. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.