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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 Sunday. It's

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February nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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

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for today is how long, Oh Lord, how long? It's

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a real question, how long? How long? We'll get into

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that in just a moment, But first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to please go

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several weeks. We have just about six weeks to determine

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So we've done it for two quarters. Let's see how

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do that as you continue to grow in your spiritual development.

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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,

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we do thank you this day. Thank you today for

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or giving us the privilege of prayer. Thank you for

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giving us the opportunity to open up your word together. Father,

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I pray that as we cry out, how long will

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these things on planet Earth that are really just overwhelmingly

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terrible at times? How long will they go on? Father,

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help us to ask the same question in our own

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lives and yield ourselves to you. And then today be

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the day that we finally make the decision once and

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for all that we will choose you in Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again. How long, oh Lord,

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have you ever asked God this, Whatever your circumstances are,

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You've lost a loved one, lost a spouse to death,

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the cold hands of some disease. And we have the hashtags,

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and we have the other things that say we hate

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those things that are taking our love ones away, political

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unrest and strife, things going on in the economy that

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we we try to explain and make sense of. But

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we're tired. And people just generally are not as kind

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as in times past, or at least that's how we

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perceive it. And it seems that humans are becoming darker

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and darker. How long? How long will the wicked prosper?

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How long will it be for you to deliver your

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people out of their hands? How long, Father, will it

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be before Jesus comes? So Really the question that I

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need to be asking me while I am crying out

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to God? How long? How long? God? I should be saying, like, Lord,

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how can I serve you? Father? How long will the

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wicked continue? How long will the nation's rage? How long

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will the people who are against you be against us?

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How long? And I should be asking and answering the question, Lord, today,

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can today be the day that I yield finally? Can

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today be the day that I no longer flip flop

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and change my mind when I commit myself to you?

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How long? And so the problem with evil is voiced

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not only in contemporary contexts, but also in the scriptures.

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And we see in the Book of Job chapter thirty,

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Job chapter thirty and verse twenty six. But when I

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hoped for good, trouble came. When I expected light, darkness came.

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How long Job was in the fight of his life.

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He had no idea really the details of what was

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going on with him, and he was weary. Jeremiah chapter

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twelve and verse one. The Bible reads, Lord, you have

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always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However,

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I would like to speak to you about the disposition

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of justice. Have you had conversations brothers and sisters wherever

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you happen to be in the world, and talk to

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God about justice? How are really just out of control?

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It seems that things are out of control. Have you

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gone to God to and said God, what is going

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on with righteousness in the land? The Bible continues, Why

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are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have

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such easy lives? Really? Do they have easy lives? Does

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it appear that they have easy lives? Well, Bible says

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that the way of the wicked person is hard, even

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though at times it does seem like they're living it up,

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having the time of their lives. So the prophets they

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struggled with the same thing. And so in Jeremiah, chapter

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thirteen and verse twenty two, the Bible reads, you will

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probably ask yourself, why have these things happened to me?

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Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose

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skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed? It

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is because you have sinned so much. There are times,

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there are times that we go through trials because we

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turn away from God. Not every time. Job wasn't experiencing

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that because he turned away from God. But there are

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times that we are being chastised. There are times when

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it's as a result, maybe not of our own particular sin,

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but because of the sinfulness of those around us, and

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the society suffers because people around us are not yielding

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to God, they're not repenting of their sin, and they

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are imposing their wickedness upon the society. But I promise you,

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not me, But I'm reading from God's word and promising

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based on what he has said, that wickedness will not

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continue forever. Wickedness will soon be completely rooted out, and

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every branch of it will be destroyed. God will finally

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destroy death, he will destroy sin, he will destroy all wickedness,

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and one day it'll all be over. But until then,

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until then, we yield. We ask God to teach us

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to surrender. And in Malachi, chapter two and verse seventeen,

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the Bible reads, ye have wearied the Lord with your words.

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But you say, how have we wearied him? Because you say,

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everyone who does evil is good in the Lord's opinion,

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and he delights in them. Or where is God, God

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of justice? And sometimes humans give God a bad wrap.

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We blame God for things that we have decided. We

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blame God for how the enemy of souls has tricked people,

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and then they accept that trickery into their lives, and

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we put it on on God. And really and truly

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the God of justice, he is going to come forward

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one day. The Bible says that Michael, Michael Jesus Christ,

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the Prince, he is going to stand up one day

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He's going to stand up one day in a special

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way and in a unique way that we've never seen

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him before. The Bible says that in Daniel chapter eleven,

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there were all kinds of kings, really, from Daniel chapter

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one straight through to eleven, all kinds of kings and

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alliances that stand up, and then they have to sit down.

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Every kind of king and kingdom and alliance stand up

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and sit down. Their repression. It stands up and it

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sits down. Their machinery, it stands up and it sits down.

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And then one day Jesus Christ, the Bible says, will

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stand up, yup. He will stand up and fully stand

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up for us people. And then the only time we

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will see him sit down after that, Jesus Christ himself

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when is when he sits down on the throne of

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the universe as King of kings and Lord of lords.

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He will sit down firmly on the seat of the

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universe's government. And no other human or wicked pursuit will

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ever take him off the throne. But in the meantime,

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in the meantime, sometimes we cry with the Psalmist in

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Psalm chapter ten and verse one, why Lord do you

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stand afar off. Why do you pay no attention during

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times of trouble? And so the truth is that he's

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not standing afar off, that he does come through for

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his people. We have time after time where God has

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come through for his people. But in the meantime, when

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we do experience troubles, we do experience trials. We can

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ask God how long, but He's going to answer us

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at the appropriate time. He is going to extinguish all

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sin and we're looking forward to that day. Make it

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a great day.

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Speaker 1: Peace, Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember

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we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of God. This has been

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your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a

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great day, Yeah,