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03 27 2025 Above All, Love One Another · 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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: March twenty seven, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice just
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  Speaker 2: a couple more days here, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is above all love one another, Above all love one another.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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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 in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to open up your word again today. Teach us to
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  Speaker 2: love like Jesus loves in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Let's begin with the first sentence of
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer's paragraph. It says here, if love is
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  Speaker 2: the fulfillment of the law. I like where this is going,
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  Speaker 2: then one cannot keep God's law in the full sense,
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  Speaker 2: simply by refraining from doing things. I'm going to read
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  Speaker 2: that again for those in the back. Okay, if love
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  Speaker 2: is the fulfillment of the law, then one cannot keep
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  Speaker 2: God's law in the full sense simply by refraining from
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  Speaker 2: doing things. You see. The problem that people have many
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  Speaker 2: times is that we think that we can abstain our
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  Speaker 2: way into holiness, we can stop our way into righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there are things that we need to be avoiding.
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  Speaker 2: There are things that we should completely stay away from,
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  Speaker 2: and we feel like like, if we do that, then
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  Speaker 2: we will be seen as holy. But the fact is,
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  Speaker 2: whereas we should be staying away from a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we're saying, I mean, do we really
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  Speaker 2: need to talk about lying, cheating, stealing? Do we really
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  Speaker 2: need to talk about bad words and abusing people? Like?
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  Speaker 2: It's obvious that we need to at all costs avoid
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  Speaker 2: these things. Avoid pride like the plague, like avoid gossip
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  Speaker 2: like the plague. We must do that. But if we do,
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  Speaker 2: and when we do, it doesn't make us any more holy.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, hold on, Dave, where are we gone
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  Speaker 2: with this thing? The truth is, holiness comes from God,
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  Speaker 2: not from abstinence. Somebody just got it. Holiness comes from God,
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  Speaker 2: not from abstinence, okay. And so what we want to
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  Speaker 2: do is yield our will to God. And when we
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  Speaker 2: yield our will, God gives us both to will and
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  Speaker 2: to do of his good pleasure. He is the one
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  Speaker 2: that makes us holy, not our own actions. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so we're going to read now since we have that
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  Speaker 2: framework from the Bible Book of James, chapter two, James
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  Speaker 2: chapter two, and I will read beginning at verse one,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, my brethren, have not the faith
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  Speaker 2: of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory with
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  Speaker 2: respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly
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  Speaker 2: a man with gold ring or goodly apparel, or there
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  Speaker 2: come in and also a poor man in vile raiment,
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  Speaker 2: and ye have respect to him that weareth the happy clothing,
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  Speaker 2: and say unto him, sit thou here in a good place,
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  Speaker 2: And say to the poor, stand thou there, or sit
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  Speaker 2: under the under my footstool. Are you not then being
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  Speaker 2: partial in yourselves? And are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken,
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  Speaker 2: my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of
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  Speaker 2: this world? Rich in faith? And heirs of the kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: which he hath promised to them that love him. But
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  Speaker 2: ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress
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  Speaker 2: you and draw you before the judgment seats. Do not
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  Speaker 2: they blaspheme and blaspheme that worthy name by which ye
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  Speaker 2: are called. If ye fulfill the royal law according to
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  Speaker 2: the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, you
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  Speaker 2: do well. But if ye have respect to persons, ye
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  Speaker 2: commit sin and are convinced of the law. And as
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, transgressors. Okay, I think the message is simple,
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  Speaker 2: even though the language may have been confusing to some
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  Speaker 2: of us. The law of God is very clear, very simple,
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  Speaker 2: and principally we are never to be partial. God wants
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  Speaker 2: us to be impartial. Not because somebody looks like they
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  Speaker 2: have money or they actually have means should we give
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  Speaker 2: them preference or be different toward them. Not because somebody
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  Speaker 2: looks like they have less means that we should somehow
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  Speaker 2: treat them with to despise them. No, God is saying
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  Speaker 2: that when we see people, we need to see Jesus
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  Speaker 2: in the people you see in another place, He said,
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  Speaker 2: as you have done it unto the least of these,
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  Speaker 2: my brethren, ye have done it unto me when I
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  Speaker 2: had When I had a need of clothing, did you
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  Speaker 2: come and clothe me? When I had a need of
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  Speaker 2: food or shelter? Did you give me food or help
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  Speaker 2: me find somewhere to live? Like when I had these
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  Speaker 2: needs and I seemed to be among the welfare class
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  Speaker 2: in these communities, how did you treat me? How did
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  Speaker 2: you treat me when I looked like I was rich
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  Speaker 2: and increased with goods? You see, God is saying, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how a person looks for our perception of them,
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  Speaker 2: they were created by God, and we should treat them
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  Speaker 2: with the love that God would have treated them with.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible reads in First John, chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse fifteen, my little children, let us not love in word.
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  Speaker 2: We see, we talk about it a lot, We even
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  Speaker 2: do Bible studies like these. And everybody says amen, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe even looks around at maybe one of our neighbors
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  Speaker 2: and said, boy, I remember when you did that thing wrong,
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  Speaker 2: And don't say it, but we're thinking it. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's talking to all of us, my little children, let
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  Speaker 2: us not love in word like, don't talk about it,
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  Speaker 2: be about it, neither in tongue, but in deed and
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  Speaker 2: in truth in Acts chapter ten. In Acts chapter ten,
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  Speaker 2: we see another principle of no discrimination, beginning at verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty four. Then Peter opened his mouth and said, of
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  Speaker 2: a truth, I perceive that God is no respector of persons.
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  Speaker 2: But in every nation, he that feareth Him, or respects
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  Speaker 2: God and worketh righteousness is accepted or welcomed by Him.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have love shows no partiality. We've said it,
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  Speaker 2: but let's read it from another passage from Romans chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: verse eleven. For there is no partiality with God. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that very clear? For there is no respect of persons
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  Speaker 2: with God? And so how do we apply this? Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me just give seven quick tips. Love goes beyond
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  Speaker 2: avoiding evil. Love actively seeks good, Love treats all people equally.
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  Speaker 2: Love shows practical care, Love reflects God's character. Love searches
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  Speaker 2: and reaches beyond the four walls of what we call
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  Speaker 2: the church. And then, of course love demonstrates true faith. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: above all, love one another. But we need to love
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus love. You know how to do it. If not,
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  Speaker 2: just ask him. Make it a great day. Peace.
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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,