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12 31 2024 Love Freely Given · 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, December
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, twenty twenty four. 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 our
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  Speaker 2: new lesson study series, God's Love and Justice. Our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Love Freely Given, Love Freely Given. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 2: number seven to enhance your spiritual development. There is a
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  Speaker 2: quarter's lesson. We will be referencing it, we'll be using
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  Speaker 2: it in the community. You know that you get to
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  Speaker 2: and application more importantly of the quarterly Okay, so your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of the ways
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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: and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and for giving us the privilege of coming together in
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  Speaker 2: this manner. Thank you for loving us and protecting us.
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  Speaker 2: Please teach us to receive your love freely and then
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  Speaker 2: give love freely. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again, love freely given. And So I have a
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  Speaker 2: question to begin our discussion today, and this is one
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  Speaker 2: that I have been pondering for over twenty years. I
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  Speaker 2: wrote a Bible study guide some years ago and ask
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  Speaker 2: my mom a question because she my late mother, she
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  Speaker 2: had struggles, like she had struggles with self esteem, she
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  Speaker 2: had some other challenges, and one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: she struggled with that the lesson that I had written
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  Speaker 2: helped her with was does God love me? I said,
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  Speaker 2: does God love me?
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  Speaker 1: Not?
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  Speaker 2: Is God love? Or is God loving? Or did God
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  Speaker 2: so love the world? Does God love you? But does
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  Speaker 2: God love me? And she or like shuddered like and
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  Speaker 2: she had difficulty, like many people in the world do
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  Speaker 2: accepting that God loves me? Fill in your name here.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you a question. Does God love you?
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  Speaker 2: Does God love you? Are you able without stuttering, able
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  Speaker 2: without pausing, able without thinking about the things you have
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  Speaker 2: or have not done? Are you able to say categorically
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  Speaker 2: God loves me? And then, if so, like, what does
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  Speaker 2: that look like? What does his love look like in
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  Speaker 2: your life?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Give an example? You can type it in the chat
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  Speaker 2: or you can come into the online community that you
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  Speaker 2: can click into it your Daily Portion dot com. But
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  Speaker 2: what does a living color example of God loving you
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  Speaker 2: as an individual look like? Again, I'm not interested in
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  Speaker 2: the thing theoretical part, like about God loving the whole
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  Speaker 2: world and using language that is focusing on just generalities
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  Speaker 2: about people. I'm talking about your name. So when you
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  Speaker 2: type into that community, I want you to just add
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  Speaker 2: your name. I know God loves l David Harris or
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  Speaker 2: ld as the case may be because I accept the
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  Speaker 2: love that God has for ld because and I see
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  Speaker 2: him working in this specific way in my life. God
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  Speaker 2: loves me, and this is how I see it manifest. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So please do that, Please do that. And so from
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Revelation chapter four, we see that this
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  Speaker 2: same God, who is loving and kind and full of mercy,
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  Speaker 2: full of justice, he does not clear the guilty who
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  Speaker 2: chooses not to turn toward him and submit. But this
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  Speaker 2: same God is being referenced here in a worship setting
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  Speaker 2: in heaven in Roman in Revelation chapter four. And wish
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  Speaker 2: I had time to deal with Revelation chapters four and five.
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  Speaker 2: But the Bible reads, Thou art worthy, o Lord, to
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  Speaker 2: receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created
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  Speaker 2: all things, and for thy pleasure they were all created.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is before Jesus Christ is revealed in
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  Speaker 2: the scene as the one who was worthy, who comes
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  Speaker 2: from the midst of the throne and receives these same
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  Speaker 2: accolades and honor. But this is speaking in this context
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  Speaker 2: of our Father, right of our Father, who is also
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  Speaker 2: our creator, like he for all of his pleasure, he
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  Speaker 2: created me, and yet he loves me. He loves you.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus loves me. This I know, yes. And God, our
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  Speaker 2: Father loved us so much that he gave us Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: It's only begotten son, that whosoever are you one of
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  Speaker 2: the whosoever whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but
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  Speaker 2: have everlasting life. And the Bible continues in Psalm chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirty three and verse six. By the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: where the Heaven's made hallelujah, and all of the host
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  Speaker 2: of them by the breath of his mouth. It is
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  Speaker 2: the same breath that God breathed into your nostrils, so
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  Speaker 2: you now are a living soul. It's that same breath
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  Speaker 2: that He uses in order to inspire the word of
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  Speaker 2: God that we now have in these sixty six blessed books,
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  Speaker 2: like the same breath that he breathed on his disciples.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus breathed on his disciples before he went back to Heaven. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he went and gave his life for us. He rested
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  Speaker 2: on the Sabbath day according to the commandment. He took
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  Speaker 2: up his life again on that Sunday morning, and then
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  Speaker 2: after a time, having connected with his people, he went
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  Speaker 2: back to heaven. But before he did, he breathed on them.
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  Speaker 2: He inspired them like he. But again the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: by the breath of his mouth did he create all things?
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  Speaker 2: And then verse seven, verse seven of the same chapter,
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  Speaker 2: he plies the water of the sea. He puts oceans
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  Speaker 2: in storehouses. Let the whole earth fear the Lord. Let
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  Speaker 2: all who live in the world stand in awe of him.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in awe of God, the one who loves you?
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  Speaker 2: Are you in awe of God, the one that sees
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  Speaker 2: you in all of your situations when you are going
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  Speaker 2: through trials and tribulations, the one who did not choose
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  Speaker 2: to deliver you from those trials, but he decided to
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  Speaker 2: be with you through those tribulations. I'm saying, do you
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  Speaker 2: stand in awe of the God who delivered you from
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  Speaker 2: that relationship that was so destructive to your self esteem?
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  Speaker 2: It was so destructive to your body and your mind,
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  Speaker 2: and he delivered you. Do you stand in awe and
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  Speaker 2: in amazement about the same God who gave all so
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  Speaker 2: that you can be saved? The Bible continues the same
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  Speaker 2: creator verse nine, For he spoke and it came into existence.
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  Speaker 2: He issued the decree, and it stood firm. Verse ten,
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  Speaker 2: The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations. He nullifies
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  Speaker 2: the plans of the peoples. The Lord's decisions stand forever.
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  Speaker 2: His plans abide throughout the ages. No matter how you vote,
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  Speaker 2: or if you vote, you should. But if you don't vote,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever way that you vote, you understand. The Lord's
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  Speaker 2: decisions stand forever. His plans abide through the ages. How
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  Speaker 2: blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the
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  Speaker 2: people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.
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  Speaker 2: Verse thirteen. The Lord watches from heaven. He sees all
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  Speaker 2: people from the place where he lives. He looks carefully
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  Speaker 2: at the earth's inhabitants. He's looking at you right now,
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  Speaker 2: nine minutes into our broadcast. He's looking at your life,
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  Speaker 2: and he has plans for you. He knows exactly where
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  Speaker 2: he wants to take you. He knows exactly why he
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  Speaker 2: is taking you through. Whatever he's taking you through, the blessings,
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  Speaker 2: the trials, the tribulations. I said, the blessings, the tribulations,
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  Speaker 2: the trials He's taking you through. And verse fifteen, he
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  Speaker 2: is the one who forms every heart and takes note
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  Speaker 2: of all their actions. God is good He gives us
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  Speaker 2: love freely, and sometimes sometimes when we rebel God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: we have to go through chastisement, yes, and difficulty. But
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  Speaker 2: when we give our hearts to God, he does something
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  Speaker 2: very special. He transforms our lives and then He uses
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  Speaker 2: our testimonies to help other people love freely.
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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,