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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 Sunday, January

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twenty six, 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 under the caption

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Grieved by Evil, Grieved by Evil. We'll get into that

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in just a moment, but first I'd like to say

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welcome to you and ask you to go over to

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So this will be the second quarter that we have

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published this. But it just depends on how much you

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the spiritual development there. Okay. This is the way that

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

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and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for giving us this day and for the

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new work week, the opportunity that we have to connect

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with You and with each other and to do meaningful

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things throughout the week. Right now, Father, please help us

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to embrace your mindset to hear, to hear how you

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think and how you feel about sin, and help us

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Lord to think and feel the same way you do.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I

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don't know if you recall there is a passage in

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scripture that says that we should not grieve the Holy

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Spirit of God. You know what is grief to God

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where evil is concerned. When we hear from Him, when

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we know to do right, we know to live right.

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We know that God is drawing us into his presence,

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into a relationship with him, and we resist him, or

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when we are in a relationship with him, and then

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the devil tempts us and decides that he wants us

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back on his side. And then, in you know, the

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passage of events throughout the day, we make decisions that

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put us back on the side of the enemy. You

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understand when he dangles the proverbial carrot before us and

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says that you know you want X, even though it

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is not what God said, you want it, don't you?

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You deserve it, don't you? And then God forbid some

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of us yield our will to that again, and it's like,

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how do we get here? And the Holy Spirit is grieved, God,

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our Father grieved, Jesus grieved. Why because we don't have

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to go down that path. God has made provision for

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us to overcome literally every besetting sin, everything that separates

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us from God. He has made provision for us to overcome. Okay,

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And so we go into the Bible Book of sat

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chapter seventy eight, and there's so much to see there.

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It took me some time to cherry pick some principles

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that we could look at and focus okay, And so

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we're gonna start with verse forty, chapter seventy eight, Verse forty,

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and we're seeing the recurrent mercy of God. Over and

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over again. God has given mercy to his people. And

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here is one example. How oft did they provoke him,

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meaning God, in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert?

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Now I read it in another translation. How often they

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rebelled against him in the wilderness and insulted him in

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the desert? How many times did God's people as he

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delivered them from captivity? They were already delivered physically from captivity,

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but spiritually their mindsets were still bound. Why did you

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bring us out here in the desert to kill us?

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Why did you take away from us the food that

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we had while we were in Egypt? Mark you. The

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food in Egypt was destructive to their health and their

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connection with God. And God was giving them food from heaven,

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Manna from heaven, bread from heaven. I think there's a

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song that says, feed me till I want no more.

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Fill my cup God. Yeah, And they murmured against God.

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We don't have water. Murmured, God, we don't have this, murmured,

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We don't know where Moses is make us a golden calf.

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Aaron murmured so many different things that the people of

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God would manufacture against him, and the Bible says that

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it was rebellion, it was insulting, It grieved God because

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God had been repeatedly showing them mercy, repeatedly showing his patience.

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Repeatedly he delivered them from everything that they needed to

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be delivered from, and they still murmured. And so we

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see the character of God. And of course we'll look

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at his patients again in verse forty one, and time

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and time again they turned back and tempted God and

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pained the Holy One of Israel. Let me say it

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another way. Again and again they tested God and provoked

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the Holy One of Israel. God's patience is demonstrated as

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he endures his people's continuous testing and provocation. Now we

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read in verse forty two they remembered not his hand.

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You see, I remember an inspiration. It says that we

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have no fear for the future except we forget how

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God has brought us in the past. There have been

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so many times that He has delivered you. I know

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some of you wake up and something goes wrong or

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what you consider to be wrong in your day, and

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you say, what now, how many things do I have

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to go through? I just need a break, And you

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begin to murmur, and it's like, but God has delivered

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you so many times in the past. And you just

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invoke the name of the Lord, which is a strong power,

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and you flee into that space with him and you

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can be safe. And you say, God, you said that

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you would be my resting place. I am not feeling

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RESTful at this moment. To all generations, would it just

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help me to embrace you as my resting place? Will

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you teach me to speak of you with the truth

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and reality of who you are? You see in Malachi

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and Malachi chapter three. You know, the Bible says that

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God listens, and he even writes down in a book

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like he listens to what we say about him. There

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are people who are choosing no longer to be his

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people because they say, well, what does it What does

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it benefit us to do what God says? Why should

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we continue to do and live according to His will?

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What benefit is it to me? And he says, I'm

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hearing you. I'm hearing you. It's your false witness. I'm

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hearing you with your provocations. I'm hearing you testifying in

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a way that is not true about me. And then

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he said, I am also hearing. I'm hearing my people

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who are continuing to be faithful, and those individuals he

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also marks, and he said that he's basically drawing a

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line in the sand between those who love him and

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who are for him and those who really just continue

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to rebel. Yeah, and so in verse thirteen of the

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same chapter, the Bible says that he divided the sea

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and caused them to pass through on dry land, and

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he made the waters stand up as a heap. Now,

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how could we turn our backs onto God? Who can

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do that? Are you serious? Do you realize what a

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sea is like? How do you cause the sea to

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stand up and cause the bad of the sea to

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be dry so that your people can walk through? What

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a God? With those same people, God forbid? Some people

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like us, God forbid? They said, you know what, m M,

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God is not faithful?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, even as his people rebelled, God continued to

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provide miraculous deliverance, even as they were leaving captivity. And

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then one more, one more, for he remembered that they

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were but flesh, a wind that passeth away and cometh

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not again. In verse thirty nine. God has compassion and

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he is passionate, but he is grieved by evil. Stop

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grieving him. 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,