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02 18 2025 To Love God · 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. Let's experience God's words today and
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  Speaker 1: 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, February eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series to Love God. I love this subject today.
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  Speaker 2: To Love God is our caption. Actually our series is
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  Speaker 2: God's Love and Justice. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but before we do, I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  Speaker 2: know where you are in the world. At your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new morning and for
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  Speaker 2: your love, which is amazing. You are amazing Father. Teach
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  Speaker 2: us to live according to your principles of love and
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  Speaker 2: to do your will. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again to love God. And immediately I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: planning this, but immediately as Mac was do the opener,
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about a song by the late Eleanor Wright,
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  Speaker 2: the late Eleanor Wright, do you Love God more than Anything?
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  Speaker 2: And I'll play just a little bit of it, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll jump into the Bible text.
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  Speaker 3: Do you love God more than anything? Do you love God?
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  Speaker 3: Do you love God more than anything? Do you love God?
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  Speaker 2: Love is all God.
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  Speaker 3: We'll ask in return for that He has given, and
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  Speaker 3: love will be the endless theme, love the host of Him. Man.
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  Speaker 2: Oh dude, Now, you all who know me know me,
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  Speaker 2: realize that I can play music the entire time. But
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  Speaker 2: that's not why you're here. But that is a question though,
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  Speaker 2: with which we must contend. Do you love and I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking me that, like, do you love God more than anything?
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  Speaker 2: And it's our privilege to love God. But interestingly, God
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  Speaker 2: can't force anyone to love him? Can I just say
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  Speaker 2: that again, God cannot. I know what word I just
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  Speaker 2: used advisedly. I said God cannot force anyone to love him,
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  Speaker 2: and that means that that would actually be the antithesis
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  Speaker 2: of love. If he forced, then it's not love. And
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  Speaker 2: so when people say God can do anything, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: I understand what we mean when we say that. But
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  Speaker 2: the truth is God cannot fail. God cannot force our
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  Speaker 2: will because if he forced our will, then that would
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  Speaker 2: be antithetical to his character, you understand. And so in
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  Speaker 2: the same vein, he does not force love God. He
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  Speaker 2: gives us the privilege to love him freely. Now he
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  Speaker 2: does give the command though, he does give the clear
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  Speaker 2: guidance that there are two great commandments. One is to
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  Speaker 2: love the Lord your God. The number one, love the
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  Speaker 2: Lord your God with all your heart and with all
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  Speaker 2: your mind and everything that you have, all of your strength.
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  Speaker 2: And the second is like unto it. He says to
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  Speaker 2: love your neighbor as yourself. And so I'm going into
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of Deuteronomy, the Bible Book of Deuteronomy,
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  Speaker 2: chapter six, and I will begin with verse one. You see,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people are so accustomed to abuse and force and
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  Speaker 2: authoritarian rule and domineering personalities that it is it is
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  Speaker 2: weird for people to say, well, wait a minute. You're
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  Speaker 2: saying that people can freely give, freely love, have the
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  Speaker 2: choice to love or not to love. Yes, And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, now, these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances
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  Speaker 2: that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you.
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  Speaker 2: This is Moses speaking, so that you may carry them
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  Speaker 2: in out in the land where you are headed, and
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  Speaker 2: that you may so revere the Lord your God, that
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  Speaker 2: you will keep all his statutes and commandments. That I
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  Speaker 2: am giving you, you, your children, and your grandchildren all
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  Speaker 2: your lives to prolong your days. Pay attention to Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and be careful to do this so that it may
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  Speaker 2: go well with you, and that you may increase greatly
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  Speaker 2: in number. As the Lord, the God of your ancestors
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  Speaker 2: said to you, you will have a land flowing with
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  Speaker 2: milk and honey. Beginning at verse four, now here, oh Israel,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, our God is one lord. You see, God
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  Speaker 2: is unified God, the Father God, the Son, God, the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost are all on the same page with everything
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  Speaker 2: that matters in the universe. They are unified. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible continues, And thou shalt love the Lord, thy God
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  Speaker 2: with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
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  Speaker 2: with all thy might. You see, God gives us the
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  Speaker 2: power and privilege to love him. You see, he is
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  Speaker 2: empowering us. The Bible says, we love him be cause
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  Speaker 2: he first loved us. So he is the cause of
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  Speaker 2: our ability to love him. You see where this is going.
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  Speaker 2: He is the cause of our ability to love him.
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  Speaker 2: And so and so when he says that we shall
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  Speaker 2: love the Lord our God with everything we have and
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  Speaker 2: everything we are, he is also promising us that if
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  Speaker 2: we love him, he is going to live out his
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  Speaker 2: love through our lives, and we will be able to
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  Speaker 2: also keep his commandments. Verse six. These words I am
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  Speaker 2: commanding you this day must be kept in mind, and
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  Speaker 2: you must teach them to your children, and speak of
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  Speaker 2: them as you sit in your house, and as you
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  Speaker 2: walk along the road, and as you lie down, and
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  Speaker 2: as you get up. You shall tie them as a
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  Speaker 2: reminder on your forearm, and fasten them as symbols on
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  Speaker 2: your forehead inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses
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  Speaker 2: and your gates. If I were to write anything on
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  Speaker 2: my screens, my computer screens, my devices here, my mobile device,
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  Speaker 2: on my YouTube account, on my social media platforms. As
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  Speaker 2: I am consuming, I don't do a lot of consumption.
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  Speaker 2: But if I am consuming, then I need to put
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  Speaker 2: these words on the doorposts of all of my devices.
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  Speaker 2: Because if I am teaching my child Josiah to them
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  Speaker 2: as I sit in our house and walk along the
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  Speaker 2: road and lie down the commandments of God, then that
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  Speaker 2: also gets into my entertainment choices, that gets into my
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  Speaker 2: relationship choices, that gets into how I do business. You see,
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  Speaker 2: these devices are the portal for me, I'm saying, for me,
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  Speaker 2: the portal to the world. That's how I do business.
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  Speaker 2: That is how I relate to people that are my clients.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I move out into certain aspects of ministry.
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  Speaker 2: And so with all of this as the door on
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  Speaker 2: the doorframes of my house, my gates, my devices, my life,
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  Speaker 2: then that means that I will actually learn to love God.
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  Speaker 2: And if I love God more than anything, one day
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  Speaker 2: I'll get to see Him as he is. 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.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah,