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12 28 2024 God Loves Freely · 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 Sabbath, December
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, 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 beginning with lesson
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  Speaker 2: number one in our new Lesson study series, God's Love
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  Speaker 2: and Justice, and our caption for today is God Loves Freely.
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  Speaker 2: God Loves freely. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. I am so happy
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  Speaker 2: we did an exceptional time, had an exceptional time in
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Mark, and then in John and now
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  Speaker 2: we get to see God's love and justice balanced. Before
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  Speaker 2: we begin, I'd like to say, please go over to
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  Speaker 2: our online community. But this is our second quarter of
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  Speaker 2: releasing the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide. It goes
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  Speaker 2: with this lesson study, Okay, So pick that up at
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  Speaker 2: the appropriate time. You can download it or you can
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  Speaker 2: that because sometimes we don't know how to apply, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to apply the truths that we see.
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  Speaker 2: We will do it in four key areas every single day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go through the guide every day,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll give you a taste of it today as
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  Speaker 2: the Lord gives us strength. But make sure at the
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  Speaker 2: appropriate time you do get that guide because it goes
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  Speaker 2: right with the lesson. Okay. So let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day and for giving us the
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  Speaker 2: privilege to come together on this Sabbath morning and to
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  Speaker 2: not just consider your word, but live live by the
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  Speaker 2: truths of your word. And I pray that today you
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  Speaker 2: will teach us how to love you and embrace your love,
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  Speaker 2: embrace your justice in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and
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  Speaker 2: a man again. God loves freely. Now on my lesson,
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  Speaker 2: I actually underscored the words, but then I added the
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  Speaker 2: word me, and it reads like this, God loves me freely.
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  Speaker 2: And I would encourage you to do the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: because sometimes in a passive way, we say Jesus loves
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  Speaker 2: Jesus loves you brother, Jesus loves you, sister, or we
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  Speaker 2: might sing the song Jesus loves me. This I know,
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  Speaker 2: for the Bible tells me so little ones to him belong.
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  Speaker 2: They are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me.
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  Speaker 2: And then somehow our intellect or our random negative thoughts
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  Speaker 2: about ourselves or who knows what else, will not apply
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  Speaker 2: it to me. Not this time, God, not this time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know if you love me, because when
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  Speaker 2: I pray, you don't answer my prayers. And it's like,
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  Speaker 2: did he answer your prayer and just say no? And
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  Speaker 2: you didn't believe in his sovereignty to be able to
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  Speaker 2: say no. Because no is the best for his will
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  Speaker 2: and the best for your good. So Jesus loves me freely.
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  Speaker 2: And then I wrote in my lesson yes and read
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  Speaker 2: letters exclamation points. Celebrate that. Celebrate the fact that God
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  Speaker 2: loves you. Fill in your name here, like God loves me.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrate that. There are times that his love, His love
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  Speaker 2: gives me. The things that I like, like the things
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  Speaker 2: that get me all have butterflies in my stomach. And
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  Speaker 2: I love exactly what He has done or not done.
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  Speaker 2: But then there are times that I need chiding correction.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that when I ask for patients, then
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  Speaker 2: things that are challenging come my way, and I have
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  Speaker 2: to build the patience muscle. God loves me. Celebrate that.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we read from the book of Hoseiah Hoseiah,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter fourteen and verse four. I will heal their backsliding.
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  Speaker 2: I will love them freely from my anger has turned
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  Speaker 2: away from him. You see, there are times that people relapse.
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  Speaker 2: God's people relapse. We re degenerate, we go backwards. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: God's people go backwards, not because we have to, not
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  Speaker 2: because after all, we're on only human. But some people
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  Speaker 2: who have tasted of the heavenly gift of God sometimes
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  Speaker 2: turned back like Lot's wife, and because God loves them.
