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01 06 2025 Covenantal Love · 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 Monday, January six,
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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 with the caption covenantal Love,
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  Speaker 2: covenantal Love. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'll like to say welcome to you and
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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 for
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  Speaker 2: giving us a covenant through Christ. Thank you for loving
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  Speaker 2: us beyond belief. Help us to love you back. Please,
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again
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  Speaker 2: covenantal love. May I just say very quickly that I
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  Speaker 2: love the covenant concept from the Bible where our relationship
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  Speaker 2: with God is concerned because I fail and I have failed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a failure, but I have made promises that
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  Speaker 2: I've not kept. I've made attempts at things that I
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  Speaker 2: could not fulfill. And I'm talking about with my greatest efforts.
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  Speaker 2: And I am really in real life like I'm a consistent, reliable,
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  Speaker 2: don't bite off more than I can chew kind of person.
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  Speaker 2: But when it comes to spirituality, I realize everything is
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  Speaker 2: more than I can chew, everything is bigger than me.
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  Speaker 2: So submission to God's will and the covenant of his
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  Speaker 2: love is so key because listen, God made a promise.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep it very simple. This morning. God made a
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  Speaker 2: promise to write his laws in our heart and in
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  Speaker 2: our minds. Right, he writes his law of love, the
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  Speaker 2: Ten commandments, love for God and love for our fellow humans.
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  Speaker 2: Write that in our hearts so that we can actually
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  Speaker 2: live according to those principles. So God says, if we
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  Speaker 2: live according to those principles, then the reward, apart from
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  Speaker 2: transforming our characters while we live down here, is to
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  Speaker 2: take us to heaven for a thousand years, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will inherit the newly created earth, where there will
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  Speaker 2: be no more sin, sickness, or anything of the sort. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So that's God's promise. That's his end of the bargain,
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  Speaker 2: and he sealed it through the Covenant of sacrifice. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ gave his life for us so he could empower
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  Speaker 2: us to do his will. And I'm oversimplifying. Ah, but
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  Speaker 2: now we have to do our part. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: that's where things start to get murky because we don't
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  Speaker 2: have the capability. I know everything I just said, but listen,
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  Speaker 2: while Jesus lived on planet Earth. He was living in
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  Speaker 2: human flesh, in human form. Now he represents the human
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  Speaker 2: side of the covenant. He's the one that keeps the
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  Speaker 2: promises that we are to keep. He in the Bible
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  Speaker 2: words in Romans chapter eight, he condemned sin in the
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  Speaker 2: flesh in order that the righteousness or the righteous requirements
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  Speaker 2: of the law might be fulfilled or fully met 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. So God keeps his end of the bargain,
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  Speaker 2: and through Christ, they keep the human side of the
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  Speaker 2: bargain to give us a head start, so that by
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  Speaker 2: his grace, because of his sacrifice, because of the gift
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  Speaker 2: that comes through Jesus Christ, now I can keep the
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  Speaker 2: human side of the covenant. My promises I can keep
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  Speaker 2: as long as I surrender my will to him. Understand,
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  Speaker 2: And so covenantal love is so sweet in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: In so many other places. Now, the lesson writer says,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible often depicts God's special love relationship with us
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  Speaker 2: by using family or kinship metaphors, particularly metaphors of the
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  Speaker 2: love between husband and wife or of a good mother
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  Speaker 2: for her child. These metaphors are used particularly to depict
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  Speaker 2: the special relationship between God and his covenant people. This
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  Speaker 2: is a relationship of covenantal love. I've described that to you,
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  Speaker 2: which involves not only God's love for his people, but
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  Speaker 2: also expectations that people will accept his love and will
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  Speaker 2: love him and one another in return. Now we know
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  Speaker 2: how that can be possible. And so from the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of Deuteronomy, chapter seven, we read beginning at verse six,
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  Speaker 2: for thou art and holy people, this is what God
