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02 06 2025 Hold Fast to Love and Justice · 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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: February six, 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 our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is hold fast to Love and Justice. Hold
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  Speaker 2: Fast to Love and Justice. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, we
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  Speaker 2: do thank you for this day. Thank you for your
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  Speaker 2: steadfast love. Thank you for giving us the right and
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  Speaker 2: the will or the right to choose. And I pray
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  Speaker 2: God that you will teach us to make the right
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  Speaker 2: choice today. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: Now listen. I know that some people were disturbed by
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  Speaker 2: what I said right as we were closing yesterday. You're like, well, wait,
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  Speaker 2: what did he just say? Yeah, that God allows us
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  Speaker 2: to live for holiness, make the right choices. And he
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  Speaker 2: also and I said, God forbid, he allows us to
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  Speaker 2: live the wrong way too. Yeah, not because he's for that.
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  Speaker 2: For two days we have been driving the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he is always holy, always just always good. But the
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  Speaker 2: fact is that when he Behold stands at the door
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  Speaker 2: and he is consistently incessantly knocking, he is knocking for
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  Speaker 2: us to allow him into our lives. The doorknob is
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  Speaker 2: on the inside of the door, not on the out.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is not going to break down the door and
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  Speaker 2: come in. He's knocking, and he is giving us the
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  Speaker 2: freedom to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: We can do the right thing, and that is his desire.
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  Speaker 2: His singular desire is for every human being to live
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  Speaker 2: according to his principles, and for us to live with
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  Speaker 2: him eternally, for nobody to ever be destroyed or ever
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  Speaker 2: experience the consequences of sin. I hope you are listening clearly.
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  Speaker 2: But since he's a gentleman, since he gives us the
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  Speaker 2: freedom of choice, some people will choose the pathway of
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  Speaker 2: judas a scary out. I'm saying, God forbid, like some
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  Speaker 2: people will choose the pathway of Lucifer, who became the devil,
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  Speaker 2: the enemy of our souls. There are some people who
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  Speaker 2: will do that and not repent. Now, God's love and
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  Speaker 2: justice are always still here, his holiness still here, his
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  Speaker 2: love still here to transform our lives if we will
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  Speaker 2: just yield our will to him. But some people will
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  Speaker 2: choose the pathway of unrighteousness. And God is not going
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  Speaker 2: to force anyone to live holy. That's all I meant
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  Speaker 2: by it. And it's a and it's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a serious matter because now the question
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  Speaker 2: is what am I going to do at the time
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  Speaker 2: that God is entrusted to me? Will I embrace love?
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  Speaker 2: Will I hold fast to love?
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  Speaker 1: M hmm?
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  Speaker 2: Will I hold fast to righteousness? Or will I flip flop?
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  Speaker 2: Where I will I have a variableness and shadow of
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  Speaker 2: turning in my life where God does not? But will I?
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  Speaker 2: And so we we have the call of God. That
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  Speaker 2: he is the Lord, your God. He is God, the
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  Speaker 2: faithful God that keeps covenant and mercy for thousands of
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  Speaker 2: generations with those who love him and keep his commandments
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  Speaker 2: like he is good and his steadfast love endurs forever,
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  Speaker 2: and his faithfulness to all generations. And God he can
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  Speaker 2: be trusted. He gives only good gifts to his children.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, he also bestows good things, even on those
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  Speaker 2: who position themselves as enemies. Remember the sun he gives us,
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  Speaker 2: It rises and falls. Even for people who don't love him.
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  Speaker 2: There's water and food and clothing and shelter. Sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: who don't love him also receive happiness in their spirit,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't really know what it is. But still,
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  Speaker 2: but again, God's goal for every human is to live
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  Speaker 2: with Him eternally. And people who don't love him, people
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  Speaker 2: who choose hatred, will not experience eternity with God, will
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  Speaker 2: not experience all that God has even in this life
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  Speaker 2: for them. And so God wants us to hold fast
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  Speaker 2: to judgment, hold fast to love. And so we now
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  Speaker 2: read in the Bible Book of Matthew, chapter five, and
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse forty three, the Bible reads, he have
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  Speaker 2: heard it, said them of them heard it said, thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I
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  Speaker 2: say unto you, love your enemies, Oh My, bless them
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  Speaker 2: that curse you. Do good to them that hate you.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. Ye,
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  Speaker 2: that ye may be the children of your father, which
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  Speaker 2: is in heaven. For He maketh the sun to rise
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  Speaker 2: on the evil and on the good. He sendeth rain
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  Speaker 2: to the just and to the unjust. For if ye
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  Speaker 2: love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not?
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  Speaker 2: Even the publicans the same? Like wicked people can do that.
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  Speaker 2: If ye salute your brethren ownly, what do ye more
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  Speaker 2: than others? Do not even the publicans? So be ye perfect? Oh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: here we go. I love this word. Be ye perfect,
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  Speaker 2: even as your Father in heaven is perfect. Now there's
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  Speaker 2: another place where God says, in the Old Testament the
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  Speaker 2: very same thing. But he says, be perfect, for your
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven is perfect for four. Therefore you can
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  Speaker 2: be perfect because God is perfect, meaning God can transform
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  Speaker 2: our characters. Yes, we don't have to have the argument
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  Speaker 2: from the eighteen hundreds about perfection. Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 2: it's not inherent. We were not born that way. Clearly,
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  Speaker 2: we were born in sin shapen, in iniquity. That is
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  Speaker 2: the way we were born. However, Jesus said to Nicodemus
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  Speaker 2: one evening, he said, listen, marvel, not that I say
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  Speaker 2: unto you, you must be born again. That which is
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  Speaker 2: born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of
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  Speaker 2: spirit is spirit. Marvel, Not that I say unto you.
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  Speaker 2: You must be born again. Like God can transform our
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  Speaker 2: lives to the degree that when people do evil against us,
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  Speaker 2: we can forgive them. When people say bad words to
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  Speaker 2: you on the road in a road rage incident, you
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  Speaker 2: can choose to stay in your vehicle. You can choose
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  Speaker 2: not to draw your weapon. You can choose not to
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  Speaker 2: cause an accident on the highway Highway seventy five, Highway
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  Speaker 2: Interstate Interstate eighty one, like you can choose on I
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  Speaker 2: ninety five I sixty six. You can choose not to
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  Speaker 2: engage in road rage. Now why because God has made
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  Speaker 2: you perfect. In Isaiah in the Book of Romans, Chapter eight,
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  Speaker 2: God shows us his rescue plan. He said, there was
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  Speaker 2: therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in Christ Jesus? Well, how would I know? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he says, who walk not according to the flesh, but
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  Speaker 2: according to the spirit. For the law of the Spirit
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  Speaker 2: of life has set you free from the law of
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  Speaker 2: sin and death. You no longer have to be incomplete.
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  Speaker 2: You no longer have to be bound to the law
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  Speaker 2: of sin and death. You can, in fact do what
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  Speaker 2: God says because His spirit lives in you. What the
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  Speaker 2: Law could not do in that it was weakened the flesh.
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  Speaker 2: God did by sending his own son in the likeness
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  Speaker 2: of flesh, and the righteousness of the Law could be
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  Speaker 2: fulfilled in us walk not according to the flesh, but
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  Speaker 2: according to the spirit. You see, if we hold fast
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  Speaker 2: to the love of God, then we can be holy
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  Speaker 2: and just My God.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,