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09 21 2026 The Love of God · 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, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, September 21, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of 1 and 2 Corinthians. Our caption for today is,
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  Speaker 2: The Love of God. The love of God. Don't get
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  Speaker 2: confused tomorrow when I announce the title for tomorrow because
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  Speaker 2: it's going to sound similar. I am so glad that
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  Speaker 2: you are here. I don't know what is going on
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  Speaker 2: with these lights. But I think we're back here. And
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  Speaker 2: so I am blessed that we are together. Before we
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  Speaker 2: because Your Daily Portion Ministries is a listener and viewer
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  Speaker 2: supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for giving us this day, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please open up our understanding. Teach us
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  Speaker 2: to love you like you deserve. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen, amen,
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  Speaker 2: and amen again. The love of God. Ooh, there is
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  Speaker 2: so much to say, so little time. Let's start with
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  Speaker 2: God is love. Before we get into anything else, the
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  Speaker 2: fact is that God is love. So it's not only
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  Speaker 2: that he's loving, which he is, it's not only that
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  Speaker 2: he shows us how to love, which he does, but
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  Speaker 2: he is in fact and indeed love itself. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says God is love. And what that means to me,
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  Speaker 2: among other things, is that anything that is godly is
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  Speaker 2: loving and And anything that is supposedly loving must be godly.
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  Speaker 2: So if you love spaghetti, that's not the same as love, love.
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  Speaker 2: That's not love. That's an affinity towards spaghetti, right? If
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  Speaker 2: someone is asking you to do something, if you loved me,
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  Speaker 2: you would. Whatever it is that they're trying to get
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  Speaker 2: you to do, if that is not godlike, then it's
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  Speaker 2: not love that they're asking you to demonstrate. They're being selfish, right?
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  Speaker 2: I think somebody is hearing me. And so God is love,
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  Speaker 2: and the proof is not a feeling or a philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: The proof is a cross. Not one word, two words,
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  Speaker 2: the cross. Yeah, the cross. Yeah, so the demonstration, the proof,
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  Speaker 2: the manifestation of the love of God is seen very
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  Speaker 2: clearly in the cross of Jesus Christ, where he gave
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  Speaker 2: his life for us, but where the Father sent Jesus
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  Speaker 2: to die for sinners while we were yet sinners. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't wait for us to start behaving right. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: wait until there was some what we would call redeeming quality,
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  Speaker 2: some positive thing that he could look at and say, yep,
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  Speaker 2: that's worth it. It's because he created us in his
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  Speaker 2: image and he always intended for us to live with
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  Speaker 2: him eternally, even though humankind decided to go the wrong path.
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  Speaker 2: God said, because I love you, and if I don't
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  Speaker 2: do this, I'm going to lose you all forever. We
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  Speaker 2: have to enable and enact this plan. the plan of
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  Speaker 2: salvation through Christ. And so our first lesson is coming
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  Speaker 2: in from 1 John, the Bible book of 1 John.
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  Speaker 2: I get excited when I get into John's letters, I
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  Speaker 2: will admit. And I will read chapter 4, verses 9
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  Speaker 2: and 10. 1 John chapter 4, verses 9 and 10.
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  Speaker 2: And this was manifested, the love of God toward us,
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  Speaker 2: because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world,
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  Speaker 2: that we might live through Him. So, God is giving
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  Speaker 2: us Jesus Christ so we can live through Him, okay? Well,
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  Speaker 2: what does it look like, God? Like, what does this
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  Speaker 2: love look like? Herein is love, not that we loved God.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God didn't wait for us to make the
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  Speaker 2: first step. He didn't wait for us to miraculously finally
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  Speaker 2: get it into our minds that we need to love God,
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  Speaker 2: like we owe Him a debt of gratitude. God did
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  Speaker 2: not wait for something like that to happen. So herein
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  Speaker 2: is love, not that we loved God, but that He
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  Speaker 2: loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice or the propitiation of What does propitiation mean? It means,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, atoning sacrifice, the satisfaction that turns away
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  Speaker 2: wrath and restores relationship with God. So God in all
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  Speaker 2: right could have destroyed us. He could have levied all
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  Speaker 2: of his holy indignation toward this entire earth, one human
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  Speaker 2: at a time, and liquefied the place. He could have
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  Speaker 2: turned this into a nuclear holocaust, but even worse, where
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  Speaker 2: the heat is measured in centigrade or hotter. You understand, like,
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  Speaker 2: God could have done that, and it would have been
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  Speaker 2: his right. He would have been justified. However, however— God
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  Speaker 2: decided to restore relationship with him, and the love of
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  Speaker 2: God is not a sentiment. God decided that when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ gave his life and he became the atoning sacrifice,
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  Speaker 2: that it would remove every single barrier between the holy
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  Speaker 2: God and guilty sinners. No need for us to be destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Hellfire was created or intended, excuse me, it will come,
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  Speaker 2: it's not come yet, but it will come and it
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  Speaker 2: is intended only for the devil and his evil angels.
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  Speaker 2: It was never intended for one single human being to
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  Speaker 2: go and be burned there. It was never God's will
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  Speaker 2: for any human being to be separated from God. It
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  Speaker 2: was always God's will for us to live throughout the
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  Speaker 2: ceaseless ages of eternity with God, where we would build
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  Speaker 2: and nobody would inhabit our stuff. We would plant and
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  Speaker 2: nobody would steal our stuff. Where we would ever be
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  Speaker 2: able to watch our children lead all of those animals
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  Speaker 2: that right now are predators, dangerous, and even venomous. The
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  Speaker 2: children will lead them. I wish I had time to
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  Speaker 2: deal with that passage. My wife is laughing right now.
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  Speaker 2: And a little child shall lead them has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with leadership. It has everything to do with living
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  Speaker 2: in eternity with God and being able to work with
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  Speaker 2: these animals that normally would have Which I just literally
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  Speaker 2: don't understand why people mix that text up. But I digress.
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  Speaker 2: I digress. And so John strips away every sentimental definition
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  Speaker 2: of love and replaces it with the image of the
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice of Jesus Christ. That's what he does. Love is
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  Speaker 2: not that we first loved God, but that he loved
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  Speaker 2: us first. and sent his son to deal with what
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  Speaker 2: stood between us. The initiative was always his. Adam, where
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  Speaker 2: are you? Do you remember he went in search of
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve? Yes, the cost was always his. The
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  Speaker 2: love is always his. So what do we do with
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  Speaker 2: that minimally? Receive the love of God today, not as
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  Speaker 2: a concept, but as a completed act. Receive. Receive the
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  Speaker 2: love of God. Do not repel him. Do not withstand him.
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  Speaker 2: Do not put anything as a barrier when he intended
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  Speaker 2: to remove all barriers by loving us. Yes, rest in
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  Speaker 2: it rather than striving to earn the love of God.
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  Speaker 2: It is our privilege. It is our privilege to be
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  Speaker 2: transformed by love. Like rays of light from the sun, pity, love,
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  Speaker 2: and compassion go out from him to all his creatures.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day. 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 L.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day.