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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 Wednesday, January

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twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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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 God does not afflict willingly. God does

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not afflict willingly. 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 please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. Please pick up

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your Daily Portion companion guide for this quarter's lesson I'm

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not talking about the quarterly I'm talking about the Companion Guide,

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where we apply the lesson in four key areas of

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our lives. And this will determine if I'm going to

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continue to produce that book or publish that book. So yeah,

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please do that and also let us know where you

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and

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then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you

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for giving us this new day and for giving us

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a window into your character, your intent for us, your

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love for us. And I pray that we will love

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you with every everything that we have and everything that

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we are, and help us to live according to your truth.

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In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man again.

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God does not afflict willingly. Yeah that's a big deal,

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because there are some people who feel like God is

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an angry God, like they are running away from lightning bolts,

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They're running away from what they would consider to be

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the tyrant in the sky. But God has no desire

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to destroy any human being. The Bible says that God

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does not take pleasure in the death of those who die,

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and he's talking about especially those who are dying under judgment.

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He's saying, so therefore turn yourselves and live. Of course

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he was speaking to some specific people, but that still

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is the character of God. No pleasure. Hell Fire was

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created for the devil and his angels. So at the

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appropriate time, God is going to destroy the devil and

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his angels. And unfortunately, people who just literally refuse to

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accept love. Whose you who are are more interested in

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fear and hatred than love and God. Yes, so let's

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go to the Bible Book of Ezra. I know there's

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some people who've not seen the Book of Ezra. In

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Forever Ezra, chapter five, and we'll read verse twelve. We

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did a lesson study several quarters ago where we focused

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in Ezra and Nehemiah. Here we go verse twelve. But

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after that, our fathers had provoked the God of Heaven

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unto wrath. You see God can be provoked, provoked the

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God of Heaven unto wrath. He gave them into the

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hand of Nebek Kidnezzar, the king of bath Babylon, the

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child Dion, who destroyed this house and carried the people

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away into Babylon. And so even when God, because he

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was provoked by his own people to wrath, they chose

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to forget about all of the times that he gave

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them a way to amend their ways, forget all of

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the chances that He had given them to do his

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will when it was easier to do it, if you

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want to say, if there's such a thing as easier, ah,

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and they needed some additional help, let's call it those individuals.

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Of course, his people now are in Babylonian captivity, as

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we as we would say. But you know, even as

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he gave them over into Babylonian captivity, he put bounds

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on what the Babylonians could do. There were some terrible

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things that happened while they were in captivity, but he

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even then gave bounds to or boundaries to the Babylonians.

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To say, this far and no farther, Let's go to

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Jeremiah chapter fifty one. Jeremiah chapter fifty one, and then

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and then will make some more sense of this. And

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we'll read beginning at verse twenty four, and the Bible reads,

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and I will render unto Babylon to all. I will

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render unto Babylon and all of the inhabitant inhabitants of Chaldea,

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all their evil that they have done in Zion in

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your sight, set the Lord. Okay, let me read it

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in another translation. But I will repay Babylon and all

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who live in Babylonia for all the wicked things they

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did unto Zion right before the eyes of you, Judean,

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says the Lord. Verse twenty five. The Lord says, beware,

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I oppose you, Babylon. You are like a destructive mountain

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that destroys all the earth. I will unleash my power

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against you. I will roll you off the cliffs and

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make you like a burned out mountain. So the truth

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is that sometimes when God would allow would allow people

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to chastise God's people, that they would go too far,

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that they would go too far. As a parent, do

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you go too far when you chastise your child? And

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God is saying, okay, there is a way that you

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have to correct. There is a way that you can chastise.

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But sometimes humans go too far. When you are in

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law enforcement, when you are in the government, wherever you

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happen to be in the world, do you overstep or

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overreach the bounds that God has set forth, Paul talks

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about how these things should function. Have we gone too

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far in how we meet out justice? That's a question.

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But we see that since God is watching and he

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is not willing to owv extent or to over afflict,

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his goal is to if he has to chastise, his

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goal is to bring people back into right relationship with him.

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We're not talking about judgment at the end of time

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as yet. We're talking about there are times that God

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is bringing people back into line. But sometimes those who

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are used by God go too far, and this is

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what happened. And so of course now Babylon has a

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problem with God because because of course they had gone

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too far. And so we're going into our Companion Guide

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to page Let's go to page seventy nine, seventeen nine

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and eighty, and we're going to focus our attention here

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on the relationship one because as I said to those

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who don't have the guide, we have four different ways

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to apply, and we're going to go with relationships using

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the acronym win wil. What is important now under relationship development,

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God's reluctance to bring judgment shows his desire for people

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to change and to reconcile. This should guide us in

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how we handle conflicts and disappointments in our relationships. So,

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if you're building a relationship and there are times that

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things get very difficult or or worse, then looking at

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the model that God has shown us in the passages

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we just read and others, we are like, okay, okay, okay.

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God's goal is to reconcile. What is our goal? Is

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it to pay somebody back? Is it is it to

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do something more? Well? You be the judge. I internalize

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the insight. Think about a strained relationship in your life.

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Please don't type it in the chat, not today. Think

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about it. Is it your husband? Is it your husband

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or wife? Is it with your adult children? Is it

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with someone that you were formerly friends with but something's

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not going quite right? Think about that individual or those individuals.

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Are you quick to judge or condemn? Consider how you

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can extend patience and grace, allowing space for reconciliation and healing.

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And then next best move in reach out to someone

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with whom you are having a conflict. Offer a gesture

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of peace, whether it's a kind word or notes or

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invitation to talk, show them that you are open to

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reconciliation and healing. God does not afflict willingly do you.

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

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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