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11 15 2023 Loving Others as We Love Ourselves · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Wednesday, November fifteen, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is loving others as we love
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  ourselves, Loving others as we love ourselves. We'll get into that in just
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  a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. I want you to please
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  click the join link to become a part of the community. Also, I
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  ask you to please go ahead and pick up your Daily Portion book and tell
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  us where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  is a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get to underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you
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  for giving us this new day, and thank you for your word. Thank
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  you for giving us the privilege to love, and please help us to do
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  so, help us to live in that way, become that in Jesus name.
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  I pray, Amen and damen again, loving others as we love ourselves.
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  And I know, I know there are people who say, but there
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  are people who don't love themselves. Are we supposed to love ourselves that way?
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  I love people that way. Well, No, Jesus is always making
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  of the ideal. He's speaking of the ideal. He's not speaking about our
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  brokenness. Some people do demonstrate hatred for themselves. Obviously, that is not
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  a godly principle. So let's just get that one out as soon as possible.
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  But first, let's go ahead and read from the book of the book
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  Excuse me, Christ's object Lessons, page forty nine, and it reads,
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  love is the underlying principle of God's government in heaven and earth. And it
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  must be the foundation of the Christian's character. Did you get that love must
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  be the foundation of the Christian's character. This alone make and keep him steadfast,
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  This alone can enable him to withstand trial and temptation. That's love.
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  Love is the principal element of life. Brothers and sisters, Love is a
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  great I shouldn't say great. Love is the best motivator, not somebody with
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  a microphone, not somebody on your YouTube channel or a social media post.
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  Love the kind of love that transforms us, the kind of love that makes
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  us move from unholy sinners to righteous saints. And you're like, but Dave,
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  how can we become righteous saints? Like everybody makes mistakes. That's not
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  what we're talking about. We're talking about the quality of life that says not
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  I but Christ, the kind of life that says, I submit, I
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  surrender all. And the Bible says John talked about this because he knew under
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  the Holy Ghost that you would ask something like this, right, he said,
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  my little children, these things write I unto you that you sin not.
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  And if any man sins, of course any woman sins, then you
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  have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous, and so God is
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  able to transform us. And if God forbid during that transformation's experience, we
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  make mistakes, we sin, then we have an advocate with the Father.
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  If we will surrender our will again, you see how that works. Yeah,
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  if we confess our sins again, John said, then he is faithful
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  and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  So don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Let's read now
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  from the Book of Matthew chapter twenty two, beginning at verse thirty seven,
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  and the Bible reads Jesus said, unto him, thou shalt love the Lord
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  thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
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  with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. So miraculously
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  we are able to love God. Jesus is answering somebody who's, you know,
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  trying to make a mess of things and trip him up talking about marriage
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  and commandments and all kinds of stuff, right the resurrection. Yeah, and
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  Jesus is like, okay, So the great, first and great commandment is
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  to love God with everything. That's miraculous, Like, we cannot do that
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  on our own and the Bible continues, and the second is like unto it.
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  You see, the first was miraculous. We were born in sin,
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  shaping in iniquity, right. We were not born with the mindset that leans
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  or tends toward God. Yeah, as soon as we're born, it seems
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  that the selfishness gene just follows us mine mind, mind, closed fist mind.
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  Yeah. But God can transform us and so so miraculously we can learn
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  to love God. The second we can also miraculously do, which is thou
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  shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law
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  and the prophets, right, And so the first four commandments are about loving
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  God. The final six commandments are about what. Yeah, I know most
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  people are going to say about loving others, right, loving our neighbors,
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  But it's about loving God and our neighbor. Right. So we don't have
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  to segment in the sense that the final six has nothing to do with loving
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  God. Of course, it has to do with loving God. But now
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  we begin to see the miraculous focus to loving others. Right, and so
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  the first action is to prioritize loving God. That's our action item loving God
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  with your entire being, reflecting that love on how you treat others. Make
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  this the central focus of your daily living. After you have received your daily
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  portion, You see what I did right there. After you have received your
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  daily portion, then turn that portion whatever God gives to you, turn it
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  out and give to others. Ask God, how do I live in such
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  a way that freely I have received, I also now can freely give and
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  invariably and without fail. God will do that. Okay, and so let's
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  go now to Micah, the book of Micah. What is the last time
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  he read Micah? In Micah Micah chapter six and verse eight, and the
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  Bible reads he hath showed thee, O man, what is good? And
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  what doth the Lord require of thee? What is it? What is it?
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  You want to know what makes God happy? You want to know what
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  God has required? Hmmm, well it says here to do just lee.
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  I just say that justice just lee means righteousness in almost every case in the
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  Bible. So to do justly or to do righteously, right, live righteously,
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  and to love mercy, oh my, not to love only to receive
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  mercy, you understand, loving to give mercy, loving to be merciful.
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  Blessed are the merciful, for they shall what obtain. Okay, So I
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  think you know where we're going with this, and to walk humbly with thy
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  God. God wants us to walk humbly with him. Don't run away from
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  God, right, don't come to God with your own agenda. Don't write
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  him a prescription. When you need an answer to prayer. Lord, do
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  it exactly this way. And once you have done it that way, you
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  will have proven yourself to me. No, walk humbly with your God.
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  With your God, humble yourself before God and walk with Him. Wherever thou
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  leadest ie will follow. Isn't that right? Yeah? Okay? And we'll
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  read also from Galatians chapter five and verse fourteen, which says, for the
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  for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this, you shall
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  love your neighbor as your self. I'm going to give you a big word
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  like externalization. I'll say it this way. Externalize your internal faith. Let
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  the faith that is in you, that lays hold on the power of God
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  transform you to the degree that it leaks out, it overflows into other people's
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  lives. Whatever God gives you, let it radiate, let it leak,
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  let it overflow into other people's lives. I wish I had the time.
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  And then, of course, genuine love over empty rituals is another principle for
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  today, have a wonderful day, peace, Thanks for joining us listening to
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  friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,