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01 07 2025 Conditional Relationship · 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 Tuesday, January seven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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. Was
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four and even now in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still getting used to that. Ah. Yes, And we're
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  Speaker 2: under the theme God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is convenental relationship. I shouldn't have said that.
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  Speaker 2: It's conditional relationship. Conditional relationship. I'll get it right. I'll
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  Speaker 2: get it right, a promise. Yes, So before we begin,
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  Speaker 2: i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community and want you to pick
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  Speaker 2: up the your Daily Portion Companion Guide for this quarter.
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  Speaker 2: We are today on pages thirty and thirty one. We're
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  Speaker 2: making application application. You need to pick up that guide
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  Speaker 2: so that we can have more discussion inside of that
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  Speaker 2: community that you can join at your Daily Portion dot
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  Speaker 2: com and also apply the lesson in four key areas.
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  Speaker 2: So please pick it up at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely click that number seven and join and subscribe there
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  Speaker 2: for enhanced spiritual development. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, we do thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this new day and for giving us the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of relationship with you. Please help us to do our part.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to recognize your love for us and
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  Speaker 2: live according to that love principle in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Conditional relationship. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go right into our Companion guide to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Companion Guide to the Relationship Application portion and remember we
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  Speaker 2: use the win approach win. So in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: relationship part, what is important now considering what we are
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  Speaker 2: studying today in the lesson number one, what is important now?
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  Speaker 2: Our relationships with others can mirror our relationship with God.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to really think clearly here. Just as
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  Speaker 2: we need to actively respond to God's love, we also
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  Speaker 2: need to nurture and invest in our relationships with others
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  Speaker 2: and keep them healthy and strong. So this is really
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  Speaker 2: just the second part of the decalogue or the ten
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  Speaker 2: Commandment's law. The second and great commandment is to love
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  Speaker 2: our neighbor as ourselves. You see. And then we want
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  Speaker 2: to internalize the insight the eye. Think about a relationship
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  Speaker 2: in your life that needs attention or may I just
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  Speaker 2: say it right here? Or repair or restoration. Think about
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  Speaker 2: that relationship. Is it with a parent, is it with
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  Speaker 2: one of your children? Is it with your spouse? M
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  Speaker 2: somebody at work? Question? How can you show love and
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  Speaker 2: commitment even if the other person has not reciprocated or
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  Speaker 2: shown it to you? In return? Reflect on God's unending
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  Speaker 2: love in how you can be a channel of that
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  Speaker 2: love to others. And now, what is the next best move?
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  Speaker 2: We conceptualize it about what's important, we're internalizing it, we're
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  Speaker 2: making sense of it in our minds. Now we need
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  Speaker 2: to actually move or act the next best move. Reach
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  Speaker 2: out to someone with whom you have had a strained relationship.
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  Speaker 2: I've had to do that before, offer a word of encouragement,
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  Speaker 2: an apology, or a simple gesture of kindness. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: feeling some work relationships being mended right here. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about the ones when you go. I know this is
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  Speaker 2: not the professional application portion of our companion guide, but
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying is I feel that somebody's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to do this at work. Let your actions demonstrate
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  Speaker 2: the love and grace that God has shown you. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now we can talk about this. Now we can talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. In Matthew chapter twenty two, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and I gave you an allusion to it from verses
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven to thirty nine. Jesus said, unto him, thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart.
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  Speaker 2: See what is the important, what is the greatest, what
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  Speaker 2: is the most important commandment? Right and with all thy
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  Speaker 2: soul and with all thy mind. This is the first
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  Speaker 2: and great commandment. And the Bible continues, and the second
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  Speaker 2: is like unto it. I said, like unto it in
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  Speaker 2: the same way that it takes. It's a miracle for
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  Speaker 2: us to learn how to love God. Ah in the
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  Speaker 2: same way that we cannot love God on our own,
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  Speaker 2: but we love him because He first loved us. He
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  Speaker 2: is the cause of our ability to love him in
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  Speaker 2: the same way Verse thirty nine. And the second is
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  Speaker 2: like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say this, Ah, the individual that truly
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  Speaker 2: loves God has no problem with a loving self. It
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  Speaker 2: is not unholy or unhealthy self love. It is not
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  Speaker 2: that you disrespect your life and disrespect yourself anymore. Why
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  Speaker 2: because you've already begun to keep that first and great
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  Speaker 2: commandment to love God with everything you are and everything
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  Speaker 2: you have. I've heard people say, oh, be careful with
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  Speaker 2: that second commandment, because because people don't love themselves, look
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  Speaker 2: at how they treat themselves. And this is like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: but you missed the first one. When we are submitting
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  Speaker 2: our will to God and we love God like he
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  Speaker 2: has empowered us to do, then that means our love
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  Speaker 2: for self is also a holy, healthy kind of self love.
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  Speaker 2: And then we can love our neighbors in the same way.
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  Speaker 2: And so God loves us. He accepts all who accept him.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. He accepts all who
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  Speaker 2: accept him but reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him.
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  Speaker 2: I need to say it one more time, a little
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  Speaker 2: less passionately so you can get it. God loves us,
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  Speaker 2: and I think you can go ahead and type in
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  Speaker 2: amen in the chat like God does love us. He
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  Speaker 2: accepts all who accept him. And you're like, why did
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  Speaker 2: you put that condition on there? Because we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: conditional relationship today. What do you mean by he accepts
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  Speaker 2: all who accept him. I need you to give keen
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  Speaker 2: attention here. I need to give you. I need you
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  Speaker 2: to give keen attention here. You see, he loves everyone,
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  Speaker 2: but not everybody is going to have an eternal relationship
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  Speaker 2: with him. Why not because some people will choose to
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  Speaker 2: break covenant with him. The people will choose not to
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  Speaker 2: accept his love. Some people will hear the call. In
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twenty two, around verse fourteen, for many are called,
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  Speaker 2: you'll hear the call, But the Bible continues, But chosen
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  Speaker 2: are few. So He accepts all who are the chosen.
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  Speaker 2: Who are the chosen? The people who accept God into
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  Speaker 2: our lives. Jesus said, abide in me and I in you,
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  Speaker 2: or have my word abide in you abide in the Word,
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  Speaker 2: and let the Word abide in you. And then if
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  Speaker 2: you ask anything that you will, God will do it
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  Speaker 2: for you. And so those who accept God, he accepts them,
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  Speaker 2: but reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him. Why will
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  Speaker 2: you die, he says to his people. Why he does
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  Speaker 2: not take pleasure in the death of him that dieth.
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  Speaker 2: So turn yourselves and live. You see, he's a gentleman.
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  Speaker 2: He's not an abuser trying to force you to love
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  Speaker 2: him in return. Hah. He is not trying to force
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  Speaker 2: an unwilling partner to remain with him. He is not
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  Speaker 2: going to lock you up in the basement. He's not
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  Speaker 2: going to put you in a room and say you
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  Speaker 2: cannot come out. He's not going to set you in
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  Speaker 2: a trophy case and tell you to smile and let
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  Speaker 2: people think that you're in a right relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a gentleman. He accepts those who accept him, but
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  Speaker 2: he reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him. Let that
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  Speaker 2: settle in 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,