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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 Sabbath, March eight,

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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 under the caption what

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more could I Have done? What more could I have done?

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com please

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join our online community. Also, please please let us know

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where you are in the world at your Daily Portion

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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

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and then we will get underway. Father, I do thank

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you for giving us the privilege of coming into your

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presence this Sabbath morning, and for loving us enough to

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give us your son. Father, Please fill us with your

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Holy spirit today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. What more could I have done? I'm going

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to read a passage of scripture and then a story

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right out of the lesson study, and let's see what

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we can glean also from our companion guide in applying

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this to our personal lives. Okay, So from the Bible

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Book of John, chapter eighteen and verse thirty seven, the

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Bible reads Pilot therefore said unto him, are you a king?

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Speaker 1: Then?

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Speaker 2: Jesus answered, you say rightly that I am a king

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for this cause I was born, and for this cause

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I have come into the world, that I should bear

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witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth

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hears my voice. I just want to settle down right

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there for one moment before we get into the actual lesson.

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If you are not regularly hearing the voice of God,

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and when I say voice, it doesn't always need to

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be audible. But when I say voice, I am saying

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if you are not regularly sensing the guidance of God,

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which he has promised by the way he promised that

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he will be with us, he promised never to forsake us. Well,

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if you are not regularly experiencing the guidance of God

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and at times just being very clear, being very aware

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that He is with you, and knowing the direction, the

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pathway that you should be taking, then the question is

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are you am I of the truth? Am I of

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the truth? If I am not sensing God's words, sensing

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his presence in my life, seeing that He is guiding

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me along the pathway of righteousness, then am I of

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the truth? Okay, we'll get into that throughout the week.

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If the Lord spaars life, so let me read this

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story directly out of the lesson you have it you

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can follow along some years ago and inspire in oh

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part of me not inspirational and insightful. Children's story was

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printed in Guide magazine. The story focuses on a boy

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named Dennis and orphan living as a foster child with

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a family in medieval times. Dennis passionately hates the King

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of his land, because when his parents are sick, the

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King's soldiers carried him away and he never saw them again.

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Only later did he learn that the King separated them

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in order to spare the living all the horrors of

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the black plague. The truth about the King sets Dennis

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free from the hatred that he had harbored against his

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against him his entire life. The King had always and

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in every case, acted out of love for his people.

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Did you get that? Now, let's make it make sense.

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Many people today view God somewhat like Denis viewed the King.

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The evil they have witnessed or experienced brings them to

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hate or dismiss God. Where is God when there is suffering?

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If God is God, why is there so much evil?

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The Cosmic conflict sheds light on this crucial issue, But

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many questions remain. Yet, when all our attempts at answers

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fail to satisfy, we can look to Jesus on the

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cross and see in him that God can be trusted,

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even with all the questions that remain unanswered. And get

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this last part for now. There are many questions. Why

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do bad things happen to good people? Bad things happen

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to Jesus? Why does it seem like the evil or

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the wicked prosper. Well, they don't say seems why does

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the wicked prosper? Why do the wicked people prosper? Well?

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Do they? What does it mean to prosper? Are you

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talking about material wealth? Are you talking about it? Seems

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that they have blissened their families? Well to what end?

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You know, these things have an expiry date on planet Earth.

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So really, our focus should not be other people. Our

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focus should be connection with God every single day that

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we live. You see in the story that Dennis Dennis

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because he had an immature mindset, and he should like

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he's he was a young boy. But some of us,

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some of us have immature mindsets as fully grown believers

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in air quotes, are we believers if we don't actually

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believe what God says? But anyway, Dennis as a young boy,

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he has an immature mindset, understandably so. But then we

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see in the story that the king was looking out

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for him. The black plague was running through the population,

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and the king had to separate so that the people

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would not be destroyed by the plague. Yeah, maybe we

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could say in twenty twenty five, looking way back to

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those days. Well, that should have been communicated. I get it.

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But you know what, sometimes the king, the king of

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the universe, is not going to communicate the minute details

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to us. And if we have a mature spiritual mindset

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when we are in relationship with God, then we, like

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Job say, though he slay me, yet will I trust

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in him? And really and truly God was not slaying Job,

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but that was his perspective while he was under pressure.

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I've never heard a preacher say that God was not

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actually slaying Job. You let that settle in Like, God

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was not slaying Job, but Job felt that he was.

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And so if God in fact is slaying me, I

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will still trust in him. Remember the three Hebrew young

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men Michel Hananayah as a Riah as they were about

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to be thrown into the fiery furnace, and the king

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was saying, listen, all you have to do is bow,

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just like the devil said to Jesus. All you have

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to do is bow, and I will give you whatever

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positive outcome fill in the blank here. And they said,

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we do not want that reward. We don't want to

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save our lives if it means to bow and do

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something evil. Our God will in fact and indeed deliver us.

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But if he does not, If he does not, we

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still this is what they said, We still will not bow.

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And I'm like, Okay, God, give me that kind of faith.

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Please give every person under the sound of my voice

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that kind of faith. And so we go into our

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our Life Application guide. I'm going to page one hundred

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and sixty seven here and we're going to the personal application. Okay,

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Remember we're looking for a win win. What is important

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now when facing personal challenges, Remember that God's love is constant,

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even in moments of suffering. Just like Dennis misunderstood the

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King's intentions, we too might misinterpret God's actions in our

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lives when we don't see the complete picture. I internalize

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the insight. Consider times in your life when you felt

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distant from God or misunderstood his actions. How has this

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understanding of his love through Jesus Christ changed your perspective?

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And now we need action. The next best move in

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invest time in prayer, asking God for the wisdom to

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trust him even when his plans don't seem clear. Well,

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God doesn't tell us everything, but what he does to

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Thanks for joining us listening to his 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,