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03 25 2025 Law and Grace · 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 Tuesday, March
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in the
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  Speaker 2: final week of our lessons study series, God's Love and
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  Speaker 2: Justice under the caption Law and Grace. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: law and grace. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,
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  Speaker 2: this morning that has in it all of your calling,
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  Speaker 2: all of your blessing. Please give us your understanding Father,
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  Speaker 2: and teach us to serve you with everything we have
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  Speaker 2: and everything we are in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. All right, let me just go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and begin with a newsflash. Grace does not replace God's law. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I just say that one more time. Newsflash like this
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  Speaker 2: just in Grace does not replace God's law. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: grace gives us the ability to keep God's law. And
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  Speaker 2: you're like, come on, Dave, that sounds like some legalistic stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Just give me a second. I want you to define grace.
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  Speaker 2: You can look it up in dictionaries. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to look it up, especially in both Hebrew and Greek
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  Speaker 2: dictionaries and concordances, and you let me know what you find.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you what I have found. Grace is
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  Speaker 2: number one unmerited favor. God gives us favor when we
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  Speaker 2: don't deserve it. We're sinners saved by grace he gives us,
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  Speaker 2: or I should say saved by grace. We're sinners that
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  Speaker 2: are being saved by God. Let me say it that way,
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  Speaker 2: And Grace says He's doing it not because we deserve it.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing it because He loves us. Okay, unmerited favor,
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  Speaker 2: we cannot earn it. But it's also power to do
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  Speaker 2: God's will. Unmerited favor number one, number two, power to
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  Speaker 2: do God's will. You see what happens when you have
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  Speaker 2: these little these little gestures enabled on these platforms. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so well, what is God's will? There are so many
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  Speaker 2: places in scripture that we read where God's will is,
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  Speaker 2: but the baseline, the foundation for all of those is
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  Speaker 2: right in the commandments like those are a manifestation of
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  Speaker 2: the character of God or a transcript as we like
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  Speaker 2: to say of his character, that is God's will, and
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  Speaker 2: if we love him, he has promised that he will
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  Speaker 2: act out his will through us, you see. And so
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  Speaker 2: the law of God can only be kept by humans
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  Speaker 2: by the grace that God instills in us to have favor.
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  Speaker 2: We're alive, and we shouldn't be alive. We should be
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  Speaker 2: already suffering the second death. And number two, we are
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  Speaker 2: empowered now to do His will. And so what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do is read now beginning at verse thirty
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  Speaker 2: one from Jeremiah, chapter thirty one, and make more sense
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  Speaker 2: of it. And the Bible reads, behold, the days come
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  Speaker 2: set the Lord that I will make a new covenant
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  Speaker 2: with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just ask you a quick question. Where in
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  Speaker 2: the Bible does the Book of Jeremiah fall. Is it
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament or in the New Testament? Or
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  Speaker 2: hold on before you before you tell me. Is it
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Covenant part of the Bible or in
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  Speaker 2: the New Covenant? Somebody just learned something. You're scratching your head.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you just learned something. So Testament and Covenant
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  Speaker 2: same word, Old Covenant, New Covenant Old Testament, New Testament.
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  Speaker 2: And so when God is now giving us understanding concerning
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  Speaker 2: this reality that I'm about to read about, He's giving
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  Speaker 2: it to us in the Old Covenant dispensation, the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 2: that is, before Jesus took on human flesh to manifest
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  Speaker 2: to the world who God is, to keep the law perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: And then for those who live with him, live for
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  Speaker 2: him by faith, give us the ability to do the same.
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  Speaker 2: And of course he gave his life, he gave his life,
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  Speaker 2: he took his life back up again, and now he
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  Speaker 2: is in heavenly places doing a very special and unique ministry.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thankful, okay. And so God is now giving
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  Speaker 2: us a sneak peek into the power way back then.
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  Speaker 2: So for those who are New Covenant in Air quotes Christians,
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  Speaker 2: people who believe in the New Covenant, I believe in
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  Speaker 2: the New Covenant. Yes, well, if you believe in the
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  Speaker 2: New Covenant, then you believe in what we're reading here here.
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  Speaker 2: It comes here. It comes with the House of Israel
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  Speaker 2: and with the House of Judah. Not according to the
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  Speaker 2: covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
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  Speaker 2: that I took them by the hand and pulled them
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  Speaker 2: out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break.
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  Speaker 2: You see, they broke it. They did not have the
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  Speaker 2: strength to keep the covenant, the law. They had no
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  Speaker 2: strength to do it. But this shall be the covenant
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  Speaker 2: that I will make with the House of Israel. After
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  Speaker 2: those days, I actually gave you a sneak peak of
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  Speaker 2: what we're saying. Here set the Lord. I will put
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  Speaker 2: my law, what law God, the Ten Commandments law in
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  Speaker 2: their inward parts, and I will write it in their
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  Speaker 2: hearts in the same way that God inscribed emblazoned upon
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  Speaker 2: the tables of sapphire stone. They were not gray, they
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  Speaker 2: were not bige. They didn't look like some kind of
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  Speaker 2: granite that we would put on our countertops at the house.
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  Speaker 2: They were sapphire. That blue, according to the Book of Numbers,
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  Speaker 2: actually represents the law of God. That the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: when they would see the blue tassel or riband on
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  Speaker 2: their clothes at the border him border of their garments,
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  Speaker 2: they would be reminded of the law of God, and
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  Speaker 2: that those tables of stone were actually taken out of
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  Speaker 2: the actual throne of God. And then God inscribed with
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  Speaker 2: his own finger the law of God and now he's
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  Speaker 2: saying He's going to do that on your hearts, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters. Yeah, he's like, oh, but that says the
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  Speaker 2: House of Israel. Well, a lot of people say that
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  Speaker 2: they're new covenant Christians. I don't see a text that
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  Speaker 2: says anything about covenant with Christians. I see what the
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  Speaker 2: House of Israel. And that means that he's right when
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  Speaker 2: he said of Abraham that those who are baptized into
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  Speaker 2: Christ are abraham seed and heirs according to the promise.
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  Speaker 2: And so we become the House of Israel if we
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  Speaker 2: keep covenant with God. If we are baptized into Christ,
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  Speaker 2: we become cat We become covenant keepers. And therefore we
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  Speaker 2: are able to live according to God's principles. Let me
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  Speaker 2: keep going. Let me keep going. And he said that
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  Speaker 2: I will put my law in their inward parts and
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  Speaker 2: write it in their hearts, and be their God, and
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  Speaker 2: they shall be my people. What a promise. And they
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  Speaker 2: shall teach no more, every man his neighbor and every
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  Speaker 2: man his brother, saying no the Lord, for they shall
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  Speaker 2: all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: So many other passages we could read in John chapter
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  Speaker 2: three run through twenty one. But the Bible is teaching
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  Speaker 2: us that God is writing his law in our hearts.
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  Speaker 2: God is showing us that when he does that we
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  Speaker 2: become obedient. We have direct knowledge of God, we have
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  Speaker 2: forgiveness of sin, we have new spiritual life, we have
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  Speaker 2: kingdom citizenship, and we are transformed in our nature. Why
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  Speaker 2: because God has kept his promise that if you will
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  Speaker 2: submit your will to him, his law will become a
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  Speaker 2: part of your lifestyle.
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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,