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03 26 2025 Love Is the Fulfillment of the Law · 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 Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: March twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series. This is our final week
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  Speaker 2: God's Love and Justice, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: Love is the fulfillment of the law. Love is the
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  Speaker 2: fulfillment of the law. We have said this so many
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  Speaker 2: different ways, so many different times. We've turned this thing
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  Speaker 2: around and around and around, and so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have this discussion one more time before this quarter ends,
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  Speaker 2: and we are going to hopefully, by God's grace, begin
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you for the opportunity to open up
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  Speaker 2: your word. Please give us your holy spirit. Please teach
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  Speaker 2: us how to serve you. Teach us Lord the love
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  Speaker 2: covenant relationship, the law of love covenant relationship, how to
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  Speaker 2: be empowered to actually live according to your principles. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. The lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer begins like he jumps in with two feet and says,
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  Speaker 2: the relationship between love and law cannot be overstated. You see,
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  Speaker 2: when I don't speed, I do not break the speed
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  Speaker 2: limit when I'm driving. It's not because I love anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Not because I love the government, nope, Not because I
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  Speaker 2: love the opposition that may be waiting to be in power.
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  Speaker 1: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Not because I love my family. And I know some
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  Speaker 2: people are gonna be like, come on, Dave, really, I
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  Speaker 2: thought you loved your family, Well I do. I thought
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to keep them safe, Well I do. But
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  Speaker 2: I may be a legalist when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: speed limit. I only adhere to the speed limit. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you I'm not listen. I just need to
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  Speaker 2: be honest here. The only reason that I adhere to
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  Speaker 2: the speed limit is because thirty some years ago, when
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  Speaker 2: I was a youth, I got a one thousand US
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  Speaker 2: dollar ticket for speeding that was then over thirty years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, you know what, I am not interested
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  Speaker 2: in getting another ticket like that. Can you imagine what
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  Speaker 2: that ticket would be today? And I was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: go to jail that night, but the officer just basically
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  Speaker 2: hazed me. Let me just say, chided me and let
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  Speaker 2: me go on my way. But I got that big
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  Speaker 2: old ticket and had to face the judge and everything,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, I am good to goo. I'm done
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  Speaker 2: with speeding from here on out. But I'm a legalist.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to the traffic code where speeding is concerned,
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  Speaker 2: I literally only don't want to get the ticket, which
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  Speaker 2: is why I don't speed, now, you know, and knowing
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  Speaker 2: is half the battle, you know, the reality. But that
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  Speaker 2: is not the case when it comes to the law
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  Speaker 2: of God. That is not the case. Like God has
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  Speaker 2: done something very special for me by saving me by
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  Speaker 2: his grace through faith, and I'm grateful, and therefore my
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  Speaker 2: desire like he has put in my mind my heart,
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  Speaker 2: a desire to live according to his principles. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: thank you God. I'm not a legalist. I love him
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  Speaker 2: and therefore he empowers me to actually do his will.
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  Speaker 2: You think I don't have anything better to do at
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  Speaker 2: five something in the morning than to speak to you
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  Speaker 2: about a b Bible that I don't love. Come on, now,
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  Speaker 2: let's think about this thing. So I'm grateful. Love is
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  Speaker 2: the fulfillment of the law, love for God and love
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  Speaker 2: for humanity. And so we go now into the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Romans chapter thirteen. Somebody just got what I said.
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  Speaker 1: Hah.
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  Speaker 2: Romans chapter thirteen, beginning at verse eight, and the Bible reads, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: no man anything but to love one another, for he
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  Speaker 2: that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Of course, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the second and great commandment, which is like
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  Speaker 2: unto the first, namely this love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the Bible says. Jesus said it verse nine.
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  Speaker 2: For this, thou shalt not commit adultery. You see that
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  Speaker 2: love for humanity. Thou shalt not kill, which means murder,
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  Speaker 2: don't do that. Thou shalt not steal. That's another one
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  Speaker 2: related to people. Thou shalt not bear false witness, don't
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  Speaker 2: be a liar, Thou shalt not cove it. Yeah, leave
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  Speaker 2: other people stuff alone, and be thankful for what God
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  Speaker 2: gave you. And if there be any other commandment, this
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  Speaker 2: is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love
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  Speaker 2: thy neighbor as thyself. And so the second part of
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  Speaker 2: the decalogue, second part of the ten Commandments, the six commandments.
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  Speaker 2: These have to do with connection with people and God,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but people, and the Bible continues verse ten.
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  Speaker 2: Love maketh no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love is
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  Speaker 2: the fulfilling of the law. What law? The law that
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  Speaker 2: is the second and great commandment. Sometimes people read what's
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  Speaker 2: not there? He just gave you the context. All of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that was there had to do with the
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  Speaker 2: last six commandments. And then the Bible says, also in
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  Speaker 2: Galatians chapter five and verse fourteen, for all the law
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  Speaker 2: is fulfilled in one word, even this, thou shalt love
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  Speaker 2: thy neighbor as thyself. You understand. And so he is
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  Speaker 2: giving us. He's showing us what comprises the second law
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  Speaker 2: or a great commandment. Very good, very good. And so
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  Speaker 2: now we want to see characteristics of law fulfilling love,
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  Speaker 2: active love. And John first, John, excuse me. Chapter three
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  Speaker 2: and verse eighteen. The Bible reads, my little children, let
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  Speaker 2: us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in
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  Speaker 2: deed and in truth. Aren't you grateful? In James chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: verses fifteen and sixteen. You can rewind this if I
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  Speaker 2: am reading too quickly for you. If a brother or
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  Speaker 2: sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one
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  Speaker 2: of you say, unto them, depart in peace, and be
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  Speaker 2: ye warmed and filled. Notwithstanding ye gave them not those
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  Speaker 2: things which are needful to the body. What doth it
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  Speaker 2: profits not loving talk about them? I'll pray for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and listen if you do. And if you do pray
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  Speaker 2: for people, then thank God. There are times, though, that
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  Speaker 2: we need to act. If we are withholding ourselves and
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  Speaker 2: then using prayer as an excuse, that's what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It may not be that every time you have the
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  Speaker 2: power to relieve the suffering, but if you do, if
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  Speaker 2: I do, indeed, and then I just say, well, I'll
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  Speaker 2: pray for you, then that means that we're really hiding,
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  Speaker 2: we're shirking responsibility. So there is sacrificial love, and then
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  Speaker 2: there comes an unconditional love. In Matthew Chapter five Versus
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  Speaker 2: forty four and forty five, the Bible reads, but I say,
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  Speaker 2: unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
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  Speaker 2: do good to them that hate you. Pray for them
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  Speaker 2: which despitefully use and persecute you, that ye may be
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  Speaker 2: the children of your Father, which is in heaven. I
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  Speaker 2: have been tested heavily on this, and I know that,
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  Speaker 2: since I'm still alive, that I may experience the tests
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  Speaker 2: some more. But I know what it's like to have
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  Speaker 2: to ah pray for them that despitefully use me and
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  Speaker 2: persecute me. I know what it's like to have to
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  Speaker 2: love my enemies and those who curse me and say
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of evil behind me, and do kinds of
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  Speaker 2: things and smile in my face. But God has given
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  Speaker 2: us the ability and the right and the privilege to
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  Speaker 2: love even in that way. And then comes the practical love,
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  Speaker 2: as we would have already said. And so love looks
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  Speaker 2: like this, seeking others good, protecting others from harm, respect
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  Speaker 2: for relationships, honesty and dealings and content with others, blessings,
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  Speaker 2: and meeting practical needs.
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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,