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05 25 2024 The Foundation of God’s Government · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good
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  morning, Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath. It is May twenty five, twenty
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  twenty four. Hello, my name Iselle David Harris. I am your host,
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  and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study.
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  Now we're at lesson number nine in our series Great Controversy, and our
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  caption is the Foundation of God's Government. The Foundation of God's Government. We'll
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  get into that in just a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome
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  to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  dot com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  and Heaven. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to open up your word
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  today, and thank you for the Sabbath time that you've entrusted to our care.
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  Thank you, Father for giving us provision to connect with you in a
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  special way. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  So the foundation of God's government may not sound like an interesting or exciting title,
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  but really does it need to be interesting or exciting to be the truth.
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  The foundation of God's government is his law of love. May I say
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  that again. The foundation of God's government is his law of love. This
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  is why I get a bit offended. Let me just say I don't talk
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  about offense often. That's why I get a little bit offended when people try
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  to throw away his law of love, because like, it's the foundation of
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  his government, and without this foundation, all of us are lost. I'll
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  get into that in the next couple of days. We'll probably touch that today
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  a little bit. But let me just say a key like I started last
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  week, a key for today is the only perfect government is God's. Man
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  I say that just one more time. The only perfect government is God's.
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  You know why for a number of reasons. Number one, because his holy
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  ten Commandments law of Love is the foundation. But besides that, there is
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  no partisan politics. There's no partisan politics, there is no politriics. Nobody
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  is waiting to say, ah, gotcha when there is somebody in government or
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  not in government, or somebody's not playing the way that we want them to
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  play, or governing in the way that we want them to govern. And
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  so the foundation of God's government is his law of love. Therefore it is
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  perfect, and God always has our best interest at heart. Yes, his
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  law is holy, just and good one hundred percent of the time. Mm
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  hmm. No matter what's going on or not going on in our little world
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  here called planet Earth, no matter what is going on or not going on
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  anywhere else in the universe, this law is in our favor as long as
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  we're surrendered to God. Yes, we're We're gonna drill that some more a
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  little bit later. So in the Book of Revelation, chap To twelve and
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  verse seventeen. The Bible says, and the dragon that's the devil was enraged
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  with the woman that is God's people, and he went to make war with
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  the rest of her offspring, who do what keep the commandments of God and
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  have the testimony of Jesus Christ. And so now we know that the reason
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  why the devil hates you, brothers and sisters is because you look like Jesus.
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  If you're one of God's people, you're the woman that he's enraged with.
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  And it's because you look like Jesus. You have the law of God
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  written in your heart because you're a new covenant person. You see, the
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  Covenant of God in twenty twenty four is written in the hearts and minds of
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  the people of God. And anybody who has the love of God written in
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  our hearts and on our minds, we look like Jesus. We look like
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  God in the way that we live, the way that we treat other humans,
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  in the way that we respect God in terms of worship, we respect
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  the ministry of Holy angels who excel in strength. The way that we operate
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  in our businesses, in our families, in other kinds of relationships, how
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  we treat our bodies, how we treat our minds, our time. And
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  really there is a list of eight things that every human is entrusted with to
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  a greater or lesser degree, and we treat those things with the kind of
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  respect that God has entrusted to us. And when we do that, which
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  is the exact opposite of what the devil does, now he's vexed and he
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  wants to destroy us because he doesn't have a chance to be on the Lord's
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  side anymore. He burned his chances right before he got expelled from heaven with
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  his evil angels, when he had an opportunity to repent, as God's character
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  would have determined, he would have had an opportunity to turn away from his
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  sin and turn to God, but he chose not to. And therefore now
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  he's vexed with you. Why because you have an opportunity to turn toward God,
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  and you look like God when you surrender his will. Okay, And
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  so we're going to begin. And it feels like we begin, but that
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  was just kind of getting us started. But let's really begin now with the
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  Book of Hebrews Hebrews chapter ten, and we eight excuse me, and we
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  will read verse ten, and the Bible reads, for this is the covenant
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  that I will make with the House of Israel. That's you, brothers and
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  sisters. If you are what surrendering your will to God, if you are
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  baptized into Christ, you are Abraham seed and heirs according to the promise.
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  So this is for you seth the Lord. I will put my laws into
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  their mind. Whose laws God's law? Who's going to put it there?
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  God's going to put it there? And I will write them in their hearts.
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  And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to
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  me a people. So if you have God's law written in your heart and
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  on your mind, then you are God's child. Well, what does it
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  mean if we reject this law of God, if we reject this foundation of
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  his government, if we are no longer interested in the law of love?
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  He said, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. That
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  means that the love of God constraineth me. Like Paul said, the love
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  of God empowers me to do his will. You see, the ten commandments
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  become ten promises when we are surrendered to God's will. When we receive the
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  love of God, then he promises us that we will have no other gods
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  before him. He promises us that we will not kill, steel or murder,
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  or should say kill, murder or steal hah. If we have God's
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  love living in our hearts, then we humans will learn and know how to
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  honor our parents, even if our parents don't feel honorable. We will know
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  not to cove it, and we will live in a lifestyle that does not
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  cove it. We will know what it's like to not take God's name in
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  vain. We will know what it's like to keep the Seventh day Sabbath holy
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  in all of our opportunities to do so. We will understand fully what it
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  means not to assassinate anybody's character, to live the law of love toward our
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  fellow humans with kindness, being at peace with all people inasmuch as it is
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  possible, and so forth we will look like Jesus. And then, of
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  course, in Ezekiel, chapter thirty six and verse twenty six, the Bible
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  says, a new heart. Also will I give to you and grant or
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  create a new spirit and put it within you. I will take away the
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  stony heart out of your flesh, that's the one that doesn't have the covenant
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  of God written there how, And I will give you a heart of flesh,
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  and I will put my spirit, what spirit, Whose spirit, the
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  Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit within you. You see, the old heart
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  doesn't have the love of God impressed upon it. The old heart does not
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  have the Holy Ghost living inside of that lifestyle. And cause you to walk
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  in my statutes. That means He will empower you brothers and sisters. And
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  he ye shall keep my judgments and do them. And then we will live
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  these words. I delight to do Thy will, Oh my God, YEA,
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  Thy law is within my heart. There is so much more to say,
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  but let me just say this. The foundation of God's government is living
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  in our lives, the love of Love. If we surrender our will to
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  him. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,