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01 09 2025 You Have Freely Received; Freely Give · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, January nine,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and 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, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is you have freely received, freely Give. I say that
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  Speaker 2: just one more time, you have freely received, freely give.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say thank
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  Speaker 2: loving us so much that you have given us freely
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  Speaker 2: of every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus. I'm asking you
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  Speaker 2: now to fill us with your holy spirit. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen, and a man again. You have freely received,
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  Speaker 2: freely give well. The question is what have we all
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  Speaker 2: freely received? Now? The Bible does say that the sun
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  Speaker 2: rises and sets, but the sun rises on the just,
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  Speaker 2: that is people who love God and the unjust, the
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  Speaker 2: people who could not care anything about God. But equally
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  Speaker 2: every single day that we live where the sun does rise.
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  Speaker 2: I understand there are anomalies around the world where the
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  Speaker 2: sun rises what once every six months or something weird like, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: don't quote me, but you know where you are. I
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying right. So, but the sun when
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  Speaker 2: it does rise, it rises on the on the just
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  Speaker 2: and on the unjust. Yes, even if it's six months
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  Speaker 2: later in those places where it doesn't rise every single day,
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  Speaker 2: but equally in those places it does what it does
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  Speaker 2: for everyone. But we receive grace that is unmerited favor,
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  Speaker 2: that is the opportunity to say yes to God every
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  Speaker 2: single day that we live, yes, and He gives us
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  Speaker 2: the ability to do his will. Once we say yes,
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  Speaker 2: we can start to live like Jesus would have us
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  Speaker 2: to live. Freely. We have received freely, we should give
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  Speaker 2: like He gives us forgiveness for our sins. Freely we
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  Speaker 2: have received, we can freely give. Because there's some people
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  Speaker 2: who have done things against us that we detest and
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  Speaker 2: we wish they had not done, and that have caused
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  Speaker 2: relationship gaps. But when God makes us no longer to
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  Speaker 2: be his enemies and he calls us friend freely, he
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  Speaker 2: has given that to us freely, receive, freely give. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and begin our discussion. In the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of John, John chapter fifteen, will read John
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen and verse twelve. The Bible says this is
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  Speaker 2: my commandment, Jesus speaking that you love one another. And
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  Speaker 2: then he says something very interesting. It's clutch, as some
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  Speaker 2: of the young people would say, as I have loved you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, So you mean when I've been
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  Speaker 2: offended by someone, Then I need to look at the
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  Speaker 2: love that God has given to me as the measure
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  Speaker 2: of how I love them. Yep, how God has treated me.
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  Speaker 2: I have the privilege of treating them. Yes, it's no
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  Speaker 2: longer an obligation, but it's a blessing because God soul
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  Speaker 2: loved the world that he gave everything for me so
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  Speaker 2: I can be saved. M hm, Well how do I
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  Speaker 2: do that? Well, it's a mirror. Freely receive his love.
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  Speaker 2: Freely receive his power to do his will, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will be able to give that kind of love
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  Speaker 2: to others. Remember, the Ten Commandments is broken into two
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  Speaker 2: love principles, love for God miraculously and then love for
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  Speaker 2: other humans miraculously. Okay, and so in First John, chapter
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  Speaker 2: three and verse fifteen, it reads very similarly. It's weird,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads very similarly to the Gospel of John,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three, verse sixteen. Let's see what the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: Hereby perceive we the love of God. Do you want
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  Speaker 2: to know and understand the love of God? Well, what
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  Speaker 2: does that look like? John? Because he laid down his
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  Speaker 2: life for us. Jesus laid down his life for us,
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  Speaker 2: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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  Speaker 2: So we aren't no longer selfish when we are filled
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  Speaker 2: with the Holy ghosts, when we are receiving freely, we
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  Speaker 2: are no longer what selfish. We are willing to lay
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  Speaker 2: down those things that we're worthy of. Sometimes I'm worthy
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  Speaker 2: of rest, I need rest, but I have to lay
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  Speaker 2: down my life in the sense of giving people more
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  Speaker 2: energy because they're in dire need. Sometimes I'm entitled to money,
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  Speaker 2: but there are people who have prosthetic limbs who need
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, prosthetic limbs. And sometimes it requires more money
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  Speaker 2: than I may have at the moment. But I have
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  Speaker 2: to commit. Thank God, because He's given me freely. Now
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  Speaker 2: I lay down my right to have extra money in
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  Speaker 2: order to assist someone who is Do you see where
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  Speaker 2: we're going? Okay, So again, if we perceive the love
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  Speaker 2: of God, this is the context that He laid down
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  Speaker 2: his life for us, and we ought also to lay
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  Speaker 2: down our lives for our brothers and sisters in Christ
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  Speaker 2: and First John, chapter four, beginning at verse seven, reads beloved,
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  Speaker 2: let us love one another, for love is of God.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
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  Speaker 2: He that loveth not knoweth not God. For God is Love.
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  Speaker 2: In this was manifested the love of God toward us,
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  Speaker 2: because that God sent his only begotten son into the
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  Speaker 2: world that we might through we might live through him.
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  Speaker 2: Here in his love, not that we loved God, but
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  Speaker 2: that He loved us. See, he made the first move
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  Speaker 2: when he saw that Adam and Eve had sinned, Adam
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  Speaker 2: in particular. He goes into the garden and he speaks
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  Speaker 2: to the man that was created first, who represents the
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  Speaker 2: human race, and he says, Adam, where are you? And
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  Speaker 2: it's not because God didn't know where he was when
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  Speaker 2: he starts to knock on your door and he calls
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  Speaker 2: your name in the night season, when you are in
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  Speaker 2: a place, a dark place where you should not be,
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  Speaker 2: where you have a committed sin, or you may be
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of committing sins that you know better
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  Speaker 2: about that you have promised that you would not do again.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you're under the influence of some person. Maybe you're
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  Speaker 2: under the influence of alcohol or some illicit drug. And
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  Speaker 2: now you're hearing God knocking, and he's calling your name
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  Speaker 2: and saying, what are you doing here? He's calling your
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  Speaker 2: name and saying, what are you doing here? Come on,
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  Speaker 2: get your clothes, come on, get your things, Come on,
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  Speaker 2: leave quickly. I'm going to take you to the place
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  Speaker 2: of safety. I have angels who excel in strength that
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  Speaker 2: are calling you out of that place. And he is
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  Speaker 2: calling your name and saying where are you So that
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  Speaker 2: you can have a clear indication that freely you are
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  Speaker 2: receiving love. Freely, you are receiving a way out. Freely,
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  Speaker 2: you are receiving a way in to write connection with God.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Bible says here that He sent him
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  Speaker 2: to become our substitute. So he, Jesus, died the death
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  Speaker 2: that we deserve so that we can live the life
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  Speaker 2: that he deserves. Verse eleven. Beloved, If God so loved us,
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  Speaker 2: we ought also to love one another. Nobody has ever
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  Speaker 2: seen God at any time. If we love one another,
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  Speaker 2: God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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  Speaker 2: When we receive the love of God freely, then we
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  Speaker 2: give the love of God to others who may be
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  Speaker 2: in a dark place too. 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,