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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, January eighteen,

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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. This is lesson number four, God's Love and

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Justice under the caption God is passionate and compare passionate. Oh,

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I can't wait to get into that. God is passionate

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and compassionate. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. Please please please let us

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know where you are in the world at your daily

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portion dot com. This is one of the ways 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 this new Sabbath morning, and for the

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privilege you have given to us to consider your word together.

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Thank you for all of the sisters and brothers around

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the world who are here with you and we are

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worshiping together. I pray that you will transform our lives,

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make us more compassionate, help us to be passionate about

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the right things. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. God is passionate and compassionate. And so of

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course I put dot dot dot or ellipsis and said,

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well what about me? Am I passionate? Am I compassionate?

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Is it true that I am in touch with my emotions?

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But I am not ruled by them. I am passionate

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and compassionate. Like, are there people that I can see

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who have needs? And my heart is drawn out to them?

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And I'm talking to God and saying, God, what can

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I do to be of service? Am I passionate and compassionate,

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And so the lesson writer uses for a memory text

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Isaiah chapter forty nine and verse fifteen, which reads, I

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can a woman forget her nursing child? See there is

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there's compassion there. There's compassion there a woman who is

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fully connected to her child, that baby that she carried,

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whether all the way to full term or if they

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became early, but now is here ready to take from

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the mother's breast milk. She is showing compassion. Okay, can

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a woman forget her nursing child and not have compassion

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on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget,

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And so God is saying that, of course she will

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have compassion. But she is a human after all, Like

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there are times that humans lose our passion and compassion,

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or we're passionate about the wrong things, and we disconnect

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from other humans. There are times that this happens, And

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so the Bible says, surely they may forget, Yet I

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will not forget you. And so God is now using

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one of the tenderest and most committed relationships that is

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in the scriptures, are in the life of every human.

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Like the connection between I mean a mother and her

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new child is the stellar example of compassion and care.

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You understand selflessness. I know there are humans that make mistakes.

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I'm not getting into that today, but God is saying

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even with that, I'm telling you that I have even

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more compassion for you than the mommy has for that baby.

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And so you need to think about it, think about

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it very clearly, and say, but God, how can I

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be like this? Well, we're going to go through some

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Bible passages. You can read what the lesson writer posits

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there when you have an opportunity, but we're going to

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go through some Bible passages to really think about this deeply. So,

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emotions do reflect God's nature. And I'm not talking about emotionalism.

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I'm not talking about being out of control with your emotions.

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I'm saying that God has given us emotions and that

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is a reflection of His nature. And the Bible says

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in Genesis, chapter one and verse twenty seven. So God

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created humankind in his own image, in the image of God.

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Created he him, male and female created He them. So

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we were created in the image of God. We have emotions. Therefore,

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our emotions come from God. Part of the image of

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God is our emotions. You see where this is going. Okay,

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so we'll just pause right there. We'll pause right there now.

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In Psalm eighty six and verse fifteen, the Bible reads,

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but Thou, o Lord, art full of compassion. You see,

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if we're created in the image of God and we

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have emotions, that means that He's given us these emotions,

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and he must also have them. But he is in

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control of his okay, we can be in control of ours. Okay.

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But it says that he is full of compassion. This

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means that we can be full of compasis. I know

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that we see all kinds of creepy evil stuff in

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the news these days, and some of us have experienced

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this by our caregivers so called, by people who thought

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that they or said that they had romantic interests in us,

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and they did all kind of evil against us without compassion.

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Women have been abused by their husbands, and men have

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been abused by their wives. You see, children have been

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mistreated and even trafficked. God forbid, And the Bible is

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telling us that is not the nature of God. He

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has compassion, and he's gracious. Continuing in the passage, he's

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long suffering. That means that he is patient and he

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is plenteous in mercy and truth. So since we have

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gotten our emotions from God, then now we see what

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that looks like, at least in this one example. So

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throughout the Bible, God expresses emotions such as love and anger, compassion,

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suggesting that emotions are not only natural, but vital and

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as an as an aspect of relational dynamics. So relationships

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sometimes require each one or some of those particular emotions.

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And so we continue now from the Book of Proverbs,

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chapter fourteen and verse twenty nine. The Bible reads, he

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that is slow to wrath, we're talking about anger and

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the manifestation of our anger, that that leaps out from us,

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and it seeks reprisals and retribution, and sometimes it disrespects people. Right,

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he that is slow to be that way, slow to wrath,

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is of great understanding. But he that is hasty of

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spirit exalted folly. Let me read it in another version.

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The one who is slow to anger has great understanding,

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but the one who has a quick temper exults fully.

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So if you want to be foolish, then let your

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temper just go. If you want to be seen as

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not having any understanding, then let your anger just go.

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You see. So the Bible is telling us that the

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ones who are pausing and are slowing down through submission

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to God and his will slowing our wrath. We believe

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and understand God. Okay, let's continue. Let's continue to John

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chapter eleven and verse thirty five. This is the shortest

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passage of scripture, and it's referencingen referencing Christ. The Bible says,

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Jesus wept. Jesus wept at a time when his emotions

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were high because he saw that his children did not believe.

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He saw that his children thought that Lazarus being sick

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and then die was the end of the story. Even

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though Jesus is right there and he's weeping because they

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are distraught, even though the one who is the resurrection

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and the life is right there in front of them.

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Jesus wept. There are times that we will weep. There

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are times that we will have joy. There are times

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that we will have indignation, illustrating that experiencing and expressing

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emotions are natural and integral to full human existence. You see.

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So God is passionate, He is compassionate, but he gives

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us self control and gives us the charge to be

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compassionate toward other people. 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,