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

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

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

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, January thirty,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 is show compassion. I said show compassion. I didn't

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say think compassionately. I didn't say internally advocate compassion. I

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said show compassion. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot

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of you or there are many that haven't, because we

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have hundreds of thousands of you who are listening and

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have discussions about what we have learned and how we

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Portion Companion Guide for this quarter's lesson because we are

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applying these lessons and four key areas there. And also

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please let us know where you are in the world

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at your dot com. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, rather we do thank you for this

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day and for the fact that you are so compassionate

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toward us. Please teach us to be compassionate toward others

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and even toward ourselves. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. You know, sometimes we judge ourselves, we're

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judgmental to ourselves, and we speak to ourselves internally in

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a way that that really if we were to say

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it to somebody else, it would be like abuse. We

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would consider it, consider it to be abusive. And so

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if we're going to be compassionate, one of the first

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people that we need to be compassionate toward is ourselves.

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I wish I had the time really to deal with that.

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But the lesson study begins this way. While divine wrath

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is a quote terrible thing, it is by no means

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immoral or unloving. On the contrary, in the Old and

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New Testaments, God expresses wrath against evil because of his love.

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Did you get that God expresses wrath toward evil because

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of his love? There are times that you see people

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being abused and you want to jump in and be

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of service somehow and help and deliver the people who

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are being abused. And the law has to come into

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play here, and it has to be and that is

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a function of your love. Right, Divine wrath is terrible

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because of the insidious nature of evil in contrast to

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the pure goodness and splendor of God. Okay, one more

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thing in this regard. Love is essential to God. Wrath

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is not. Where there is no evil or injustice, there

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is no wrath. Did you get that where there is

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no evil or injustice that we don't need the wrath

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of God, and he does not show that right in

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the end, God's most loving action of eradication of evil

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from the universe also effectively will eliminate anger and wrath.

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I said a lot, thank you for the lesson.

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Speaker 1: Writer.

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Speaker 2: Let's look for compassion now for others for a little

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while here and in the Bible Book of Tewod Corinthians,

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chapter one, beginning at verse three, the Bible reads, Blessed

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be God, even our Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

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the father of mercies. You see, God is the father

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of mercies, the God of all comfort, who comforteth us

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in all tribulation, that we may be able to comfort

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them that are in trouble by the comfort wherewith we

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ourselves are comforted by God God. And so therefore God

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comforts us and we can comfort others. There's no wrath there.

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There's no wrath there. And then we go to feeding

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the hungry and Matthew chapter twenty five and verse twenty

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in verse thirty five, for I was and hungered, and

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ye gave me meat. I was thirsty, and you gave

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me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.

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And so God is saying that there are people who

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are what he considers to be the least of these

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his brethren. The way that we live toward them, the

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way that we act toward them, we are indeed acting

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toward God. So if we are feeding the hungry, clothing

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the naked, if we are unfortunately or please I hope

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this does not happen where you're concerned. If it's the opposite,

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we're discompassionate or abusive toward the same people, then this

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is the way that God is seeing how we are

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to wards others. And of course there is forgiveness and

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Colossians chapter three and verse thirteen, forbearing one another and

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forgiving one another. If any man have quarrel against any

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even as Christ forgave you, also do ye. And then

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the sick and imprisoned in Matthew chapter twenty five again,

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but this time verse thirty six, you were naked, naked

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and ye clothed me. I was sick, and Ye visited me.

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I was in prison, and Ye came unto me. And

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so God through Christ is identifying with the lame, the main,

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the blind, the broken, the people who are at a

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quote disadvantage. He is seeing himself as them, so that

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we must see him as them and treat them like

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we would treat God. And then verse twenty seven of

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James Chapter one, the Bible reads pure religion. I know

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people are saying, well, I'm not a part of a religion,

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I'm a part of whatever the idealistic term is that

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they use. What the Bible says that there is a

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pure religion. So don't be afraid of the term religion.

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What kind of religion? Pure religion and undefiled before God?

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And the Father is to visit the fatherless and widows

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in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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I could go on and on and on and even

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about healing the broken hearted and binding up their wounds

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as in Psalm chapter one, forty seven and verse three.

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So we show compassion toward others because God, for Christ's sake,

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has shown compassion for us. Now, like I said, there

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is there is this vengeance of God and so forth

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that comes against evil. But God is not welcoming us

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into the idea that we should be vengeful. That is

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not for us. We are to show compassion, and vengeance

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belongs to God. Now, the Bible reads and Deuteronomy chapter

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thirty two and verse thirty five, to me belonge vengeance

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and recompense. Their foot shall slide in due time, for

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the day of their calamity is at hand, and the

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things that shall come upon them make haste. So the

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Bible teaches us that it is God who brings retribution,

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God who brings vengeance. And we've already said that when

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God reluctantly needs to do it, it's because he has

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to deliver the world from evil full stop. And in

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Proverbs chapter twenty and verse twenty two, the Bible reads it.

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The Bible reads, say thou not, I will recompense evil,

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but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

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In chapter twenty four and verse twenty nine of the

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Book of Proverbs, the Bible, the Bible also reads, say not,

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I will do so to him as he hath done

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to me. I will render to the man according to

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his work. And we see in many other places in

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scripture where God, because he is one hundred percent righteous

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one hundred percent of the time, is responsible for this recompense.

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So reprisals wherever you are in the world, that is

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not for you recompense in that case, not for you,

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not for me. But God said vengeance belongs to him,

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and reluctantly he does it. We are to show compassion.

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Thank it a great day. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,