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02 07 2025 God is 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 Friday, February seven,
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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 God is Love. These are three three pivotal words,
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  Speaker 2: three pivotal words in this day and age. God is Love.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but before
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven, thank you for this more and for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this day of preparation. We are living in a
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  Speaker 2: time of preparation. Please teach us to prepare for the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath hour and prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. God
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  Speaker 2: is love. Now, that is something that maybe escapes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, including believers. It escapes sometimes because maybe
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  Speaker 2: we say it so flippantly, like we say it so quickly.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, God is love. And then and then
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  Speaker 2: really don't know what that means, but listen, I want
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  Speaker 2: to also say while we go down through this lesson
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  Speaker 2: today that God cares what we think about him because
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  Speaker 2: that will determine if we accept Him as love and
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  Speaker 2: be saved. Can I say it again? I know that
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  Speaker 2: some people are having free in brain right now, like
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  Speaker 2: how could God care what we think about him? Like,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't have a challenge with who he is. That's correct,
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  Speaker 2: But God cares what we think about him because that
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  Speaker 2: will impact what we will do with his love and
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  Speaker 2: whether or not we will accept salvation from him. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we're going right into my favorite book, my favorite book,
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  Speaker 2: Steps to Christ. Outside of the Bible, my number one
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  Speaker 2: favorite book is Steps to Christ. It's a short, thirteen
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  Speaker 2: chapter book, really really short, but changed my life and
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  Speaker 2: has continued to change my life. And it reads beginning,
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  Speaker 2: let's see what page we're going to begin, Page ten,
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  Speaker 2: The Word of God reveals his character. So if you
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  Speaker 2: want to know who God is, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: know how to relate to him, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: see a transcript of God's character, then you go into
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  Speaker 2: the Bible. I want to be very clear when it
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  Speaker 2: says the Word of God is talking about these sixty
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  Speaker 2: six blessed books that we now call the Bible, the
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  Speaker 2: New Testament and the Old Testament, the Old Testament and
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  Speaker 2: the New and that's where we can see the revelation
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  Speaker 2: of his character. Let me continue the quote. He himself
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  Speaker 2: has declared his infinite love and pity. When Moses prayed,
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  Speaker 2: show me thy glory, the Lord answered, I will make
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  Speaker 2: all my goodness pass before thee. This is his glory.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord passed before Moses. You're like, well, what is
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  Speaker 2: his glory about. To tell you, this is his glory.
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  Speaker 2: This is his glory. Here we go, and he passed
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  Speaker 2: before Moses, and he proclaimed, it's God speaking, nobody speaking
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  Speaker 2: for him. He's not speaking through a prophet by the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. No, He's proclaiming himself the Lord, the Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: mercyful and gracious, long suffer, and abundant in goodness and truth.
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  Speaker 2: This is what God is showing us his glory. Now.
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  Speaker 2: He's showing us that he is the Lord, the self
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  Speaker 2: existent and eternal one, the one who is so powerful
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  Speaker 2: and yet he is so near near enough to hear
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  Speaker 2: the groanings. According to the first few chapters of the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Exodus. He can hear the groanings of his people.
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  Speaker 2: He's self existent, he is eternal, and yet he can
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  Speaker 2: come near enough to us, even though he is God Almighty,
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  Speaker 2: blessed be his name. He can come so close close
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  Speaker 2: to us, and he is so near to who we
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  Speaker 2: are and what we need, that he can hear our groanings.
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  Speaker 2: He's the Lord, God, merciful and gracious. Have you ever
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  Speaker 2: been in a situation where you needed God's mercy. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about that time that you said, God, if you
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  Speaker 2: will deliver me, then I will. I will not do
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  Speaker 2: this again, and he delivers you, and then did it
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  Speaker 2: again anyway, and you broke your promises, and then in
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  Speaker 2: your own spirit, in your own mindset, you're like my promises.
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  Speaker 2: They feel like ropes of sand. I feel like when
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  Speaker 2: I say something, I no longer mean it, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: having a difficult time. And God, with his unmerited favor,
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  Speaker 2: comes towards you with his grace that is power to
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  Speaker 2: do what he says. He gives you this power. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, in the meantime, he's long suffering. He's
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  Speaker 2: long suffering. That means he's very patient, extremely patient, and
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  Speaker 2: abundant in goodness and truth. Sometimes when you switch on
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  Speaker 2: your television, you have to wonder if people know what
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  Speaker 2: the world truth is. You have to fact check everything.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know if what looks like a human on
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  Speaker 2: the screen is actually a human or if it is
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  Speaker 2: some kind of robot that was manufactured in a computer
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  Speaker 2: with the artificial intelligence at the level that it has reached.
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  Speaker 2: And I have no price problem with artificial intelligence. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying, sometimes we don't know if it's a human
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  Speaker 2: in front of us or if it's a machine. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we don't know if it's a human speaking to us
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  Speaker 2: or a machine. But God is saying. God is saying
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  Speaker 2: that he is He is true all the time, and
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  Speaker 2: he's always good, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity. That's
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  Speaker 2: the kind of that's the kind of infraction against God's
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  Speaker 2: holy law and his government when humans know what he
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  Speaker 2: stands for and go against him anyway, like iniquity is
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  Speaker 2: when King David took Bathsheba and he murdered bath Sheba's husband.
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  Speaker 2: That's iniquity. Knowing full well who God is and what
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  Speaker 2: God stands for, knowing that he is the judge of all,
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  Speaker 2: and not caring, Oh wait a minute. Sometimes humans in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five are doing the same thing, most of
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  Speaker 2: us who are listening on on this program or watching
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  Speaker 2: me on this program, knowing exactly what God wants, and
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  Speaker 2: some God forbid even though he said in our lives,
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  Speaker 2: let's make it an example. Like in our lives, he said,
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  Speaker 2: don't eat of the fruit of the tree that is
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of the garden. And some of us,
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  Speaker 2: like Adam, I said, like Adam, I didn't mention Eve
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  Speaker 2: I said, like Adam, take the fruit, knowing full well
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  Speaker 2: everything that's going on, not being deceived but being self
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  Speaker 2: deceived instead, and still do what God said, don't do
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  Speaker 2: very simple. God gives simple instructions, nothing, nothing too complicated
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  Speaker 2: about don't eat of the fruit that's in the midst
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  Speaker 2: of the garden, for in the day that thou eatest
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  Speaker 2: thereof thou shalt surely die. Like that is as clear
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  Speaker 2: as it can be. And God has given us the
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  Speaker 2: same thing in his holy ten commandments about thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: and thou shalt not very clear. And in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: five there are people still trampling the commandments of God,
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  Speaker 2: are still proud, are still covetous, and some people are
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  Speaker 2: still murderous in our thoughts and our actions. Some people
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  Speaker 2: we are trampling the seventh day Sabbath, saying that it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what day. Ha ha, it doesn't matter what day.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, I don't know about that, because the
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  Speaker 2: Bible is very clear. God only made one day holy.
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  Speaker 2: He's only sanctified one day. And I don't mean for worship.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying for holiness. We worship God every day, but
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  Speaker 2: He's only made one day holy. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a spouse, your husband, ladies, your wife, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: that spouse is the only spouse for you. You can't have
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  Speaker 2: three and four spouses. But God is love and he's
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  Speaker 2: so loving that he manifests himself in his word to
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  Speaker 2: the degree that we can see and learn to love
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  Speaker 2: him and be saved Peast.
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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,