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04 11 2024 A Legacy of Love · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Thursday, April eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our lessons study series through the principle or
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  the discussion of the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is a legacy
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  of love, a legacy of love. We'll get into that in just a
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  moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,
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  pick up your Daily Portion book, and let us know where you are
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  in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that
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  we continue to build faith and fellowship. And let me just say that for
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  those who are in the community, we started a chat just about six days
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  ago or five days ago that is about the practicality of the Word of God.
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  There are so many of us that look at it philosophically and we feel
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  satisfied if we can speak a little bit of coin a Greek, or a
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  little bit of Airmic or a little bit of Hebrew, or be able to
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  discuss something in detail and understand just intellectually. But now we're talking about practically,
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  like what does the Word of God look like in our lives? Okay,
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  so again, go to your Daily Portion dot com and join the online
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  community, and then join the chat that is currently underway. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for giving us this new day and for the privilege that you have entrusted
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  to us. Please teach us today about your love like help us to live
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  in the legacy and then continue the legacy in our own lives and families and
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  communities. In Jesus' name, I pray again amen and Amen. Okay,
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  so a legacy of love. Jesus left the legacy. No, let me
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  put it this way. Jesus actually created Jesus and God our Father, with
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  the Holy Spirit. Yes, and the ministering angels, as as the foot
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  soldiers. If you want to say I have created a legacy of love,
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  how do we know? Well? The Bible does say in John chapter three
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  and verse sixteen that God loved the world so much that he gave his only
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  begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him would not perish but have everlasting life.
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  God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world,
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  but that the world through him might be saved. And then he gave us
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  those who have chosen, who have chosen to serve him. He's given us
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  the ministry of love, the ministry of reconciliation, the ministry that says,
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  I see that you are one of God's children, and I can also see
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  that you need assistance, So may I lend a helping hand. Yes,
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  I can see that you have not yet chosen to serve God. Ah,
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  But I realized that I was like that at one time in my life.
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  May I give or lend a helping hand, and I won't be different in
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  my home versus what I am on the road. May I say that like
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  the legacy of love does not allow for hypocrisy, No, sir, no
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  ma'am. The legacy of love says that once God's love is prominent in our
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  life, then we are that way wherever we go, wherever we go,
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  the legacy of love. And so let me just start on the down part
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  and then we'll go up. Okay. So the devil, the devil who
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  was once Lucifer, he was once the son of the Morning, but now
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  he is the deceiver, like he's the father of lies. He is the
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  enemy of God and God's people. Right, he's an enemy of everything that
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  is good and loving, okay, and principled and righteous. Well, he
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  spread discord and strife in heaven. And so when you are at work,
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  you're at school, you are in a fellowship of believers, and you see
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  that someone is spreading discord and strife. They are not bringing people together.
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  But when they are present or when they speak, when they are working behind
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  the scenes, those individuals seem to be scattering rather than building rapport, rather
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  than building in community. Then you know that they are of their father,
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  the devil. Can we just say that really clearly, like it doesn't matter.
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  You don't have to say, well, they're a good person, but
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  they're just not the right person for this community. The reality is that discord
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  and strife comes from the enemy. And yeah, so I preempted myself because
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  in my notes I said Satan spread discord and strife in heaven, and then
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  he brought the same saa a A A m e e e e e e
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  tactic to earth. Now, what that is the question? He brought that
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  same tactic to earth when he was finally evicted from heaven. He brought that
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  down here. So what do we do? What do we do? We
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  embrace brothers and sisters the love that God has given us through Christ. We
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  embrace the mindset of Jesus Christ. Yes, and so in John chapter John,
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  chapter thirteen, and verse thirty five, the Bible reads, I give
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  you a new commandment. Well, what is the new commandment? Jesus love
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  one another. The concept, the principle of love was new to the people
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  of God in that they weren't living up to that standard in the way that
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  God would have been fully pleased. You see, I'm not saying that nobody
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  was. But when Jesus was teaching this principle, he was teaching it now
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  from the perspective of the one who is a manifest is the ultimate manifestation of
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  love that only the prophets only foresaw. Like God gave them a peek into
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  what would happen. Now, Jesus is actually here the manifestation of God's love
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  for us, so that we can be saved. Yes through what receiving Christ
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  into our lives, allowing him to live his life through us. The victory
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  that Jesus manifest on planet Earth, he is willing to live it in our
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  lives and through our lives, And so he wants us to love one another
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  verse thirty five. Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples if
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  and I may I just add here and only, if you have love for
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  one another. This is the only way that people will know that you are
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  my disciples, if you have love for one another. And here it reads
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  in First John, chapter four and verse twenty one. And the commandment we
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  have from him is this, that the one who loves God will show love
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  two other believers. Two. Now does that mean that we don't love people
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  who don't love God. Well, that's not the discussion right now. The
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  discussion is that the legacy begins with the fellowship of believers. Like if I
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  can't love my brother whom I can see, if I cannot love my sister
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  whom I can see through those board meetings, ah, through those quadrinial orquinial
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  meetings that we have around the world that have to do with selecting leaders and
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  by laws, etc. Etc. And the structure, etc. If we
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  cannot demonstrate love in these environments and loving the people in my community is completely
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  out of the question. Because in the ideal space, right the heavenly space,
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  if you wils if you were willing to say, the heavenly space,
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  if we are not loving God and our fellow believers, then there's no way
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  that we can have the power that God wants to manifest through us. When
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  we go out into our communities, the places that we build business, the
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  places where we exercise, the places that we have school, or are traveling
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  on the road in the public transportation or ride shares in those metroplexus where you
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  want to keep the traffic down. If you cannot be loving towards your brothers
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  or sisters, some of whom make really terrible mistakes, some of us who
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  make really terrible errors in judgment. Yes, if we can't love each other,
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  how in the world can we love those to Christ who are not as
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  holy as they should be. You see where this is going. And so
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  this legacy of love is huge. So based on how we treated each other
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  during the pandemic, was God's love more or less evident? And if you
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  don't understand what I'm saying, look into the lesson. There was a discussion
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  of an old pandemic. Interesting. Have a wonderful day. Peace, Thanks
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  for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,