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  Speaker 2: God loves us. There are times that there is a
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  Speaker 2: there are there's chastisement that comes with that. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time to deal with that, But he
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  Speaker 2: said that that he will heal that that that backsliding spirit,
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  Speaker 2: that thing that makes you want to go backward, that
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  Speaker 2: thing that says when we were we were in Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: it was better for us, even though we were enslaved.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: When I was in that relationship I should never have
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  Speaker 2: been into. But at least I had some pleasure. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: I want to go back to that. No, at least
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  Speaker 2: when I was drinking that rum or smoking that weed, Like,
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  Speaker 2: at least in those times I could, I could forget
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  Speaker 2: about my troubles for that moment, and I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I was more in control of my life. But now
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  Speaker 2: the stress is beyond me, and it's like no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I will heal that spirit that causes you to think
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  Speaker 2: that before you connected with God, it was better that somehow,
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  Speaker 2: that degenerating spirit, that degenerative spirit that breaks down, like
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  Speaker 2: somehow you believe that that is is better, Like when
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  Speaker 2: you were watching those things just to take your mind away,
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  Speaker 2: those movies that have nothing to do with building your character,
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  Speaker 2: those movies that actually tend away from God and you
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  Speaker 2: you somehow find solace in that or in the discussion
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  Speaker 2: that makes you just feel better about yourself because somebody's
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  Speaker 2: just an echo chamber and just telling you only good
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  Speaker 2: stuff rather than helping you and say, hey, brother, hey sister,
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  Speaker 2: like this is an area that you want to be
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  Speaker 2: on the lookout for, you understand. So sometimes I need
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  Speaker 2: that kind of healing. We're looking at the balance of
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  Speaker 2: God's love and his righteousness or justice.
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  Speaker 1: Ha.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I need that kind of what people call tough love.
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  Speaker 2: But we're talking about tough love from God's perspective, not humans.
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  Speaker 2: And so Peter, Peter, Yeah, I have to put myself
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  Speaker 2: in the story of Peter, as he had denied Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: He had denied Jesus three times and even to the
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  Speaker 2: point of cursing, saying bad word so that the young
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  Speaker 2: woman would disassociate Peter from Jesus. He was distancing himself
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  Speaker 2: from Jesus because Jesus was holy. But Jesus was about
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  Speaker 2: to be murdered on a cross, and he was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, no, no, no, don't put me in that
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  Speaker 2: because I'm not trying to go on that cross. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I was not with Jesus. Big bad word alert, bit
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  Speaker 2: bad word alert. So so I want to prove that
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  Speaker 2: I don't have nothing to do with Jesus. And of
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  Speaker 2: course Jesus, having told him this already, their sets of
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  Speaker 2: eyes met in Jesus just went on and did what
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  Speaker 2: he promised he would do to save us from our sins.
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  Speaker 2: And now Peter, feeling dejected, feeling the reality of his degeneration,
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  Speaker 2: feeling the reality of his backsliding, like Peter feeling the
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  Speaker 2: relapse in his soul, is now sorrowful. But there comes
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  Speaker 2: a point after Jesus is raised, after he takes his
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  Speaker 2: life back up again, he goes to Peter. He sends
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  Speaker 2: a message to him first, but then he goes to Peter,
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  Speaker 2: and then he he asks him some serious questions. You see,
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus was on the cross, see, Peter was denying
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  Speaker 2: him before the cross, and while Jesus was on the cross,
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  Speaker 2: he felt forsaken like Peter. James and John left Jesus
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  Speaker 2: when they should have been praying for him in the
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  Speaker 2: garden of Gethsemite they were sleeping. And now Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: taking that feeling of separation to the cross and the
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  Speaker 2: Father is not shining his light on Jesus to where
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  Speaker 2: Jesus can discern it, and he feels like he is
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  Speaker 2: being forsaken by his father. But now that Jesus has
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  Speaker 2: done what he said he was going to do, he's
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  Speaker 2: forsaken by the disciples, forsaken by Peter. He feels he's
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  Speaker 2: not but he feels forsaken by God, our father, and
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  Speaker 2: he gives his life, and now he has to overcome Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: overcome that sense of those feelings of abandonment. How does
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  Speaker 2: love figure into this equation? He comes back, he gives
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  Speaker 2: his life and then takes it back again, and he
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  Speaker 2: asks Peter do you love me? Three times he asks
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  Speaker 2: Peter do you love me? And Peter in frustration. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: finally he submits his whole mind to God and say yes,
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  Speaker 2: I love you. I do love you. And Jesus says, well,
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  Speaker 2: if you love me, I need you to feed feed
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  Speaker 2: my sheep. This is a relationship principle that tends toward God.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God loves me freely, so I have the
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  Speaker 2: privilege to love him too.
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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,