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03 23 2025 The Law of Love · 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 Sunday, March
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty twenty five. 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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Law of Love. The Law of Love.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community, Please pick up your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion book and let us know where you are in
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  Speaker 2: the world. At your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day and for the privilege that you
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  Speaker 2: have entrusted to us to open your word. As I
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  Speaker 2: say every day, Help us to see love like you do.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to live the love principle, and everything we
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  Speaker 2: say and do in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. Okay, the law of love, the law of love.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember anything from the last few days of
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  Speaker 2: our discussion? And I know I'm prioritizing at this moment
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  Speaker 2: people who can respond to me in the chat. Do
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  Speaker 2: you remember anything? I want you to type in the
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  Speaker 2: chat the principles that you have seen or experienced over
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of days regarding the love of God
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  Speaker 2: and the commandments. I want to know what you are learning,
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  Speaker 2: and what we're going to do is refresh your memory
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  Speaker 2: in the meantime. And the lesson writer says, God's law
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  Speaker 2: does not consist of abstract principles. We talked about some
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  Speaker 2: very specific things yesterday, didn't We. Instead, God's law is
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  Speaker 2: an expression of relationship This can be seen explicitly in
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  Speaker 2: the Ten Commandments. Okay, and so now we are going
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  Speaker 2: to break down from the Book of Exodus, chapter twenty,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse three. How this is a fact, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin with thou shalt have no other
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  Speaker 2: gods before me. This actually establishes exclusive relationship with God.
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  Speaker 2: This is why when God's people would turn away from
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  Speaker 2: him and worship false gods or somehow worship themselves, he
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  Speaker 2: would say that they were running as harlots. They would
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  Speaker 2: they were committing spiritual adultery. Okay, and so thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: have no other gods before me establishes exclusive relationship with God.
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  Speaker 2: Foundation of covenantal relationship. You see, covenantal relationship is not
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  Speaker 2: just talking about relationship with God. Jesus did a lot
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  Speaker 2: in our salvation because of covenant like he took on
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  Speaker 2: human flesh. He took on human flesh like after it
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  Speaker 2: was degraded by four thousand years of sin, Jesus became
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  Speaker 2: a human being. And even to after he has been resurrected.
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  Speaker 2: Even today, while he is ministering in the heavenly Sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: on our behalf, he's ministering yes, glorified Yes, in his
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  Speaker 2: full power, but he still maintains a human or a body.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I almost said it the wrong way, but a
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  Speaker 2: body like Jesus now maintains a body as a representative,
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  Speaker 2: a representative of the human race as he does his
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  Speaker 2: heavenly ministry. I wish I had the time. And so
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  Speaker 2: the second commandment, now thou shalt not make unto thee
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  Speaker 2: any graven image. What it does is it protects pure
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  Speaker 2: worship relationship. Can I say it again? It protects pure
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  Speaker 2: worship relationship, and it prevents distorted views of God. So
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  Speaker 2: when we have these little images and pictures and who
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  Speaker 2: knows what else that supposedly represent who God is. I
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  Speaker 2: see all of these pictures of whatever Jesus is supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be in these people's minds, like you have them
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  Speaker 2: in your churches, Like what is that? What is that?
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  Speaker 2: And who is the person that is pictured there in
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  Speaker 2: your stained glass windows. That's one that's very clear and obvious.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time to deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact is that we should not make unto
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  Speaker 2: us any graven image. I know I'm gonna get a
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  Speaker 2: lot of calls, text and emails over that one, but
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  Speaker 2: it's true. It's true. These babies are looking at these
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  Speaker 2: pictures and you say who's that, and they'll say, it's Jesus. No,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't, No, it's not that is not Jesus. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know what Jesus looked like. Nobody was snapping pictures,
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  Speaker 2: much less who God, our father looks like. And so
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  Speaker 2: really that is just an example of an image that
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  Speaker 2: is supposedly represented of God. And now we are distorting
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  Speaker 2: in our minds and in our children's minds, who God is,
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  Speaker 2: the views of God. I wish I really had the time,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't. Let's keep it pressing the third commandment,
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  Speaker 2: thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy
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  Speaker 2: God in vain. You see, this one helps us to
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  Speaker 2: respect intimate relationship with God. You see, my wife was
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  Speaker 2: kind enough when she said yes to me when I
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  Speaker 2: asked her to marry me. She was kind enough to
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  Speaker 2: take my name. She is Simone Christina Harris, now Harris.
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  Speaker 2: She was our born. Now Harris, she's taking my name.
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  Speaker 2: What if God forbid our relationship is not strong? What
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  Speaker 2: if Simone decided to go another direction while God forbid
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  Speaker 2: she has my name? I wish I didn't give this example,
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  Speaker 2: but it is it's a real life concept, right. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: then it would be that what she's doing while having
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  Speaker 2: my name is a vain reality. When we take on
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  Speaker 2: the name of God upon our lives, are we living
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  Speaker 2: like his name? Are we living according to the principle
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  Speaker 2: of the name of God? When we say in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen? Was the stuff that we just prayed
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  Speaker 2: something that is in keeping with the relationship we have
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  Speaker 2: with God in his name? Or are we asking him
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  Speaker 2: for stuff that clearly he's already revealed, are not his will?
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. It's not only saying
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  Speaker 2: oh Am and then putting the letter after it, representing
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  Speaker 2: the king of the universe. Not only that, it is
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  Speaker 2: also the way that we live well having His name,
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  Speaker 2: Do I dishonor the name of our marriage simon in
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  Speaker 2: my marriage by the way that I behave hope not?
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  Speaker 2: And then of course it honors God's character fourth commandment,
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  Speaker 2: remember the seventh day sabbage to keep it holy. It
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  Speaker 2: creates time, special time for relationship. It honors the fact
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  Speaker 2: that God sanctifies us, and that the Sabbath is a
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  Speaker 2: sign that He is the one that sanctifies us. And
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  Speaker 2: of course weakly renewal of our communion with him in
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  Speaker 2: a special way other than any other day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course we have honored your father and
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  Speaker 2: your mother. It's the foundation of family relationships. Respect for authority.
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  Speaker 2: A sixth commandment thou shalt not murder. It values human
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  Speaker 2: relationships and protects life as sacred. Seventh commandment thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: not commit adultery. It preserves marital relationship, protects family bonds.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine the devastation of my son Josiah, if
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  Speaker 2: God forbid I decided to commit adultery against his mommy,
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  Speaker 2: who I have said for years and years, twenty three
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  Speaker 2: plus years, that I love. Can you imagine the devastation
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  Speaker 2: to my so called in laws, but really they're in love,
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  Speaker 2: my father in love, my mother in love, my sister
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  Speaker 2: in love. Can you imagine the devastation in the cousins,
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  Speaker 2: the aunties, the grandma's. Come on, now, we are protecting
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  Speaker 2: the family bonds. The eighth commandment thou shalt not steal.
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  Speaker 2: It respects others' rights. It promotes trust in the community.
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  Speaker 2: The ninth thou shalt not lie or bear false witness.
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  Speaker 2: It maintains honest relationships and maintains a protection of reputation
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  Speaker 2: and the tenth thou shalt not covet guard's heart relationships.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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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,