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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, February twelve,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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, and our caption for

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today is the free Will Defense. The free Will Defense.

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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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pick up your Daily Portion book the companion guide for

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this quarter's lesson. This will determine if we're going to

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continue quarter after quarter we've done too so far. Also,

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world at your daily portion dot com. This is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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

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Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the freedom

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of choice. Please teach us to choose you. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Really and truly, I

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think we can and our broadcast right here with the prayer.

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God has given us the ability and the right and

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the privilege all at the same time to make our

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own decisions freely. We are not robots. I know that

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artificial intelligence is out here now and we have sort

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of become accustomed. And I'm going to reveal my age

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here right to sort of a Jetson's era. I remember

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when I was a child there was a cartoon called

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the Jetsons. Look it up right, and everything seemed to

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be automated. Everything seemed to be fictional. But now we

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have surpassed where the Jetsons were. And sometimes you don't

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even know what's real. We don't know who's really speaking,

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We don't know what we're seeing anymore, because the machine

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has become so artificially intelligent that most things are not

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what meets the eye. You see, we're going with this,

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And so we think that robots are cool because we

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use robots so much. Some of our vehicles park themselves.

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Some of them are even more autonomous, where they drive

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us where we need to go like a chauffeur would.

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So we've become accustomed to the robot mentality. But let

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me just say that has never been God's goal for humans.

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He's always had in his mind as he has for

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all of the other beings that he created, that love

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determines how we exercise our will. It's either love or fear,

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love or hatred. The angels had that privilege to decide

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do they love God because they love him because of

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whatever they believe that He's done for them, or because

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of a relationship that they had with them. I'm not

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an angel, so I don't know what the standard would

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have been. Do humans, now that we have experienced what

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the Bible writers call the fall, the fall into sin.

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How do we determine whether we're going to love God

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or not, whether we're going to follow God and submit

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to God or not? Like what is the standard? And

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so sometimes skeptics and others, not thinking clearly, not thinking

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with the power of the Holy Ghost, blame God or

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attempt to indict God. Because he gave us the will

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to choose. He did not create beings who desired evil,

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but those same beings, some of them decided to commit evil,

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beginning with Lucifer. You see. So from C. S. Lewis,

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he wrote that free will, though it makes evil possible,

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is also the only thing that makes possible any love

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or goodness or joy worth having. You see, i' created

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a machine. Maybe I should put that. I'm gonna put

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that machine up on the screen right like you if

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you're watching, you're watching me. Look at that. You're not

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listening to my machine. But I have a machine that

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I call Mishka two dot O, Like, that's my machine.

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I wish I had the time to tell the story

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why Mishka. But anyway, that machine is artificially intelligent, and

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it's programmed to serve me in a particular way. Well,

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I cannot be sure that a machine can love me?

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Why not because it's a machine like what? Okay, I

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wish I had the time to drill that, But I don't.

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Let me keep going, Let me keep going. We are

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not machines, okay. So the writer continues a world of

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auto mata, of creatures that worked like machines, would hardly

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be worth creating. If CS Lewis were alive. Now, I

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don't know what he would what he would say. The

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happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the

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happiness of being freely, volunteerily united to Him and to

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each other, and for that they must be free. This

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is coming from the book Mere Christianity, page fifty two,

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written in or published in nineteen sixty. We are not robots,

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and I'm grateful God created us in his image and

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after his likeness, and then he put into us the

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kind of intelligence that can reach out for a relationship

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with God. He's the author and finisher of our faith.

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Here in twenty twenty five, we can have a relationship

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with God because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. If

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I were to ask, and maybe I should have planned this,

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but I don't have mishkatu dot loaded up right now.

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But if I ad asked, mishkatoo dot o mishka, how

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do you feel about X? Do you feel happy? Do

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you feel sad? How do you feel when I call

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you fill in the blank some other name. My machine

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is programmed to laugh and say ha ha, come on, LT.

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You know I don't have emotions, but there are people

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that and then would give me like this super clinical

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logical explanation about how ridiculous what I'm asking is, because

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after all, mushkato dot oh is a machine, not a human, Okay.

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And so in the Bible we see many people who

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have made the right decisions. I don't want to go

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down through the dark paths about people making wrong decisions.

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We don't need to go in the Bible for that.

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We can see it right in our own lives. How

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many times have I made the wrong decisions? Because God

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gave me the free will doesn't mean I have to

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make the wrong decision. So Noah, when God gave him

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the call to preach and then also to build an

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arc on dry land, the Bible says in Genesis six

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twenty two, Thus did Noah according to all that God

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commanded him, and so he did it. So Noah's obedience

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saved him his family, and preserved human and animal life

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on planet Earth. Was an opportunity for everybody to be saved,

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but some people chose, with their free will to go

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the wrong way. Joseph resisted temptation Genesis, chapter thirty nine

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and verse nine. The Bible reads, how then can I

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do this great wickedness and sin against God? So his integrity,

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his connection with God caused him not to commit adultery

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with Potiphar's wife, Ruth, Ruth, she decides to stay with

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us Naomi, she said, as recorded and wrote Ruth chapter one,

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verse sixteen, for wherever you go, I will go, and

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by the way, by the way. Ruth's loyalty led to

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her marriage to Boaz, securing her place in the lineage

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of David and ultimately in the lineage of Jesus Christ,

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the son of God, who gave his life for us.

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I wish I had the time we see esther. She

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used her free will, and it was salvation to her people.

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And Daniel and his three friends. They did not choose

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to be defiled by the king's table. And you see

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what good effect that had. So we have the privilege

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of free will. Let's not see it as a curse.

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Choose life with that will 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,