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02 02 2025 Love and Justice · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: February two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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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 continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series, God's Love and Justice, and wouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: know our caption for today is love and Justice. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment. I like to
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray. Father, we do thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day and for giving us your love. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to understand your love and live in the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: a good relationship with You Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and a man again. There is so much that we
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  Speaker 2: just literally do not understand about God's love. We just don't.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not a negative. It's our reality as limited
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  Speaker 2: human beings. But may I just say this, as I
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  Speaker 2: have shared with you before, Justice in the scriptures almost
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  Speaker 2: all of the time means righteousness. So justice and righteousness
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  Speaker 2: mean the same thing. And so where there is no justice.
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  Speaker 2: There is no righteousness, you understand. So righteousness is what
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  Speaker 2: is undergirding our discussion here, because because sometimes people misconstrue
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  Speaker 2: what love is. Let me say that one more time.
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  Speaker 2: People misconstrue what love is because sometimes they're seeking justice
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  Speaker 2: at the expense of other people. Times, not understanding or
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  Speaker 2: really living what justice is, they turn their backs on love,
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  Speaker 2: true love. So justice according to God's principles means that, yes,
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  Speaker 2: sin has to be extinguished from the earth one day
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  Speaker 2: because love cannot prevail where righteousness is not prevailing. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let me just go ahead and begin reading from
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of Psalms, the Bible Book of Psalms,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty three, and I'll read verse five. I'll read
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  Speaker 2: verse five. He loveth righteousness and judgment. The earth is
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  Speaker 2: full of the goodness of the Lord. Let me read
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  Speaker 2: it from another version. The Lord loves justice and fairness.
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  Speaker 2: He is full of the Lord's faithful love. Aren't you
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  Speaker 2: glad that God loves justice and love and love. God
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  Speaker 2: loves love justice. This sounds weird, Yeah, aren't you glad?
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  Speaker 2: Because listen, if our baseline or our foundation is God,
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  Speaker 2: then how in the world would we not live according
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  Speaker 2: to his principles of love and justice. See, we don't
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  Speaker 2: have to get mixed up in the way that we
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  Speaker 2: talk about it in politics. We don't have to be
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  Speaker 2: mixed up in the way that sometimes Christianese speaking people
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  Speaker 2: get mixed up because we misapprehend the Bible. No, we
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  Speaker 2: can just simply look to God. How does he live
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  Speaker 2: where love and justice is concerned. Look at how he
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  Speaker 2: dealt with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
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  Speaker 2: after they both had sinned. You see the love of
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  Speaker 2: God in full swing because he went there and he
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  Speaker 2: reached out to the first human he created, Adam. He
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  Speaker 2: represents the human race, and he goes, Adam, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: And he's beginning to show Adam really where Adam is.
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  Speaker 2: Not because God didn't know. He wanted Adam to know
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  Speaker 2: that he was si paraded from him. He was naked, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he was hiding. Yes, he was ashamed, Yes he was afraid. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: But why because he turned us back on justice, He
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  Speaker 2: turned us back on righteousness, and his love quotient dropped
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  Speaker 2: through the bottom of his life. He no longer demonstrated
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  Speaker 2: the love that God had put in him in order
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  Speaker 2: to live a righteous life. You see, and so we
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  Speaker 2: see also that he could have God could have extinguished
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve, but he chose not to. He gave
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  Speaker 2: them mercy. He gave them what they needed in order
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  Speaker 2: to amend their ways. And so we see love and justice,
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  Speaker 2: and of course mercy is all mixed up in there.
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  Speaker 2: And perfectly God begins the journey of reconciliation. And in
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter sixty one and verse eight, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for
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  Speaker 2: burnt offering. I will direct their work in truth. I
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  Speaker 2: will make an everlasting covenant with them. Let me read
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  Speaker 2: it again in another version, For I the Lord love
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  Speaker 2: justice and hate robbery andson, I will faithfully reward my
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  Speaker 2: loyal followers and make an eternal covenant with them. And
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  Speaker 2: so the standard of righteousness the standard of God's covenant,
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  Speaker 2: the ten Commandments law. In this case, he has said
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  Speaker 2: that He under the New Covenant, has written them in
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  Speaker 2: our hearts and on our minds. God writes the transcript
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  Speaker 2: of his character the measure of righteousness in our new
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  Speaker 2: spiritual DNA, so that we can actually learn to love God.
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  Speaker 2: We can actually keep his commandments because they become a
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  Speaker 2: part of who we are under the New Covenant. And
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  Speaker 2: in Jeremiah chapter nine and verse twenty four, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but let the one who boasts boast about this that
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  Speaker 2: he understands and knows me, meaning God. For I the
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  Speaker 2: Lord who promotes fairness and justice and righteousness in the earth.
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  Speaker 2: For I delight in these things, declares the Lord Isa.
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  Speaker 2: In an Psalm chapter eighty five and verse ten, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, mercy and truth are met together. I gave
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  Speaker 2: you an inkling of that a moment ago. Righteousness and
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  Speaker 2: peace have kissed each other. That means they are they
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  Speaker 2: are balanced, They are in perfect harmony and agreement. And
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  Speaker 2: one more Psalm chapter eighty nine and verse fourteen, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne.
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  Speaker 2: Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule. Aren't you glad
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  Speaker 2: that God is characterized in this way? So that any ruler,
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  Speaker 2: any king, any president, any prime minister, or leader of
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  Speaker 2: a country can, if those individuals submit themselves to God,
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  Speaker 2: can manifest the same thing. Equity and justice, huh, loyal
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  Speaker 2: love and faithfulness. Anybody who is surrendered to God can
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  Speaker 2: live according to these principles. I wish I had the
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  Speaker 2: time to really deal with what I just said, and
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  Speaker 2: so I'm thankful because human justice has been perverted, human
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  Speaker 2: love has been watered down and spoiled, and now sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people live according to those false premises, and then of
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  Speaker 2: course that just reaks havoc in our lives. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I want you to do really is to invest
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  Speaker 2: some time and go to page ninety or eighty nine,
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  Speaker 2: eighty nine and look at the relationship's application in our
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  Speaker 2: Companion Guide, and I'll just give you a quick one
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  Speaker 2: on the w What is important now? God's call to
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  Speaker 2: love and justice extends to our relationships. We are to
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  Speaker 2: treat others with fairness, kindness, and mercy, reflecting His character
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  Speaker 2: in our interactions. So what are your relationships like? Are
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  Speaker 2: they the ones in your home with your spouse, your children,
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  Speaker 2: I'm with your parents are you? Are we talking about
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  Speaker 2: relationships that you have in the gym or some other
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  Speaker 2: exercise environment at work? What kinds of relationships are we
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  Speaker 2: talking about? We have the privilege because God writes his
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  Speaker 2: laws in our lives and our hearts to live according
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  Speaker 2: to love and justice everywhere we go and in all
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  Speaker 2: of our relationships. 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,