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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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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

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, February five,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series, God's Love and Justice, and our caption for

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today it's a question repenting God? What penting God? Mm hmmm.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway in heaven. Thank you for giving

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us this new day and for the fact that you

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are consistent. You love us. You are also just and

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holy at all times. Father, I pray that you will

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give us the fullness of your holy spirit, the understanding

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we need in order to do your will. And then

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the impetus give us the power, give us the wind

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in our sails, the drive to actually do what you say.

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In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again are

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repenting God. Hmm. Interesting. I'm going to read one passage

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and then go into the lesson straight so we can

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really make sense of this discussion. The Bible reads in

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Exodus chapter thirty two, and I actually, I actually alluded

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to this yesterday. Exodus thirty two, verse fourteen. The Bible reads,

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and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought

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to do unto his people. H repented? Well, let me

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read it in another translation. Then the Lord relented over

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the evil that he said he would do to his people.

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Now that's a different discussion, isn't it. Okay, So in

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our understanding when we are thinking about the Bible, we

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often think of repentance like in reference to sin, like

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we repent, we have godly sorrow for sin. Okay, Well,

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that's only part of the definition, and that's related to sin,

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got it. But there is more to what repentance means.

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It actually literally means. Think of it visually, it means

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to turn the shoulder. So it's not only godly sorrow

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for sin. It's not only turning toward God and away

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from sin. Sin being the focus here, but it also

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visually literally means to turn the shoulder. So if you're

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going in the easterly direction or eastward direction, and you

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turn your shoulder, you make an about turn. Then that

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means you're now going in the west or the direction

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of the west, exactly the opposite of the direction you

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were going. And so here, obviously, God can't repent because

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he's when evil is concerned, because God has never committed

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sin like this is sacrilege to even consider intimate that

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God can be evil or do evil at all. The

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Bible actually talks about that. Absolutely not. But he can relent,

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he can do something opposite of what he was going

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to do. There are people who have chosen to hold

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on to hatred. There are people who have chosen to

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live their lives according to fear instead of holiness. And

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then they, by the power of the Holy Ghost or we,

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as the case may be, I me too, have turned

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my shoulder and decided to live a holy life. And

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therefore the condemnation that may have come to my life

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in the end analysis I'm talking about the end of

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all things now is no longer coming. Why or why not?

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Because God is relenting from what that outcome would have been,

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but would have been. I am no longer running away

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from Him and Therefore, the outcome for me according to

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God's laws, according to his principles, according to his tender mercy,

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where He has transformed me. Now the outcome for me

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is eternity with him. Okay, and so and so, what

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the lesson writer asks is can God repent? In quotes?

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If so, what would that mean? We have seen that

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God's character never changes. We talked about that yesterday, didn't we. However,

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some biblical texts speak of God repenting or relenting. At

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least for humans, repentance involves recognition one has done something wrong.

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How then can some biblical passages depict God as repenting.

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Let's go to another passage and then we'll we'll we'll

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put a rap on this. We'll probably need to go

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into our community at your Daily Portion dot com sign

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up there and have this discussion more because there's a

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lot in this. So we go to Jeremiah chapter eighteen,

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and we will read beginning at verse four, and the

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Bible reads and the vessel that he made of clay

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was marred. Who is the vessel? That's me, that's you.

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You're the vessel that was marred in the hand of

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the potter, and he made it again another vessel has

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seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the

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word of the Lord came unto me, saying, oh, House

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of Israel, can I not do with you as this

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potter seth? The Lord behold, as the clay is in

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the potter's hand, So ye are ye in mine hand, o,

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House of Israel. At what instant I shall speak concerning

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a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up

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and pull down and to destroy it. If that nation

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against whom I have pronounced, I need you to get

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this I've already illustrated it earlier. I've said it very clearly.

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But if that nation, what nation? Maybe it's me, maybe

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it's you, Maybe it's someone else. Uh maybe if that

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I mean not, maybe if that nation, if that nation

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turn from their evil. So now the nation is repenting

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from evil, I will repent of the evil that I

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thought to do unto them. So that means that God

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is going to relent. He's going to change or adjust

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what was going to happen, because he is always holy,

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he is always just. It is unjust to destroy, it

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is unjust to condemn people who are living according to

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God's principles. But if God forbid an unrepentant people who

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are dogged against God and choose to embrace hatred, choose

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to embrace fear and not accept God to transform them.

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Then that means that destruction will ultimately come. Will it

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will ultimately come? But God is saying that I'm going

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to turn away from that. I will relent. And at

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what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning

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a kingdom, to build and to plant it. If I

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do evil, if it do evil in my sight that

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I obey, and that obey not my voice, then I

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will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would

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benefit them. So it goes both ways. So what we

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are saying here is that the character of God is set.

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He is always holy, he is always just, He is

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always good. Now in the end analysis, after he has

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given us mercy, after he has shown us how he

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can transform us and positioned us to be transformed, our

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decision will determine our outcome. See, so God is good?

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How good is he? He is going to allow us

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to live according to the desires of our hearts, sometimes

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for good, but Lord God forbid, sometimes for evil.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening, friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,