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03 15 2025 Love and Justice- The Two Greatest Commandments · 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: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Sabbath. It
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  Speaker 2: is March fifteen, 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. This is Lesson number twelve,
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  Speaker 2: God's Love and Justice, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: Love and Justice, the Greatest Commandments. But we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about love and justice and also the two Greatest Commandments.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, what, Okay, Yeah, we'll get into that over
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  Speaker 2: the next couple of days. But before we get into
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  Speaker 2: it today, I'd like to say, welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for this day. Thank you for the sabbath
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  Speaker 2: time where we can come aside and rest a while,
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  Speaker 2: where we can be connected with you fully, to be
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  Speaker 2: able to be called by your name and hear your
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  Speaker 2: voice and not have to hear all of the madness
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  Speaker 2: of the world in the meantime. Please fill us with
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  Speaker 2: your spirit. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let's go ahead and begin with the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of First John, first John, chapter four, and I will
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  Speaker 2: read verse twenty Verse John, chapter four, and I will
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  Speaker 2: read verse twenty. And the Bible reads, if someone says,
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  Speaker 2: I love God quote I love God and hates his
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  Speaker 2: brother or sister, hates his brother or sister, he is
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  Speaker 2: a liar. For he who does not love his brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters whom he has seen. How can he love
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  Speaker 2: God whom he hath not seen? How do we love
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  Speaker 2: the people that God has placed in our path? Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible does say Jesus said, they will know you
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  Speaker 2: by your fruits. Yes, But the Bible also says the
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  Speaker 2: fruit of this spirit is love, and then we have
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  Speaker 2: some outgrowths of that love. Correct, very good. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how is love? Is love seen? How will they know
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  Speaker 2: that you are my disciples? Jesus said, if you have
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  Speaker 2: love one for another, you see there are so many people.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many people on the planet who try
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  Speaker 2: not to connect to God's people. I said, they deliberately
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  Speaker 2: try not to connect with God's people anymore because of
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  Speaker 2: what they call church hurt. Church hurt. One preacher said,
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  Speaker 2: the problem with God's people is God's people. So what
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  Speaker 2: if we actually did believe God? What if what if
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  Speaker 2: we actually did receive that great and second commandment, which
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  Speaker 2: is like unto the first, that we would actually love
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  Speaker 2: our neighbor as ourselves. What if that was the reality
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  Speaker 2: before we would start evangelistic series. What if that were
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  Speaker 2: the reality before we help the lame, the main, the blind,
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  Speaker 2: the halt, and all of those who need from us.
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  Speaker 2: Those widows, those who are fatherless motherless. What if we learned,
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  Speaker 2: through the power of the Holy Ghost, that new commandment
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  Speaker 2: that I have for you, which is to love one another.
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  Speaker 2: What if we actually embrace the covenant that God has
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  Speaker 2: given to us. H Well, of course, let me read
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  Speaker 2: from the lesson writer, and then we can get some
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  Speaker 2: truth right out of the scriptures. Though we have confidence
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  Speaker 2: that God will make all things right in the end,
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  Speaker 2: it still matters what we as believers do in the
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  Speaker 2: here and now right, so we don't want to just
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  Speaker 2: look forward to the end and that be it. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be so quote heavenly minded that we are no earthly good.
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  Speaker 2: Let me keep reading. Though there may be many injustices,
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  Speaker 2: of course there are, and evils, of course there are
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  Speaker 2: that God will not now eradicate due to the parameters
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  Speaker 2: of the cosmic conflict. This doesn't mean that we can't
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  Speaker 2: be used to help alleviate whatever suffering and evil we
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  Speaker 2: come across, or at least do to whatever degree possible.
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  Speaker 2: That means get active, y'all when we see things that
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  Speaker 2: need to be relieved, suffering that needs to be relieved
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  Speaker 2: in our communities, in our also communities of faith, like
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  Speaker 2: we are to take up the mantle of God and
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  Speaker 2: do what we can through God's method, through Christ's method alone.
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  Speaker 2: Let me keep going. As we have seen love and
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  Speaker 2: justice go together. They are inseparable God's love. God loves justice. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 2: if we love God, we will also love justice. Quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: justice and judgment in the scriptures almost all of the time,
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  Speaker 2: not one hundred percent, but very close to one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent of the time, actually just means righteousness. Yes, we
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  Speaker 2: do have the process of judgment, but what is the basis?
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  Speaker 2: It's based on righteousness, the law of God, the character
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  Speaker 2: of God. Let me continue likewise, Likewise, if we love God,
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  Speaker 2: we will love one another. Part of loving one another
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  Speaker 2: is sharing a concern for the well being of those
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  Speaker 2: around us. When others are afflicted by poverty, oppression, or
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  Speaker 2: any kind of injustice, we should be concerned when others
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  Speaker 2: are oppressed. We should not turn a blind eye. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: what is the action? Instead, we should ask ourselves what
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  Speaker 2: we can do. That's a big word, d oh. Do
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  Speaker 2: not just think, not just conceptualized, not just pray about,
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  Speaker 2: but actually do get active individually and corporately to advance
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  Speaker 2: God's love and justice in a way that reflects to
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  Speaker 2: our broken world, our Lord's perfect character of righteousness and
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  Speaker 2: love all the crooks of the matter is we represent God,
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  Speaker 2: We represent Jesus Christ. How would he do if he
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  Speaker 2: were on planet Earth. I think Jesus actually gave us
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  Speaker 2: the blueprint when he was on planet Earth. Now let's
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  Speaker 2: go with seven seven biblical principles. I don't think I'll
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  Speaker 2: get through all of them with the time that we have,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll do our best. Seven biblical principles about addressing
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  Speaker 2: suffering and injustice. Number one, act with God's love. First,
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  Speaker 2: John chapter three, verses seventeen and eighteen. Whoso hath this
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  Speaker 2: world's good and see if his brother have need and
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  Speaker 2: shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him? How dwelleth
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  Speaker 2: the love of God in him? Him? Oh, my little children,
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  Speaker 2: let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but
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  Speaker 2: indeed and in truth. Bible also says in michaeh Chapter
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  Speaker 2: six and verse five, that he has told you, oh man,
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  Speaker 2: what is good and what the Lord really wants from you,
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  Speaker 2: what he requires. He wants you to promote justice, promote justice,
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  Speaker 2: to be faithful, and to live obediently and humbly before
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  Speaker 2: God number three, Defend the oppressed. In Isaiah chapter one
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  Speaker 2: and verse seventeen, the Bible reads, learn to do well,
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  Speaker 2: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for
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  Speaker 2: the widow. Let me read it in another translation for clarity,
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  Speaker 2: learn to do that which is right exclamation point. Promote justice,
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  Speaker 2: exclamation point, give oppress, give the oppressed reason to celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: Take up the cause of the orphan exclamation point. Defend
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  Speaker 2: the rights of the widow. And of course we can
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  Speaker 2: go on and on and on and on and on. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: let me just read finally, reflect God's character. In Matthew
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  Speaker 2: chapter five and verse sixteen, the Bible reads, let your
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  Speaker 2: light so shine before men that when they see your
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  Speaker 2: good works, they will glorify. They will glorify and honor
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  Speaker 2: your Father, which is in heaven. Oh. I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to continue love and justice, the two greatest commandments. 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,