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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 Monday, January

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twenty 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. Our caption for today

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is gut wrenching Love. Gut wrenching Love. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to please go

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over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our

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online community. Please pick up the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide.

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We're on page fifty nine today. It's the companion guide.

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We use it together with the lesson study and also

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click that number seven. I'm not asking you to type

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number I'm not asking you to type seven in the chat.

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I'm asking you to click the number seven on the

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website at your Daily Portion dot com and join there

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and subscribe to build your connection with God. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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

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will get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank you for giving

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us this new day and for the opportunity to experience

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your love in a special and new way. Father, Please

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fill us with your holy spirit and help us to

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be faith full to you in every detail. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again, gut wrenching love. Woh yes,

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I'm not going to us say much here Before we

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read the text. Let's go ahead into Hosea chapter eleven.

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Hoseah chapter eleven, and I will read beginning at verse

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one Hosea chapter eleven, and I will read beginning at

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verse one, and the Bible reads, when Israel was a

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young man, I loved him like a son, and I

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summoned my son out of Egypt but the more I

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summoned them, the farther they departed from me. Can you

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imagine when God is delivering his people from captivity. They

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came from a time of prosperity when Joseph was still

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around and his influence was still evident and prevalent in Egypt. Yes,

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and then at some point there was a pharaoh who

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was paranoid. Really, that's how I see it, who said,

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you know what, I don't know Joseph, but these people,

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they're multiplying. They're going to get out of hand, and

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they are going to revolt against me. So what we're

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gonna do is enslave them. And then this started years

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in years and years of oppression and slavery, and the

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Bible says that God is now delivering his people according

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to Exodus chapter I think it's three. Sometimes I mix

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up the two chapters three or six, where God says,

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I heard the groanings of my people, and now I'm

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going to deliver them. I am going to introduce to you,

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Moses myself by a name that I've not introduced myself

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to any of the patriarchs, to Abraham, to Isaac, or

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to Jacob. It is the name Yahweh or Jehovah, blessed

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be his name. I'm going to introduce myself in a

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way that you will know. I self exist, and I'm eternal, yes,

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but I am all powerful. Yes, but I can still

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hear your cries in the darkness. I am massively powerful,

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and yet I can still come close to you and

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hear when you need me. Okay. And so now God

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is delivering his people. And the more he delivers his people,

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the more they revolt, the more they want to go

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back into slavery. The more he gives you victory over

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substances you used to get drunk, and he is giving

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you the ability and the power to walk away. You've

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been cleaned for one week, two weeks, three weeks, but

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now you're going back into that sin. He's giving you

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victory over your anger management challenges. And the more that

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you are being delivered is the more you decide, you

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know what, forget this. This person should never have pushed

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my buttons in this way. I could go down through

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the list, but you see where we're going with this.

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They sacrifice. The Bible continues in verse two to the

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bail idols and burn incense to images. Yet it was

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I who let e frim. I took them by the arm,

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but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

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You see, God has positioned us to be delivered from

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any besetting sin, that thing that you promised God that

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if you would, he would deliver you from. Huh, if

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he would deliver you from then you promised that you would,

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you would follow him with all that you have and

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all that you are. And then when he he does,

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and you forget that, you see verse four. I drew

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them with leather cords, with straps of hide. I lifted

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the yoke from their neck and gently fed them. They

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will return to Egypt. The Syria will rule over them

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because they refuse to repent. God is just saying, just

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give everything to me. Turn away from your sins. I'm

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going to deliver you from the burden of the guilt.

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I'm going to deliver you from the yoke that causes

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you to have to do those things. I'm going to

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deliver you, give you the ability to say no to

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the enemy. And yet sometimes God's people, sometimes God's people

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turned back into sin. Verse six. A sword will flash

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into their cities. I will destroy the bars of the

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city of their gates, and I will devour them in

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their fortresses. My people are obsessed with turning away from me.

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They called to Bao. What kinds of relationships are you

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calling to? Brothers and sisters? If any, I mean you

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may not be in this story here, but for those

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who do, what are you calling unto? Are you saying

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we don't know where God is, Please build us a

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golden calf? Or are you saying you know what? Like

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King Saul, he said, God isn't answering my prayer, So

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I'm going to go to a witch. You're going to

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palm readers, brothers and sisters, I hope not. How you

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go into the tarot cards, you go into astrology, you

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go into some of these other situations that are leading

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away from God. Relics? Are you? I hope not? But

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today is your day? Like you can turn to God

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today if you will yield your will to him. My

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people are obsessed with turning away from me. They go

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to bail Ah, but he will never exalt them. How

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can I give you up, o Ephraim? How can I

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surrender you, oh Israel? How can I treat you like Adma?

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How can I make you like Ziboyem, I have had

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a change of heart. You see, all my tender compassions

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are aroused. You see, God has a way of saying,

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you know what I feel away because my people have

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turned away from me. I want to chide them, and

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I indeed will. I want to destroy them. But now

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I'm having second thoughts. I love you with everlasting love,

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and therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you verse nine.

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I cannot carry out my fierce anger. I cannot totally

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destroy Ephriom because I am God and not man. Holy.

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When among you, I will not come in wrath. This

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is a very interesting discussion to me, because God is

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completely just blessed be his name. He is righteous one

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hundred percent of the time in his presence. He cannot

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tolerate wickedness because wickedness becomes flammable in his presence. It

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gets destroyed in his presence if he does not mix

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his presence with mercy. The essence of who God is

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is destructive to evil. And yet, and yet sometimes we

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stumble and bumble into God's presence with evil and unconfessed sin.

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Sometimes we go into his presence beating our chest like

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King Kong, say I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, and

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don't really care that God is holy, don't even care

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that He has been merciful to us, and then flaunt

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our sin in his face. And he's saying, but why

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will you die, my people? Why turn yourselves and live?

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And so God's love is gut wrenching. Can you imagine

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how he feels when he sees us going down the

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wrong path? I wish I had the time, but let

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me just say, even though God is merciful, even though

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he is kind, Please, brothers and sisters, let today be

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the day that you stop taking God for granted, He

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has gut wrenching love for you. Peace.

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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,