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08 29 2024 The Greatest Commandment · 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, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, 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: Lesson study series through the Book of Mark. Our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Greatest Commandment, the Greatest Commandment. 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: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,
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  Speaker 2: for the opportunity that we have to pray. Father, Please
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  Speaker 2: give us the spirit of the law in our bosom.
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  Speaker 2: Please write your laws in our hearts, Father, and in
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  Speaker 2: our minds. Help us to live like Jesus lived. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again the greatest Commandment.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is a very interesting discussion. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. We'll get into it now from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Mark, chapter twelve, and we'll read beginning
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  Speaker 2: at verse twenty eight. Okay twelve, and we will read
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse number twenty eight. And the Bible reads.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the scribes came, and, having heard them
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  Speaker 2: reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well,
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  Speaker 2: asked him, which is the first commandment of all? He said,
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  Speaker 2: which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him,
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  Speaker 2: the first of all commandments is here, oh Israel, the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: our God is one lord. And thou shalt love the
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  Speaker 2: Lord with thy heart, all thy heart, and with all
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  Speaker 2: thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all
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  Speaker 2: thy strength. This is the first great or first commandment,
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  Speaker 2: and the second, namely, is like unto this, thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment
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  Speaker 2: greater than these. And the scribes said to him, well mastered,
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  Speaker 2: thou hast said the truth. For there is one God,
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  Speaker 2: and there is none other but He. And to love
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  Speaker 2: him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,
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  Speaker 2: and with all the soul, and with all the strength,
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  Speaker 2: and to love his neighbor as himself is more than
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  Speaker 2: all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that,
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  Speaker 2: he answered discreetly he said, unto him, thou art not
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  Speaker 2: far from the Kingdom of God. He said, thou art
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  Speaker 2: not far from the Kingdom of God. And no man
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  Speaker 2: after that durst ask him any question. I really love
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  Speaker 2: what just happened here? First of all, sometimes we in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, like we modern day believers, categorize all scribes, Pharisees, Herodians, sadducees,
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  Speaker 2: and all of the priests and leaders of the people
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  Speaker 2: of God back in Jesus's days times, we type cast them.
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  Speaker 2: We say that that all of them were wicked and
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  Speaker 2: that they were they were enemies of God. And it's like, well, no, no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 2: no no no, no no no. That is almost like
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  Speaker 2: modern day racism, like sometimes people say, because you're from
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  Speaker 2: a certain group of people, then fill in the negative
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  Speaker 2: blank here, and it's like, no, that is not the reality.
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  Speaker 2: It is true that they're in that reality. Then with
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  Speaker 2: these religious leaders, that there were some people who did
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  Speaker 2: not live according to God's principles, some of them were
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  Speaker 2: enemies of God, but not all were like this. Not
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  Speaker 2: all of any people group are like anything except humans.
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  Speaker 2: All of us are humans and the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: We need to find out, like we need to ask
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  Speaker 2: the question, We need to experience people. We need to
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  Speaker 2: see the fruit that the lives of individuals bear. And
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  Speaker 2: so this individual scribe who had details like this brother
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  Speaker 2: knew the law of God, like he was a faithful scribe,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently apparently he had real interest in God. Apparently
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  Speaker 2: he was. He was open, and he was he was
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  Speaker 2: receptive to Jesus Christ. And so when Jesus answers him,
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  Speaker 2: the man is satisfied. When I say satisfied, I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's satisfied that Jesus quote is on the right track.
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  Speaker 2: That's a whole discussion, right. I understand, like Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: the one who gave this truth. But I'm saying, like
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  Speaker 2: this man, it resonated with him. He knew that he
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  Speaker 2: was having an encounter with someone who was fully connected
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  Speaker 2: to the truth concerning God's word. And he called that
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  Speaker 2: man Jesus, He called him master, and then he reiterated
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  Speaker 2: the Shamah Shamah. So Jesus, now he's he's reciting to
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  Speaker 2: the man the law in the law from the book
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  Speaker 2: of Deuteronomy as we see it now Deuteronomy chapter six,
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  Speaker 2: where Shama is the Lord hero Israel. The Lord our
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  Speaker 2: God is one Lord, and thou shalt worship him with
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  Speaker 2: everything that you have and everything that you are, Shamah.
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  Speaker 2: That is what resonated with the people of God. Then,
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  Speaker 2: and to hear and to do was one. And in
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  Speaker 2: the same to hear and to do hear about the
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  Speaker 2: Lord our God, who is one Lord. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time to deal with the one Lord part.
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  Speaker 2: But he also said to now worship and live according
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  Speaker 2: to the principles of what you hear, hearing and doing
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  Speaker 2: are the same. You hear the commandments of God, then
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  Speaker 2: do them. If you can discern the voice of God,
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  Speaker 2: then do what the voice says. What God says to you.
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  Speaker 2: Hear our prayer, O Lord, We sing that sometimes among
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in religious exercises. Here our prayer, O Lord, ligne
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  Speaker 2: thine ear to us, you say, hearing and then doing
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  Speaker 2: incline your ear to us. Okay, okay, he's key. He's
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  Speaker 2: giving keen attention to our prayers and then grant us.
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  Speaker 2: He's acting now on our behalf. Grant us thy peace.
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  Speaker 2: And so we agree now that to hear and to
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  Speaker 2: do is the same. What what is Jesus getting at here?
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  Speaker 2: He said? The first commandment of all is to love
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  Speaker 2: God with everything. And I love it because because there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing on reserve, like there's nothing that we hold back.
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  Speaker 2: Our habits on the internet. We love God with those.
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  Speaker 2: The money that either we have or we will have
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  Speaker 2: in the future, We love God with those. The relationships
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  Speaker 2: that we develop with people, just people everyday people ja
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  Speaker 2: at our jobs, where we exercise, when we are on
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  Speaker 2: the road in the taxi, when we encounter people, if
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  Speaker 2: we do fly overseas or wherever we go in the airports,
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  Speaker 2: we are loving God with that aspect of our hearts
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  Speaker 2: and in those secret places, those things that we entertain
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  Speaker 2: in our minds that nobody will ever know, nobody will
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  Speaker 2: ever know, we worship God in that space too. We
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  Speaker 2: worship God with all of our hearts and all of
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  Speaker 2: our minds, even those things that we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: let go of. But because we love God and we
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  Speaker 2: are worshipers, we say, okay, God, we yield. I yield
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  Speaker 2: like I open up my mind and heart to you
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  Speaker 2: so that you can have your way with me. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you God. And so that is the first and great commandment.
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  Speaker 2: May I just say right here that this is a
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  Speaker 2: miracle for a human being who is a son or
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  Speaker 2: a daughter of Adam, who was the first man. He
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  Speaker 2: was the one that represented the human race. He gave
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  Speaker 2: us the disease of desiring to sin. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: miracle when a human being in that condition can learn
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  Speaker 2: to love God. It's a miracle. And so when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: says the second is like unto it, now we can
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  Speaker 2: see that to love human beings is also a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about loving human beings because they quote
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  Speaker 2: love us. I'm not saying that we love human beings
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  Speaker 2: in response to how they treat us. I'm saying to
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  Speaker 2: have the kind of love that Jesus is talking about
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  Speaker 2: for human beings, loving my neighbor as myself like unto
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  Speaker 2: the first Law. It's also miraculous, and it is only
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  Speaker 2: because God writes his laws and our hearts and on
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  Speaker 2: our minds under the New Covenant, that we can keep
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  Speaker 2: the first and second Commandment.
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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,