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  Speaker 2: calls you. I want you to look in the mirror
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  Speaker 2: one day, or look into a camera that has a
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  Speaker 2: display reflecting your face, your image back to you and say,
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  Speaker 2: I am a holy I am holy. And I want
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  Speaker 2: you to hear it because God said you're holy. Not
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  Speaker 2: because you've generated holiness, not because you did your goodee
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  Speaker 2: for the day, not because you can tick and say,
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  Speaker 2: well I think that I have accomplished fill in the
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  Speaker 2: blank positive things today. No, but because God says that
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  Speaker 2: you're holy, and because his word, his word is the power,
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  Speaker 2: and what he commands actually happens. You see. So, by
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  Speaker 2: God's proclamation in your life, you are holy. Why because
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  Speaker 2: in his word is power, His biddings are enablings. You understand,
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  Speaker 2: for thou art a holy people, that means you're set
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  Speaker 2: aside for a holy use unto the Lord thy God.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord thy God hath chosen THEE to be a
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  Speaker 2: special people unto himself, above all people that are upon
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  Speaker 2: the face of the earth. The Lord did not set
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  Speaker 2: his love upon you, nor choose you because you were
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  Speaker 2: more in number than any people, for ye were the
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  Speaker 2: fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you,
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  Speaker 2: can you just say Jesus loves me? This I know,
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  Speaker 2: for the Bible tells me so. And I'm saying me,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to identify yourself as the one He loves,
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  Speaker 2: not for God's soul love the world. And I understand
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  Speaker 2: what the scripture was saying. And I'm not saying to
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  Speaker 2: contradict the scripture, but what I'm saying is personalize it.
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  Speaker 2: In this moment. I don't want you to think about
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  Speaker 2: how God loves the world, how He loves we, us, them,
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  Speaker 2: those they. I'm saying me, he loves me. And in
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  Speaker 2: the moments that you feel worthless, in the moments that
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  Speaker 2: you feel like you want to defeat yourself, you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to make another promise to God, because after all
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  Speaker 2: you have failed before. You want to know what next
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  Speaker 2: because another trial has come upon you today, and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: when can I get a break? And You're like, get
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  Speaker 2: a break? Why would you need a break when God
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  Speaker 2: is your shelter in this time of storm? Why would
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  Speaker 2: you need a break When His yoke is easy, his
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  Speaker 2: burden is light when we are having trials. It is
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  Speaker 2: not that we carry those trials and burdens on our own.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand I've been exhausted, but I've been the
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  Speaker 2: most exhausted when I was not yielding that burden to God.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible continues because the Lord loved you, and
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  Speaker 2: because verse eight he would keep the oath which he
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  Speaker 2: had sworn unto your father's hath. The Lord brought you
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  Speaker 2: out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of
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  Speaker 2: the house of bondmen. Has he ever delivered you from
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  Speaker 2: any sin habit? Has he ever delivered you from a
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  Speaker 2: relationship he shouldn't have been in. Has he ever delivered
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  Speaker 2: you from a cycle of abuse? Has He delivered you
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  Speaker 2: from the things that you have said negatively about yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Because maybe you heard somebody saying it to you in
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  Speaker 2: your formative years and you keep repeating this in your
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  Speaker 2: own mind. Well, he's delivering you from the hand of Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: the king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord thy God,
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  Speaker 2: he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and
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  Speaker 2: mercy in them that love Him and keep his commandments
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  Speaker 2: to a thousand generations. And the Bible says, greater love
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  Speaker 2: hath no man than this, The man laid down his
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  Speaker 2: life for his friends. Jesus is keeping covenant on the
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  Speaker 2: God side of the thing, and he also is keeping
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  Speaker 2: covenant on the human side, so.
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  Speaker 1: That you can keep covenant with Thanks for joining us,
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  Speaker 1: listens and friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,
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  Speaker 1: make it a great day. Yeah,