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01 04 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 Sabbath, January four,
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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. This is Lesson number two under the theme
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  Speaker 2: God's Love and Justice, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: covenantal Love. Covenantal Love. What does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, But first
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: get underway. Bather, We thank you for this Sabbath morning
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  Speaker 2: and for the privilege that we have to open up
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  Speaker 2: your word and to consider the covenant of love that
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  Speaker 2: you have given to us. I pray now that we
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  Speaker 2: will live in covenant with you, that we will keep
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  Speaker 2: our end of the bargain, that we will yield our
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  Speaker 2: will to you in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and
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  Speaker 2: a man again, Well, what does covenant to love look like? Well,
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  Speaker 2: immediately we go to the lesson writer's focus here in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter fourteen and verse twenty three, what does covenantal
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  Speaker 2: love look like? And Jesus answered and said, unto him,
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  Speaker 2: if anyone loves me, so we already have this conditional.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is showing us the details, like what is on
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  Speaker 2: his mind where covenantal love is concerned. Okay, Jesus answered
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  Speaker 2: and said, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word.
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  Speaker 2: This is what covenantal love looks like keeping God's word
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  Speaker 2: because when we love him, when we surrender our will
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  Speaker 2: to God, we love him with his cause, him being
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  Speaker 2: the cause of our ability to love him in return.
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  Speaker 2: We love him because he first loved us. When we
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  Speaker 2: love him in return, then we have the capability and
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  Speaker 2: the ability to love God back. You see, the only
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  Speaker 2: way that we can keep his word is if we
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  Speaker 2: love God, and God gives us the ability to love
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  Speaker 2: him and to keep his word. Yes, I said it
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  Speaker 2: a few times, a couple of ways, because it bears repeating,
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  Speaker 2: what else, what else? And my father will love him?
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  Speaker 2: And so we see this circle of love. God loves us.
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  Speaker 2: We have now the ability to love him in return.
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  Speaker 2: The manifestation manifestation of that love. Now we can see
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  Speaker 2: in how we keep his word. Okay, and God will
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  Speaker 2: love him. God, our father will love him and will
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  Speaker 2: come to him and make our home. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: and we will come to him or her and make
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  Speaker 2: our home with him. So God is making a promise
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  Speaker 2: that if you yield your will to me, you can
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  Speaker 2: love me. You will learn to love me because my
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  Speaker 2: love will empower you to love You love him back,
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  Speaker 2: and then you will have the ability to keep God's word,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will see the love of God our
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  Speaker 2: Father in this way where Jesus Christ and God our
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  Speaker 2: Father will tabernacle with us. The Bible says in the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament, and God was speaking to Moses, he said,
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  Speaker 2: have them build me a sanctuary that I may dwell
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  Speaker 2: among them. He wants to abide with us. He wants
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  Speaker 2: us to abide with him. In fact, in the next
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  Speaker 2: chapter of John, Jesus said, abide with me, abide in
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  Speaker 2: me and I in you. And if that person asks anything,
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  Speaker 2: he will then then we will have it. So God
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  Speaker 2: wants to live in our lives. And I will say
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  Speaker 2: that the best sermon that I have ever heard on
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  Speaker 2: the subject of love was from doctor Martin Luther King Junior,
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  Speaker 2: titled Loving Your Enemies. Look that sermon up, Look that
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  Speaker 2: sermon up on the internet. There is audio that we
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  Speaker 2: can still listen to today. Well, even though he's resting,
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  Speaker 2: has been resting a whole long time. Loving Your Enemies
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  Speaker 2: by Martin Luther King Junior. And so the lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: points out something very very interesting. He points out the
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  Speaker 2: fact that that, well, let me read it. Many have
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  Speaker 2: been taught that the Greek word a goape refers to
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  Speaker 2: a love that is unique to God, while other terms
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  Speaker 2: for love, such as phileo phileo right like philadelphia phileo,
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  Speaker 2: refer to different kinds of love a more deficient than
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  Speaker 2: a gope. Some claim too, that a goape refers to
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  Speaker 2: unilateral love, that is, love that only comes one way,
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  Speaker 2: like I love you in spite of what you do,
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  Speaker 2: and God is the one that does that. A love
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  Speaker 2: that only gives but never receives, a love entirely dependent,
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  Speaker 2: independent of human response. The lesson writer says here, however,
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  Speaker 2: careful study of the divine love throughout scriptures shows that
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  Speaker 2: these ideas, though common, are mistaken. And then it goes
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  Speaker 2: into some details. And so we can see in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of two Timothy, chapter four and verse ten, for
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  Speaker 2: Demas had forsaken me, having loved that term as agape.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, what yeah mm hm, For Demus has
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  Speaker 2: forsaken me, having loved this present world and departed unto thessalonaika,
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  Speaker 2: and so forth, wait a minute. And then in the
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  Speaker 2: New English translation it says it this way, for Demus
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  Speaker 2: deserted me, since he agape he loved the present age.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Bible continues with where he went et ce.
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  Speaker 2: So we can see that that love was misguided, even
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  Speaker 2: though we see in the Greek term gape a love
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  Speaker 2: that people have mistaken. Now Fileo interestingly is used in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter sixteen, beginning at verse twenty two. And ye
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  Speaker 2: now therefore have sorrow. But I will see you again,
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  Speaker 2: and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man
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  Speaker 2: taketh from you. And in that day ye shall ask
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  Speaker 2: me nothing. Verily I say unto you. Whatsoever ye shall
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  Speaker 2: ask the Father in my name, he will give it
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  Speaker 2: to you. Hitherto we have asked nothing in my name.
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  Speaker 2: Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
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  Speaker 2: These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs. But
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  Speaker 2: the time cometh when no one, when I shall no
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  Speaker 2: more speak unto you in proverbs. But I shall show
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  Speaker 2: you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall
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  Speaker 2: ask in my name. And I say not unto you,
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  Speaker 2: that I will pray unto the Father. For the Father
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  Speaker 2: himself phileo mm hmm. For the Father himself loveth you,
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  Speaker 2: because he hath loved me, and he hath believed that
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  Speaker 2: I am come out of Him or from God. So
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  Speaker 2: what I need you to do? Really and truly. We've
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  Speaker 2: said a lot is to be careful with word studies
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  Speaker 2: in ancient languages. There's some people who because you were
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  Speaker 2: told somehow that if you know the very details of
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  Speaker 2: the ancient language, then somehow you will be able to
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  Speaker 2: build more of a foundation. Well, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: God would would lock or change the truth into a
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  Speaker 2: language that the people don't speak, right, So don't build
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  Speaker 2: an entire case around them. Read in your language, right,
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  Speaker 2: pray and then look at the context for true understanding.
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  Speaker 2: God would not lock the truth up in a language
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  Speaker 2: that you are not able to read. It's fine, you
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  Speaker 2: have a concordance, you have a dictionary, use it, but
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  Speaker 2: do not build doctrine on what you learn in terms
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  Speaker 2: of word studies. Covenantal love is this. God loves us
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  Speaker 2: so much that he gave us all of heaven in
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  Speaker 2: one gift. And whether it's fileo or agape, whichever love
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  Speaker 2: God is showing to us, it empowers us to love
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  Speaker 2: Him in return and to have a covenant with him.
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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,