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04 07 2025 Understanding God’s 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: 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, April seven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 how to study Bible prophecy. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first i'd like to
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for the opportunity to come together in this
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  Speaker 2: manner to not just open your word, but to be
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  Speaker 2: transformed by you through your word. I pray that we
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  Speaker 2: will live the love that you have given to us
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray Amen and a men again,
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  Speaker 2: understanding God's love. Understanding God's love. I will admit every
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  Speaker 2: quarter order that we begin a new lesson study, I
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  Speaker 2: have difficulty for the first one or two weeks as
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  Speaker 2: I'm presenting, because the lesson is always teaching us foundational
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  Speaker 2: teachings to get us in full swing, in full gear
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  Speaker 2: as we run forward with the subsequent weeks. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: for me, I'm not saying anything's wrong with it, but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes for me, it's the details that people get lost
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  Speaker 2: in and we're not able to really connect with God
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  Speaker 2: unless we do so intentionally. So I want you to
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  Speaker 2: be intentional, and I think today's lesson more than just
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  Speaker 2: it being sort of academic in nature is a good
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  Speaker 2: principle because it's all about God and his love. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't want you to focus of course, it says
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  Speaker 2: understanding God's Love, but I don't want you to focus
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  Speaker 2: on this, like you know, asking your device, what is
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  Speaker 2: the definition of love? Next question? What we're looking for
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  Speaker 2: is a connection with God. Because God so loved the
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  Speaker 2: world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever
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  Speaker 2: believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: God didn't send his son into the world to condemn
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  Speaker 2: the world. Sometimes people feel condemned. Sometimes you hear voices
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  Speaker 2: in your own minds from when you were young and
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  Speaker 2: people only had condemnatory or critical things to say of you,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm talking about unproductive critical things to say to
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  Speaker 2: or about you, and you super impose. Sometimes we put
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  Speaker 2: that on our relationship with God and we feel condemned
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  Speaker 2: all of the time. But understanding God's Love says that
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  Speaker 2: he didn't come to condemn us, but to transform us. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there are times that we will receive God's correction and
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  Speaker 2: chastisement and reproof. Yes, there are many, many, many times
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  Speaker 2: that we will have to turn away from our sin
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  Speaker 2: and turn toward God because He loves us, and so
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  Speaker 2: understanding the nature of love is the key and important
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  Speaker 2: key to understanding Bible prophecy. So we read the end
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  Speaker 2: of the story. Let me read now from the book
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  Speaker 2: the Great Controversy. See the end of the story teaches
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  Speaker 2: us this, the entire universe is clean. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to that day. Yes, if you are looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day that the entire universe is clean. There is
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  Speaker 2: no more talk of crime or violence, no more sex,
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  Speaker 2: inappropriate sex, money and murder like when if you're looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to those days, go ahead and type of one
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. The entire universe is clean. One pulse
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  Speaker 2: of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation from
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  Speaker 2: Him who created all flow, life and light and gladness
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  Speaker 2: throughout the realms of illimitable space, from the minutest atom
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  Speaker 2: to the greatest world. All things animate and inanimate, in
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  Speaker 2: their shadow, unshadowed beauty and perfect joy declare just one message.
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  Speaker 2: You want to know what that message is? Here is
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  Speaker 2: the one message that God is love. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to the day that that is our reality. But until
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  Speaker 2: then we hold on to the truth by faith that
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  Speaker 2: God loves us so much that he gave us all
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  Speaker 2: of heaven and one gift so that we can be
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  Speaker 2: transformed and be saved and help others to do the same.
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  Speaker 2: And so based on the story in Genesis chapter twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one, we are seeing the profound mention
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  Speaker 2: of love. The first mention of quote love in the
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  Speaker 2: Bible is found in Genesis twenty two. And I will
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  Speaker 2: read just a couple of the verses, and it reads,
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  Speaker 2: and it came to pass after these things that God
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  Speaker 2: did tempt or test Abraham and said unto him Abraham,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, behold here am I. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, Take now thy son, thine only son whom thou.
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  Speaker 2: What is the word? Here? Lovest? And get thee into
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  Speaker 2: the land of Mariah and offer him there for a
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  Speaker 2: burnt offering. Wait a minute, God is asking or commanding
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  Speaker 2: Abraham to give his son as a sacrifice, the one
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  Speaker 2: whom he loves. Yes, I wish I had the time
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  Speaker 2: to deal with why Abraham found himself in this predicament.
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  Speaker 2: It was because the father of the faithful wasn't as
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  Speaker 2: faithful as we know that he became at some point
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  Speaker 2: when God talked to him and to his wife about
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  Speaker 2: the promise Sarah, about the promise of the son that
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  Speaker 2: God would put into they're loins who would be the
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  Speaker 2: basis of many great nations, A great nation. Yes, but
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  Speaker 2: they did not believe God to the to the point
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  Speaker 2: of action. And so and so now we have this test.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. But the first mention
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  Speaker 2: of love in this context shows us. Number one, God's sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: I said, God's sacrifice love, God's kind of love, his
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  Speaker 2: brand of love, if you will, is sacrificial in nature.
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  Speaker 2: And I already said it to you. For God so
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  Speaker 2: loved the world that he was gave, He sacrificed, He
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  Speaker 2: gave his only begotten son. That's the one of a
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  Speaker 2: kind son, Jesus is one of a kind. And it
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  Speaker 2: teaches us that love requires sacrifice. You say you love someone,
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  Speaker 2: you say you're you love that woman, gentlemen you're about
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  Speaker 2: to get married. Ladies, you say that you love that
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  Speaker 2: that guy you're about to get married. Well, what does
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  Speaker 2: it look like? Well, love requires a sort of sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: What am I investing? Who? What of myself am I giving?
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  Speaker 2: And of course it's the highest love, the highest cost
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  Speaker 2: that sacrifice. Giving what is dearest? What could be more
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  Speaker 2: dear than Abraham's son? Are you serious? The Son of Promise,
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  Speaker 2: the son that was a part of the whole controversy
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  Speaker 2: in the end where Ishmael and Hagar and the discussion
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  Speaker 2: of whether Iliezer's children could be a part of you
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  Speaker 2: understand of this covenant situation. Giving what is dearest means
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  Speaker 2: that godly love is sacrificial. Number two, it will be tested.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that God did tempt or test Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Love proves genuine through trials. Is it real or is
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  Speaker 2: it fake? Or counterfeit? Is it real or is it fake?
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  Speaker 2: Love proves genuine through trials. Also, love is demonstrated by obedience.
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  Speaker 2: We can't say we love God and then don't live
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  Speaker 2: according to his commandments. I wish I had the time,
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  Speaker 2: and then, of course love is stronger than self preservation.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you just a couple more principles. We
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  Speaker 2: have run out of time. Love is costly. The prophetic
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  Speaker 2: part is that God will give himself as the lamb
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  Speaker 2: in the person of Jesus Christ. And then love has
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  Speaker 2: an element of trust and it's responsive, and we see
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  Speaker 2: God's character of love in this story, But do we
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  Speaker 2: see his love in our lives? My answers yes.
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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.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah,