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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 Sabbath, February fifteen,

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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 with Lesson number eight, God's Love and Justice,

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and our caption for today is free will love and

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Divine Providence. Free will Love and Divine Providence. We'll get

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into that in just a moment, but first I'd like

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to say welcome to you in Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath,

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Happy Sabbath. Please please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community and go ahead

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and hit that form fill it in, just to let

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us know where you are in the world at your

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daily portion dot com. This is one of the ways

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

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

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we do thank you for this Sabbath morning and for

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the privilege we have to make a connection with you.

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Please help us never to sever our ties with you,

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never to walk away from you. Please, when trials come

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or things that we don't understand happen, please help us

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to redouble our connection with you so that we can

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live inside of your will. In Jesus's name, I pray

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Amen and a man again. Uh yeah. An elder once

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taught me that we should not blame God. We must

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not blame God for knowing everything. And so there are

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some things that he knows about the future. He knows

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about what will come. And people say, well, if you

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know that this terrible thing is going to happen, then

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why would you allow it to happen if it's terrible,

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And it's like, yes, but you know, we do live

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on a planet called Earth where we all have the

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ability and right and privilege to decide whatever way we

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want to go, you understand. And so in that reality,

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in that reality, there are things that people do to

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make things like bad for others, and you're like, well,

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why doesn't God prevent it? You see this, There's one

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thing about this world. It's not going to continue like this.

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There's another thing about God. Yes, he's in control, but

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he is allowing us to make our own decisions. And

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if God forbid we are impacted negatively by others' decisions,

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if it's contrary to God's will, and we are living

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inside of God's will, he is going to more than

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restore whatever we have lost, whatever pain that people suffer

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as a result, whatever evil that we suffer at the

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hands of some circumstance or somebody. God is going to

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more than restore. Remember he's the one that created all things.

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He created us, and so we see so many examples

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of this. But I just don't want to get ahead

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of myself. Let me just say that Jesus is almost here.

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He's almost here. It's almost time for the Lord to come.

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The hymn writer pen I'm going to read from John

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chapter sixteen and verse thirty three. Remember, God is going

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to restore all things, in fact, to do even better

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than the way that it was. But the Bible reads

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here in verse thirty three, these things have I spoken

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to you that in me you may have peace? Yes,

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even in the midst of storms. I think there is

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a song that says that He's a shelter in the

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time of storm. I think that he actually demonstrated that

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reality as he lived on planet earths when his disciples

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were losing their mind because they thought that the storm

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was going to destroy them and that their boat was

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going to sink and they would all die. And Jesus

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is sleeping at the back of this tiny little fishing boat,

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and they cry out, Master, camest thou not that we

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perish in Jesus. In Jesus, because he knows that he

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in this case it is sovereign, because he knows that

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in this case he knows what is and is not

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going to happen, because he knows that he has authority

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even over nature. He gets up, he completely quiets the storm.

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I know that we use poetic language in the King

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James version piece be Still. He told the storm to

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shut up, like he told the storm to hold its peace.

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It had to stop because Jesus commanded it to stop,

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and then he chided his children and said, why why

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did you have problems?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Why was your faith so weak? Why were you discouraged?

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Why were you desponding? Why were you fearful? You see,

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when Jesus is with you, you have nothing to fear.

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You have nothing to fear. When Jesus is with you,

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you have nothing to fear. And it's as here that

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in Me, Jesus speaking, you may have peace even if

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you get that dreaded diagnosis, even if a loved one

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of yours dies and people try to rush you through

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your grieving process. But God never intended that we should

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ever be separated. And sometimes we will miss our loved ones.

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We will want to hear their voices, We will want

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to smell the perfume or soap that they normally use.

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We will want to experience them in the ways that

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we for the years that we had together experienced them.

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But right now we are separated. God never intended for

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us to be separated by death. But alas in these

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moments we do have to deal with that. These are

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things with which we must condemn, contend. But he said

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that in me you will have peace. But in the

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world you will have tribulation. Talking about this world as

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it is today and as it was Jesus's day. But

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that's a conjunction. It negates what came before. But be

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of good cheer. How can I be of good cheer? Jesus, Ah,

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he said, be of good cheer? Why? Because I have

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overcome the world. Jesus overcame the world. He overcame the devil,

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lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life,

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and all the consequences and outcomes that come as a

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result of this. He overcame that. He overcame all of

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the poverty, Ah, because for your sake he became poor

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so that you could be rich. He overcame oppression and depression.

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He overcame all despondency, He overcame all abuse. He overcame

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those situations that you feel like will never amend. He

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overcame all of that, and one day we're going to

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experience the benefit. Can we agree that in this world

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we have tribulations, That's what the text says. Aren't you

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happy that the divine peacemaker overcame and conquered the evil

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in this world? You see when Jesus, when Jesus fulfilled

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his promise. He said, I lay down my life that

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I may take it again. I have this commandment of

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my father. When he did that and took his life back,

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after he rested in the tomb until the Sunday morning,

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when he took his life back. When he took his

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life back, you realize what he received. The Bible writer

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says that he received with the keys of hell and

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the grave and death. And one day he's going to

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throw all of that and fill in every negative in

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every negative in the blank, fill in the blank with

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every negative. He's going to throw all of that into

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the lake of fire at the appropriate time. Very soon

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we're going to see that Jesus will come like he promised.

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He said, let not your heart be troubled. You believe

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in God, believe also in me. This is Jesus speaking

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in my father's house. There are many mansions. If it

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were not so, I would have told you I go

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to prepare a place for you. And if I go

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and prepare a place for you, I will not might

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I will. I shall come again and receive you unto myself.

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That where I am there ye may be also free

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will love and divine Providence. Don't worry about the details,

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just trust God and he'll be here.

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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,