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01 15 2025 Living Stones · 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,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, January fifteen,
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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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is Living Stones, Living Stones. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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  Speaker 2: pick up your daily portion. Companion. The companion to this
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  Speaker 2: lesson study this quarter, okay, and this is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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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 this day and forgetting
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  Speaker 2: us this far into our work week. Please get us
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  Speaker 2: over the hump, over that speed bump, so that we
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  Speaker 2: can go down, down, down, down steadily toward the time
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  Speaker 2: that we can have Sabbath with you, that we can
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  Speaker 2: tabernacle with you in a special and unique way. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you now to make us lively stones, help
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  Speaker 2: us to live your ideal in this regard. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and a man again, living stones, Living stones.
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  Speaker 2: The lesson writer asks this question, how is it that we,
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  Speaker 2: as fallen, sinful beings, can be pleasing to a holy God.
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  Speaker 2: I think that we have covered this couple of times
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  Speaker 2: this week, and of course I'm really saying that for effect.
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  Speaker 2: Of course we have, and we know that God looks
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  Speaker 2: upon us with pleasure. He created us for his glory,
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  Speaker 2: and he loves us with an everlasting love and with
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  Speaker 2: loving kindness. He is drawing us and for those who
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  Speaker 2: yield our will to him, those of us who submit
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  Speaker 2: ourselves to him and begin to allow his covenant, his
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  Speaker 2: new covenant, to live and reside and abide in our hearts,
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  Speaker 2: the love of God written in our hearts. Then we
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  Speaker 2: are are pleasing in his sight. We are pleasing in
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  Speaker 2: his sight. I don't want to idealize this thing, because
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  Speaker 2: the truth is God does have a view. He has
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  Speaker 2: a view like it is. It is displeasing to him
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  Speaker 2: when people reject grace. It's displeasing to him. When when
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  Speaker 2: people trample his law, Ah, it's displeasing to him. When
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  Speaker 2: when when love is not what we live by, it
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  Speaker 2: is not the rule that we live by, you see.
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  Speaker 2: And so to become living stones is pleasing to God.
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin by reading from the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Romans, Chapter five. Romans, Chapter five, beginning at verse six,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, for while we were helpless at the
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  Speaker 2: right time, Christ died for the ungodly. You see, God
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  Speaker 2: was not waiting for you to figure it out. He
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  Speaker 2: was not waiting for you to say, Ah, I was
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  Speaker 2: naked and ashamed, and I hid myself. He knew that
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  Speaker 2: he had to make the first step. Somebody just got
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  Speaker 2: what I said. Ah, he makes the first step, so
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  Speaker 2: we are helpless. He knows that He knows where we
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  Speaker 2: were born, he knows who are grand and great great
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  Speaker 2: grands are. He knows what we're up against, and therefore
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  Speaker 2: he died for the ungodly. He did that first to
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  Speaker 2: get us started off. And of course we need to
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  Speaker 2: respond with the power that he entrusts us with. But
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  Speaker 2: let me keep going verse seven. For rarely will anyone
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  Speaker 2: die for a righteous person. Though for a good person,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates
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  Speaker 2: his own love for us in that while we were
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  Speaker 2: still sinners. Did you get that part? While we were
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  Speaker 2: still sinners, Christ died for us. He didn't die for us,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, brothers and sisters, while we were still sinners,
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  Speaker 2: so we could continue to be that way. It's not
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  Speaker 2: that he the reality of how we live and think
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  Speaker 2: without him under the rug. He's not saying it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: He's not saying that I'm just going to give them
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  Speaker 2: everything without them responding in kind. No, But he is
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  Speaker 2: positioning us. He's positioning us to live according to his principles,
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  Speaker 2: to overcome sin in all areas to become living stones
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  Speaker 2: as part of his sanctuary. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that, I promise we will. But He
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  Speaker 2: has to give us the victory that comes through Jesus
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  Speaker 2: giving his life a ransom for many, and then coming
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  Speaker 2: out from that death situation and now ministering in the
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  Speaker 2: heavenly sanctuary on our behalf. Okay, verse nine. Much more then,
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  Speaker 2: because we have now been declared righteous by His blood,
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  Speaker 2: we are saved through him from God's wrath. For if
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  Speaker 2: while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through
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  Speaker 2: the death of his son, how much more since we
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  Speaker 2: have been reconciled, will be we be saved by His life.
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  Speaker 2: And now there is therefore now no condemnation. Romans Chapter eight,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one, to those who are in Christ
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  Speaker 2: Jesus who walk not according to the flesh, but according
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  Speaker 2: to the spirit. For the law of the Spirit of
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  Speaker 2: life has set you free, brothers and sisters from the
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  Speaker 2: law of sin and death. For what the law could
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  Speaker 2: not do, in that it was weak in the flesh,
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  Speaker 2: God did by sending his own son in the likeness
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  Speaker 2: of sinful flesh, in order that the righteousness or the
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  Speaker 2: righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us
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  Speaker 2: who walk not according to the flesh, but according to
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  Speaker 2: the spirit. You understand. So God has positioned us to
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  Speaker 2: give us life as a gift, and then he empowers
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  Speaker 2: us to live holy like Jesus lived, to be a
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  Speaker 2: to actually keep the Ten Commandments if we love him.
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  Speaker 2: His love empowers us to actually keep his commandments. And
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  Speaker 2: his commandments are not grievous. And I'm like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know there are people on the platform right now, you're listening,
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  Speaker 2: you're watching, You're like, Dave, why keep bringing up the commandments? Well,
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  Speaker 2: because it's a transcript of God's character. It is the
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  Speaker 2: manifestation of what holiness is. It is the standard of righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: And so the one who sanctifies us, he's empowering us
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  Speaker 2: to live like Jesus lived. And I'm grateful because otherwise
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  Speaker 2: we wouldn't even be here. We wouldn't be here. And
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  Speaker 2: so I want you to apply this to your personal
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  Speaker 2: life today. I'm going to page I'm going to page
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  Speaker 2: forty five, forty five in our Companion Guide. No, actually,
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  Speaker 2: let me, I'm misspoke. I'm going to what's the right
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  Speaker 2: page number forty six in our Companion Guide, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to go with relationships. Relationships, what is important now?
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  Speaker 2: Considering all that God is saying to us about this today,
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  Speaker 2: Understanding God's love for you, like his deep love for
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  Speaker 2: you even in your brokenness, is crucial. This truth changes
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  Speaker 2: how you view yourself and how you can have healthier
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  Speaker 2: esteem or God esteem in you, or self esteem rooted
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  Speaker 2: in God's perspective, not your achievements or your failures. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how do we internalize this insight? Number one? Take time
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  Speaker 2: to meditate on Romans chapter eight and verse one. Meditate
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  Speaker 2: on it which assures that there is no condemnation for
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  Speaker 2: those who are in Christ Jesus, except that you are
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  Speaker 2: free from guilt and shame because of His grace. And
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  Speaker 2: allow this truth to reshape how you see yourself and
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  Speaker 2: your worth. And then the next best move? What do
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  Speaker 2: we need to do now? Whenever you feel overwhelmed by
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  Speaker 2: feelings of inadequacy or guilt, remind yourself of God's unconditional love.
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  Speaker 2: Write out and memorize Romans chapter eight and verse one
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  Speaker 2: and Romans chapter five and verse eight to use as
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  Speaker 2: reminders of your standing in Christ. And that was sorry.
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  Speaker 2: The personal application. I did accidentally say relationship applications so
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  Speaker 2: much more to say God loves us. He loves us unconditionally,
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  Speaker 2: but that love empowers us to actually do God's will.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah.